We performed a comparison between Dell ECS and Microsoft Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about MinIO, Dell Technologies, Red Hat and others in File and Object Storage."It is 100% stable. It is also scalable."
"I have found Dell ECS to be scalable."
"Dell's technical support team is good."
"It is a stable solution."
"What I like best about this product is that it is a complete solution, both hardware, and software, by the same vendor."
"The performance is good."
"The most valuable feature for me is off-site storage."
"This solution is very easy to use, and is very reliable."
"Virtual machine services, in SaaS services, M365, and Data Lake are all popular with our clients."
"The solution has enabled us to provide advanced indicators and analytics to the client on their data."
"Reduces work for our IT teams and saves us a lot of time."
"The initial setup is simple."
"I have found the solution to be flexible, easy to use, and the documents are straightforward to understand."
"The best feature in Microsoft Azure is that I don't have to change computers. I don't have to upgrade or if something breaks or a hard drive crashes. The lack of a physical aspect is the major feature for me."
"The data factory feature."
"Some months ago, we started using Power BI embedded, which helped optimize the number of licenses for our company."
"Dell ECS could improve the price of the solution. It is expensive."
"We have concerns about the write performance. We would also like it to be easier to scale out, to add more boxes to the system. And we want improved performance, to use a next-generation NFS service."
"Dell ECS needs to improve its performance."
"You should be able to calculate so that when it's full it's 100% full, not just 90%."
"The major weakness in the solution is that there is no cloud version for Dell ECS."
"The solution needs to provide better integration between this solution and all other kinds of systems."
"In Taiwan, they don't have professional technical support."
"They need to ensure that the system will work if a site goes down."
"More expensive than other solutions without justification."
"Its subscription price could be cheaper."
"Technical support is lacking right now. It needs to be better."
"I would like to see improved migration tools. It is improving week by week. They just need to make sure that they keep up with the new functionality provided in other clouds."
"Auto ML could be improved technically."
"They should optimize their pricing so that we can use more features. I would also like to see more auditing and more security for the Blob storage feature. From a technical point, it has very good features for Microsoft products, but for non-Microsoft products, it may have some limitations. I have mostly worked with Windows-based integration, and now I am trying to use it for open-source systems. It is good but not as easy as Microsoft products."
"It would be nice to have faster support."
"The initial setup is quite complex because of the number of options that are available."
Dell ECS is ranked 5th in File and Object Storage with 25 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. Dell ECS is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell ECS writes "Enables multiple protocol support, but its IOPS functionality needs improvement in terms of performance ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Dell ECS is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), Amazon AWS, NetApp StorageGRID, MinIO and Hitachi Content Platform, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform.
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