We performed a comparison between Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure NetApp Files based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's a cloud-based tool within the Microsoft ecosystem, offering many benefits for data handling."
"The tool's most valuable feature is security access policies."
"The response time and quality offered by the support team are good."
"Azure Data Lake Storage is a user-friendly and easy-to-learn solution."
"I also like its speed. It's basically built on Azure Blob Storage, which was already fast. But Azure Data Lake Storage adds the hierarchical structure for even better performance."
"Azure NetApp Files has been stable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its flexibility."
"The availability is good, meaning downtime or network issues rarely occur. The system also offers flexibility, allowing for increases in data volume, IOPS, and other capabilities without requiring downtime, which is a strong point. Based on the money spent, we can get performance improvements and high availability."
"I like the SnapMirror feature in Azure NetApp Files. It helps me create backups with snapshots and makes data recovery and compression."
"You can change it non-disruptively. You can increase the size and decrease the size online, which is a huge benefit compared to Azure disks. It just works seamlessly. You don't need to stop the instances."
"It has saved a lot of time. Because in the older, conventional hardware system, they need to raise a ticket to go to storage engineering, then storage engineering would increased the size. Now, it's dynamic. You don't have to do anything. This improved the time by more than 50 percent."
"Its security and ease of use are most valuable."
"I think the easiest part is, when you do a comparison, it is the throughput versus the cost. And it's much easier to set up."
"The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"From an SAP perspective, direct connectivity to SAP systems is an area that could be enhanced."
"Some terminology is not easy to understand when using some interfaces."
"The solution needs to improve APIs and make them more accessible."
"Pricing is always a factor. It could be more affordable."
"The main hurdle in promoting this solution is the price. Its price definitely requires an improvement. It is more expensive than other options, so customers go for a cheaper option."
"We would like to see more paired regions for the replication."
"Reserved Instances for Azure NetApp Files would improve more use cases, making them more valuable in Azure as the cost would be reduced."
"Azure NetApp Files could improve by being more diverse to integrate better with other solutions, such as Splunk and the on-premise version. There are some use cases that are not covered natively by Azure. It is not the best solution because it is not external from the cloud which for me is the best type of solution."
"We would like for the files which are coming in that we can version them. So, if a file is accidentally deleted, there should have a recycle bin option where we can go back, and at least once, clean it up."
"The deployment process is somewhat complex compared to other storage solutions."
"Azure NetApp Files is expensive."
"I have a hunch that storage could be now the most expensive portion of our monthly bill. So I can imagine that, not this year, but next year we will be talking about looking deeper into ways how we can optimize the cost."
Azure Data Lake Storage is ranked 15th in Cloud Storage with 5 reviews while Azure NetApp Files is ranked 8th in Cloud Storage with 15 reviews. Azure Data Lake Storage is rated 8.8, while Azure NetApp Files is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Data Lake Storage writes "User-friendly and helps aggregate all information into one particular environment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure NetApp Files writes "We can expand our storage on-the-fly without the need to reprovision". Azure Data Lake Storage is most compared with , whereas Azure NetApp Files is most compared with Microsoft Azure File Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Nasuni and Google Cloud Storage. See our Azure Data Lake Storage vs. Azure NetApp Files report.
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