Azure Files vs. IBM Cloud File Storage

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Files
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Azure Files, from Microsoft's Azure suite of products, is a serverless enterprise-grade cloud file sharing service, providing managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via SMB and NFS protocols. Azure Files shares can be mounted concurrently by cloud or on-premises deployments of Windows, Linux, and macOS. Azure Files shares can also be cached on Windows Servers with Azure File Sync for faster access near where the data is being used.N/A
IBM Cloud File Storage
Score 8.7 out of 10
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IBM Cloud provides a File Storage service allows the user to deploy and customize flash-backed NFS-based file storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS.N/A
Pricing
Azure FilesIBM Cloud File Storage
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure FilesIBM Cloud File Storage
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Azure FilesIBM Cloud File Storage
Considered Both Products
Azure Files

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IBM Cloud File Storage
Chose IBM Cloud File Storage
IBM Cloud File Storage is easier to manage and easier to move on other datacenters to create new workflow. The ecosystem on IBM is more enterprise oriented and math company's customers requirements more than the other 2 providers. In addition we also wanted a different …
Features
Azure FilesIBM Cloud File Storage
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Azure Files
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Ratings
IBM Cloud File Storage
8.5
39 Ratings
6% above category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings9.737 Ratings
Dynamic scaling00 Ratings8.836 Ratings
Elastic load balancing00 Ratings8.135 Ratings
Pre-configured templates00 Ratings7.631 Ratings
Monitoring tools00 Ratings8.037 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings8.133 Ratings
Operating system support00 Ratings9.636 Ratings
Security controls00 Ratings9.437 Ratings
Automation00 Ratings7.030 Ratings
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User Ratings
Azure FilesIBM Cloud File Storage
Likelihood to Recommend
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(40 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
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10.0
(6 ratings)
Implementation Rating
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(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure FilesIBM Cloud File Storage
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
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IBM
well suited: Enterprise File Sharing and Collaboration: Scenario: our organization has teams working on projects across different geographical locations, and they need a centralized and easily accessible file storage solution. IBM Cloud File Storage can facilitate seamless file sharing and collaboration among team members. less appropriate Highly Transactional Databases: Scenario: Your organization has highly transactional and I/O-intensive database workloads that require low-latency access to data. In such cases, block storage or specialized database services might be more appropriate than file storage.
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Pros
Microsoft
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IBM
  • Simple file system sharing
  • Lots of storage space (up to 12 TB)
  • Choice of performance (up to 10 IOPS/GB)
  • Simple interface to order more storage
  • Quick interface to allow more servers to share the file store
  • Security - only allows access from specified server(s)
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Cons
Microsoft
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IBM
  • We have sometimes experienced some outages and hope IBM will fix this soon.
  • Initial trainings are required for the teams to work and do the setup.
  • Support documentation from IBM needs improvement with [the] inclusion of more detailed steps and video tutorials for [a] better understanding of the engineers.
  • The billing process is very complex and you may have to incur additional overhead. Need a simpler approach and clarity on this aspect.
  • Support response from the IBM team is very slow and lacks information.
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
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IBM
IBM Cloud File Storage is a valuable tool in the arsenal of any small business. It's flexibility combined with its ease of use ensure that there is low operational overhead, combined with a solid return on investment. It's role based access control features combined with sharing capabilities make it a significant win for any business.
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Support Rating
Microsoft
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IBM
The IBM team provides effective support for all the cloud operations. They tracks operations and database functionalities closely to enhance reliable operations and remove inefficiencies that affect work processes. The support team has prepared video tutorials and manuals that guides our members on how to work with the database systems effectively.
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Implementation Rating
Microsoft
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IBM
The IBM Professional services provided the re4quired infrastructure for getting the best out of this tool. It offered excellent guidelines that enhanced efficient integrations. The organization was pleased with the setup process that was completed quickly than expected. The application has been operation effectively after deployment. We have continued to get support from the IBM support team when there are challenges.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
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IBM
IBM Cloud File Storage, unlike other similar products, offers excellent Cloud data security and its overall data management quality on IBM Cloud File Storage is incredible and its data integration support is perfect because it allows big data migration across many Cloud platforms for effective data analytics generation and data visualization tools are great.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
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IBM
  • Compared with company datacenter require less maintenance time with an incomparable high availability and business continuity features
  • The possibility to move snapshots on other data centers let this solution super scalable worldwide
  • The price for gb let us pay what we need without a pre commissioned storage buy
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