Overall Satisfaction with Windows Azure
It has been used across the whole organization.
- Taking advantage of resources in the cloud allows you to decrease your costs for building and expanding your on-premises resources.
- Knowing that security is one of the biggest concerns for companies considering a move to the cloud, Microsoft designed Azure with security in mind.
- With Azure, you can develop hybrid applications that allow your on-premises applications to use cloud services, such as the cloud database and storage services.
- SQL Agent itself is not supported on SQL Azure, so you cannot run jobs via the agent in the first place.
- SQL Reporting is another feature that costs extra in SQL Azure.
- Increased employee efficiency; publishing on Azure is so smooth and quick.
- Not having to worry about backups.
- The Azure management portal allows the customer to do things like bring up new servers, control how many servers are running.