Azure Managed Disks vs. IBM Cloud Block Storage

Azure Managed Disks

Azure Managed Disks

12 Reviews and Ratings

IBM Cloud Block Storage

IBM Cloud Block Storage

50 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure Managed Disks	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft's Managed Disks service on Azure are the company's recommended disk storage offering for use with Azure virtual machines for persistent storage of data.	N/A
IBM Cloud Block Storage	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	IBM offers their Block Storage service via IBM Cloud, allowing users to deploy and customize flash-backed iSCSI block storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS.	N/A

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Azure Managed Disks	IBM Cloud Block Storage
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Community Pulse
	Azure Managed Disks	IBM Cloud Block Storage
Considered Both Products	Azure Managed Disks Rao Tahir DotNet Project Manager Chose Azure Managed Disks We have been using miscrosoft products from the start so it was quite natural to go with Azure Managed Disks as it would be very easy to integrate with other products that we have in use and obviously the knowledge most of our engineeirs have also played a big part it, so we … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Azure Managed Disks MS Azure managed disks are easy to manage and implement compared to other cloud storage / disks. It is functional for a lot of apps to create data bases and support new apps without configuring for 3rd party platforms. This is almost impossible with other services that provide … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Azure Managed Disks Azure Managed Disks comes with rich security features that includes encryption capabilities. Accessing, managing and transfering data is easy, which was a big advantage for our clients' final decision to choose it compared to other competitors. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Azure Managed Disks Azure has a longer history of capabilities and service. On an institutional basis the product has served our back office at a higher level than we perceived with GA. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Azure Managed Disks Since we are using many Microsoft Products, Azure Managed Disk was a better option. I have used Google Cloud Persistent Disk in a different company and it was equally good. Incentivized Helpful? Kimberly Brooke Marketing Analyst Chose Azure Managed Disks Azure Managed Disks is the most effective data storage platform that has given us the most reliable services in our company. It enhances data security and data backup plans that contribute to better workflow infrastructure. It gives us hope of our continuity in case of any lost … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Azure Managed Disks It is a cleaner setup since we are already bought into the Microsoft Infrastructure. Without the ecosystem they have built at Microsoft, we would not have such a seamless experience. While AWS is simpler to use, it is not set in the same model as how the Azure system is built … Incentivized Helpful? Kyle Kochtan Application Development Manager Chose Azure Managed Disks Azure Managed Disks stacked up very well against Amazon Elastic Block Store. In the End it really came down to the fact we are running numerous other Microsoft Azure products and Azure Managed Disks would fit nicely into that ecosystem. We had less ramp up for training and … Incentivized Helpful?	IBM Cloud Block Storage Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Both services are pretty much identical when it comes to their offerings and specifically in their availability, durability and scalability of block storage. AWS S3 stacks someone better in most clients given the vast offerings of AWS within the rest of their solutions … Incentivized Helpful? Diana Dumpsey PPC Manager Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Unlike the above platforms, IBM Cloud Block Storage enable secure and quick big data migration through its secure environment and the flexibility of its Cloud options is effective. Data analytics through IBM Cloud Block Storage are easily prepared and the data access is very … Incentivized Helpful? Veronica Larson Business Analyst Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM has given us the best data storage services and I am proud of its entire performance. The product has been able to link all our services to cloud servers that enhance transparency and offer backup services to all our services. Data that runs across the entire organization … Incentivized Helpful? Rita Joy Information Specialist Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM Cloud Block Storage is known for professional space control, [which] values even the large database of above 12000GB. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage co-assist with the data managing solution, more so for data mining, analytics, and sharing. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage … Incentivized Helpful? Jude Nickson ICT Manager Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM Cloud Block Storage is extensively affordable when compared with the competing applications. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage works in different operating systems, hence, it is never discriminatory. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage creates a proper way of integrating with … Incentivized Helpful? Ramindu Deshapriya Lead Consultant - Technology Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Amazon S3 isn't on IBM Cloud and isn't the best solution to be used alongside applications deployed to the IBM Cloud. Incentivized Helpful? Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage The biggest difference that I have been able to find from other services external to IBM has been the domain, experience and application of the technology at the datacenter scale that allows [us] to be quite sure that the data will be in good collection. But I insist that the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM Cloud Object Storage is better suited for application development and easy to use from a higher level. IBM Cloud Block Storage is better suited as block storage as a service and totally integrated with the infrastructure as a service, making it easy to deploy and used either … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Being part of an organization that has a sizable footprint in IBM Cloud, the IBM Cloud Block Storage is a natural choice. Also, IBM Cloud Block Storage's native integration with Aspera is an added bonus for use cases needing fast, reliable data storage and transfer solutions. Incentivized Helpful? CP Charlie Pusey Technical Operations Manager Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage N/A. IBM Cloud Block Storage was the best solution as we already use IBM Cloud for the information that would utilise it. Incentivized Helpful? NS Nobuyuki Suzuki CAA (Chief Applications Architect) Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage No experience with other products Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Azure Managed Disks	IBM Cloud Block Storage
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Azure Managed Disks	IBM Cloud Block Storage
Likelihood to Recommend	Virtual Machines: Managed Disks are the recommended storage option for Azure Virtual Machines Backup and Disaster Recovery: Although more expensive than Blob storage, Managed Disks can be used as the storage target for Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery where high performance is a requirement. High-performance workloads: Managed Disks can be used for other high-performance workloads such as databases Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The service in general is great because on the backend. IBM offers experience and knowledge in the use of data center technologies undeniably. I recommend it for almost any situation but particularly for databases and especially large ones. That possibility of adjusting IOPS dynamically to levels that other data centers do not offer makes it unique. I don't recommend using the service if you don't have an infrastructure expert who knows about servers, Linux, and storage because a lot of the configuration and settings require an expert hand. Incentivized Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review
Pros	Redundancy and high availability is best in class The ability to manage this in one central place and the Azure ecosystem integration is great. Infrastructure as code and the ability to manage and maintain has become best in class. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Proficient scaling and system customization, which allows editing. Wide range of system storage, ranging from 25GB to 12000GB. Finally, IBM Cloud Block Storage deploys the most technical and efficient security measures. Incentivized Rita Joy Information Specialist Read full review
Cons	High pricing can be midified to make it more feasable for the community. A handful number of UI settings can be changed from complex to normal. Incentivized Rao Tahir DotNet Project Manager Read full review	The documentation must be clearer and updated, thinking about each distribution that they offer in the cloud Downtime when IOPS are raised can be less The configuration can be more automated from the same control panel and not have to take it so much to the CLI Incentivized Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review
Alternatives Considered	We have been using miscrosoft products from the start so it was quite natural to go with Azure Managed Disks as it would be very easy to integrate with other products that we have in use and obviously the knowledge most of our engineeirs have also played a big part it, so we prefferd Azure Managed Disks Incentivized Rao Tahir DotNet Project Manager Read full review	IBM Cloud Block Storage is extensively affordable when compared with the competing applications. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage works in different operating systems, hence, it is never discriminatory. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage creates a proper way of integrating with other applications, more so for database control and management. IBM Cloud Block Storage is clear, through its operational charter. Incentivized Jude Nickson ICT Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	Instantaneous trading updates often leads to additional transactions. Revenue stream increases with knowledge of an execution Quick payment feature reduces float time and compliance concerns in receiving funds Cloud and networking capabilities allow team members to be more responsive and productive with the access of data. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Cloud data access and easy Cloud data analytics creation platform. Visualization and Cloud data storage solution. Secure and smooth Cloud data transfer. Incentivized Diana Dumpsey PPC Manager Read full review
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