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Wai KongWong - PeerSpot reviewer
Information security consultant at Ypsilon System
Real User
Top 5
Helps to deploy web servers but navigation needs improvement
Pros and Cons
  • "Microsoft Azure has proven to be beneficial for our organization due to its quick deployment capabilities. Setting up virtual machines or any required infrastructure is fast."
  • "The tool needs to improve its navigation."

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution to set up access to process queuing, configure virtual instances, obtain a domain name, acquire the necessary certificates, and deploy the web server to the internet.

What is most valuable?

Microsoft Azure has proven to be beneficial for our organization due to its quick deployment capabilities. Setting up virtual machines or any required infrastructure is fast. 

What needs improvement?

The tool needs to improve its navigation. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the product for two to three years. 

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Microsoft Azure's stability depends on the resources allocated. If you provision sufficient resources, it tends to be stable. However, choosing lower resources, like two gigs of RAM and CPUs, might lead to less stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The product is scalable. My company has five users. 

How are customer service and support?

I haven't contacted the technical team yet. 

How was the initial setup?

Microsoft Azure's deployment is straightforward for me, given my experience and understanding of the Azure system. It is not difficult for me to handle.

What about the implementation team?

The tool's deployment was done in-house. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate the product an eight out of ten. 

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Darren Brodrick - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Owner at Transform8tion Limited
Real User
Top 20
Provides useful features and can be deployed within a few hours
Pros and Cons
  • "SQL Server has been most beneficial for our client’s workload."
  • "The security must be improved."

How has it helped my organization?

We had a cloud migration project from on-premise to the cloud. We used various components like Azure’s cost calculator to provide the ongoing running costs.

What is most valuable?

SQL Server has been most beneficial for our client’s workload.

What needs improvement?

Everything needs improvement. The tool must constantly improve to provide a better experience. The security must be improved. The scalability could also be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the tool’s stability an eight out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I rate the tool’s scalability a nine out of ten. Our clients are medium to large businesses.

How was the initial setup?

I rate the ease of setup a five out of ten. The product is deployed on the cloud. The deployment took a few hours.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I rate the pricing an eight out of ten. All cloud services are expensive.

What other advice do I have?

I rate the solution’s ability to support our client’s business growth a seven out of ten. We don't get direct support from Microsoft. I rate Azure's integration capabilities a seven out of ten. I will recommend the tool to others. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
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Quality Assurance Engineer at OAD
Real User
Top 20
Easy to set up and has high stability
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution has high stability."
  • "We have reported some bugs we encountered, and it would be good if those bugs were resolved more quickly."

What is most valuable?

The solution has high stability.

What needs improvement?

We have reported some bugs we encountered, and it would be good if those bugs were resolved more quickly.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Microsoft Azure for more than one year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the solution a nine out of ten for stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Currently, we are happy with how the solution scales. Around 60 users use the solution in our organization on a daily basis.

I rate the solution an eight out of ten for scalability.

How was the initial setup?

The solution's initial setup was quite easy, and you can get support to help you with the installation.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten.

What other advice do I have?

We use management tools for APIs. A few people were involved in the solution’s deployment and maintenance. I would recommend the solution to other users.

Overall, I rate Microsoft Azure a nine out of ten.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Co-owner at Min shan saw
Real User
Top 20
Can be used for operations, email, and office applications
Pros and Cons
  • "We use Microsoft Azure for operations, email, and office applications."
  • "The solution’s learning curve could be improved."

What is our primary use case?

Our people are familiar with Microsoft Azure, and we use it for our day-to-day operations.

What is most valuable?

We use Microsoft Azure for operations, email, and office applications.

What needs improvement?

The solution’s learning curve could be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Microsoft Azure for two to three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Microsoft Azure is a stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Around nine people use the solution in our organization.

How are customer service and support?

We contact our local partners so that they can help us with our issues. For some difficulties, we try forums and open support. We don't contact enterprise support because we don't have it.

How was the initial setup?

The solution’s initial setup is very straightforward.

What about the implementation team?

We implemented Microsoft Azure through an in-house team consisting of two to three people. The solution’s deployment takes a few weeks.

What other advice do I have?

Microsoft Azure is deployed on the cloud in our organization.

Overall, I rate the solution a seven or eight out of ten.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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It at Forvent
Real User
Useful for PaaS, web services, databases, and AD
Pros and Cons
  • "The tool's most valuable features are SQL servers and Managed Instance databases."
  • "Microsoft Azure needs to be simplified to make it better understood for users."

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution for PaaS, web services, databases, and AD. 

What is most valuable?

The tool's most valuable features are SQL servers and Managed Instance databases. 

What needs improvement?

Microsoft Azure needs to be simplified to make it better understood for users. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the product for five years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate Microsoft Azure's stability a nine out of ten. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I rate the tool's scalability an eight out of ten. My company has ten users. 

How are customer service and support?

I haven't contacted the tool's technical support. My Microsoft partner takes care of it. 

How was the initial setup?

I rate Microsoft Azure's deployment a seven out of ten. It takes around half an hour to complete. You need two resources to handle the deployment. I am involved in its maintenance. 

What about the implementation team?

A Microsoft partner helped us with the deployment. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten. 

What other advice do I have?

Our workflow has been good since using Azure Data Factory. There are previews of new features available, which I am happy about. I rate the product an eight out of ten. 

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Microsoft Azure
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Minos Pitsillides - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at IT-Flow ltd
Reseller
User-friendly, scalable, and reliable
Pros and Cons
  • "I use a virtual machine for remote desktop and Microsoft Azure is user-friendly."
  • "Microsoft Azure could improve by having more virtual machine operating systems available."

