Likelihood to Recommend Azure Data Lake is an absolutely essential piece of a modern data and analytics platform. Over the past 2 years, our usage of Azure Data Lake as a reporting source has continued to grow and far exceeds more traditional sources like MS SQL, Oracle, etc.
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 Setting up Azure Data Lake Storage account, container is quite easy Access from anywhere and easy maintenance Integration with Azure Data Factory service for end to end pipeline is pretty easy Can store Any form of data (Structured, Unstructured, Semi) in faster manner 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 study for the certifications also to have them as a reference for work when you have any questions about applying a configuration to the equipment. The Internet interface is simple and easy to use. Capacity is good and it's good that HP continues to innovate with this technology 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 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 Data Lake Storage from a functionality perspective is a much easier solution to work with. It's implementation from
Amazon EMR went smooth, and continued usage is definitely better. However,
Amazon EMR was significantly cheaper overall between the high transaction fees and cost of storage due to growth. The two both have their advantages and disadvantages, but the functionality of Azure Data Lake Storage outweighed it's cost
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 Instead of having separate pools of storage for data we are now operating on a single layer platform which has cut down on time spent on maintaining those separate pools. We have had more of an ROI with the scalability as we are able to control costs of storage when need be. We are able to operate in a more streamlined approach as we are able to stay within the Azure suite of products and integrate seamlessly with the rest of the applications in our cloud-based infrastructure 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