Microsoft Azure

[Microsoft] Azure has a large amount of services and capabilities, but we're using it primarily for Identity (Azure Active Directory), Networking (Application Gateways, ExpressRoute), as well as some basic Compute (Virtual Machines) and some web and storage. Also, as big Office 365 customers, we use [Microsoft] Azure in conjunction with some of these services such as storage (backups) and some media services (videos). Additionally, some Azure AI and security services are used in conjunction with some of the O365 services for DLP (digital loss protection) and other security services. Of course, we also use the Azure Portal to manage all of this. All in all it is a very nice and integrated (and expandable) solution for a total and cohesive set of common business problems like we just described. We flat out could not do much of what we do now without Azure AD (MUCH better than on-premises Active Directory). There are some learning curves and potentially some cost barriers, but again, since the "total" Azure solution can be implemented in parts and expand as needed, it still makes an excellent way to address immediate problems (whatever you feel is most important) while simultaneously positioning your business to succeed in the future as you are able to add on services and shift older legacy solutions to the cloud.

We're using Microsft Azure services on multiple regions from our organization and for several types of workloads. It is our current Global standard for Cloud usage, following a global contract with Microsoft. In my region, we're using Computing services (running some Dev/PreProd environments on Azure). We also recently migrated Windows 2008 servers from legacy applications to Azure, in order to keep extended support. We're also using Storage Accounts both for Data archiving (through 3rd party Archiving tools) and Backup to Cloud.

As with many companies, it is addressing the 'elastic' demands, specially for Dev/PreProd environments... Many times we need to deploy temporary environments for some applications and we don't have enough time to purchase an expansion on our OnPrem environment. Cloud is a great escape for this situation.
Also, It addresses the need of retaining Archived files and Backups for long term. We were able to bring great savings with Data Archiving solution in place today.

Our organization is spread across the globe. Putting our servers in Azure has enabled us to offer high availability to our customers and development department.

Microsoft Azure provides seamless data access on the cloud. Currently in our organization this is being used department wide. We are using this for hosting our applications on virtual machines and managing the same on the cloud. As well for data storage purposes. Platform hosting and resources availability is excellent. It's highly secure and infrastructure recovery is pretty fast and seamless. Large scale data storage is no longer an issue. Virtual machines availability is pretty cool.

Previously we were using an in-house server and multiple systems by uploading multiple operating systems. Now, we have eliminated the cost of an in-premise server and multiple systems by deploying multiple operating Linux servers over the Azure cloud and SQL server as well as well over cloud.

Azure is being used in many aspects of our organization. It is being used across all departments of the organization. It helps address the seamless scale-out of our growing infrastructure needs.

I have used Microsoft Azure previously to run some machine learning algorithms that processed a large amount of data and made predictions. This allowed us to improve someone's performance.

We use our Azure storage accounts for blob storage and SMB shares. They don't work on all ISP providers or hotspots. They work on Verizon fiber and cellular hotspots but not one of our local ISPs. We use the SQL server and database services. I really like how easy it is to scale them up and down, live.
We also have a website app meant for internal use and use the SendGrid account connector. It is really nice to have easy white-listing for everything: websites, databases, etc. that we can trust. We host everything here instead of making servers VPN into our office.
Additionally, we have a site-to-site VPN between our offices and Azure. That works well and enabled us to turn off much of our public access.
We use the built-in VM backup tools and those have been really easy to use right there on Azure. Also, the snapshots automatically built into databases we have used several times. It creates a new database from a snapshot from every few hours from up to almost 30 days ago and then you just copy over whatever data you need.
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Microsoft Azure is being deployed using Azure stack on top of cloud services in an on-premise environment setup in our organization. It is prominently operated by our IT department to provide on-demand scalable platform solution to be used by support and business units. Main users in the organization are product departments who are responsible to deliver digital services and data monetization business units.

We are using Microsoft Azure as one of our primary cloud providers and we've offloaded several of our production workloads to it. We are a heavy user of storage accounts as well as function apps. It helps us quickly roll out projects to production where we can innovate and experiment.

Microsoft Azure is one of the best IaaS cloud platforms that we have used ever. You can quickly set up most Windows server applications with a high availability. My experience with Azure is overall good and would definitely recommend this to others. Microsoft has a very responsible customer support.

