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HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 vs Microsoft Azure Block Storage comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 27, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000
Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services
13th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Azure Block Storage
Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services
12th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
64
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Public Cloud Storage Services category, the mindshare of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is 1.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure Block Storage is 0.9%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Eric Popiel - PeerSpot reviewer
Good support, highly scalable, and a great cloud-like experience on-prem
Moving to a consumption model is highly desirable from the client side. everyone seems to be moving in that direction. It provides a cloud-like experience on-prem. It simplified it for the most part. When you look at a lot of the storage and historically how it's been done, you're doing a lot of forecasting, a lot of business justification, a lot of purchasing of hardware, and oversizing for growth, et cetera. The pay-as-you-go model is a much more simplified way of doing things. And it offers more flexibility. The scale capacity improves and simplifies the experience in terms of growth and performance. A lot of clients I work with have performance requirements. I work heavily in financial and healthcare segments and those need 24/7/365 performance with no downtime. GreenLake helped to reduce our operational expenses.
MatsHagberg Olsson2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Empowers secure data management with affordable tools and minimal hassle
The most valuable feature is that it's very affordable in comparison to competitors. The absolute best feature is the Azure Storage Explorer tool. The tool allows me to download to my device, control access, and manage data with ease. Additionally, the joint use of Azure portal further facilitates management depending on my location.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Today I get a better deduplication level compared to the previous generations. That means the price per gigabyte or terabyte is lower for me."
"The uptime, the guarantee from HPE, and NVMe Storage are valuable."
"The scalability is very good."
"The unified management experience has been great. That's a huge advantage."
"The ease of use, the reporting, and the setup are excellent."
"Moving to a consumption model is highly desirable from the client side. everyone seems to be moving in that direction."
"The feature I like is that I can create a template and apply it to multiple switches. I don't have to do the same task on every switch, and the same goes for access points. It's central management, with the features that come with central management."
"I can store data, use the storage account as a queue, and the pricing is also quite economical."
"The major benefit of using Microsoft Azure Block Storage is that it supports various types of data, including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, without requiring different tools to read each type. This comprehensive approach simplifies the data handling process for data engineers and allows for seamless data transfer to downstream applications. In essence, this is a data paradigm shift that enables easy ingestion of diverse data types."
"The stability seems to be very reliable."
"Azure Block Storage has very good integration with the Microsoft suite, which helps a lot when creating a digital workspace."
"The ease of integration with services like CDN and computing makes it compelling and cost-effective."
"The public access with more security available is valuable."
"It has capabilities such as versioning and, from a security point of view, you can also back it up."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the ease with which you connect and use it."
 

Cons

"With support, occasionally, we have a little trouble escalating things."
"The debugging of devices could use improvement. Connection problems on devices as well."
"The classifying of the data could be better."
"The solution could improve the integration with sustainability-related services. A lot of clients ask us about that."
"You need two different boxes for block and file storage."
"The marketplace should improve. There should be a more robust variety of vendors."
"The scalability of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution needs a direct connection to visualization."
"If the documentation could be improved then it would be very good. Right now, if you face a question, you have to guess how it works or you have to test your hypothesis."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"We encountered an issue where enabling SFTP on Microsoft Azure Block Storage didn’t allow us to get the IP address, as Azure doesn’t support it."
"Improving the pricing structure would be beneficial."
"There should be a discount on Block Storage for people who use it more often."
"The product is not as stable as we would like it to be."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its price seems okay for us. It is what we expect for this kind of storage."
"The pricing for Microsoft Azure Block Storage is high because of MSA and SBA contracts, where Microsoft takes care of the security aspects, apart from the maintenance, and Microsoft has service level agreements with the customers."
"The storage part costs us $223. That's on a monthly basis for 20TB of data storage."
"The cost is very low. The cost is something like $0.01 to $0.50 per gig. It's pay per use. We have a yearly license."
"For the first 50DB, they cost around $50. It's an open solution for everybody. Anybody can go to the Microsoft website and they can get the pricing for it. But the first 50GB of data is a default rate and then it increases for the next 500GB or something like that. It is a pay as you go solution. The more you use, the more you pay. That's normally how you pay for any cloud solutions."
"I would rate the pricing as five out of ten."
"I rate the product price as seven on a scale of one to ten, where one means low price and ten means high price. The tool is expensive. There are no additional costs attached to the product, so it is available at a fixed price."
"I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
"The product is costlier than Amazon S3."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
14%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about HPE GreenLake for Block Storage?
The feature I like is that I can create a template and apply it to multiple switches. I don't have to do the same task on every switch, and the same goes for access points. It's central managemen...
What needs improvement with HPE GreenLake for Block Storage?
It's still a block environment. The file storage is too big. If they can lower that so I can store files and objects on the same device, that would be great. You need two different boxes for block ...
What is your primary use case for HPE GreenLake for Block Storage?
My use case is mainly for virtualization. Most of the workloads are virtualization. They're running virtual machines on there. Now I'm also deploying it for containerized applications. I also have ...
What do you like most about Microsoft Azure Block Storage?
We use the solution to develop SaaS platforms on Azure. We utilize various Microsoft components like block storage and databases for this purpose.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Azure Block Storage?
Our experience with pricing has been positive. The budget for Microsoft Azure services has been within expectations for the last couple of months. The cost for Azure Data Factory ( /products/azure-...
What needs improvement with Microsoft Azure Block Storage?
We encountered an issue where enabling SFTP on Microsoft Azure Block Storage didn’t allow us to get the IP address, as Azure ( /products/microsoft-azure-reviews ) doesn’t support it. We had to set ...
 

Also Known As

HPE GreenLake for Block Storage
MS Azure Block Storage
 

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Sample Customers

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Mazda, BlinkBox, Rakuten Showtime, Xbox One, Serko, ChronoDrive
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