AI

Verified User in Insurance

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/30/2018

"Best cloud services I have used"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Cloud Services?

ease of use and spinning up SQL servers or VM's in general for all my server and SAAS needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Cloud Services?

Pricing could be a little cheaper but it is still a good service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Cloud Services:

Best solution you can think of to move to SAAS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Cloud Services solving and how is that benefiting you?

Moving alot of our services and software offsite and away from physical servers. Negating the need for backups and other solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VK

Varun K.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/19/2018

"Reviews"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Cloud Services?

Its a good service looking forward in using it daily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Cloud Services?

Its a little lenghty process could be a little simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/19/2018

"It professional "

1.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Cloud Services?

Ease of ingress

I also like the flexibility as well as support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Cloud Services?

Nothing. This is a best in class product with equal comparison to aws Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CI

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/18/2018

"Awesome"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Cloud Services?

It's really a great platform to save your data in a secure manner at a reasonable price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Cloud Services?

I have not found any feature to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HC

Hardik C.

Senior Software Development Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/7/2015

"Microsoft Azure: Bliss in disguise."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Cloud Services?

Microsoft Azure, formerly Windows Azure, is Redmond's cloud computing platform. In addition to its name change, the service has also recently expanded. Essentially, whatever you can do with traditional, on-premise Microsoft software—run SharePoint, manage SQL databases, deploy Active Directory—you can do within Azure. With its new capabilities Azure offers easier creation of hybrid clouds and more robust disaster recovery options for businesses.

Azure is a polished, complex service, yet it's one that's also very easy to get up and running for those who have worked with Windows systems. In fact, it's Azure's general ease of use and excellent wizard-driven setup that cause it to stand out among the competition as our Editors' Choice for small business cloud services. Rackspace in particular trails Microsoft in this regard, relying on the user to search for solutions among text-based FAQs and knowledgebase entries. Furthermore, Azure delivers superb performance, better than either Rackspace or Amazon EC2. Azure may cost more than the competition, but you get your money's worth with the polished interface, peppy performance, and close integration with Microsoft's other services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Cloud Services?

Expensive. Hosted server prices do not include any storage.We were impressed with Microsoft’s entrance into the PaaS market; Windows Azure is a great product on an impressive infrastructure. While you may end up needing a workaround to use your preferred language on Azure’s platform, the community around the platform and the Azure support team will have you up and running in no time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Cloud Services:

Microsoft does a great job of supporting Windows Azure. It’s overcome the common PaaS ailment of lacking immediate support by offering email and phone support for paying subscribers. It still comes at an additional cost, however, with support packages being offered in tandem with hosting plans.

The written documentation and tutorials for Windows Azure are fantastic and very in-depth. We had little trouble following the written instructions to get our own application up and running. The questions we did have were relatively minor and were quickly answered by an appeal to the Windows Azure community Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Cloud Services solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am running a Cloud plaform and using Azure's Software as a service packaage which is really beneficial to me in roder to get my customer rolled on to my cloud platform and i use the Infrastructure-as-a-service module as well to get them the best infrastructure from microsoft. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JB

J B.

Senior Director, Product Architecture

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/23/2015

"We're impressed by Azure's rapid growth, innovation and openness"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Cloud Services?

Azure's PaaS continues to grow in ways that helps us with scalability, availability, etc. at much lower complexity and cost. We are able to fill in with IaaS pieces as needed without dealing with multiple vendors. Our developers don't like situations requiring us to go back to how we did things before because of the extra time and overhead associated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Cloud Services?

As an ISV we would like to see more multi-tenancy inherent in the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Cloud Services:

Find a way to compare Azure's current capabilities to 1 and 3 years ago. You'll be pleasantly surprised by Azure's consistent and rapid growth in features, reliability, administration, etc. I wish I were able to direct people to a good comparison matrix, but I'm not aware of one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Cloud Services solving and how is that benefiting you?

Rapidly reproduce complex customer environments

Better serve customers via SaaS

Global availability and scalability of our products.

Continuous Integration & Deployment

Rapid test environments

Automate environment build-outs for various needs with Chef on Azure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JH

Jason H.

Director of Channel

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/6/2015

"Successful Azure Implementations"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Cloud Services?

Provides a way to deliver compute using an OpEx financial treatment.

It's also a market leader for organizations looking for a true platform as a service solution. Azure is gaining speed in the area as the PaaS market matures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Cloud Services?

It can be difficult to assess the necessary compute requirements as well as migrate from an existing on-premises environment without expertise and tools.

Because Azure is readily available it's important to get proper governance in place to avoid overspend.

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Recommendations to others considering Azure Cloud Services:

There are tools that scan your environment then sizes your requirement in Azure. This makes it WAY easier to determine which VMs are good to move first as well as the costs associated with the move. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Cloud Services solving and how is that benefiting you?

When clients need a way to put their servers in the cloud on a metered basis using tools they are familiar with... i.e. Microsoft... Azure is a great fit.

It eliminates the need to build and run your own datacenter which can be very costly on a larger scale.

I've helped clients identify within minutes the necessary CPU and memory commitments for their hosts in Azure using very slick tools that most are unaware of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DT

Don T.

IT Manager

Packaging and Containers

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/6/2015

"Overly complicated"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Cloud Services?

Easy to spin up an application or VM, good storage options. With an EA agreement billing is far simpler. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Cloud Services?

Interface still feels overly complicated and clunky. Costs ramp up quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Cloud Services:

Be prepared to have the interface change often as Microsoft continues to add features and improve the interface. It's still clunky, but each iteration is an improvement over the previous one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Cloud Services solving and how is that benefiting you?

Running Dynamics NAV 2015 and SQL Server in Azure VMs. I like the VPN options and having Azure to be a part of my network for remote sites to easily work in NAV. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AL

Verified User in Legal Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/17/2015

"Content Uploading /Downloading/Security Integration with Azure Platform was Seamless"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Cloud Services?

Azure portal is very Intuitive , any developers of different skill set or even non-developers can easily spin a website or SQL server setup in matter of minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Cloud Services?

More Azure Developer community samples would be helpful . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Cloud Services:

I definitely recommend Azure Solution for any IT needs; it takes less time for setup/ development and very reliable platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Cloud Services solving and how is that benefiting you?

Emailing customer documents with size and different formats, deliver-ability from ESP to customer inbox was always not reliable.

We moved from this model to Azure Content uploading and sharing with Blob storage, with HMAC securities .

This model helped our business in shipping cost and content maintenance securely . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AE

Verified User in Entertainment

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/13/2015

"My Azure Experience"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Cloud Services?

I use Cloud Services a lot. Recently i started using the Azure Webapp and really like all the troubleshoot and diagnostics tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Cloud Services?

The Azure portal sometime acts really weird. there were basic features but it would never work. need good testing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Cloud Services:

I would definitely recommend anyone considering switch to cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Cloud Services solving and how is that benefiting you?

I manage production systems. The Azure cloud gives us power to scale and manage multiple systems with less resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.