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 most important reason we use Azure Block Storage is the ability to store large files. When we were building the solution, we knew we needed to store images and video files that are 100 MBs or more. The second thing is speed when dealing with such large file sizes."
"The tool is pretty easy to use."
"Storing and then retrieving data are the most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Block Storage."
"This is a very stable solution."
"The product is very easy to use."
"We use Microsoft Azure Block Storage to store, upload and download data. We can also use it as a backup."
"The price is decent. I rate Azure Block Storage eight out of 10 for affordability."
"You can easily access your data whenever you need it."
"Nutanix Objects is reliable."
"The most valuable feature is the unified dashboard, as it allows us to easily observe everything from a single location."
"What I like most about Nutanix Files Storage is the way it makes copies of the data. The solution also has high availability, which is excellent. Another valuable feature of Nutanix Files Storage is self-service, so users won't have to depend on the IT team much."
"Nutanix Unified Storage does a very good job of unifying our organization's block, file, and object storage. It puts it all in one place. From one platform, we can deploy S3-type buckets. We can provide iSCSI-level block storage if we need to. It does a great job with home folders and departmental shares, which is what we mostly use Nutanix Unified Storage for."
"The solution is easy to use, share, and manage."
"My opinion is that this solution has very good stability."
"The solution is very easy to manage."
"Nutanix Unified Storage is a simple, user-friendly, and stable solution."
"It should be easier to deploy."
"In terms of improvement, it could use better integration with non-propriety tools. Azure pushes you down a data factory road for integrations but data factory isn't always a scalable, viable solution, particularly when using large numbers ofconnections to IoT solutions."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement. Microsoft Azure Block Storage is priced higher than alternative solutions."
"We need to do versioning each and every time, that is, check-in and check-out. If a person forgets to do that, then there could be an issue in the replacement of that particular object in the storage. It will be great if it can be automatically managed."
"I have used Amazon's solutions which are better than Microsoft's. However, since I have predominately Microsoft solutions it is a better choice for me to use another Microsoft solution."
"The integrations right now are limited, however, we are hopeful this will improve as the cloud continues to develop."
"I want to see my region added to the data center. I'm in Africa, and if a data center is specifically added under Central Africa, that will reduce data latency when accessing data."
"Microsoft Azure Block Storage could improve the SFTP. The SFTP can be used for exchanging data between two parties and it works but Microsoft is new to this market and they could be a lot better in this area with its features."
"While they are good and they do work, some of the snapshotting and tiering features are not as simple to set up as they could be."
"It is challenging to configure access control settings."
"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."
"One thing I'd appreciate is having a desktop application similar to what VMware offered."
"Lowering the price would improve this product."
"Unified Storage failed to fulfill our object storage requirements."
"The GUI is not user-friendly for new users and has room for improvement."
"The GUI is easy to use, but it's complex to do tasks from the command line. That is one way they could simplify things for the engineers. People tend to use a graphical interface more than the command line interface. If anything goes wrong, we need to do troubleshooting from the CLI. It would be nice if there were more ways to fix issues within the GUI."
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Microsoft Azure Block Storage is ranked 8th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 56 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 7th 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, Amazon S3 Glacier, Wasabi and Azure NetApp Files, whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Qumulo. See our Microsoft Azure Block Storage vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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