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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.

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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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OmarMadaeen - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development Director at Optimiza Solutions
Reseller
Stable solution for secure data hosting
Pros and Cons
  • "This is a very stable product."
  • "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."

What is our primary use case?

I am a business development director who helps my clients by providing solutions during their digital transformation journey. I am a reseller of Microsoft Azure. My clients use this solution to host their data on the cloud and to have a secure database.

What is most valuable?

This is a very stable product.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see more automation and AI with the cloud to help the clients understand more about their clients, their data history, and their predictive analytics. This would help them better manage their clients.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for almost four years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable. Some of my clients have thirty users while others have more than two hundred users.

How are customer service and support?

We have received very good support from Azure here in Jordan.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is quite complex and took about six months.

What other advice do I have?

Azure may seem intimidating but you will get use to the product the more time that you spend working in it.

I would rate this product 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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Dražen Bzik - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Department at Combis d.o.o.
Real User
Highly scalable, good support, and plenty of services available
Pros and Cons
  • "Microsoft Azure has thousands of services and products."
  • "Microsoft Azure could improve by having the availability be 100%. Which is difficult, but not impossible."

What is our primary use case?

We are using Microsoft Azure for various databases, file storing, backup, disaster recovery. It's a very useful service.

What is most valuable?

Microsoft Azure has thousands of services and products.

What needs improvement?

Microsoft Azure could improve by having the availability be 100%. Which is difficult, but not impossible.

In the future, there should be more automation.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Microsoft Azure for approximately four years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Microsoft Azure is highly scalable.

Our customers that are using the solutions can have from 100 to several thousand that are using the solution.

We have plans to extend the usage of this solution.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support is very good.

How was the initial setup?

My projects are normally complex. However, the implementation of Microsoft Azure is very simple.

The length of time the full deployment can take depends on the complexity of the project. It can vary from one month to half a year. It depends on the goal of the project.

I would rate the initial setup of Microsoft Azure a four out of five.

What other advice do I have?

My advice to others is you need to be technically aware of Azure services, which are always in some kind of improvement. It is helpful to be aware of the possibility and functionality of your projects and the financial cost for Azure services in the project plan.

I rate Microsoft Azure a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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reviewer1214379 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
Real User
Responsive technical support with a good pricing model and useful disaster recover capabilities
Pros and Cons
  • "There is the potential to scale."
  • "In a month, there is a plan to increase pricing, which is something we are not looking forward to."

What is our primary use case?

We primarily use the solution for backups and ASO.

What is most valuable?

The ASO is great.

We enjoy the disaster recovery aspect of the solution, which is very interesting, as we pay when it is on. When it's off we don't pay. 

There is no effort investment. We just pay what is being replicated, that's all.

There is the potential to scale.

The stability is good.

We've found the technical support to be responsive. 

What needs improvement?

In a month, there is a plan to increase pricing, which is something we are not looking forward to.

For how long have I used the solution?

We've worked with the solution since it was first released. We've used it for a while.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The product is very stable compared to if you are going to employ it in-house. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. t's reliable. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability is good. If you need to expand it, you can.

We are in Mauritius. Mauritius is a very small country. We have about 1.2 million inhabitants. We are not that big of a country. I have about 25 clients using it.

How are customer service and support?

We are an indirect reseller. We do have the CSP, the cloud service provider, in Mauritius, with whom we purchase. When we have an issue, we deal with them. They do have engineers that provide support as well.

That said, if there are any big troubles then we contact Microsoft directly. So far, our experience has been very positive. The callback is within 20 minutes. It's fine.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is not simple. You need to be trained. It's not like it's just ready to be implemented - you need to be trained in what you are doing.

The deployment is quick and only takes about one day.

What was our ROI?

We do get an ROI from the disaster recovery aspect of the solution. 

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

The pricing is great, as we only pay for what we use. 

That said, the prices are about to increase in the next month.

We do have some clients in South Africa and some clients in Germany, however, we've noticed that the pricing for Germany is less expensive than South Africa. South Africa has a new data center, which is likely why the price is a bit high.

What other advice do I have?

We implement the solution. We are silver resellers. 

We are using the latest version of the solution.

I'd rate the solution at 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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Remote data access from anywhere, stable, and scalable
Pros and Cons
  • "The best feature in Microsoft Azure is that I don't have to change computers. I don't have to upgrade or if something breaks or a hard drive crashes. The lack of a physical aspect is the major feature for me."

    What is our primary use case?

    I generally, use Microsoft Azure for storage and to have applications running, such as the Microsoft Suite without having to have a physical desktop or hardware. I could use it wherever I want. I could use it from a tablet, instead of having all that files on a tablet, you can have it stored, saved, everything right there in Azure.

    What is most valuable?

