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Azure Blob Storage

7.6 /10
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Azure Blob Storage
7.6 /10

What is Azure Blob Storage?

With exabytes of capacity and massive scalability, Blob Storage stores from hundreds to billions of objects in hot, cool, or archive tiers, depending on how often data access is needed. Store any type of unstructured data—images, videos, audio, documents, and more—easily and cost-effectively.

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Azure Blob Storage Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.

90 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

+85 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Azure Blob Storage?

9% Negative
8% Neutral
83% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Security Protects

Feature Ratings

Average 79

External Storage Connectivity

84

Restore to Current Format

81

Multiple Format Support

80

Storage Optimization

80

Platform Support

78

Granularity

77

Long Term Data Retention

77

Data Encryption

77

Data Format Native Generic

75

Ediscovery Audit Trail

75

Data Deletion Control and Space Gain

75

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 78

Vendor Support

83

Breadth of Features

82

Business Value Created

81

Ease of Data Integration

79

Ease of Implementation

79

Availability and Quality of Training

77

Ease of Customization

75

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

75

Ease of IT Administration

75

Usability and Intuitiveness

75

Quality of Features

73

Azure Blob Storage Reviews

Hosam K.

  • Role: Human Resources
  • Industry: Consulting
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2023

Essential data service on Microsoft Azure.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Azure Blob Storage from other similar products?

Azure Blob Storage service works seamlessly with many Azure analytical services. And helps my team reduce costs, increase development agility, improve application security, and enhance our solutions' performance on a large scale. The service allows us to store media files, static assets for web applications, and large amounts of data for machine learning models.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like Azure Blob Storage for its efficient capabilities of storing and managing unstructured data. It is easy to use through the Azure Portal and API and cost-effective for storing large amounts of data. It is scalable, secure, and offers globally distributed storage that uses multiple copies of the data to protect it from loss or regional outage.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Azure Blob Storage service setup can be complex for users new to cloud storage. Also, the technical support plans are not convenient for all use cases.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It’s crucial to have a clear vision of your data workflow, data types, data volume, and data availability requirements to choose the most suitable service plan and security configuration settings to ensure optimal performance and protection of your data.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Sarbpreet S.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Shipping
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

Fast Access to your files

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Azure Blob Storage from other similar products?

It is faster to load images/files from Azure blob storage to your website.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Very easy to set-up. Secure to store critical files. One place to have all your documents/images and large files.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Security can be tricky aspect to access similar files on different platforms.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

IF you are using Azure platforms while building and deploying your websites or software solutions then Azure blob storage is one place to upload/store your files and faster to retrieve same. It is reliable and cost effective.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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