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Microsoft Azure vs Virtustream xStream comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Azure
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
313
Ranking in other categories
PaaS Clouds (1st)
Virtustream xStream
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
24th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of Microsoft Azure is 19.1%, up from 18.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Virtustream xStream is 0.2%, down from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

Nicolas Chabrier - PeerSpot reviewer
Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration
The only thing is regarding the management of multi-cloud environments. That's not really possible. So basically, it's wonderful if you manage Microsoft clearly and if you manage Microsoft Azure, but if you need to consume external services and have a global overview of all your consumption, it's not the case. Google, for instance, has tools that help you manage multiple environments, which makes sense because Google is really the cloud provider. So that's why they need to be compliant with the others. But for sure, Microsoft's approach is different, and it's wonderful when you're one hundred percent on Azure. But if you'd like to have something more of a multi-cloud strategy, that's a bit of a gap where they could improve.
RH
Improves efficiencies, has encryption, and great mission-critical customer support
Previously we had an amateur solution where we were managing on our own data center but we had the management in-house. It was a strategic move to give people who were more competent and with business focus other core initiatives. It was a strategic outsource model. The equipment we were using was out date and at the end of its life cycle, we had to make some transitions, do a hardware replacement, or move on. We moved on to this solution.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Microsoft Azure has proven to be beneficial for our organization due to its quick deployment capabilities. Setting up virtual machines or any required infrastructure is fast."
"My experience with technical support so far is very good."
"The data factory feature."
"Reliable with ease of provisional services."
"The ability to create the actual resource on the private cloud is easy to manage with Microsoft Azure."
"I have found Microsoft Azure to be stable. We have large corporate customers and it is working great."
"The tool’s stability is good."
"In terms of managing and configuring infrastructures, Azure is fairly good."
"The solution has encryption which we did not have before."
 

Cons

"The cost of the product is too high. It would be ideal if they could lower it a bit for their customers."
"I would like to see better policy-based management and everything related to security management could have been better integrated."
"The diagnostics should have more logs."
"They are a bit closed on the customization side. If they open the customization then it will be very good."
"The interface is not easy to use. I'd like to see them develop a better interface, more graphical information about the resource and the consumer."
"At this point, the latency is too high to use Azure in our production environment."
"Integration with other services could be much better."
"There were also a lot of constraints with the serverless parts."
"Our account representative was inexperienced, they could improve on how they are managing accounts."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Monthly billing convenience reduced cost overheads up to 70 percent."
"The product is expensive."
"It's a metered environment, and it's pay-as-you-go. That's the big challenge with a metered environment."
"The licensing price is fine."
"It is not an expensive product and is adaptable to various requirements. It offers a free tier for small-scale usage and the ability to scale up as needed when requirements grow."
"Pricing is comparable but from a cost perspective, this solution is the cheapest."
"Price could always be cheaper. Its licensing and usage aren't always cheap. We pay monthly."
"The pricing is fine."
"The solution is a bit expensive, we are still negotiating the price."
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Comparison Review

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Aug 14, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
45%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

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Also Known As

Windows Azure, Azure, MS Azure
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Sample Customers

BMW, Toyota, easyJet, NBC Sports, HarperCollins, Aviva, TalkTalk Business, Avanade, and Telenor.
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