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."The most valuable feature for me is off-site storage."
"It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"The technology is very good, it performs well."
"Dell's technical support team is good."
"We face very few hardware failures."
"This product is very competitive."
"The performance is good."
"I like that the solution is easy to scale and that's its stable."
"Good security, scalability, and elasticity."
"Microsoft Azure is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration between all of the components in Azure."
"The product brings a lot of value to our business and customers."
"The best feature is it's easy to integrate with other Microsoft solutions."
"I like the ExpressRoute because that makes it easy to configure connectivity to Azure-hosted services."
"The most valuable feature is the possibility of using Microsoft and non-Microsoft services on one environment."
"I have not had a problem with the stability. It is reliable."
"The solution needs to provide better integration between this solution and all other kinds of systems."
"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 major weakness in the solution is that there is no cloud version for Dell ECS."
"Its security can be improved."
"If Dell ECS would be available as standalone software, so you can use any hardware with it, would make the solution better. It would also be good if Dell ECS had more integrations with other products."
"The setup is very complex."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"In Taiwan, they don't have professional technical support."
"Something that could be added to the solution is the use of deep learning, which is going to grow in the near future."
"I have found Microsoft Azure has many components to use and it's very difficult to understand every component."
"The solution’s learning curve could be improved."
"They can improve the number of requests. Maybe they can increase it from 5,000 requests to 10,000 requests a month. Sometimes when you try to connect, it is quite unresponsive. When you want to communicate using the API, you get an internal error."
"Microsoft Azure needs to be simplified to make it better understood for users."
"The solution could improve by providing better tutorials and documentation."
"It would be beneficial if Microsoft could enhance the free version to allow for more exploration and development. That's my only suggestion regarding Azure."
"The security must be improved."
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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