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Microsoft Azure
What is Microsoft Azure?
Azure is a comprehensive computing platform, providing cloud infrastructure, products and services, developer tools, and innovations in data and AI. Azure has unique on-premises, hybrid, multicloud, and edge capabilities that offer you the flexibility to innovate anywhere.
Developers can use their favorite languages, open-source frameworks, and tools to code and deploy. Modernize your IT, grow your business, and unlock insights from your data with the scale and security Azure provides.
Who Uses Microsoft Azure?
We believe that the success made possible by the cloud must be accessible to every business and every organization - small and large, old and new.
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Reviews of Microsoft Azure
Alternatives Considered:
AWS who?.....
Comments: Spinning up virtual environments and hosting software for clients and we use cold and hot storage for clients servers and backs with azure as they offer some of the best storage rates as compared to AWS. We can also spin up virtual domain and active directories for our clients to remove the heat and maintenance from small facilities on the edge of their environment that might not have a dedicated space for IT. Allowing us to now only offsite the IT but also the infrastructure.
Pros:
I have found the best use for Azure is to off site the IT hardware for infrastructure, So now IT can not only have the team off site but now that off site team doesn't have to worry about the servers being touched by employees messing around in the network closets.Allowing entire companies to be managed off site.
Cons:
Price on VMs, non transparent price, ease to setup redundancy...
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Transform Your Business with Azure
Comments: Microsoft Azure is a powerful and versatile cloud platform offering a variety of advantages and has extensive service offerings but requires careful planning and management to fully leverage its capabilities.
Pros:
Microsoft Azure is highly available, scalable and secure platform. It is very cost-effective, we can only pay for what we use, which significantly reduced our IT costs. It seamlessly integrated with other Microsoft products.
Cons:
Managing Azure services can be complex with cloud expert staff. It can be expensive if not managed properly and optimized for efficiency. It is dependent on internet connectivity.
Use for hosting
Comments: We use Azure to host our clients databases.
Pros:
I can access all my clients databases easily.
Cons:
Sometimes can be slow and freezes up which is frustrating.
Good but expensive.
Comments: Overall an extremely powerful and well integrated service. With the right licensing you can build and operate a well moving and redundant system.
Pros:
Lots of quick integrations and prebuilt features for bringing on other tools and building a microsoft based stack.
Cons:
Hidden pay walls with various pieces of services hidden behind tiering and no good definition of what goes where.
Survey i love
Comments: I love able to spin up a server a Linux server or Windows or whatever I like wherever I'm at easy to maintain
Pros:
It was pretty easy to do scale resourcing either up or down for cost efficient also global distribution
Cons:
As always it could always be cheaper but that's just me complaining about something but overall I get
