Azure StorSimple vs. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure StorSimple	Score 7.0 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
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage	Score 9.7 out of 10	N/A	Backblaze, headquartered in San Mateo, provides cloud storage and online backup, boasting trust with over an exabyte of data from customers in 175 countries. A backup service specialist, Backblaze describes their B2 cloud object storage service as S3 compatible and purpose built to provide simplicity, reliability, and affordability. B2 Cloud Storage is available at $0.005/GB/Month, with single-tier pricing.	$6 per month per TB

Pricing

Azure StorSimple

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Editions & Modules

Virtual Appliance: $4.11
Per Day
Cloud Array: $4.11
Per Day
Physical Appliance: $43.84
Per Day

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Azure StorSimple	Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Two pricing models are available: consumption-based pay-as-you-go, and capacity-based storage bundles. Pay-as-you-go consumption-based cloud storage costs $6/TB per month, with your first 10GB free. Egress is free up to 3x of average monthly data stored, and unlimited to many leading content delivery network (CDN) and compute partners. Capacity-based storage, called B2 Reserve, is designed for companies looking for all-inclusive pricing on a single invoice. Storage bundles start at 20TB and can be purchased for one, two, or three years. Egress is always free.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Azure StorSimple	Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Top Pros	Pro Private cloud Pro Web client Pro Plug and play	Pro File management Pro Customer service
Top Cons	No answers on this topic	Minus Set up Minus File organization Minus Little confusing

Features

Azure StorSimple

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

File Sharing & Management

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
	Azure StorSimple - Ratings	Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage 10.0 2 Ratings 17% above category average
Versioning	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Video files	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Audio files	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Access control	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
File search	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Device sync	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings

Cloud Storage Security & Administration

Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
	Azure StorSimple - Ratings	Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage 10.0 2 Ratings 15% above category average
User and role management	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
File organization	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Device management	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings

Cloud Storage Platform

Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
	Azure StorSimple - Ratings	Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage 10.0 2 Ratings 16% above category average
Performance	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Reliability	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Storage Reports	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Azure StorSimple	Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Small Businesses	SugarSync Score 10.0 out of 10	SugarSync Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Druva Data Resiliency Cloud Score 9.6 out of 10	Druva Data Resiliency Cloud Score 9.6 out of 10
Enterprises	Druva Data Resiliency Cloud Score 9.6 out of 10	Druva Data Resiliency Cloud Score 9.6 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Azure StorSimple	Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Azure StorSimple	Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft Onsite storage needs and backing up to Azure. Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review	Backblaze Providing the option of purchasing a much longer archive if desired or limiting the length of time in maintaining what's been saved is brilliant. It makes all the sense in the world. At the very least, unless the retention period is clearly mandated somehow, it causes a decision maker (especially a small business owner) to think strategically about what the storage needs truly are. Incentivized Paulette Ensign Owner Read full review
Pros	Microsoft Performance via the SSD drives. Writes back to our Private Cloud via Azure. Easy to Admin via Web client interface. Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review	Backblaze File management Pricing Customer Service Incentivized Matt Hoffman Chief Executive Officer Read full review
Cons	Microsoft Additional fail-over functionality Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review	Backblaze costs just went up some might be nice to get confirmation that it's working occasionally nothing else Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Microsoft If I wanted to use just onsite storage the StorSimple device is already paid for. Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review	Backblaze No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft Easy to use and highly compatible with our MSFT Hyper-V environment Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review	Backblaze Because they continuously had times they required updating the account and there were hiccups when that happened, over time, I became skeptical of their ability to keep my files secure. They were the first cloud backup storage company I had ever used and I stayed with them for almost two decades. Then it happened that we did have to do a recovery two different times because of hardware failures. It was anything but a smooth or complete recovery, and their price kept rising as their service declined. Hundreds of files were totally lost in the process. I guessed that among their strategies, it might well have been a re-focus on their part to build up their enterprise accounts and didn't seem to care about small business. I finally had enough and left them as a client. Incentivized Paulette Ensign Owner Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft Great Folks on the MSFT Implementation team Great value on year 2 Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review	Backblaze We haven't had any data loss situations yet, however I'm sure our ROI will be fairly high if we have to recover any data. Backblaze is in the insurance industry, not storage. Incentivized Matt Hoffman Chief Executive Officer Read full review
ScreenShots		Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Screenshots