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Azure Stack vs Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure Stack
Ranking in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
64
Ranking in other categories
Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) (2nd)
Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)
Ranking in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms
3rd
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (9th), Cloud Management (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms category, the mindshare of Azure Stack is 30.1%, down from 34.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is 14.7%, up from 8.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

PuneetKaura - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 16, 2024
Offers seamless transition, integration capabilities of Azure Stack works well and scales easily
We have a product that helps with billing on Azure Stack. Our solution makes it easier for users to manage internal chargebacks or for resellers to provide a billing system for Azure Stack. We have our own tool that supports Azure Stack as a platform. We've been supporting it for almost four years…
Benjamin Bodenehim - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 14, 2021
Stable with great replication and snapshot capabilities
We primarily use the solution for versioning. The clusters are on my private cloud.  The fact that snapshot, replication, and management are tied together all is important due to the fact that if your snapshots are too big, you can have problems going ahead and replicating to the other clusters.…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is helpful from a security point of view because we can create our own isolated, private environments that contain virtual networks, and we can put security rules in place."
"We have found the Kubernetes version is one of the key components which we are using heavily."
"The user interface is nice and very simple to use."
"The admin dashboard is the main feature of the solution."
"We use Azure Stack for migration, application modernization, and cloud-native modernization."
"The most valuable feature is the OCR, which I use for reading PDFs."
"From my experience, this solution is suitable for enterprise companies."
"I appreciate that all the tools are available natively within Azure. It's all set up nicely. It's all minor."
"The overall infrastructure is the most valuable part of Nutanix Cloud Clusters."
"Its performance and speed are valuable. Its performance has helped me reduce costs."
"We spent a year on this ASR project and had so many issues when we attempted to do a failover. It took four to 24 hours to failover a couple of SQL VMs. During our first test deployment of NC2, it only took three or four minutes to failover and recover our VMs. This blew the Microsoft platform out of the water."
"The most valuable feature is having the full features of my Nutanix on-premises applications in the cloud."
"Having a single pane of glass where you can have both your on-prem and anything else that you spin up within AWS is useful."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Clusters is its storage infrastructure."
"The most valuable features of Nutanix Clusters are Prism Central, Micro-segmentation, and cluster scaling automation."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the redundancy on all levels."
 

Cons

"In some cases, we've seen that some financial software is not working correctly or compatible with Azure Stack. Many companies build this, but some third-party products may not be compatible with Azure Stack. So these are some areas of improvement."
"Azure Stack should be open to different technologies for more virtualization environments to accept it."
"The solution is not user friendly. I'd prefer to move over to AWS, which is much easier in this sense."
"Azure Stack needs to improve integrations."
"PaaS is not ready because they are only offering MS SQL as a service, web applications as a service, and containers as a service."
"Azure Stack could use some improvement when it comes to seamless support for disaster recovery scenarios of higher availability regarding multi-regions."
"Technical support is very poor. When we meet Microsoft in the coming weeks to discuss expansion, we'll be speaking to them directly about this."
"Customers need to consider the Disaster Recovery. Microsoft tech is only providing support to Azure."
"The most significant improvement would be to streamline the starting point so that we could kick off the deployment with one node and then scan out that deployment without a need to restructure or reformat anything."
"I don't have the expertise to build a hybrid cloud. We are starting to build one and haven't tried that part yet. I want to try because that is the most critical part for us. I want to see what, if anything, could be improved. The product is fantastic locally. Now, I want to try it in the cloud. My problem is not in the infrastructure; it is in the application, a different thing."
"When you go to the configuration part on the Nutanix site, the information is a bit high-level."
"The biggest weakness with Clusters at this point is that the adoption rate is low because customers don't know enough about it."
"I'd like more flexible options to get in and out of migration modes."
"The pricing can be better."
"The interface organization can be better. If we can, for example, organize virtual machines by groups, folders, and sub-folders, it will be easier to administer and monitor."
"The reporting has room for improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Subscription model customers need not make large expenditures on upfront purchasing."
"When comparing Azure to Amazon and Google, it appears that Azure offers the most cost-effective solution."
"Azure is reasonably priced compared to Google Cloud, AWS, or some other cloud giants."
"The premium version is too costly."
"The pricing is excellent with several options to save you time and money."
"Azure Stack is expensive."
"The tool is affordable."
"The solution is expensive."
"The licensing model of Nutanix is complex."
"The price is high."
"I am working on one configuration that is priced at $50,000 USD, whereas another one that I'm working on is estimated to cost $250,000 USD."
"The solution has been more costly at this point. We do not see any cost savings."
"I feel that the prices could be improved, but the truth is that I am very happy. The license price keeps increasing, but I am confident that it is much more reasonable than other brands."
"There are positives and negatives to licensing. It all makes sense now, but it took a while. When the licenses first changed, it was a bit confusing."
"The licensing portability can be very interesting. At the moment, I am working with Nutanix Appliances with the AHV as a hypervisor. I did not have a chance to ask for portability between platforms, but it will be good if you can have portability between multiple types of platforms."
"The solution's licensing can be very pricey."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Educational Organization
7%
Computer Software Company
34%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Stack?
For hybrid cloud operations, the seamless transition it enables is key. Most enterprises have a lot of workloads on-premises, and they want a smooth way to move into the cloud. Some things are on...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Stack?
Azure Stack is a very expensive solution. The costs are very opaque and coming out of control quite quickly.
What needs improvement with Azure Stack?
The solution's transparency over cost management could be much easier because it's very difficult to manage costs.
What do you like most about Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)?
The overall infrastructure is the most valuable part of Nutanix Cloud Clusters.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)?
The licensing portability can be very interesting. At the moment, I am working with Nutanix Appliances with the AHV as a hypervisor. I did not have a chance to ask for portability between platforms...
What needs improvement with Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)?
The product could be improved in scalability and support services.
 

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Sample Customers

Weblink, Fathym, Sage, CFD Support Ltd, The UberCloud Inc.
The Home Depot, JetBlue, Hyundai, ShiftLeft
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