We performed a comparison between IBM SoftLayer and Wasabi based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google and others in Public Cloud Storage Services."The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"Basically, I set Wasabi up and forget it. I'll monitor it every once in a while just to make sure that it's working correctly."
"We can store our videos on hot storage, allowing immediate access to them."
"The tool is very user-friendly."
"Wasabi is an easy-to-use solution."
"The most valuable feature of Wasabi is the backups."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Wasabi is its cost."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
"I don't have enough experience to understand the nuances of where they might improve."
"The scalability could be improved."
"Having the ability to upload and download data using third-party apps such as Mega which can sync to the desktop would be excellent."
"The scalability could improve."
"The solution’s user reporting could be improved."
"The solution must allow the extension of the retention period."
"Setting up users on the appliance should be improved."
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IBM SoftLayer is ranked 21st in Public Cloud Storage Services while Wasabi is ranked 8th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 7 reviews. IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.6, while Wasabi is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM SoftLayer writes "Stable with excellent speed and agility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wasabi writes "An easy-to-use solution that can be used to move local backups to the cloud". IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS, whereas Wasabi is most compared with Microsoft Azure File Storage, Amazon S3 Glacier, Google Cloud Storage, Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure Object Storage.
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