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."We face very few hardware failures."
"The performance is good."
"It's definitely good for unstructured data. In earlier days, we had Centera, so for the DR it's really good. It has load balancing facility, and we're using it with the Kemp Load Balancer."
"It is a stable solution."
"Dell's technical support team is good."
"It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"The performance is good."
"Dell ECS is a cost-effective solution that provides ease of use and availability."
"Feedback and error messages make much more sense in Azure than in AWS."
"The best feature is it's easy to integrate with other Microsoft solutions."
"It is stable and scalable."
"In Azure, everything is pretty straightforward. Once you know it, the platform is very easy to use."
"The portal makes it easier to work with the solution."
"Microsoft offers free courses and an exam on their products. Many of my colleagues who use Microsoft Azure take advantage of those free courses to help them learn about the solution in depth."
"I like the ExpressRoute because that makes it easy to configure connectivity to Azure-hosted services."
"There are a lot of valuable features in Microsoft Azure, such as Kubernetes, pipelines, and development environments."
"From an improvement perspective, Dell ECS should aim to offer a better pricing plan to its users."
"Dell EMC ECS should support segregation of duty, particularly for role-based access controls. Having a single pane of glass for smarter observation and better control mechanism would also make this solution better."
"Dell EMC ECS could improve by having Relational Database Services(RDS) to review progress. Additionally, if the training was provided it would be a benefit, it would be good for our engineers."
"The setup is very complex."
"It is a good solution, except for the cost."
"Its security can be improved."
"In Taiwan, they don't have professional technical support."
"You should be able to calculate so that when it's full it's 100% full, not just 90%."
"The solution's initial setup was a bit complex in the beginning."
"The solution lacks fluidity and is not intuitive."
"Microsoft should have one package for all their solutions in one place to be found."
"The level of authorization or authorization cascading can be improved. We have the most powerful admins and then we have sub-admins, but the level of authorization is not that easy to handle or manage."
"The local support is fair but it is sometimes limited, the service could be better."
"The solution should improve the shared cache. For the shared cache, Microsoft uses RADIUS third-party services. We have a lot of trouble with RADIUS and I suppose that is due to the fact that is not owned completely by Microsoft."
"There are so many services available that the interface is a little bit messy, and when you're looking for a specific service, you have to know exactly where to search."
"The design of the platform is not so easy to navigate. It's not very user-friendly."
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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