Microsoft Azure
About Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform designed to help organizations run virtual desktops and applications in the cloud. It offers businesses with built-in migration tools, which enables administrators to migrate remote desktop services (RDS) and Windows server desktops to various devices including smartphones, tablets and computers.
Supervisors can utilize the PowerShell framework to configure host pools, create application groups, and assign users to a relevant application group. Microsoft Azure lets IT teams virtualize and optimize Office 365 ProPlus to run in multi-user virtual scenarios. Administrators can use the built-in delegated access functionality to assign roles and capture diagnostic information for identifying and resolving system failures.
Microsoft offers a REST API, which lets businesses integrate the system with several third-party platforms such as Citrix, VMware, 10ZiG, Cloudhouse, and more. It also allows supervisors to collaborate with business associates by granting them access to edit changes on virtual desktops.
Key benefits of Microsoft Azure
Start for free and scale as you go
Get started for free and scale up as your traffic grows. Build with ASP.NET, PHP or Node.js and deploy in seconds with FTP, Git or TFS.
Infrastructure on your terms
Easily deploy and run Windows Server and Linux virtual machines. Migrate applications and infrastructure without changing existing code.
Turnkey backend solutions for your mobile app
Accelerate your connected client app development. Incorporate structured storage, user authentication and push notifications in minutes.
Enterprise-grade cloud platform
Create highly-available, infinitely scalable applications and services using a rich Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment. Support multi-tier scenarios, automated deployments and elastic scale.
Get actionable insights from your data
Take advantage of a fully compatible enterprise-ready Hadoop service. This PaaS offering provides easy management and integrates with Active Directory and System Center.
Ingest, Encode, Protect, Stream
Create, manage and distribute media in the cloud. This PaaS offering provides everything from encoding to content protection to streaming and analytics support.
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- Industry: Information Services
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
One of the big three cloud providers.
Reviewed on 06/06/2023
Pros
I have 3 Azure certifications at the moment and will continue the Developer path. I like that Azure is an extension of our datacenter but allows us to do a lot more since they are constantly abstracting services in order to gain ease of management. An example of this can be seen with containers since you can deploy them to AKS and manage the nodes but if it's a simple deployment you can deploy to Azure Web Apps or Azure Container Instance. If you want a full AKS deployment but do not want to manage node updates then Azure ContainerApps is a good solution. I really like that they offer Azure Open AI so companies can leverage a chat-gpt like environment that's private while allowing companies to add their data inside their tenant and not out to a public / popular service.
Cons
Signing up to previews can be difficult and often needs to involve sales reps before doing so to make sure we can have access to products.
Alternatives Considered
Amazon EC2, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Cloud, DigitalOcean and Alibaba CloudReasons for Switching to Microsoft Azure
Ease of integration with a Microsoft / Windows shop.- Industry: Computer & Network Security
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Awesome experience with Microsoft Azure!
Reviewed on 26/03/2024
Overall Experience was great! and Really Easy to use and specially The study materials given in...
Overall Experience was great! and Really Easy to use and specially The study materials given in that was really a good experience was good. I am really happy!
Pros
There is ton's of feature I would like to tell. but most of the feature I usually used is about the AI and Virtual Machine's It was really easy to setup just have few clicks and it will setup!
Cons
Overall the experience was great but the problem... well there is problem, May be i am the only one I getting that. When I delete the Virtual Machine and Containers after that I didn't use azure for months because of my exam's suddenly I got mail from Microsoft and it says your bill amount 300 INR I was surprised why ? I deleted all machines but when I logged in there was some resources running on , To be honest idk it was a glitch or My mistake
- Industry: Legal Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Takes time but worth it
Reviewed on 26/07/2024
Pros
Once you invest the time and implement this properly it doesn't take much to continue working as expected. A few tweaks here or there and that's it.
Cons
Documentation for your specific use case may be hard to find.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Cloud Administrator
Reviewed on 01/12/2022
So if client required specifically use azure then we can use or we have premium support for azure...
So if client required specifically use azure then we can use or we have premium support for azure then we can use it
Pros
Azure console is very user friendly and very fast, Creating the virtual using in azure is very easy, in security point of view it's very secure, high availability is also main feature of azure, In azure portal console is very fast.
Cons
For cost point of view azure is very expensive, for example if want to move one image to another image then we need to copy same copy on another region(), Azure support which is provided by mindtree is very poor , we raised a ticket and it's more than two month but not any solution. Azure default structure for cpu and memory is very weird.
Alternatives Considered
Google CloudReasons for Choosing Microsoft Azure
1:-AWS and Google cloud are not as costly as azure 2:- Azure is now in development mode 3:-Switched From
Google CloudReasons for Switching to Microsoft Azure
For client requirement- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
A great roadmap for cloud infrastructure and AI innovations
Reviewed on 10/05/2024
Up-to-date technology and has a promising future.
Up-to-date technology and has a promising future.
Pros
The main differentiator aspects in this tool is design development. It is quite efficient in that. Validation, prototyping and simulation can be done at any stages of the design. It has enabled continuous improvement and proficiency with the techniques and technologies. Over time, quality and efficiency are realized.
Cons
Configuration was not easy for me. It took me a while to interface the tool with my operations but eventually made it. It is working well.
Microsoft Azure FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Microsoft Azure.Q. What type of pricing plans does Microsoft Azure offer?
Microsoft Azure offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$1.00/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Contact Microsoft for pricing details.
Q. Who are the typical users of Microsoft Azure?
Microsoft Azure has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Microsoft Azure support?
Microsoft Azure supports the following languages:
Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Q. Does Microsoft Azure support mobile devices?
Microsoft Azure supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Microsoft Azure integrate with?
Microsoft Azure integrates with the following applications:
Citrix Workspace, Nerdio, Retrace by Netreo, VMWare Practice Lab
Q. What level of support does Microsoft Azure offer?
Microsoft Azure offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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