Item: Azure Virtual Machines
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As an organization with more than 75 sites across a wide geographic area and the requirement to provide high speed access from each site meant that we had to transition away from a hub and spoke design and provide access to resources from each site. By placing the servers and services in the cloud we are able to provide secure access to our resources in a cost-effective manner.

Pros and Cons

Scalability.
Cost management.
Power/cost ratios.

Remote access and secure control.
Clear grouping of resources for each virtual resource.
Improving remote automation and access.

Return on Investment

Easy to expand or contract data center as needed.
Easy tools for migrating data center to the cloud.
Allowed us to move quickly to support remote learning.

Key Insights

Do you think Azure Virtual Machines delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Azure Virtual Machines's feature set?

Yes

Did Azure Virtual Machines live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Azure Virtual Machines go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Azure Virtual Machines again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Azure Backup, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Power Automate (formerly microsoft flow)

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure Virtual Machines are an excellent resource for organizations needing to provide all the time access to resources with zone and regional resource backups and automatic failover.

The perfect time to look at moving to Azure VMs is about a year before your data center is due for a refresh. Being able to move large capital costs into yearly operational costs while removing the need to maintain your own generators, power supply, fire suppression, backup and data recovery while moving those requirements to Microsoft as part of their service level agreement will help reduce your overall cost of ownership.

Azure Virtual Machines are the future of datacenters

Overall Satisfaction with Azure Virtual Machines