We performed a comparison between Dell ECS and Microsoft Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about MinIO, Dell Technologies, Red Hat and others in File and Object Storage."It is 100% stable. It is also scalable."
"The performance is good."
"It is a stable solution."
"Dell's technical support team is good."
"Competitive object storage platform that's stable and scalable."
"What I like best about this product is that it is a complete solution, both hardware, and software, by the same vendor."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"I have not had a problem with the stability. It is reliable."
"Microsoft Azure is built for scalability."
"Some months ago, we started using Power BI embedded, which helped optimize the number of licenses for our company."
"Azure's Data Lake services are decent. I like AKS, and API Management is relatively straightforward to use. The security and SIEM options Azure offers are good. All the infrastructure services are easy to use and set up."
"We can easily access and integrate data sources from other platforms."
"The solution is secure and easy to use."
"Azure is very user friendly. I was able to create some database servers really fast. The user interface is intuitive."
"We have found the scalability to be good."
"We have concerns about the write performance. We would also like it to be easier to scale out, to add more boxes to the system. And we want improved performance, to use a next-generation NFS service."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"Dell ECS could improve the price of the solution. It is expensive."
"They do not have complete documentation, which is very weak and could be improved."
"They could provide centralized reports."
"There is room for improvement in the DPI reports, as they could be made more user-friendly."
"The solution needs to provide better integration between this solution and all other kinds of systems."
"The major weakness in the solution is that there is no cloud version for Dell ECS."
"Sometimes performance takes a hit on a slow network."
"In my opinion, what could be improved is making the actual costs more predictable. It is very difficult to estimate the cost or the budget you are going to need to run your environment in Azure Cloud. You have to be a specialist to understand how you will be charged, which constantly changes."
"Could be more user friendly; initial setup is difficult to understand."
"The initial setup is quite complex because of the number of options that are available."
"Technical support could be better. They need to be more responsive."
"Microsoft's technical support could be improved."
"Price could always be better. The features come in quickly, so we're comfortable with the feature set that is available to us."
"Microsoft Azure can improve by adding more features for virtual machines, such as tier virtual machines."
Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 24 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. Dell ECS is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell ECS writes "Enables multiple protocol support, but its IOPS functionality needs improvement in terms of performance ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Amazon AWS, NetApp StorageGRID, MinIO and Hitachi Content Platform, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform.
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