Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Stable, scalable, and the cloud-based storage capabilities are helpful
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is cloud-based storage."
  • "I would like to see better integration with other products."

What is our primary use case?

We work with a lot of cloud-related products, including Azure.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is cloud-based storage.

All of the cloud-based features are helpful.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see better integration with other products.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using Microsoft Azure for a few years.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I have not heard any complaints about the stability of Azure. Most likely, we will continue to use it in the future.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

From what I understand, it is scalable. We are quite a big company and as such, we have quite a lot of users.

How are customer service and support?

I have not been in contact with technical support.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

In my experience, it has always been Microsoft Azure.

What other advice do I have?

Azure is a good product and I can recommend it to others.

I would rate this solution an eight 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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Real User
As a DBA, the easy maintenance and backups are key
Pros and Cons
  • "I come from the DBA side so for me it's the easy maintenance; backups are very easy as well."
  • "I would like to see more databases on the cloud, what they call today Big Data should be there."

What is our primary use case?

Installation of SQL Server, Cloudera Hadoop, and MySQL. The performance has been great.

How has it helped my organization?

The benefit is the time to generate all these machines. It's in the cloud so I don't feel it.

What is most valuable?

I come from the DBA side so for me it's the easy maintenance; backups are very easy as well.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see more databases on the cloud, what they call today Big Data should be there. I think it's going in the right direction.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Stability is great.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability is also great.

How is customer service and technical support?

Personally, I have not used support, but the guys who do are happy with it.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Cloudera.

What other advice do I have?

When choosing a vendor what's important to me are stability, a lot of features, variety, and good support.

My advice would be, try it using the free trial and I am sure you will be satisfied and take it.

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Engineer at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
Vendor
Microsoft Azure is best cloud computing platform available in the market.

Valuable Features:

Yet another powerful and reliable product from Microsoft. Windows Azure is a very reliable cloud computing platform, coupled with Microsoft data centers. More positives are that it can be used with non-Microsoft based data centers. It is fast and secure. It stands first among all other cloud platform providers.

Room for Improvement:

Microsoft is not an innovator for this cloud computing platform. Still some of its products, like Dynamics GP 2013 online, are not compatible with iPad, iPhone, and some Android based devices.

Other Advice:

I love Microsoft's products because they are simple yet powerful and secure.
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Architect DevSecOps at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Simple to use and reliable
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is its ease of use."
  • "Microsoft Azure could improve by being more secure."

What is our primary use case?

We used Microsoft Azure mainly for repositories and management.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is its ease of use.

What needs improvement?

Microsoft Azure could improve by being more secure.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Microsoft Azure for approximately two 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?

The company that I am working for had 100 users using Microsoft Azure.

What about the implementation team?

I did not implement the solution myself, another team in my company did it.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend Microsoft Azure to others, it is a good solution.

I rate Microsoft Azure a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Business Analyst at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
MSP
Has complete documentation and is stable and secure
Pros and Cons
  • "Some features of Azure are very important for us. You can control access for your company, it's not complicated managing the solution either. I think the solution is very stable, secure and the documentation Microsoft has on their website is complete. You can use it to find the solution's problems or implement solutions."
  • "An issue I encountered was around the integration of Identity. I lost some important information and I would like to see improvements with this."

What is most valuable?

Some features of Azure are very important for us. You can control access for your company, it's not complicated managing the solution either. I think the solution is very stable, secure and the documentation Microsoft has on their website is complete. You can use it to find the solution's problems or implement solutions. 

What needs improvement?

An issue I encountered was around the integration of Identity. I lost some important information and I would like to see improvements with this. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Microsoft Azure for approximately 2 years now

How was the initial setup?

Azure is very easy to manage

What about the implementation team?

We are a Microsoft partner and implement in-house.

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

The pricing depends on the solutions I want to use, but I think the price is good because there are many free features in the solution. If you need something more advanced, like Azure AD Premium, you have other features available like risk management.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate 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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Cloud Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Consultant
Stable, easy to setup, and quick to deploy with a good interface
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is the interface."
  • "The price could be improved as well as the interface speed, and technical support."

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is the interface.

What needs improvement?

The price could be improved as well as the interface speed, and technical support.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Microsoft Azure for four years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

This solution is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Microsoft Azure is a scalable product.

We have more than ten users.

How are customer service and technical support?

I am not satisfied with the support. It seems that they outsource to different companies with people who don't even know the basics. 

You get asked several questions but never get any resolutions.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was easy and it only takes a few minutes to install.

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

The cost is a little high and can be more competitive.

What other advice do I have?

Microsoft Azure is a good service and I recommend it.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud
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IT Analyst at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Vendor
The Canvas flow interface brings a very nice functionality that improves self-learning.

What is most valuable?

The Canvas flow interface brings a very nice functionality that improves self-learning.

How has it helped my organization?

Selecting and applying a machine learning algorithm is not a click-and-run process. In this case, clustering our data has helped us to find patterns and trends that were not visible using conventional (internal) classification.

What needs improvement?

Stronger R integration in a circular fashion (Azure->R->Azure). Nowadays, it has an unidirectional bias.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used Machine Learning Studio for the last six months.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

We've had no issues with the deployment.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

By using a free account for cloud services can bring you "queued" status, but normally it runs smoothly. The quota defined for free account is enough for a variety of experiments and none of the features are blocked.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We've had no issues with the scalability.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

As a cloud service, online chat and email service are available, but the community forums are the best place to solve issues.

Technical Support:

We have a support maintenance agreement for Windows/Office.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

There are a few competitors in place, and their number is increasing, but friendliness is the strong point of AzureML, comparing to Amazon AWS or BigML.

How was the initial setup?

It does not involve any setup, just having an Outlook or Microsoft account.

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

Using a free account leads to offline projects. For online projects those issues must be evaluated according to client side company's environment.

What other advice do I have?

Machine learning is just one part of the whole data science cycle. Big data (streaming, video, etc.) or deep learning needs must be addressed with additional tools. But for prediction/classification this is a fantastic tool.

Below is a PCA graph generated by K-means training model and its Qlik Sense panel. The idea is to segment unlabeled data based on numerical features in order to find common patterns that can be grouped, named clusters.

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Head of PMO and Service Delivery Management at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Easy to use, simple setup, and reliable
Pros and Cons
  • "Microsoft Azure has been easy to use in my experience."
  • "The local support is fair but it is sometimes limited, the service could be better."

What is our primary use case?

We are using Microsoft Azure for hosting our applications in a secure environment. We are using AI and machine learning models.

What is most valuable?

Microsoft Azure has been easy to use in my experience.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Microsoft Azure for approximately two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Microsoft Azure is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have approximately 50 people using the solution in my organization.

How are customer service and support?

The local support is fair but it is sometimes limited, the service could be better.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward.

What about the implementation team?

I am able to do the implementation of the solution.

We have some system engineers and developers that manage the solution.

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

The price of the solution could be cheaper in general. We are on a monthly subscription to the solution.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Microsoft Azurean eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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