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Microsoft Azure Block Storage vs Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) 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:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
2.6
Microsoft Azure Block Storage optimizes expenses with 90% cost reduction, ease of management, and ensures data protection against issues.
Sentiment score
6.6
Nutanix Unified Storage boosts financial efficiency with up to 50% cost savings through improved management, productivity, and centralized security.
For me, the biggest return on investment when using this solution is that we do not have to have much support staff to run it.
Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure & Support at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The scalability challenge with previous systems is lessened with Nutanix since we can expand by adding new hardware without needing migrations.
Infrastructure Architect & Manager at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees
We are saving approximately 20% to 25% compared with the competition.
Global of Central Computing IT Operations Head at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.5
Microsoft Azure Block Storage support varies; premium plans offer faster responses, while others face delays and inconsistent service.
Sentiment score
7.6
Nutanix Unified Storage support is highly praised for responsiveness and effectiveness, though complex scenarios may need improvement.
Support quality is good, but the main issue is the delay in handling tickets.
Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
I had contacted them before and they replied rapidly.
System vice president at a non-tech company with 51-200 employees
Ours is a government enterprise organization, so we have a premium support agreement with Microsoft, and they give us the best support.
Solution Architect at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
They come on the call, start troubleshooting immediately, and resolve issues effectively.
Senior System Administrator at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
They are very knowledgeable, and if they can't solve the problem, they find the answer within a day or so.
Manager, System Engineering at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
I would give the customer service and technical support a ten out of ten.
PreSales at IKUSI
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
5.8
Microsoft Azure Block Storage is scalable, user-friendly, and suitable for all businesses, though scaling can increase costs.
Sentiment score
7.7
Nutanix Unified Storage offers seamless scalability and integration, allowing efficient management of enterprise workloads and storage expansion.
The ability to scale is well-supported.
Sr. Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is a significant advantage of the product.
Senior Consultant at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
We are on a premium plan, which should handle scalability automatically.
Delivery Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
This means you don't have to buy everything upfront; you can buy what you need and add more as you grow, which is advantageous.
Sales engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
These three components utilize scalability tools, enabling storage addition to nodes and supporting independent, linear performance growth.
System Engineer at Tata Consultancy
I find the scalability of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) to be excellent, and I would rate it a ten based on my clients' requirements.
Technical Lead at Cognizant
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Microsoft Azure Block Storage is highly rated for stability, despite occasional regional downtime and minor improvement suggestions.
Sentiment score
8.0
Nutanix Unified Storage is highly stable and reliable, with minor bugs swiftly fixed and no major update disruptions.
It isn't as stable as sound storage systems in a premise environment.
Information Technology Business Partner and Enterprise Architecture Lead at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
Overall, the stability is very good.
Sr. Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
None of the other storage vendors have all these features so easily manageable and fast to set up as Block Storage.
Senior Solutions Architect at EQ2 Technology
We have not experienced these issues with Nutanix, which I attribute to the all-flash technology, the quality of their platform, and the responsiveness of the hyper-converged infrastructure.
System Administrator II at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is very stable.
Senior System Administrator at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
It automatically triggers tasks, causing performance issues.
Nutanix Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

Microsoft Azure Block Storage users face pricing, interface, and integration challenges, with additional needs for better security and scalability.
Nutanix Unified Storage faces implementation challenges, needing interface, security, and integration improvements, with concerns over licensing and support.
Its compatibility with various platforms could be enhanced to allow for a seamless operation across different cloud environments.
Information Technology Business Partner and Enterprise Architecture Lead at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
Some alternatives are cheaper and available for long trial periods before the payment.
Lead DevOps and Release Engineer-L2 at ITWORX
Enabling SFTP on Microsoft Azure Block Storage didn’t allow us to get the IP address, as Azure doesn’t support it.
Delivery Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The main concern is pricing, which could deter some customers; addressing this would enhance its appeal.
Senior Solution Software Engineer at Gigamon
The system should move towards AI-driven optimization and enhance S3 object storage capabilities.
Corporate Trainer at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
System downtime can disturb the entire ecosystem and impact all applications.
System Engineer at Tata Consultancy
 

Setup Cost

Microsoft Azure Block Storage pricing is generally higher than competitors, but offers discounted rates through enterprise agreements.
Nutanix Unified Storage is cost-efficient, reducing operational costs, though setup can be complex and renewal costs high.
For medium-sized companies, especially when discussing cost and scalability, it can be quite expensive.
Information Technology Business Partner and Enterprise Architecture Lead at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
The cost for Azure Data Factory, utilized for intensive data migration, was high but expected, as it's a one-time activity.
Delivery Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
It is reasonable, however, it can be cheaper.
Senior Consultant at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
Compared to buying three or four vendor solutions, it is much cheaper.
Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure & Support at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The cost has doubled for the same amount of data, which was a challenge when presenting use case justifications for the increased cost.
Infrastructure Architect & Manager at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) has definitely helped reduce our total cost of ownership.
Information Technology Managed Services Provider at SCE
 

