Microsoft Azure Object Storage Reviews

I used the solution for email and messaging.

The layout of Microsoft is professional. It is suitable for office purposes.

The product hangs sometimes. The password retrieval process was very difficult.

I have been using the solution for ten years.

The tool’s stability has improved. It is much better now. It was not good 10 to 12 years ago. It used to freeze a lot. The UI has improved a lot.

The tool’s scalability is good.

The setup was complex. We created an account and decided on ways to retrieve passwords. We must also add our mobile number to the account.

I could do the deployment myself.

Google is better than Microsoft. Google's password retrieval process is very easy. However, Microsoft's layout and setup are much more professional. Google is much more user-friendly and interactive. Google is more secure than Microsoft. I often get emails on Microsoft that someone is trying to access my account.

I worked for a company that was a Microsoft Gold partner. I will not recommend the product to others. Google is a better tool. Overall, I rate the product a seven out of ten.

Previously, all of our mail processes and mail access were on-premises and we were facing problems with storage, licenses, and maintenance. Once we moved to Office 365 Microsoft Azure Object Storage, all of the headaches were reduced.

We are using the latest version with Office 365.

Most of the brands are certified coupled with partners, such as AWS and Oracle. With Microsoft Azure Object Storage, they are an open market.

Support and cost are areas that can be improved. The cost of support is always expensive.

They can be more competitive in their pricing and the data center doesn't compare to other solutions such as Google. Microsoft is still growing. In the Middle East and these areas, there is less support.

I have been using this solution for the last two years.

This solution is stable. We have not had any issues to date. There are still some issues with spam in the emails, at 2% to 5%.

This solution is scalable.

Microsoft's technical support is excellent.

We are using Oracle as well.

The initial setup is straightforward and it is not complex.

It is very easy to migrate all of the mail processes.

Knowledge is very important, which is why we used the help of Microsoft integrators.

Because we are in the partner's program, they connected remotely and resolved all of the implementation tasks. They do a complete inspection.

We have a separate package and pay extra for additional technical support.

You can reduce operational costs and the cost of resources. It is easy to maintain, and I would recommend this product.

I would rate this solution a nine out ten.

We are currently evaluating this product. We have been able to explore certain things and are testing it. We are system integrators and we are not using it for our purposes but rather, for our clients. They have different applications, environments, and products, and we are looking to see if this is suitable.

Our clients want to use this for safely storing their data, and they would like high performance. At the same time, cost is an important factor for them. One of the things that they are storing is digital video.

This product is very reliable and all of the security that our client requires is available.

Technical support should be a little bit faster.

I have been using Azure Object Storage for one year.

In the time that we have used it, Azure Object Storage has been very stable.

This is definitely a scalable solution.

The technical support from Microsoft is good, although it could be a little bit faster.

As with everything from Microsoft, the initial setup is straightforward.

It took about two months for us to deploy for our client.

Based on the requirements given to us by our client, this is a product that I will recommend.

I would rate this solution a five out of ten.

The solution is used for the compilation of information for the company.

It has helped with data management.

The deployment process needs improvement, and it requires a lot of expertise to use and to utilize it.

I have been using Microsoft Azure Object Storage for only one year.

The stability of the solution is rated as seven out of ten.

The solution is scalable, and I would rate its scalability as eight out of ten.

Microsoft technical support is helpful. I would rate their support as eight out of ten.

Positive

The deployment was handled by a third-party company.

We have not yet fully completed one year of usage, so we cannot judge the ROI at this time. Still, we hope it will benefit our company.

The pricing is higher than CNC. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate the pricing as six to seven.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

I use Microsoft Azure Object Storage for various purposes in my projects. It is versatile enough to support our production platform, allowing us to store and manage unstructured data efficiently. It serves as a reliable backend for our databases and provides storage for Kubernetes containers.

The most valuable feature of Azure Object Storage for us is its simplicity and reliability as a storage solution.

As of now, we don't see any room for improvement in Azure Object Storage. It meets our storage needs perfectly, and since we primarily use it for storage purposes without encountering any issues, there aren't any specific areas we feel need improvement. It works well for our current requirements.

I have been using Microsoft Azure Object Storage for about a year.

I would rate the stability of Azure Object Storage as a three out of ten. We experienced an outage issue recently, which affected its overall stability and reliability.

I would rate the scalability as a ten out of ten. It is definitely scalable enough for our needs. Ten people use the solution at our company.

The technical support is great.

The initial setup is fairly simple.

The pricing of Azure Object Storage is fine, but it could be a little less expensive. I would rate it as a five out of ten in terms of costliness.

Overall, I would rate the solution as a seven out of ten.

It's primarily used by our data science team. They use it to augment any of the works that they probably cannot do very well in KNIME.

It's a very powerful tool, however, we don't use it to the right level. We are still learning the tool. We have this very powerful engine that we are not yet utilizing to the next level. At the moment, we're just trying to see whether we have automated ML scripts that we can adopt to train a model, for example. Really we're using it for proof of concept. We haven't deployed anything to production.

It's easy to use.

We're still testing the solution. It's too early to make any suggestions as to what may be missing.

We've been using the solution for two years. 

