Microsoft Azure Flying High In Cloud
March 03, 2017
Microsoft Azure Flying High In Cloud
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Azure
We use Microsoft Azure in our organization but I work for implementing Azure services and replatforming and Migrating application to Azure at our clients. It solves various problems from easily deploying application to production, reducing overhead of infrastructure cost and its management. It speeds up deployment, operation and scalability. Azure has data centers all across the globe and is one of the leading player in having the most number of data centers around the globe, so it helps users' data to be easily reachable with less cost and overheads. So data is presented to the user from within the region where he resides or requests for. Azure has a fully integrated development environment making it easy for developer to the tools and development services. It has an integrated IOT platform and IOT is the next big thing in IT world. Azure provides Agility and gives developers, Architects, and Consultants an easy to use service required for applications. Azure also helps with DevOps; it has a fully integrated pipeline which gives DevOps Capabilities implementing CI/CD. Azure also helps in disaster recovery. We can also achieve High Availability due to Azure presence all over the globe. Azure is complaint so for example finance companies can rely on Azure to do the heavy lifting of data back and forth from on prim data centers to cloud. Using most of the capabilities of Azure, it is helping us implementing scalable and reliable solution at clients and at different organizations.
- One of the Main Offerings that Azure provides is PaaS which is quite mature compared to other cloud providers in market.
- PaaS support in from developing an application to cloud till deploying it. PaaS support complete life cycle of an application: Building Testing, Deploying, Managing and Updating.
- Microsoft operates across the globe and has the highest number of data centers. It operates in 34 regions and are about to open 4 more regions. This is one of the biggest advantages over all the competitors.
- Azure has the hybrid capability unlike AWS cloud [which has] only approach. Azure provides us the ability to create hybrid environments allowing us to leverage on premise resources and the benefits of cloud. Azure can also help in building Hybrid applications.
- Pricing is the most important thing I would consider that needs improvement, pricing will play one of the important criteria in deciding between other cloud providers. It will also play a part in growth and adoption of Azure across the industries. So I think pricing is the area that needs improvement.
- Azure has the space of improvement in PaaS offering, it can bake and integrate many services and tools which other PaaS provider excel in that space. PaaS is the next big thing Azure should focus on developing.
- Integrating more developer specific features I would suggest need improvement. With a focus on cloud migration services and providing them, Azure should also focus on providing capabilities for developers focusing on development of cloud native application which will not just run perfectly on cloud but will excel in each space and will be efficient, resilient and scalable on cloud.
- Azure has integrated Active Directory service. Most of the clients has Active directory implementation for access and user management over the cloud. Azure single sign in experience is one of the secured services which secures mission critical data providing secure access. This two services provides high ROI to organizations.
- In terms of infrastructure Azure offers an extended scope via the virtual machines. Organization can get hold of number of CPU's, RAM, and even specific operation systems. This gives organization capability of holding their specific server configuration.
- AWS, Pivotal Tracker, Pivotal GemFire, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon Simple Email Service, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Elastic MapReduce
AWS is competitor and it's leading in cloud space with his wide sprawl of offerings and services. AWS is a ocean once you login you get everything on one console. AWS leads this space with all his offerings and capabilities. But Azure is not behind, it is competing and is giving a tough fight to AWS with its offering and capabilities and has its own advantages over AWS. Azure is across the globe and with his highest number of datacenters data is at the reach of users, this is one of the capabilities which Azure excel and I feel is important and to choose over other providers. Next its PaaS offering its far more better than AWS I cant say better than Pivotal cloud foundry but it's one of the developed services which excels. IOT space, Azure leads and I prefer Azure. Don't wanna move to granularity of services and offerings but I have provided with major offerings from Azure which I feel I will prefer over other competitors.