Valuable Features

Microsoft Azure Block Storage is reliable, scalable, secure, and affordable, with excellent data management and integration features.
Nutanix Unified Storage simplifies management with AI, cybersecurity, high availability, cost-effectiveness, and improved performance across environments.
The tool allows me to download to my device, control access, and manage data with ease.
Senior Solutions Architect at EQ2 Technology
The world is now directed toward a centralized data platform or Fabric to build a data lake house for data engineering, which keeps all data in a centralized place that's beneficial for the governance layer and unified governance.
System vice president at a non-tech company with 51-200 employees
The ability to increase and scale out is really easy, allowing us to manage a large amount of data with reduced dependency on scalability issues.
Information Technology Business Partner and Enterprise Architecture Lead at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is appreciated for its fault tolerance and redundancy at the cluster level, which ensures reliable storage of files, folders, and other information accessible on the client side.
Nutanix Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The cybersecurity features of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) when dealing with unstructured data, such as ransomware threats, provide the ability to detect and back up block-based storage, allowing me to restore repositories or sets of block storage with one button click, which is automatic.
Network Engineer at Alabama A & M University
My experience with using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for data-intensive workloads is that we have many SQL Servers and they perform much better than they did when we used hybrid converged previously.
Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure & Support at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Azure Block Storage
Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services
10th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS)
Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services
3rd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
119
Ranking in other categories
All-Flash Storage (7th), Software Defined Storage (SDS) (2nd), File and Object Storage (3rd), NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Public Cloud Storage Services category, the mindshare of Microsoft Azure Block Storage is 2.8%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is 3.0%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Public Cloud Storage Services Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS)3.0%
Microsoft Azure Block Storage2.8%
Other94.2%
Public Cloud Storage Services
 

Featured Reviews

Ajai Jayakumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Has supported secure file sharing and data automation with minimal setup effort
The encryption feature in Microsoft Azure Block Storage is very good, and the security is excellent. It is easy to map the storage to the virtual servers and user desktops, which is also very beneficial. I can perform automations on the data, such as moving hot data and cold data, and I can select storage based on performance. The security provided by Microsoft around Microsoft Azure Block Storage is a very good function. The replication feature in Microsoft Azure Block Storage is a very good function. The analytic capabilities of Microsoft Azure Block Storage can help optimize resources. I usually work with a third-party tool; our data analytics team uses some custom-made tools for analytics data and dashboards, so we do not use the Microsoft dashboard; we are using a third-party dashboard. It is very easy to manage Microsoft Azure Block Storage. If you have good knowledge of it, it is very easy to manage. Microsoft Azure Block Storage service is a very good, 100% reliable service. It is highly scalable, and performance-wise and reliability-wise, it does not go down. It provides 99.9% uptime without downtime, so it is a very good feature. The backup and restoration efficiency of Microsoft Azure Block Storage is good.
NISHANTPANCHAL - PeerSpot reviewer
Principle Technical Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Unified storage has simplified private cloud operations and delivers strong security and ROI
Regarding areas for improvement, I think Data Lens could be enhanced from Nutanix's side, but it has been a long time since I logged into that console, so I do not remember much. It is a SaaS-based offering on the Nutanix portal. It is not something you deploy on-premises; it is not on-prem access. You connect your cluster to the SaaS-based Nutanix and then access the Lens console. I need to check it since it has been almost two or three months since I logged in. Nutanix Enterprise AI actually needs to improve a lot if I compare it with any other product such as NVIDIA and other offerings in the market. Nutanix Enterprise AI still requires a lot of work. I did not check that in much detail technically, but whatever I thoroughly checked, it still lags behind in many features. When it comes to AI-related features, I think the ecosystem of Nutanix is not as big as NVIDIA because NVIDIA has its own inferencing system and model training platform such as NeMo, NeMoTron, and others. Nutanix does not have such things. It can be built using NVIDIA CUDA libraries, but what I saw when I was testing the product is that you can run NVIDIA NeMo and PyTorch and two other things, but as a software, Nutanix does not have an end-to-end platform. That is something Nutanix should focus on.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
15%
Marketing Services Firm
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business26
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise25
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business32
Midsize Enterprise31
Large Enterprise69
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Azure Block Storage?
Our experience with pricing has been positive. The budget for Microsoft Azure services has been within expectations for the last couple of months. The cost for Azure Data Factory ( /products/azure-...
What needs improvement with Microsoft Azure Block Storage?
For improvement in Microsoft Azure Block Storage, they can provide tiered level storages, maybe low-cost storages for storing archive data, but it is already there. I do not think there is much to ...
What is your primary use case for Microsoft Azure Block Storage?
I am using Microsoft Azure Block Storage for file sharing, automation accounts, data storage, and archiving, and those are the main use cases.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Unified Storage?
The pricing for Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is subscription-based with capacity-based licensing and has moderate to high setup complexity depending on the size of the environment. Costs depend on...
What needs improvement with Nutanix Unified Storage?
One area for improvement I noticed while using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is expanding advanced analytics and predictive capacity planning capabilities to help administrators make even better lo...
What advice do you have for others considering Nutanix Unified Storage?
My advice for others looking into using Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) is to clearly understand your storage requirements before implementation and evaluate current and future needs for file, object...
 

Also Known As

MS Azure Block Storage
Nutanix Files Storage, Nutanix Volumes Block Storage, Nutanix Objects Storage
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Mazda, BlinkBox, Rakuten Showtime, Xbox One, Serko, ChronoDrive
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