We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure Data Box and Palantir Foundry based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Migration Appliances solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It provides secure transfer of large amounts of data."
"The Azure Data Box saves us a great deal of time when migrating data to Azure."
"We're looking at this solution because it's part of an overall tool suite, so the integration piece is what's striking our interest in it."
"The solution has allowed the organization to safely transfer and store into the cloud easily and quickly large amounts of data that can then be readily accessed."
"Microsoft Azure Data Box has much more usability than other tools like it. It is very intuitive."
"It is a good fit with ease of integration there."
"One valuable aspect is the support we receive from Microsoft Azure vendors."
"We use the solution for integration purposes."
"The interface is really user-friendly."
"Palantir Foundry is a robust platform that has really strong plugin connectors and provides features for real-time integration."
"Great features available in one tool."
"Live video sessions enhance the available documentation and allow you to ask questions directly."
"The virtualization tool is useful."
"It is easy to map out a workflow and run trigger-based scripts without having to deploy to another server."
"The security is also excellent. It's highly granular, so the admins have a high degree of control, and there are many levels of security. That worked well. You won't have an EDC unless you put everything onto the platform because it is its own isolated thing."
"The solution offers very good end-to-end capabilities."
"Deployment can be a major challenge. It's important to understand the organization's policies, the data store where the data will be going, the necessary permissions, and the specific type of Data Box being used. We also need to consider the encryption keys that need to be utilized."
"It's a single node solution. If it can be spread out across more of the enterprise and have more segregation in its virtual environment, that would be good."
"On an enterprise level, a per-user license for more than 1,000 users is very costly."
"I am not confident in this device's ability to perform a network backup in our data center."
"The device must be transported off-site before the data is uploaded into the Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"When it comes to old applications, they may not be the most suitable environment for Microsoft's current focus on Azure and the latest technologies. It would be helpful if Microsoft could provide some guidelines or recommendations for transitioning from old to new."
"The solution is straightforward with simple application migration, but plug-and-play AI is not involved simultaneously."
"For me it doesn't work well. ... If you are a non-Microsoft shop, to use Microsoft Azure Data Box, you would need to integrate it with your other vendors, and whether or not that will be possible will depend on the platform or platforms that host them."
"Some error messages can be very cryptic."
"Difficult to receive data from external sources."
"Compared to other hyperscalers, Palantir Foundry is complex and not so user-intuitive."
"They do not have a data center in Europe, and we have lots of personally identifiable information in our dataset that needs to be hosted by a third-party data center like Amazon or Microsoft Azure."
"The frontend capabilities of Palantir Foundry could be improved."
"The workflow could be improved."
"The data lineage was challenging. It's hard to track data from the sources as it moves through stages. Informatica EDC can easily capture and report it because it talks to the metadata. This is generated across those various staging points."
"Cost of this solution is quite high."
Microsoft Azure Data Box is ranked 1st in Data Migration Appliances with 8 reviews while Palantir Foundry is ranked 3rd in Data Migration Appliances with 13 reviews. Microsoft Azure Data Box is rated 8.6, while Palantir Foundry is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Data Box writes "Efficiently handles heavy incoming traffic and maintains stable operations without crashing the application ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palantir Foundry writes "The data visualization is fantastic and the security is excellent". Microsoft Azure Data Box is most compared with AWS Snowball, Google Transfer Appliance, AWS Snowball Edge and IBM Cloud Mass Data Migration, whereas Palantir Foundry is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Palantir Gotham, SAP Data Services, AWS Glue and Alteryx Designer. See our Microsoft Azure Data Box vs. Palantir Foundry report.
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