We performed a comparison between IBM SoftLayer and Microsoft Azure Object Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and others in Public Cloud Storage Services."The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"The metadata that the solution provides is quite valuable for us. If we need to analyze the latest data from a particular department or particular user, we can simply query through the metadata we store in Azure Object Storage and simply fetch those records which are maybe one day or one month old. this metadata storage is really handy for us."
"Microsoft Azure Object Storage is an easy-to-use and stable solution."
"We have had a good experience with customer service and support."
"Object Storage's best features are the soft delete option and the retention period."
"We use the product for storage, documentation, and reporting."
"The most important thing for me is reliability."
"This product is very reliable and all of the security that our client requires is available."
"Blob Storage is one of the best resources in Azure for storing unstructured data such as files, video files, audio files, and Excel files."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
"Object re-use should be improved in order to get better performance and reduce the cost."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"The administration of the solution is not as easy as we would like it to be."
"The efficiency depends on various operations, and therefore, it should involve multiple vendor support."
"Microsoft Azure Object Storage needs to improve stability and cloud user interface."
"The cost of support is always expensive."
"We have experienced a data copy bottleneck with the AZ copy using Microsoft Azure Object Storage, this should improve. It has high CPU consumption. There are a couple of ways to copy files fast, we have tried a few ways. Other than AZ copy, we can use Azure Fluent Storage, which also takes a lot of time to copy files. The AZ copy is faster but it takes a lot of time and CPU operations."
"Object Storage's integration with other backup software could be improved."
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IBM SoftLayer is ranked 22nd in Public Cloud Storage Services while Microsoft Azure Object Storage is ranked 10th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 44 reviews. IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Azure Object Storage is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM SoftLayer writes "Stable with excellent speed and agility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Object Storage writes "Easy to query, offers great security, and integrates well with other Microsoft applications". IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS, whereas Microsoft Azure Object Storage is most compared with Oracle Cloud Object Storage, Wasabi, Amazon S3 and Nutanix Unified Storage.
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