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Helps you create data lakes for your analytics needs, and provides storage to build powerful cloud-native and mobile apps
Pros and Cons
  • "The reason is that I believe they only offer the corporate interface we use, and perhaps they should consider creating a historical customer interface. I haven't created a virtual machine; instead, I've established a personal GED. This allows me to provide customers with the necessary role functions, enabling them to download files without incurring excessive costs."
  • "The efficiency depends on various operations, and therefore, it should involve multiple vendor support."

What is our primary use case?

Perhaps some customers wish to share information such as DPN or other materials about the company. However, we are uncertain about reaching every worldwide employee in every country or office. Therefore, this solution allows to download or access information like product details or new prices.

What is most valuable?

The reason is that I believe they only offer the corporate interface we use, and perhaps they should consider creating a historical customer interface. I haven't created a virtual machine; instead, I've established a personal GED. This allows me to provide customers with the necessary role functions, enabling them to download files without incurring excessive costs.         

What needs improvement?

The efficiency depends on various operations, and therefore, it should involve multiple vendor support.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Microsoft Azure Object Storage for three to five years.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is good.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is scalable and we have around ten users.

How are customer service and support?

We have used Microsoft's technical support through phone calls; the experience was okay.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

Regarding the integration and setup of Public Storage, it was a bit complex. The upgrade process was okay. In terms of time, I'm not sure about the exact duration of the deployment. We use object storage for data related to different customers. I'm still learning about the steps involved in deployment.

What about the implementation team?

We didn't use a consultant; it's done in-house. The technical staff needed for deployment and maintenance is more than ten. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I'm not aware of the licensing cost, as my customer handles it. In Taiwan, it's reasonably priced,

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend this solution, and my advice is to use it for object storage or other services. I would like to see improvements in integration to support multiple operations.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Dan Baggins - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at Test Aust.
Real User
Top 10
Useful for storage, documentation, and reporting
Pros and Cons
  • "We use the product for storage, documentation, and reporting."
  • "Microsoft Azure Object Storage needs to improve stability and cloud user interface."

What is our primary use case?

We use the product for storage, documentation, and reporting. 

What needs improvement?

Microsoft Azure Object Storage needs to improve stability and cloud user interface. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the tool's stability an eight out of ten. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Microsoft Azure Object Storage is scalable, and we have nine users. 

What about the implementation team?

A consultant helped us with the implementation. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The tool's licensing costs are annual. It should be made reasonable. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
The product has good accessibility and can be used to share files and folders
Pros and Cons
  • "The product has good accessibility."
  • "The stability could be improved."

What is our primary use case?

The solution can be used to share files and folders.

What is most valuable?

The product has good accessibility.

What needs improvement?

The stability could be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The tool is stable. I rate the stability an eight and a half out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The tool is scalable. I rate the scalability an eight and a half out of ten. Around 100 technical support team members, including support engineers, support analysts, and service delivery managers, use the solution in our organization.

How are customer service and support?

I have contacted the support team for a couple of issues. The team is knowledgeable.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We were using the on-premise solution NAS provided by Dell.

How was the initial setup?

The setup is straightforward.

What was our ROI?

The tool is worth the money.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The solution is expensive. However, we can choose to get a budget-friendly license. The vendor should offer extensions on the licenses. People are still working on on-premise servers. If we want them to move to the cloud, the vendors must provide competitive prices. We have a couple of small to medium businesses. The solution is not affordable for small businesses.

What other advice do I have?

The vendor must provide more information on how the tool helps users. Many of our clients do not know the solutions provided by the vendor. Though the information is available on the website, most customers do not understand the technical aspects. A better way to explain the tool's uses would be through pictures. Overall, I rate the product an eight and a half out of ten.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Debashish  Saha - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at Linde
Real User
An easy-to-configure solution that offers hassle-free usage
Pros and Cons
  • "Microsoft Azure Object Storage offers hassle-free usage. It is easy to configure."
  • "The product is expensive."

What is most valuable?

Microsoft Azure Object Storage offers hassle-free usage. It is easy to configure. 

What needs improvement?

The product is expensive.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with the solution for a year. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the solution's stability a nine out of ten. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I rate the tool's scalability a nine out of ten. My company has more than 100 users who use it 24/7.  

How are customer service and support?

Microsoft support's turnaround time is high, and its documentation is good. Sometimes, the person who is assigned a ticket is not an expert. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

How was the initial setup?

I rate the product's setup a nine out of ten. The deployment team had around 20 members. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Encryption feature is an add-on. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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SanjeetkumarSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior manager at Wipro Limited
Real User
Great performance, good security, and lots of features
Pros and Cons
  • "Technical support has been excellent."
  • "We would like it if we did not have to use another encryption solution to encrypt the storage."

What is our primary use case?

Azure Object Storage is basically for storing files - if you want to process certain files. It's useful for if you want to keep images or some documents. I use it for that purpose as well.

What is most valuable?

We like the indexing feature.

The performance has been good. We haven't had any issues. 

The security has been fine.

Everything we need is already pretty much there.

It is very scalable. 

Technical support has been excellent. 

What needs improvement?

We are not missing any features. 

We would like it if we did not have to use another encryption solution to encrypt the storage. 

For how long have I used the solution?

We've been using the solution for a couple of years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's reliable and it performs well. it's stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It's scalable. We can increase storage as required. 

Azure Object Storage is mapped with a user. It's mapped to the server for storing files and all. So IOPS storage, probably we can talk 20,000 to 30,000 IOPS.

