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Azure NetApp Files vs Microsoft Azure Object Storage comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 1, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Customer Service

No sentiment score available
Azure NetApp Files support is praised for responsiveness, though effectiveness varies, with some users relying on internal teams.
Sentiment score
7.6
Microsoft Azure Object Storage support is praised for premium plans but criticized for slow response times with basic plans.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
4.2
Azure NetApp Files needs innovation, better versioning, cost optimization, simpler deployment, better support, and enhanced disaster recovery and replication.
Sentiment score
4.3
Microsoft Azure Object Storage needs performance, stability, cost efficiency improvements, better integration, and enhanced support and UI for users.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Azure NetApp Files is highly rated for scalability, flexibility, automation, and minimal maintenance, with some size and availability concerns.
Sentiment score
7.6
Microsoft Azure Object Storage is praised for its scalability, efficiently supporting substantial workloads and growing user demands.
 

Setup Cost

No sentiment score available
Azure NetApp Files offers flexible pricing with pay-as-you-go and subscription models, but may seem expensive for small deployments.
Sentiment score
8.3
Microsoft Azure Object Storage offers variable pricing, higher costs for intensive use, with flexible options often seen as expensive.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Users highly rate Azure NetApp Files for its stability and reliability, consistently handling increased loads without issues during migrations.
Sentiment score
7.8
Microsoft Azure Object Storage is stable, though occasional outages and external factors can impact stability, with varied customer ratings.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.2
Azure NetApp Files provides flexible, secure, high-performance storage with fast provisioning, scaling, snapshots, SQL backups, and high availability.
Sentiment score
7.7
Microsoft Azure Object Storage offers scalability, flexibility, security, ease of use, and performance, with seamless integration and compliance certifications.
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure NetApp Files
Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Migration (3rd), Cloud Storage (8th)
Microsoft Azure Object Storage
Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services
9th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Public Cloud Storage Services category, the mindshare of Azure NetApp Files is 7.2%, down from 7.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure Object Storage is 2.0%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Public Cloud Storage Services
 

Featured Reviews

We can expand our storage on-the-fly without the need to reprovision
Ease of provisioning: It's very easy to consume the product. We are not doing this manually. We are doing this programmatically, but it's very easy and seamless for us to consume it. It's like any other Azure component. It's very good and well-integrated into the ecosystem of Azure. There is tight integration. We didn't need to learn anything new. It feels like we know everything already, although under the hood, the product is something totally different. However, it seemed very easy for us. It's elastic, so it scales with our demands. We can start small, then with the addition of customer loads, we can expand on-the-fly without the need to reprovision something. The performance is quite good, so it's almost on par with the make of SSD storage. It provides a quick, scalable storage solution. We were looking for a supported solution. We didn't want to experiment. We didn't want to look for open source, though we did look into open source initially before we bumped into NetApp. We figured out that adding yet another unknown into our system was not going to bring us benefit. It would be another problem that we would need to tackle. So, we said, "Okay, let's look for a supported solution," and NetApp was one of them. Then, we turned to NetApp.
DanBryant - PeerSpot reviewer
Good SLAs and better suited for large files like videos and anything in the multi-gigabyte range
Support's not great, but Microsoft products are much more industrial strength and enterprise ready than any other services out there. That's why we use them and learn how to use them, even when they change things without much advanced notice. We proactively educate ourselves on how to use it once it's changed. I don't pay for premium support. But at a basic level, Microsoft products can be pretty aggravating to work with. I prefer not to rate it. I don't think a number would accurately describe the experience. We still use it, and it's still valuable. But the experience with Microsoft products, from storage to Teams and everything else, can be quite aggravating.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
33%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
21%
Retailer
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How does Azure NetApp Files compare to NetApp ONTAP?
Azure NetApp Files is a Microsoft Azure file storage service built on NetApp technology. The platform combines the file capabilities of Azure and NetApp to move critical file-based applications to ...
What do you like most about Azure NetApp Files?
The availability is good, meaning downtime or network issues rarely occur. The system also offers flexibility, allowing for increases in data volume, IOPS, and other capabilities without requiring ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure NetApp Files?
The solution's competitors like Oracle or Amazon are not cheap either. I think we're paying two million dollars for Azure NetApp Files. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is exp...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Azure Object Storage?
The pricing is higher than CNC. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate the pricing as six to seven.
What needs improvement with Microsoft Azure Object Storage?
The deployment process needs improvement, and it requires a lot of expertise to use and to utilize it.
 

Also Known As

NetApp ANF, ANF
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, Azure Object Storage, MS Azure Object Storage
 

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