Azure Blob Storage, with Azure Data Lake Storage vs. Quantum ActiveScale
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![]() Azure Blob Storage | Score8.7 out of 10 | N/A | Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft Azure’s object storage service for storing and accessing large volumes of unstructured data. Organizations use it for application content, backups and archives, media, logs, data exports, machine learning datasets, high-performance computing workloads, and data-lake storage. NOTE: Azure Data Lake Storage, also known as Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, is not a separate service or account type. It is a set of big-data analytics capabilities within Azure Blob Storage… | $0.01 per GB/per month |
Quantum ActiveScale | Score7 out of 10 | N/A | Quantum offers the ActiveScale cloud object storage system, acquired from Western Digital February 2020, designed to provide a highly durable, scale-out economic storage system. ActiveScale is a more recent model replacing the former Amplidata Object Storage product line that was acquired by Western Digital from HGST in 2015. | N/A |
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96% Implementation went as expected 22 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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| Small Businesses | Google Cloud Storage Score9.2 out of 10 | ![]() Azure Blob Storage Score8.7 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | Everpure FlashBlade Score9.9 out of 10 | Everpure FlashBlade Score9.9 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | Google Cloud Storage Score9.2 out of 10 | Google Cloud Storage Score9.2 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.1 | 7.0 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 8.0 |
| Usability | 8.9 | - |
| Support Rating | 9.0 | 8.0 |
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