We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure File 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."It is a scalable product since it is a cloud solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I like that we can copy and download data using Azure. It's not just for file storage; we can also use it for large data sets or to host static web applications."
"Its simplicity of use is most valuable. It's easy to start working with it and understand it. It's easier to transfer files between different users. I'm able to move files from my device to my manager's device without any issues or without facing any problems in between."
"The initial setup is fairly easy."
"The functionality is easy."
"It helps us with geo-redundancy."
"Its most valuable features are speed and security."
"The solution is user-friendly and integrates easily with web apps."
"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."
"Nutanix Unified Storage is easy to use. New employees are able to come up to speed fairly quickly with regard to the day-to-day administration processes."
"We can utilize mixed storage block-sized objects and combine various databases within a unified interface."
"The most valuable feature is the easy interface."
"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 Objects is reliable."
"The inclusion of it in the Nutanix Objects Storage platform simplifies my process as I am no longer required to acquire a separate platform. Instead, I can simply purchase additional licenses as needed. All management can be performed from a single unified interface, making it a convenient and streamlined experience."
"They have well-documented best practices and the interface is good."
"The solution should support all the legacy storage systems."
"One thing that Azure File Storage could help us with is some kind of impact assessment. When we talk to some of our larger customers who have between 500 and 1,000 applications, we normally do an assessment of all these applications and then tell them which ones are ready to be lifted and shifted, and which ones need to re-architected. It would really help if Azure File Storage could come up with a better way to give estimations of the total investment required, including all costs incurred during the migration."
"It’s a challenge to find the right support person."
"The support could improve."
"It's a bit complex to set up. Other than that, there is nothing to improve."
"The product’s pricing could be better."
"The upload speed has room for improvement."
"The way retention policies are applied could be more optimized."
"Allowing the use of the Gflag compromises the integrity of the Nutanix system and its established standards."
"I would like to see the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. That could definitely be a major breakthrough in providing a unified, seamless experience for end-users. It could reduce costs as well as human effort."
"It is challenging to configure access control settings."
"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."
"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."
"The current hardware is not as dense as it could be. In our deployment, we have 2 PB per site, and we have to have 24 nodes. That's a lot of cabling and network ports that we use up. More dense nodes would be better."
"What's missing in Nutanix Files Storage is the support for multiple intranets or VLANs on the same file from different networks and network devices."
"The management is pretty clunky, in my opinion. It could be a little bit better."
Microsoft Azure File Storage is ranked 1st in Public Cloud Storage Services with 41 reviews while Nutanix Unified Storage is ranked 7th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 39 reviews. Microsoft Azure File Storage is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Unified Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure File Storage writes "Various storage options available, high availability, and quick deployment". 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 File Storage is most compared with Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Azure NetApp Files, Wasabi, Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store), whereas Nutanix Unified Storage is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Red Hat Ceph Storage, MinIO, Dell ECS and Wasabi. See our Microsoft Azure File Storage vs. Nutanix Unified Storage report.
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