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HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 vs Microsoft Azure File 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 File Storage
Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
48
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Public Cloud Storage Services category, the mindshare of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is 1.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure File Storage is 10.3%, down from 13.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Public Cloud Storage Services
 

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.
PrashanthR - PeerSpot reviewer
Seamlessly streamlines document processing with advanced file storage and OCR integration
We need to store data over there. We process documents through Kofax Time is a major benefit, as well as ease of processing. With configuration, it happens quite easily, and we can finish tasks early. File storage is complemented by OCR with Azure Cognitive Service. This enhances the processing…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"The unified management experience has been great. That's a huge advantage."
"The uptime, the guarantee from HPE, and NVMe Storage are valuable."
"The scalability is very good."
"Moving to a consumption model is highly desirable from the client side. everyone seems to be moving in that direction."
"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 ease of use, the reporting, and the setup are excellent."
"It's a scalable solution."
"The solution can scale to fit any requirement."
"The interface is very good."
"It is a very scalable solution. I rate the solution's scalability a nine out of ten."
"The security features and the ease of integration are good."
"This solution supports all file formats."
"Azure File Storage gives us easy access to cloud solutions at the storage level."
"It's a stable product."
 

Cons

"The solution could improve the integration with sustainability-related services. A lot of clients ask us about that."
"With support, occasionally, we have a little trouble escalating things."
"The classifying of the data could be better."
"The marketplace should improve. There should be a more robust variety of vendors."
"The debugging of devices could use improvement. Connection problems on devices as well."
"You need two different boxes for block and file storage."
"Importing and exporting data needs to have a bit more documentation."
"It's a bit complex to set up. Other than that, there is nothing to improve."
"The integration of the site storage with SQL was not completely seamless."
"There is a limitation on the storage capacity, like four terabytes. It could be improved to accommodate more data."
"The storage account key could be a security issue."
"Some chunking logics need to be better to address issues with processing bigger files. It should allow better methods for handling large files."
"Microsoft Azure File Storage needs more integrations. In the future, I also want to see GRC added to the portal. If you enroll or sign up for Azure services, your country may not have GRC available in the portal, so you may have to choose a strange country, for example, Kenya, to activate credit."
"Azure File Storage's stability is okay, but sometimes we have trouble with the link to the Azure VPN disconnecting."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its price seems okay for us. It is what we expect for this kind of storage."
"There are fewer hidden costs involved compared to other solutions, and when our customer is already a Microsoft partner, they typically have access to more affordable fees."
"The pricing could be more flexible."
"I give the pricing of the solution a seven out of ten."
"The pricing is usually dependent on your storage requirements. Overall, I believe Microsoft Azure File Storage's price is reasonable."
"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, with ten being the most expensive. It's not cheap."
"The licensing cost for Microsoft Azure File Storage comes with an agreement from Microsoft."
"One of the major benefits for AWS is that they have a very large customer representative base where clients can be picked from, they offer large discounts and credit. We were not able to receive the same kind of offers from Microsoft Azure File Storage. We tried to approach Azure while hiring for our disaster recovery discussion, but we didn't receive anything from Azure."
"We have Microsoft Azure File Storage's enterprise license."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
22%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
10%
Non Profit
7%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
 

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 ...
Which file storage system is better - Amazon EFS (elastic file storage) or Azure File Storage?
Amazon EFS is easy to set up: you can use the AWS management console, API, or command-line. Amazon EFS can grow to petabytes and deliver consistent low latencies and high levels of throughput. This...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Azure File Storage?
The pricing for Microsoft Azure File Storage is five out of ten, not so expensive and not so low.
 

Also Known As

HPE GreenLake for Block Storage
MS Azure File Storage
 

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