Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) vs. Azure StorSimple vs. IBM Cloud Block Storage
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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) | Score9.3 out of 10 | N/A | Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) from AWS is designed for application workloads that benefit from fine tuning for performance, cost and capacity. Typical use cases include Big Data analytics engines (like the Hadoop/HDFS ecosystem and Amazon EMR clusters), relational and NoSQL databases (like Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL or Cassandra and MongoDB), stream and log processing applications (like Kafka and Splunk), and data warehousing applications (like Vertica and Teradata). | N/A |
![]() Azure StorSimple | Score7 out of 10 | N/A | StorSimple was acquired by Microsoft in 2012. The StorSimple storage gateway appliance is now a part of Microsoft's Azure StorSimple Hybrid Cloud Storage solution. | $4.11 Per Day |
IBM Cloud Block Storage | Score9 out of 10 | N/A | IBM offers their Block Storage service via IBM Cloud, allowing users to deploy and customize flash-backed iSCSI block storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS. | N/A |
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100% Would buy again 19 Answers | No answers on this topic | 93% Would buy again 13 Answers | |
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100% Delivers good value for the price 18 Answers | No answers on this topic | 92% Delivers good value for the price 12 Answers | |
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100% Happy with the feature set 19 Answers | No answers on this topic | 93% Happy with the feature set 13 Answers | |
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100% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 14 Answers | No answers on this topic | 91% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 10 Answers | |
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94% Implementation went as expected 17 Answers | No answers on this topic | 92% Implementation went as expected 11 Answers | |
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| Small Businesses | No answers on this topic | IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 Score9.1 out of 10 | No answers on this topic |
| Medium-sized Companies | IBM Cloud Block Storage Score9 out of 10 | Apple iCloud Score8.4 out of 10 | No answers on this topic |
| Enterprises | IBM Cloud Block Storage Score9 out of 10 | ownCloud Score9.2 out of 10 | Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Score9.3 out of 10 |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.1 | 9.0 | 9.1 |
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| Usability | 8.0 | - | - |
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