We compared Microsoft Azure and Pivotal Cloud Foundry based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Microsoft Azure is praised for its scalability, reliability, and extensive range of services, with positive feedback on customer service, pricing, and return on investment. Pivotal Cloud Foundry, on the other hand, is highlighted for its flexibility, automation, and strong customer support, with positive remarks on pricing and return on investment. Areas for improvement include scalability, documentation, support, features, and performance optimization.
Features: Microsoft Azure is praised for its scalability, versatility, reliability, and extensive range of services. Pivotal Cloud Foundry is highly valued for its scalability, flexibility, automation, and extensive documentation and resources.
Pricing and ROI: Microsoft Azure and Pivotal Cloud Foundry both offer reasonable setup costs. User feedback indicates that the installation process for Microsoft Azure is easy and simple, while Pivotal Cloud Foundry has a straightforward and transparent licensing process. Both products are considered to have commendable pricing structures., Microsoft Azure has been praised for its cost savings, increased efficiency, and improved scalability. It offers a diverse range of services and tools. Pivotal Cloud Foundry has provided valuable and efficient operations, scalability, and increased productivity.
Room for Improvement: Microsoft Azure has identified areas that require improvement based on user feedback. On the other hand, Pivotal Cloud Foundry could benefit from enhancements in scalability, documentation, support resources, features, flexibility, and performance optimization as users have suggested.
Deployment and customer support: Based on user feedback, reviews for Microsoft Azure suggest varying timeframes for deployment and setup, ranging from one week to three months. In contrast, reviews for Pivotal Cloud Foundry also indicate varying durations, with users mentioning one to two weeks for both deployment and setup., In terms of customer service, Microsoft Azure receives positive feedback for their responsiveness and expertise. Users appreciate the prompt assistance provided by the Azure team in resolving technical issues. On the other hand, Pivotal Cloud Foundry's customer service is praised for being responsive, helpful, and reliable, with knowledgeable and friendly representatives. Users mention the support team actively addresses concerns, providing prompt solutions and guidance. Overall, both products offer satisfactory customer service and support.
The summary above is based on 34 interviews we conducted recently with Microsoft Azure and Pivotal Cloud Foundry users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
Windows Azure is Microsoft's cloud platform, where developers can create, deploy, and maintain their apps. This cloud application platform allows developers to concentrate on the actual applications, while it takes care of all the elements behind the apps.
Windows Azure works across multiple frameworks and languages. It is fully scalable, localized in that it is hosted globally in many datacenters, and has widespread capabilities with elements of application development, deployment, and management.
Azure is comprised of several different service modules, including Infrastructure; Web; Mobile; Dev & Test; Big Data; Media;Storage, Backup & Recovery; and Identity & Access Management.
Microsoft Azure works as a:
Platform as a service (PaaS)
Software as a service (SaaS)
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
Microsoft Azure is available:
On-premises
Hybrid
Multi-cloud
At the edge
Compared to its competitors, Microsoft Azure:
Has more affordable features
Has easier migration for organizations already using other Microsoft tools
Has several educational resources available
Provides robust support
Is ideal for small and large businesses
Microsoft Azure Features:
Scalability
Stability
Flexibility
Azure Site Recovery
Active Directory
Monitoring features
Cloud-based
Automated tasks
Change capability cadence
Showback capabilities
Information protection
Azure Data Lake
Excellent portal
Intuitive user interface
Remote desktop
Fast provisioning
Data security
Data resiliency
Speed of service
Integrated delivery pipeline
Disaster recovery
Robust templates
Flexible coding languages
Virtual systems testing
Benefits of Microsoft Azure:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): Because Microsoft Azure is an IaaS, organizations can deploy as well as manage applications easily and quickly. Azure also provides you with the ability to customize the cloud software to meet your specific business needs.
Seamless integration: Microsoft Azure is built to seamlessly integrate with existing IT departments via hybrid databases, secure private connections, and storage solutions.
Cost-effective: Because Azure can harmoniously exist in your business environment with your data center, it is a very cost-effective solution.
Analytics support: Azure is designed with built-in support that is used to analyze data and provide key insights. Azure offers Cortana Analytics, Stream Analytics, Machine Learning, and SQL services.
Unique storage system: Compared to other cloud services, Microsoft Azure has more data centers and delivery points, which helps create an optimal user experience and also helps deliver content faster. In addition, Microsoft Azure makes it possible for organizations to exchange content across several virtual machines.
Enhanced flexibility: Azure provides extreme flexibility by allowing you to choose any level of functionality you require. It also supports many of the same technologies IT teams and developers usually depend on, making it easier for them to manage.
Easy implementation: Microsoft Azure is easy and quick to deploy. If necessary, you can change web apps to Azure with almost zero downtime.
Reviews from Real Users:
"It is a flexible solution that is straightforward to use," says the principal consultant at a computer software company.
OmarJ., future datacenter consultant: Microsoft Azure Cloud at a tech company, adds that "The user interface is very nice and makes everything easy to use."
“You can build an environment in minutes. It's very good in terms of being an infrastructure as a service, and I found that really fascinating,” says an information technology consultant at a computer software company.
"I think Azure's level of automation to achieve efficiency or agility is valuable. I also like the change capability cadence, the showback capabilities, and understanding what our costs are," says an enterprise architect at an energy/utilities company.
Marco C., Ing. at Wolters Kluwer, says "The valuable features of Microsoft Azure are that it is cloud-based and has good storage. The storage is completely managed by Azure. We do not need to do any patching of security because it is handled by Azure which is a benefit. The solution is fully compatible with the Microsoft technology stack and is very scalable."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is it has everything together in one place. It is one large tool with lots of small tools that are updated often," says the owner of a media company.
Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) is the leading enterprise PaaS, powered by Cloud Foundry. PCF provides a cloud-native application platform that allows you to continuously deliver any app to every major private and public cloud with a single platform. PCF is proven to accelerate feature delivery with higher developer productivity and a 200:1 developer to operator ratio. PCF's built-in security and self-healing capabilities reduce risk in your app portfolio while maintaining high-availability at scale to keep customer facing systems online even in the most challenging circumstances. pivotal.io
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