We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure and Virtustream xStream based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle and others in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)."We use the cognitive service, virtual machines, and customer DB. Microsoft Azure is also scalable and easy to install."
"The product is rather stable. We haven't had any issues with it in that sense."
"It's very easy to build a new service and get it into production."
"Technical support, from what I understand, is quite helpful and we speak with them regularly."
"Azure is very user friendly. I was able to create some database servers really fast. The user interface is intuitive."
"It is a very easy-to-use platform, and it is very powerful in terms of data backup and Blob storage. It has very good features, especially if you are using Microsoft products, such as Windows, Microsoft SQL Server."
"We didn't have any problems setting it up."
"The most efficient feature of Microsoft Azure is that we can use it to update a website with a few clicks."
"The solution has encryption which we did not have before."
"The permissions and controls in the product are not easy to use."
"Integration with other cloud environments can be tricky at times."
"Azure calculator could be improved, there are issues with login synchronization."
"There could be more documentation and video tutorials to incorporate each and every feature. This way one can easily get the knowledge and implement it."
"It would be helpful if it offered more integration with other platforms."
"I would like to see all of the cloud providers be more compatible with each other."
"The cost of the product is too high. It would be ideal if they could lower it a bit for their customers."
"I would like to see better policy-based management and everything related to security management could have been better integrated."
"Our account representative was inexperienced, they could improve on how they are managing accounts."
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Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews while Virtustream xStream is ranked 20th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS). Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4, while Virtustream xStream is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". 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 Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Alibaba Cloud, whereas Virtustream xStream is most compared with Amazon AWS.
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