What is most valuable?

I use a virtual machine for remote desktop and Microsoft Azure is user-friendly.

What needs improvement?

Microsoft Azure could improve by having more virtual machine operating systems available.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Microsoft Azure for approximately three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I have found Microsoft Azure to be stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability of Microsoft Azure is very good.

We have approximately 25 companies that are using the solution. I do not know how many users are using the solution, but it would be a high number.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Microsoft Azure overall is an expensive solution.

In general, if you compare Amazon AWS with the price of Microsoft Azure host cloud service, Microsoft Azure is more expensive than Amazon AWS. I didn't see any hidden costs.

What other advice do I have?

My advice to first-time users of Microsoft Azure would be for them to go through certification training. This way they would be able to understand what they are doing. Without certification, it would be difficult to understand how the system is working.

I rate Microsoft Azure a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Microsoft Azure
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Rafael Veloso - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at SoftwareONE
Vendor
Top 10
Useful services, highly scalable, and easy to implement
Pros and Cons
  • "Microsoft Azure has a lot of useful features. They have databases, application services, PaaS solutions, such as platform and infrastructure services. The virtual machines' functions and services are good."
  • "Microsoft Azure can improve by adding more features for virtual machines, such as tier virtual machines."

What is our primary use case?

I have worked in a consultant company and we have customers who migrate their services to the cloud and to modern applications and services using Microsoft Azure.

What is most valuable?

Microsoft Azure has a lot of useful features. They have databases, application services, PaaS solutions, such as platform and infrastructure services. The virtual machines' functions and services are good.

What needs improvement?

Microsoft Azure can improve by adding more features for virtual machines, such as tier virtual machines.

In an upcoming release, I would like to see more information, features, and warehouse information on data.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Microsoft Azure for approximately five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Microsoft Azure is highly stable. However, Microsoft could improve the availability of the services by creating availability zones that are services working active-active in different positions around the globe. If any of these positions fall down, then another position will deliver the solution. This way there is no loss of service or loss to the business.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Microsoft Azure has a lot of features for scalability. You could increase the scalability of any service, such as databases storage or virtual machines. 

How are customer service and support?

Microsoft Azure technical support is not the best, they could improve the knowledge of their team and solve problems faster.

How was the initial setup?

The solution can be easy to implement. You could start easily, there are some services that have simple steps, and you could speed up the entire process. However, there are some more difficult deployments in more complicated architectures. You could start easily in the solution and then you can improve your skills.

What other advice do I have?

My advice to those thinking about using Microsoft Azure is to try it, it's a great service. It's a great opportunity to improve your career because there are a lot of challenges. I would recommend using the documentation and the information from the YouTube channels. There is a lot of documentation and data about Microsoft Azure available.

I rate Microsoft Azure a nine out of ten.

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ManuelVallejo - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Useful for data analytics, artificial intelligence, and helps you get more value from your cloud investment no matter what your future goals are
Pros and Cons
  • "With the Azure solution, you can get more value from your cloud investment no matter what your future goals are. It depends on your level of familiarity with the cloud you are using or with your computing. Azure helps you with every stage of the cloud."
  • "Something that could be added to the solution is the use of deep learning, which is going to grow in the near future."

What is our primary use case?

Azure is a big world with potential things that we have to check and learn. We have Azure as the data analytics, artificial intelligence, and much more. I work with technology like Microsoft, Symantec, and with Azure connectivity online, like SaaS.

We are integrators for AWS and Azure.

I don't know the exact number of users because we work with different customers. So one customer is only servicing one, another customer has probably 300, another customer has probably 500. We have different customers with a different number of users that use this technology.

What is most valuable?

With the Azure solution, you can get more value from your cloud investment no matter what your future goals are. It depends on your level of familiarity with the cloud you are using or with your computing. Azure helps you with every stage of the cloud. When you start using Azure, you don't even buy it. It's just a simple sign-in and a free account, and you get free services. It's a great way to get into that kind of technology. That's why I've been using this solution for almost eight years.

They have a feature from the network, the communication, so the firewall is the most communication that we can find when we try to work with the Azure platform. Perhaps it's our environment, and that not all the customers are familiar with how to work with cloud technologies. For that reason, it's the most communication that we can find. I am in the Azure service sales, and that is one of the features that can help you to stay informed and take any action in the area that you found a thing generated for.

It has a personalized dashboard for service issues. You can check the Azure service help, and you can find any issue that you have in your platform. It's a safe point to check when you have an issue, so you can manage the issue and learn how to track that issue, and you can more effectively execute plans that you have to scale or that you have to put in action using Azure bots.

They have free coursework that you can check on the website, and a free update that you can find for SQL server security. We are more familiar with Azure, so maybe we have to wait a couple of years to get more familiar with AWS.

What needs improvement?

Something that could be added to the solution is the use of deep learning, which is going to grow in the near future.

We are waiting for a new version, a new RFID for Azure Virtual Desktop AD 1, or Virtual Live Desktop AD 1. It really needs a whole new platform, because I think their platform has the best opportunity to offer features like HORIZONT.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for eight years.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate this solution 8 out of 10.

My advice is to just read and keep in touch. The technology is something that I have to read about every day, keep in touch with, study, take courses, and take certifications. So, currently, the best advice I can give to anyone is to keep updated.

Every time you check online you can find a new feature from Azure. The world of Azure is so big, so there is plenty of information that you can find, check, and test.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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