We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure and Virtustream xStream based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The most valuable aspect of Azure is the flexibility you have for all the services and solutions it offers, even if you use IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS, you have the option to only pay for the services you use."
"In terms of computer resource management and reduced cost, it is very, very effective. In large environments, it gives you a lot of flexibility to provide different services, like disaster recovery and business continuity with simple and great options because you don't have to spend a lot of time for maintenance, upgrades, and security."
"It's stable, easy to use, reliable, and cheap."
"Its scalability is valuable. Depending on our requirements, we can add as many virtual machines as we want. We are able to get high availability for services. Services are always available, and they have the maximum uptime. If there is any issue with one of the services, another service is always available. It is pay-as-you-go. You don't have to spend any money upfront. You use the service and pay after one month or a couple of hours of use."
"One of the features I have found to be valuable is the scale set feature."
"We have implemented the ExpressRoute connection, which is an established circuit between the local provider and the Microsoft network edge."
"The solution has proven to be quite stable so far."
"The solution is very flexible, it is not limited to Microsoft solutions. It integrates well with other solutions, such as Oracle. There are a lot of templates we are able to use allowing us to reduce the time for configuration."
"The solution has encryption which we did not have before."
"The solution needs to offer more data analysis services."
"The pricing in our region can be a bit high."
"We need more customization and support for doing so."
"In the next release, I would like to see better security."
"The diagnostics should have more logs."
"Technical support is lacking right now. It needs to be better."
"When we are doing transfers of records in large amounts, for example, petabytes of data or few long datasets, the performance should not degrade as it does."
"It is pretty secure, but it can always be more secure."
"Our account representative was inexperienced, they could improve on how they are managing accounts."
Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 188 reviews while Virtustream xStream is ranked 10th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 1 review. Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4, while Virtustream xStream is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Optimized cloud solution with reliable recovery and fail services". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Virtustream xStream writes "Improves efficiencies, has encryption, and great mission-critical customer support". Microsoft Azure is most compared with Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Platform, Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform, whereas Virtustream xStream is most compared with Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud, SAP S4HANA on AWS and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud.
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