We monitor the usage based on there being increases.

How are customer service and support?

Technical support is very good and very sound. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

There's not really an installation. It's a mapping solution. It's on the cloud. 

We have a common cloud team. They do any maintenance. It's a common cloud team who provisions the server, who manages the storage, who assigns the storage to the server. They do everything. We don't have a separate team.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I can't speak to the exact licensing costs. 

What other advice do I have?

As a cloud-based solution, we are always on the latest version. It stays up-to-date.

I'd recommend the product to other users and organizations. 

Overall, I would rate the product ten out of ten. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Microsoft Azure
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Gavin Lowe - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
Provides robust data protection and immutability, but the solution can be quite slow
Pros and Cons
  • "You can peer into different levels of the archive."
  • "The solution can be quite slow."

What is our primary use case?

There are a couple of different use cases. One is a cheaper form of storage and also robust protection of data. We also use it for its immutability. If you have enough copies, then it will always be available.

What is most valuable?

Storage accounts are used for things like logic analyzers that feed into the different archives. It also feeds into Azure Backup. You can peer into different levels of the archive.

What needs improvement?

The solution can be quite slow. 

Having some sort of caching algorithm could be quite good so that it is placed on the edge of the customer network. But this will lead you back to on-premise infrastructure, so it cannot fix the whole cloud.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Microsoft Azure Object Storage for a few years now, but it's very sporadic.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I would rate the stability of this solution an eight out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten.

How are customer service and support?

I contacted technical support a few times. Our technical support is under a premium plan. They were very good.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is fairly easy. It's not difficult. It is mainly a hybrid solution.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I would rate the pricing a four out of ten because there is a lot of competition out there.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate Microsoft Azure Object Storage a six out of ten.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
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Manish  Purohit - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Cloud Solution Architect at Green Point Technology Services (I) Pvt. Ltd
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Comes with good performance but needs to improve response time
Pros and Cons
  • "The tool's most valuable feature is performance."
  • "Microsoft Azure Object Storage needs to increase its response time from 25,000 per second to 40,000 or 50,000."

What is our primary use case?

We use the product for all kinds of images and static data. 

What is most valuable?

The tool's most valuable feature is performance. 

What needs improvement?

Microsoft Azure Object Storage needs to increase its response time from 25,000 per second to 40,000 or 50,000. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for nine years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the product's stability a ten out of ten. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

My company has 100 users for Microsoft Azure Object Storage. 

How are customer service and support?

The solution's support is good enough for us. 

How was the initial setup?

Microsoft Azure Object Storage's deployment is straightforward. 

What about the implementation team?

We deployed the solution in-house. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Microsoft Azure Object Storage is not expensive. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate the product a ten out of ten. 

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Ananda Raju Malla - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps and Cloud Engineer at Neudesic Technologies Private Limited
Real User
The size of Blob Storage is great and it can host 10 static websites
Pros and Cons
  • "The features of Microsoft Azure Object Storage that are most valuable are the ones providing encryption. Access is more controlled using private endpoints and SaaS token keys. Many access control features exist."
  • "The solution needs to improve the custom domain integration with static web pages. Even though Blog Storage is providing the static content hosting feature, due to the custom domain availability, the integration is not available. In most cases, we withdraw from that service and use our app service to host our static data feeds."

What is our primary use case?

My job title is DevOps Cloud Infra, Cloud Engineer. I am an expert in Microsoft Azure Cloud and telecom. 

Inside the storage account, we use Blob Storage, mostly to store VM data, discs, and logs. We also use FileShare as an additional disc.

What is most valuable?

The features of Microsoft Azure Object Storage that are most valuable are the ones providing encryption.  Access is more controlled using private endpoints and SaaS token keys. Many access control features exist. 

I also enjoy the size of the Blob Storage, it can store up to three gigs. Another good feature is that we can host 10 static websites.

What needs improvement?

The solution needs to improve the custom domain integration with static web pages. Even though Blog Storage is providing the static content hosting feature, due to the custom domain availability, the integration is not available. In most cases, we withdraw from that service and use our app service to host our static data feeds.

For future releases, I would like to see the graphical representation of the Blob Storage and the analytics to be in the value review panel so we can go to the cost in subscriptions to get them. We need some graphs with the presentations.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Microsoft Azure Object Storage for four years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution has been stable for us.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

There has been no issue with scalability with this product when accessing or adding users. However, we noticed that when we generated SaaS, it is at the storage account level. This should be specific to containers. However, whenever we change the container name without changing the whole key, it works.

The solution is specific to the application and not personal usage. For most applications, I see between one or two storage accounts. Most people are logging log storage and diagnostic storage. 

How was the initial setup?

During the initial setup of Microsoft Azure Object Storage, we used File Explore, so it was not that difficult. It was via GUI, which was helpful. One challenge was when using the command CLI because it was new to us. Over time, we are ok with CLI too.

What was our ROI?

We have seen a positive return on our investment in this solution. We just need to make sure we clean up our storage and services which are not used.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Microsoft Azure Object Storage requires a license. We use a pay-as-you-go model and we have an enterprise subscription model as well.

The solution is not expensive, however, when compared to other enterprise, pay-as-you-go products, it is priced higher. 

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend Microsoft Azure Object Storage to anyone considering implementing this solution. The UI is easy to manage. When you go inside Blob, it looks just like your local File Explorer. Also, you can feel confident that encryption is there.

I would rate Microsoft Azure Object Storage an eight out of ten overall.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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