Azure StorSimple vs. Maxihost

Azure StorSimple

4 Reviews and Ratings

Maxihost

1 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
Maxihost	Score5 out of 10	N/A	Bare Metal servers on the cloud. A solution built to present everything needed to deploy and manage single-tenant, high-performance bare metal servers. Maxihost aims to help users of VMs feel right at home, but with more computing power.	$137 per server

Pricing

Azure StorSimple

Maxihost

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

c2.small.x86: $137
per server
c2.medium.x86: $187
per server
c2.large.x86: $287
per server

Pricing Offerings
Azure StorSimple	Maxihost
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Best Alternatives
	Azure StorSimple	Maxihost
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Medium-sized Companies	Apple iCloud Score8.4 out of 10	IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Score8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Azure StorSimple	Maxihost
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Azure StorSimple	Maxihost
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft Onsite storage needs and backing up to Azure. Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review	Maxihost No answers on this topic
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	Maxihost No answers on this topic
Cons	Microsoft Additional fail-over functionality Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review	Maxihost No answers on this topic
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	Maxihost 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	Maxihost No answers on this topic
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	Maxihost No answers on this topic
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