Microsoft Azure Reviews

We have most of our servers running as VM's in Azure. While still a hybrid environment, we are gradually moving all our servers and applications to Azure.

Azure Active Directory and Azure Active Directory Domain Services make it possible to have Azure VM's join a domain without the need for additional domain controllers. Users can join their CYOD to Azure Active Directory using their Azure credentials. With MDM in place, we also have the means to manage all devices, CYOD or BYOD.

The Disaster Recovery service - Azure Site Recovery (ASR) has enabled us to have our production servers and applications replicated to Azure and ready to take over in case of a major failure or when a site goes down. In addition, ASR helps us save money on expensive hardware.

It has helped us to scale, no matter what Azure feature you use. Scalability is of the utmost importance.

Regarding improvements:

• MDM: Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Intune features are slowly moving over to Azure. I think as an integrated feature, there will be better ways to manage mobile devices.
• Azure backup: It is still hard to configure and to figure out which Azure backup component to use for backing up different data on various storages.

We have been using the solution for four years.

We did not encounter any issues with stability.

We did not encounter any issues with scalability.

The technical support is skilled.

Everything you do for the first time can be complex. Setting up a VM in Azure is straightforward, but setting up a Disaster Recovery plan or moving a complete infrastructure to Azure can be complex.

Most of the complexity has to do with initial lack of experience. Diving into the material, study and hard work together with colleagues helps a lot.

An experienced System Administrator with years of on-premise experience will be able to make the move to Azure.

As a consultant, I leave this area to my sales colleagues. When in doubt, contact Microsoft. They will be able to clarify your questions.

We are a Microsoft Gold Partner, so we only use MS products.

The ability to kick start a new web application or website and having them up and running in matter of minutes still amazes me.

Deploying new release for existing web applications has now become a matter of right clicking the name of the project and clicking ‘publish’, the same activity before might have been done in hours to days – depending on the complexity for the app.

Anything to do with referencing other packages is simply frustrating, this is mostly a problem with the Windows framework and not the hosting service, but it is still the most time consuming and irritating thing about using ASP.NET

Yes, well back in the days we used to install physical servers, then we went to manually virtual servers, that to hosted virtual server, then to Amazon machines and now switched to Windows Azure.

As simple as can be.

We do all technical work in house and with Azure there was really no need for external assistance.

When starting out I became member of the BizSpark program so the initial cost was 0 (FREE!), on customer’s projects the cost can go from $50 to $200 per month which is really cost effective for them.

Yes for every project we will compare Azure with Amazon, with virtual servers with a physical server. But in almost every case choosing Azure will be a no brainer.

We, as consultants of Azure, have used the SQL storage accounts, Databricks for computing models, and Data Factory for ETLs. 

The Azure Portal has an advantage in terms of UX making buying resources or downgrading is really easier to understand. AWS has micro, smaller functionalities whereas Azure has more end-to-end focus which makes it easier saving you time and money.

The integration pipeline could be a bit more broad in terms of applications.

Additionally, some companies require third parties to develop on their cloud. it would be interesting to see if it would be possible to provide another company with restricted access to their analytical tech stack.

I have used the solution for the past three years.

The solution is stable.

There is potential for scalability but that becomes more complex the more packaged the product is.

I have never used support personally but I have heard that it is good.

The initial setup was straightforward - one fifth of the work in comparison to AWS. It took about three months in total.

Azure virtual machines are stand-out.

Their backup strategy is a little complex which racks up the VM to other sole storage areas. This should be improved.

I have been using this solution for close to three years.

Microsoft Azure is very stable.

The solution is scalable.

Customer service was very good.

Initial setup was straightforward and flawless.

This was implemented via in-house team.

The pricing is fair and it was actually just reduced. My organization is paying approximately $100,000 annually with close to one thousand users. There are no additional fees.

Azure is user-friendly which is great for those with no code experience, though this limits flexibility.

This is a very simple solution. Their integration with Office 365 is very easy. And for those who are enterprise customers already using Office 365, their role-based access control communicating with Azure is much simpler and easier which allows for full control.

I would rate this a nine out of ten.