    The best feature in Microsoft Azure is that I don't have to change computers. I don't have to upgrade or if something breaks or a hard drive crashes. The lack of a physical aspect is the major feature for me.

    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?

    I do not have to worry about scalability because I do not have users other than myself. However, it is scalable.

    How are customer service and support?

    I have not had the need to contact the support, I have not any issues.

    How was the initial setup?

    The installation was easy.

    What was our ROI?

    By using Microsoft Azure you can save money from not having to purchase or maintain infrastructure.

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

    The price of the solution could be reduced. There should be a loyalty cost reduction model. If customers have been using the service year after year they should receive a discount.

    What other advice do I have?

    I would advise those thinking about using Microsoft Azure to try it out, especially for businesses. If you know that your office might be moving, instead of having all the cost of physical hardware to either get rid of or repurchase, the cost of the subscription is going to be a lot less than moving all your physical servers, storage devices, and computers. You won't have any maintenance, the need to worry about hardware breaking, hardware crashing, or people breaking any of the hardware. The workstations and connectivity are all they would need to worry about if they decided to move from one spot to the other.

    I rate Microsoft Azure an eight out of ten.

    Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

    Public Cloud
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    CTO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
    Real User
    Cloud-based, stable, simple to install, and with good advanced-level support
    Pros and Cons
    • "It is easy to install."
    • "A good strategy would be to include a feature for integrating with external ecosystems."

    What is our primary use case?

    We are resellers. We use Microsoft to provide a service to our customers.

    We offer SaaS software for the marketplace. 

    We offer SaaS software for the B2B marketplace and provide solutions to our customers through public cloud infrastructure.

    What is most valuable?

    We have yet to explore this solution and what it has to offer because we are still in the transformation phase from Amazon to Azure.

    What needs improvement?

    It could be more open to external solutions.

    Integration with other ecosystems would be beneficial. During this transitional period, this is our primary concern. For example, when we offer solutions to our customers, we must connect to their IT ecosystem, which we are unable to do in some cases.

    A good strategy would be to include a feature for integrating with external ecosystems.

    We would also like to improve the security.

    For how long have I used the solution?

    We switched from Amazon to Azure six months ago.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    In the short time that we have been using this solution, it appears to be stable enough for our needs.

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    We work with 50 companies that use this solution on a daily basis.

    How are customer service and support?

    We have no issues with the technical support. It's fine.

    We needed to find someone who could help us. It depends on the support contract you have with Microsoft. 

    The standard level of support was obviously insufficient for us, and we had to resort to a more advanced level of support for partners who had complex technical questions. This meant that there would be some additional support costs, but everything would be fine once you made that decision.

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

    We use Auth0, which is an IAM-based solution.

    We are using an identification solution provided by a cloud provider. We are based on Azure. We work with a Microsoft Azure infrastructure, and we use the solution provided by Microsoft to authenticate the users.

    How was the initial setup?

    It is easy to install.

    It took us a few months to deploy. I did not take a lot of time to move to Azure but moving to another infrastructure using microservice takes longer.

    We are coming from a moderate approach to installation and going for a modular one that is based on microservices.

    To be able to manage the microservices, we made some modifications.

    The length of time it took to complete the implementation was primarily due to changes we made to the infrastructure that was required for our customers.

    What about the implementation team?

    We have a dedicated team of ten people who will deploy and manage the infrastructure.

    We have a separate Dev team for the application itself.

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

    Customers pay for our software and use our solution as a service through monthly payments. They don't pay the licensing fee directly to Microsoft.

    We provide a solution as a service to our customers. They pay us for our services, which are based on Microsoft.

    What other advice do I have?

    We would recommend this solution to others who are considering using it.

    I would rate Microsoft Azure 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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    Amey Darekar - PeerSpot reviewer
    Personal Banker at HDFC Bank
    Real User
    Top 5Leaderboard
    Feature-rich, easy to use, scalable, and stable
    Pros and Cons
    • "It has multiple features that can be used from the start."
    • "Ideally, Microsoft Azure should be compatible with the applications that we are using in my environment."

    What is most valuable?

    It has multiple features that can be used from the start.

    It is easy to use.

    What needs improvement?

    I would like to see support for the applications that are currently in place. Ideally, Microsoft Azure should be compatible with the applications that we are using in my environment.

    For how long have I used the solution?

    I am not using Microsoft Azure, but I have been doing an assessment for the last five years.

    I am using the latest version.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    It's a stable product.

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    Microsoft Azure is a scalable solution.

    How are customer service and technical support?

    I have not contacted technical support.

    How was the initial setup?

    The installation is handled by another team. I was not involved in the installation of this solution.

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

    As of now, there are no monthly or yearly subscription fees.

    What other advice do I have?

    Definitely, I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it.

    I would rate Microsoft Azure a nine out of ten.

    Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

    Public Cloud
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