We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure Block Storage and Nutanix Unified Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Public Cloud Storage Services solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup for the production areas was on premise, which is very simple."
"It can scale."
"It is easy to integrate with applications."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure Block Storage is the security and the management of user access from on-premise to the cloud."
"It has easy versioning. The versioning is amenable to any changes. It also has great security. It can only be accessed through an API, and only the requested users can access it. It is optimized for data lakes and comprehensive data management."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the ease with which you connect and use it."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Block Storage are it stores different types of data traditional data and connectivity through FTP. Additionally, we do not need a high-speed fetching system for operations and filesharing works well for us."
"The tool is pretty easy to use."
"Nutanix Volumes is a perfectly stable product."
"Nutanix Objects is reliable."
"What I found most valuable in Nutanix Files Storage is its high availability and ability to scale out with many VMs."
"I appreciate its storage licensing model, as it offers flexibility."
"Currently, the most valuable aspect of our Nutanix implementation is its file storage functionality."
"The most important point is the simplicity of the API integration. We can leverage the API integrations and connect our hybrid-cloud network environment with Nutanix's cloud storage."
"The real-time alerts generated by this system enable us to swiftly address and mitigate such threats."
"Nutanix's analytics provide better insights into all of our files."
"Improving the pricing structure would be beneficial."
"They could create more readability of files."
"There are capacity limitations that could be expanded."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage can improve the configuration to be more user-friendly."
"Azure Block Storage could use more capacity."
"The performance could be improved, but all the services in the cloud are improved every week."
"The solution's downside is related to its documentation, which I believe can be difficult to navigate because it is hidden between or within other pages of the product's manual."
"The implementation can be quite technical."
"The interface could be improved."
"Nutanix should improve the one-click upgrade. There are a lot of dependencies on third-party licenses and HP hardware we use internally. The one-click upgrade fails sometimes."
"The escalation process with technical support could do with some improvement."
"We have some problems with Nutanix Unified Storage's support because they asked us to change our hardware."
"Another aspect that needs improvement is continuous protection against security threats such as ransomware and potential data leakage."
"It is challenging to configure access control settings."
"Unified Storage failed to fulfill our object storage requirements."
"The solution should keep adding new features to be competitive in the market."
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Microsoft Azure Block Storage is ranked 7th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 56 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 6th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 39 reviews. Microsoft Azure Block Storage is rated 8.0, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Block Storage writes "Straightforward to set up and reliable with good features on offer". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Unified Storage writes "Provides good performance, longer uptime, and an easy way to manage our data". Microsoft Azure Block Storage is most compared with Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store), Rackspace Cloud Block Storage, Wasabi, Amazon S3 Glacier and Azure NetApp Files, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and VAST Data. See our Microsoft Azure Block Storage vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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