The stability is quite good. there are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze, it is reliable. 

We've never had any problem with scaling. It is scalable. Being a government institution and having that contract signed at the government level, we just have to request additional resources or storage capacity. It's very good.

Technical support is very good. 

We initially started our journey on KNIME and we run KNIME side by side, so data scientists can have the ability to do their models either in Lime or, if they choose to, they can also do that in Azure.

The solution is very easy to set up. It's not overly complex. 

We've got this Microsoft contract and we have round-the-clock Microsoft engineers who are able to actually assist us with any problems.

We're customers and end-users.

It's a very powerful tool. I love the fact that Microsoft was really committed to improving it. Therefore, from the early days that we started using it, we can actually see that continuously there are changes and improvements. They do listen to their customers. They really try to make sure that they have a best-in-class product.

Microsoft would be very good for very big organizations. In terms of KNIME, the good thing is you can actually scale it down with a small organization that doesn't want to really go really big. They both work and they're complementary. 

I would rate it eight out of ten.

We use this solution ourselves. We're in the public sector and use it within our organization. The solution is primarily used for block storage.

The key feature for us is the possibility to have a copy of our data and machines outside of our premises just in case of a disaster. This is a common value not only for Azure but for any other cloud solution. This is the key aspect that made us decide to use this service. The idea of being able to hold a backup outside of our premises just in case of a disaster allows for the possibility of an easy data recovery process. 

Due to the fact that now there are a lot of ransomware attacks and viruses, and there is a possibility of it actually happening, it's great that we are able to encrypt the data for extra protection. 

There are a lot of points for improvement at the moment.

 For example, in the case of this product, we are not able to do a backup of what we call NAS, network-attached storage appliances, directly to the cloud. We can do to all the repositories in our premises on the storage that we have here, however, it's not possible to entirely upload this to the cloud. To me, this is the major problem of this solution, at the moment. 

There are other problems that I imagine other solutions can have the problems too, for example, there are some errors if the network is unstable and there are network failures sometimes, and it's not easy to recover data. 

The administration of the solution is not as easy as we would like it to be.

We haven't been using the solution for very long just yet. It's only been about four months or so. It's well under a year and it's still new to us.

We had a lot of problems at first, perhaps due to our partner that helped us with the implementation. However, since then, the solution has been extremely stable. We haven't had any issues whatsoever. It doesn't crash or freeze. There aren't bugs or glitches. Now that it is up and running, it's very reliable.

We have contacted technical support several times. We often also had to contact Veeam to help us, and they were not very helpful. We were hoping for more active, quick responses, and we just didn't get that. 

This is the first time we use a cloud backup. Before that, we were using only an on-premise backup, in our own backup storage. In fact, we were using Veeam Backup & Replication software and recovery software available for on-premises setups. We decided to move to the cloud, which is why we began to implement Azure.

The initial set up is easy. It's not overly complicated. That said, we have a lot of problems in the implementation with the partner, the company that we hired to do the service. We had a lot of errors and a lot of time was consumed in uploading the backup to the cloud, as there was a lot of information. 

We have about 10 terabytes of data. For some companies, it may only be a few terabytes. However, for us, we had a lot of information. We were affected by internet speeds, and, if something failed, it was necessary to repeat the process. It was extremely time-consuming.

We had a Microsoft partner assist in the initial implementation. However, it wasn't a very good experience. They didn't seem to know the product very well.

In terms of Azure and the actual version we are using, don't know what it is. We are using the cloud of Azure and I don't know if there is a concept of a version for cloud deployments. That said, the software, Veeam, that we are using is on-premises to do the backup and it's version 10.

Overall, I would rate this product at an eight out of ten.

We had a lot of problems in the beginning, and a lot of these problems were due to our implementation partner using a local S3 block storage provider. They were not able to restore the backups. However, Azure is a very good solution in general and we've had a very positive experience since we've finished the implementation itself.

We are a software development company and one of our products provides a secure email service for our clients. We deploy our products on Azure using a subscription-based model for our clients. The Azure Object Storage is one of the storage technologies that we use, depending on the requirements and what is needed.

For our secure email product, we store some of the encrypted data using this solution. It is done by installing an agent on the user's device, be it Android or otherwise, and the encryption is done on the server-side. Once encrypted, the data is transferred to Object Storage.

The most valuable feature is the API because it is very flexible.

If you need extra options such as authentication or authorization, then you just use the features that are available as part of Azure.

Technical support should be faster at resolving issues for tickets that we create.

We have been using Azure Object Storage for more than five years.

We have had some issues with stability but we work closely with Microsoft and they have helped us to resolve many of these problems.

We have been in contact with technical support and they are sometimes slow at resolving our tickets. Overall, the support is good.

The complexity of the setup depends on what your requirements are. If you are deploying from scratch versus needing to migrate data, it is different.

For the most part, it is fully automated. We have written some scripts to assists us and the deployment normally takes between 20 minutes and an hour. It also depends on what region Azure is being used in.

We deploy this solution using our in-house team.

The suitability of this solution depends on your use cases and your requirements. Sometimes you will need block storage, rather than object storage. You need to know what technology is applicable and practical for your use cases.

I would rate this solution a six out of ten.