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)."The cycle development time is pretty fast, and there's very good coupling within the whole set of Microsoft tools, from database to the ETL engine, ingestion through Azure Data Factory, then modeling Synapse Analytics, and reporting through Power BI."
"It's stable, easy to use, reliable, and cheap."
"The solution is very simple to set up."
"The time to market is fast compared back to the traditional on-premise hosting. That is one of the better things I can say because there is no need to worry. The Pack services will enable it to start immediately."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the limitless possibilities of the infrastructure."
"It is stable and scalable."
"I appreciate that everything is basically shift forward from a security standpoint."
"The solution is user-friendly and compatible."
"The solution has encryption which we did not have before."
"Microsoft should have one package for all their solutions in one place to be found."
"I would like it if Microsoft communicated better about upcoming changes before they roll them out. Sometimes when Microsoft implements changes, they don't notify the users promptly enough. I would like to know about new features, especially Office 365."
"I think it would be good to keep making progress on giving users the ability to do action calls on Data Factory. Right now, it's mostly local. Perhaps Microsoft could add the ability to put some calls in the workflow."
"We have reported some bugs we encountered, and it would be good if those bugs were resolved more quickly."
"The security feature in the solution is an area that needs to be improved."
"One area where Microsoft Azure could improve is in offering a broader range of pre-built plugins and tools compared to AWS."
"Something that could be added to the solution is the use of deep learning, which is going to grow in the near future."
"It would be nice if there was an on-premises version of the solution, and it wasn't just cloud-based."
"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), Alibaba Cloud and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, whereas Virtustream xStream is most compared with Amazon AWS.
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