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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 on-premises, hybrid, multicloud, and edge capabilities that offer the flexibility to innovate anywhere.
Developers can use their favorite languages, open-source frameworks, and tools to code and deploy. Azure includes over 200 physical datacenters arranged into more than 60 regions and upholds our customers' expectations with data residency, compliance, and high availability.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.
Microsoft Azure starts at $29.
Amazon Web Services and SAP HANA Cloud are common alternatives for Microsoft Azure.
Reviewers rate Operating system support highest, with a score of 9.5.
The most common users of Microsoft Azure are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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June 03, 2015
Windows Azure: Well Worth It!
Windows Azure is being used by numerous departments in our organization. It is being used in many different forms. It is used as a data transport between clients and as service apps for teams. It is also being used as a Virtual Private Network and to implement Single Sign On.
- Windows Azure's scaling feature is really nice. It allows you to scale your instances up and down as load increases and decreases. This helps in reducing service costs.
- Windows Azure offers SQL Server as a service which eases the pains of standing up a new SQL environment when needed. These SQL services can be replicated easily when needed - data and all. No need to do the work manually anymore.
- Windows Azure offers many templates for standing up a virtual machine. You can select the operating system and the type of VM (SQL Server, Sharepoint, Puppet Labs, etc) and you will have your VM created in minutes.
- Windows Azure's BizTalk service could use much enhancement. It does provide you with the basics but if you need more customization with inbound and outbound, you will have to use BizTalk full-blown.
- Windows Azure could provide more insight into the details of a failure. Currently, you can view trace logs and data on the Windows Azure dashboard but there are other errors being captured that Microsoft does not show to the general user. You have to call a technician to get more details on errors.
- Windows Azure VPN's could use more enhancements as well. The wizard walks you through the setup but it is not very intuitive. Also, when you need to make changes to the VPN, you are limited unless you drop and recreate the VPN.
- Windows Azure has had a positive impact on meeting our objective. It has allowed us to get-to-market much sooner than if we had stood up the hardware and hosted the applications in-house.
- It has also allowed us to decrease FTE resources as it allows a single architect to stand up and maintain an entire enterprise environment pretty easily.
- Our main challenge with windows Azure is identifying compute costs. Although we have tried to anticipate costs, there were times where we did not account for some compute time and came in very low with our estimates.
We evaluated Amazon's cloud service before going with Microsoft's Windows Azure. We found that Windows Azure was more flexible and was more robust for what we needed. Amazon had a cheaper price point but did not offer as much on their product list.
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August 07, 2014
Moving to the Microsoft Azure™ Cloud
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We moved our entire SCM4Good platform and the SCM4Hunger Warehouse Management module to the Microsoft Azure Cloud. This provides important gains in performance, reliability, and redundancy. In particular, Microsoft’s Content Delivery Network, with nodes in more than 16 countries worldwide, closes the distance for many of our developing country users in terms of Internet geography, and has given noticeable response-time improvements. Nathan Au, Project Manager for FareShare Brighton and Hove noted: “We use Aidmatrix’ SCM4Hunger to help receive, warehouse and dispatch food to our hunger agencies every day. We know we run high transaction volumes, especially during peak times each week. When Aidmatrix moved to the Microsoft Azure Cloud it was like night and day for us. We saw dramatic performance improvement in response times on average of 4x faster, in some situations it went as high as 10x. It’s amazing what a difference running the same application on the Azure Cloud can make. Now we can focus that much more time on getting food to those who are hungry.”
- Easily scalable- You can adjust your resources as your customers grow
- Preview Portal is a one stop dashboard to your infrastructure, application and financial elements to your instances
- Worldwide locations to release your VM's where your customers are located
- Affordable - You can control your cost without investing in hardware or other resources
- Up to last week, I could have mentioned couple of shortfalls but they were all released with the new portal. Now I can easily see my estimated expenditure with each VM's individually
- One of our key success stories with Azure is with our client who is in UK. When we migrated our application to Azure the performance level increased 10 fold. This is a direct quote from our customer - Nathan Au, Project Manager for FareShare Brighton and Hove noted: “We use Aidmatrix’ SCM4Hunger to help receive, warehouse and dispatch food to our hunger agencies every day. We know we run high transaction volumes, especially during peak times each week. When Aidmatrix moved to the Microsoft Azure Cloud it was like night and day for us. We saw dramatic performance improvement in response times on average of 4x faster, in some situations it went as high as 10x. It’s amazing what a difference running the same application on the Azure Cloud can make. Now we can focus that much more time on getting food to those who are hungry.”
- Second success story is moving our Microsoft Replication Server to Azure Cloud for our SCM4Good Offline application. As our customers are in remote areas in Africa they need to sync their offline app with our replication server. The syncing time has dramatically reduced with Azure and produces less errors.
We have been one of Microsoft's Azure beta users from the beginning and we worked closely with Microsoft in migration effort. We have used several cloud applications before including Rackspace. Azure's large footprint was the key for us as our applications are SaaS and used worldwide. The ability for me to quickly and easily move servers from West US, to Asia, West Europe, etc.. was very important.
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The entire Delivery Team who are consistent of Architects and Engineers on a daily basis code and support our SaaS applications hosted on Azure Cloud. There are three platforms; SCM4Good, SCM4Giving and SCM4Hunger. More than 50,000+ leading business, nonprofit and government partners leverage
our supply chain management software to accelerate their humanitarian relief
work. Programs include international aid & development, hunger relief,
disaster relief, and more.
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Microsoft Azure is used by Architects, Sr. Architects and our Director of Engineering for creation of servers, deployments and migrations. I as the VP of Delivery use the preview portal for monitoring the resources and dashboard and also to estimate the cost and budget.
- Redundancy
- Worldwide locations where I have footprint
- Cost control
- SCM4Good offline syncing with MS Replication on Azure
- We are not tapping into using Azure for Mobile Apps
Yes
We have not finished completing all of our migration but we are replacing a cloud space we had with Rackspace for our sandboxes and a full rack co-location with another vendor. The reason was a strategic move to partner with Microsoft to have all of our application in Azure Cloud and delivered in multiple locations around the world.
- Price
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
Since we had a good partnership with Microsoft and we also had a grant from Microsoft specific for the migration I wouldn't change anything.
- Implemented in-house
Yes
During the last two years we have been working on a strategy of moving each platform by themselves in terms of customer priority.
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
- Time - it took a little longer than we thought due to internal resources issues but not with Azure readiness
Yes
Yes
Yes it was resolved quickly and with satisfaction.
I have not really had a major issues yet to answer this correctly.
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