Likelihood to Recommend Azure Blob Storage is well suited for cases where you are working with different data formats and looking for cost-effective storage solutions based on access frequency. Another area of strength is the encryption of data at rest, and encryption can be managed on your own. However, it may not be appropriate for transferring large data very fast.
Read full review Qumulo is great for media and entertainment companies, that need simple and easy management of a NAS. The product can also scale and be sized to larger shops too. The support that comes with it also can act as an extension of internal IT. Their support is always watching the box when it phones home with hardware errors or if it would go offline. Qumulo is not initially set up well-running virtual workloads, while Vmware supports NFS, some settings need to be adjusted on Qumulo to allow for upgrades to happen while virtual machines are running
Read full review Pros Ease of use both through Azure Portal as well as API. Cost-effective solution for storing a large amount of data compared to other storage solutions. Scalability, Security, and Performance are the other key aspects of Azure Blob Storage that are easily manageable through Admin Console. Read full review Support, they offer a slack based support which is fast and incredibly helpful. Fast releases, they release new features every 2 weeks and actively seek out improvement ideas from end-users. NFS and SMB co-existent support through mapping permissions allows mixed end users to connect through there native protocol. Read full review Cons Unstructured data makes it harder to conceptualize what we have but with partners like Panzura that has been a non-issue for us. Not always easy to understand the different models or tiers you can pick from when purchasing. Read full review Admin users are not able to be tied to SSO or LDAP accounts. At the start there was no RBAC but this has since been addressed. While there is incredible analytics, there is no native way to get historical trends by volume or user. Read full review Support Rating Documentation sometimes appears to be out of date or not fully documented properly with new releases. It is like documentation comes out for a specific version and is quickly out of date. Another issue is documentation is scarce on new releases and only seems to get properly updated (and sometimes is still wrong) once enough people hit the forums to complain.
Read full review Their Slack-based support is like nothing I have experienced. They are fast, helpful, and willing to go the extra mile, even when an issue is not clearly their's to solve. They are committed to your success. The engineers on the Slack channel are oftentimes the engineers that programmed the very same feature you are asking questions about or having issues with.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Azure Blob Storage is the best choice to store files when the app runs in Azure. It also has some advantages over S3, like Shared Access Signatures, that make it easy to control access to files directly via a URL. Azure Blob Storage is very fast and we have not had any major issues with it after using it for several years.
Read full review Qumulo was not the least expensive but we were blown away by support offered and pre-sales support to ensure questions were answered. Our main challenges were mixed end-user platforms and a diverse set of use cases on those end-user computers. Having the dual access to volumes, over NFS and SMB, helps us greatly in this area.
Read full review Return on Investment Azure has increased the flexibility of where we place data within our organization. It has proven to be very reliable and always accessible. Read full review Reduced cost in support and upgrade times compared to old fiber San. Allows the Service Desk to focus on other things since permissions and access are simplified. Very easy and bandwidth efficient replication allows us to comply with DR. Read full review ScreenShots