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We use Microsoft Azure for our IDB. That is our primary use, but we also have a certain degree of MDM through Microsoft.

It does what it is supposed to do, and what we expected of it. That's the key benefit. Being cloud-based saves the provisioning aspect of an on-premises solution.

The support subscription models need improvement.

I have been using Microsoft Azure for a couple of years.

We are using the latest version.

Microsoft Azure is a stable solution.

As far as we have expanded it, it is scalable. It's a startup company, we haven't scaled it to a significant number of people yet.

We have between 100 and 150 people in our organization who use Microsoft Azure.

I don't think that we will expand our usage at the moment.

I have contacted technical support on one occasion. My biggest issue with the technical support of Microsoft is when we had an issue that was product-related and it was difficult to get support on the subscription level we were on. In order to try to get support, we were told that we needed to upgrade. It was quite frustrating that an issue with their product required an upgrade to get serviced when it was a failure that they were responsible for.

It's not a question of knowledge, the knowledge was there. Access to that knowledge and the subscription model they were trying to put in place was the issue.

I used to work for Oracle. My previous experience was with Oracle Enterprise Manager.

I wasn't present or involved at the time of installation. I came along later. I started with the company after that.

Licensing fees are paid monthly.

We are currently in the process of deploying Zabbix to cover our monitoring needs. We have used other monitoring products which come with certain components.

From my point of view, it would depend on the type of solution and everything they were trying to encompass. In our case, it made sense to go with Azure. I think that for other companies, I would recommend that it's a good solution, but that depends on what problem you are trying to solve. It also depends on what infrastructure is already in place, and whether you want to have a lot of disparate systems communicating, or whether you want to consolidate that to a specific vendor. But for the purposes of what we needed Azure to do, it does the job. However, we don't use all of the MS Apps functionality.

It does the job, but it doesn't wow me. I am pretty happy with it. I don't get overly excited about it, but I am not disappointed with it. I would rate Microsoft Azure a six out of ten.

Public Cloud

In my country, many organizations want to migrate their operations to the cloud. This is why we are using Microsoft Azure.

I have been using this solution for approximately one year.

The solution is stable.

Microsoft Azure is scalable in my experience.

Approximately 1,000 use this solution.

The technical support has been good.

We also have customers using AWS.

The installation is easy.

We did the implementation of the solution.

The pricing of the solution could be reduced. We are not able to create a free account in my country.

I recommend this solution to others.

I rate Microsoft Azure a ten out of ten.

Public Cloud

We use the solution as our cloud service provider for product and project management.

The most valuable features of the solution are for management, such as dashboards. 

The solution could improve by providing better tutorials and documentation. There was a point when I was trying to understand how the board works and there was not any documentation that could articulate it properly. We had a whole team who had to go online to check other sources in order to understand.

I have been using Microsoft Azure in my organization for seven months.

Microsoft Azure is stable 99 percent of the time.

The solution is easy to scale. We needed more servers in the past months because of our application growth. It was a very easy process, you use your credit card online, authorize funds, and you have more servers.

We have approximately 2,000 people using this solution in my organization.

We have not needed to use technical support because we have not had any issues.

The installation of this solution was straightforward.

I would recommend this solution.

I rate Microsoft Azure a nine out of ten.

Public Cloud

We primarily use the solution in our lab. We use it for critical services for the most part.

The solution is very scalable. 

The stability is very good. The performance is excellent.

 We found the installation to be very easy and straightforward.

The cost of the product is too high. It would be ideal if they could lower it a bit for their customers.

I've been using the solution for about two to three years or so. It's been a while. 

The stability is very good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. Its performance is reliable. 

The scalability of the solution is very good. A company can expand it if it needs to.

We have six users on the solution currently. We have one project manager and five general users.

I can't speak to the technical support services or Microsoft. I can't say that I have used them.

The initial setup is not overly complex or difficult. It's very simple. It's quite straightforward.

The solution is too expensive. They need to work on the pricing.

I can't speak to the exact cost our company pays in order to use Azure.

As it's a cloud-based solution, we're always on the latest version. it automatically self-updates.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We've mostly been quite happy with the capability of the solution.

I'd recommend the solution to other users and other organizations.

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