We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure and VMware Cloud Foundation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."In terms of computer resource management and reduced cost, it is very, very effective. In large environments, it gives you a lot of flexibility to provide different services, like disaster recovery and business continuity with simple and great options because you don't have to spend a lot of time for maintenance, upgrades, and security."
"Microsoft offers free courses and an exam on their products. Many of my colleagues who use Microsoft Azure take advantage of those free courses to help them learn about the solution in depth."
"The solution is user-friendly and compatible."
"The most important thing is we don't have to maintain any physical infrastructure. With typical conventional on-premise solutions, we have to maintain many things like the hardware, clusters, etc. With this cloud platform, you don't have to worry about all those things. We have the service always available, and this is the main advantage. I like that we use everything on our standard Active Directory on on-premises on Azure. The key advantage is that you can have the sole indication based on the cloud. This isn't possible with an on-premise Active Directory. This enables work from home and at the office because it's on the cloud."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is that it is easy to use."
"Feedback and error messages make much more sense in Azure than in AWS."
"Its ability to scale is most valuable. There are certain periods of the year when we are busier, and we're able to scale up and scale down with Azure depending upon our needs."
"I have found all the features to be good."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of migrating from on-premises infrastructure when transitioning away from older systems."
"The mission aspect of the solution is the most valuable feature."
"The DSR feature is valuable because we have internal clustering, and these features are good for us."
"The stability is good."
"They have in release 4.0 features from vSphere and Cloud Suite. It's a complete data center."
"The solution is very stable."
"It is a scalable platform."
"We are using it for infrastructure automation."
"I would like to see more automation and AI with the cloud to help the clients understand more about their clients, their history data, and their predictive analytics. This would help them better manage their clients."
"Due to the pandemic, I haven't been able to utilize their full resources. This has made it complicated to scale up. I hope this will be resolved after the pandemic."
"The solution should emulate what MuleSoft is doing. At the moment MuleSoft has a lot of other features compared to Azure API integration."
"I have found Microsoft Azure has many components to use and it's very difficult to understand every component."
"You eventually end up with a large collection of 'bits' all working together, I find it hard to be able to create a logical 'box' and put all the 'bits' that need to be in that box / application into the one place."
"There are many bugs in the solutions and we already have a ticket to Microsoft. Their content team is working on that."
"The solution should be more intuitive and provide better support. We often do not receive frequent updates or comprehensive support, even as partners."
"The subscription licensing is very complex and we would like to have it simplified."
"Working on features that could include the capability to migrate workflows from non-VMware environments would be highly beneficial."
"The customization has room for improvement."
"Cost is a challenge when convincing clients, especially for large deals."
"I would like to be able to connect the APIs."
"Life cycle management is an area for improvement."
"The use of cloud and other integrations need to be improved and made easier."
"VMware Cloud Foundation could be more flexible in terms of supporting other integration and components."
"They need to offer more support for Mac."
Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews while VMware Cloud Foundation is ranked 10th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 23 reviews. Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4, while VMware Cloud Foundation is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Cloud Foundation writes "Reliable with good hyper-converged sizing flexibility and an automated setup". Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform, whereas VMware Cloud Foundation is most compared with Azure Stack, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), AWS Outposts, Google Anthos and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Microsoft Azure vs. VMware Cloud Foundation report.
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