We use it for spinning up virtual environments and hosting software for clients. We use cold and hot storage for client's servers and backups 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. This allows us to offsite not only IT but also the infrastructure.

Microsoft Azure is being used across the entire organization at this time. It is being customized for use with individual departments. We use it at my non-profit and I also operate it at a large, regional, mid-western electric and gas utility.

Azure has allowed us to quickly and reliably connect to information across our network in a seamless fashion. We are able to share links and data very quickly. It also allows us the advantage to use PowerBI to access data from many different departments because they are all in one place.

[It's being used] Across a specific department; allows us to model data and to carry out a selection of machine learning tasks around data from our reports.

Microsoft Azure has been our platform of choice since 2015. We initially implemented a backup solution but grew into the environment as we required more and more resources. Now we take advantage of the ecosystem consisting of websites, SQL servers, virtual machines just to name a few.

Microsoft Azure provides reasonable pricing and even deeper global infrastructure. We don`t know an alternative with similar benefits. The implementation team is very supportive and responsible, easy to contact and gives a fast reaction. It offers the availability of so many services, like web apps, VMs, CDN, SQL servers, good storage options, etc. It's a good service and we use it daily.

We use Azure across our entire business and it solves all of our infrastructure and hosting needs. We use it for:
1) Software development: We build software using App Services, AKS, Azure Functions, Event Grid, Sql Server
2) Running our internal programs: We use Logic apps and AKS to run our custom production apps.
3) Hosting SaaS products for our customers: We build products for our customers and run them in AKS and monitor using Microsoft Azure monitor / app insights.

We use Microsoft Azure both divisionally and corporately. We have a partner-agreement with Microsoft and a significant investment in order to migrate as much of our server infrastructure into the cloud as we can. This allows us to be more flexible in hiring since servers a not on-prem and location-based, and given us access to tools we never had before. The centralized billing is a huge asset.

We use Azure to host our SaaS financial healthcare application built on asp.net MVC + SQL + ESB architecture. We currently use base IaaS, Azure SQL, Azure web apps, load balancers, and analytics. We migrated to Azure from a small cloud vendor for flexibility, cost savings and ease of meeting various security requirements.

Azure is used for our farm of servers. It enables us to have servers up 24/7 without any interruptions. We can upgrade CPU/RAM on the fly as needs come up.

We use Microsoft Azure for our application hosting. Earlier we had a thirty party vendor which took care of our hosting. Later on, we explored and found out that Microsoft Azure was a very good option for our cloud. Gradually we moved almost all of our applications to Azure by end of 2018. We have different flavors like Web-apps, API Apps, Azure functions and Azure VM as well. As mentioned earlier we have on-premise thirty party hosting now that we have moved to being self-controlled by using Azure Cloud.

I was using Microsoft Azure as a part of the hybrid infrastructure. Part of our services were stored on-premise and lots of them were based on Microsoft Azure platform. A few that we used were Microsoft Azure Active Directory services, virtualization services, all the cross-connected with Office 365 services. Plus I had experience with a fully cloud-based Microsoft infrastructure with VPN tunnels from the local network to Microsoft Azure services.

As a marketing services provider, we have lots of legacy applications that were built atop the .NET framework. As we expanded to offer cloud services to better serve our clients, we decided to go with Microsoft Azure as the PAAS partner. Not only does it allow us to use Microsoft servers in the backend but also Linux as part of our backend infrastructure. We use SQL Database servers for our data layer and it was an easy choice for us to leverage Microsoft Azure as the common platform.

Microsoft Azure is used by departments to manage larger data sets across entities. The software addresses the need for multiple users to have access to multiple different data sets simultaneously. The software makes this relatively easy by making Microsoft Azure similar to the user-friendliness of other Microsoft products. Users point their analytical tools at Azure for data visualization and analytics. Some analytics is also done in Azure itself.

We are currently using Microsoft Azure across the whole organization. However department by department are choosing what functions to utilize or not. Some of the main functions we are using are Dev Ops for code storage and continuous integration, Power BI, Data Lake and reporting functions, SQL, IIS, App services and more are also in use across the organization