Azure Virtual Machines Reviews & Product Details - Page 46

Provisioning of Virtual Machine deployment

Configuring and maintaining the endpoints

Ability to create load balancing sets

Dynamically allocating resources like memory and dashboard for monitoring the health.

Creation of Content Delivery network Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Configuring endpoints and Storage blob, etc. is little difficult, I feel that MSFT should have made the screens similar to enterprise products that we have like the Microsoft Management Console where ever possible.

Hosting websites and providing a certificate for SSL

Microsoft should provide a way to create domain name and integrate with domain name providers.

The web site should be more user friendly as we all come from Mictosoft backround and want to see a web version of management control where ever applicable so that the learning curve is very small when dealing with azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It provides a good platform for Big Data. We can start Virtual Machine with Big Data tool (Hadoop) installed. Virtual Machines with Big Data tools starting time in quite fast. Commissioning and decommissioning node is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Performance degrades when requires large computations. Its not opensource and trail version length is not enough for students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The robust UI and ability to build infrastructure fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The migration from the old to new azure portal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Microsoft Azure is currently the best cloud based deployment architecture for Microsoft based solutions. Microsoft's IAAS solutions (virtual machines in the cloud) work virtually the same as on-premises Hyper-V virtual machines - in fact you can actually create a virtual machine locally, copy the VM to Azure and start it up in the Azure infrastructure. Azure is also tightly connected to Microsoft Office 365, making Azure a natural selection when extending SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, or Exchange solutions. The inclusion of Azure Active Directory with every Office 365 account, as well as the recently announced additions of Intune licenses for mobile devices - allow single-sign on capabilities to over 2000 Microsoft and non-Microsoft applications, and adds Azure based mobile device management to the stack.

Azure's PAAS offerings, or cloud based tool sets used primarily by Developers to build new solutions - is a top choice for developers looking to create applications and web services based on Microsoft programming languages or platforms like Internet Information Server. PAAS offerings include over 100 individual services from SQL Databases. to Mobile Services, to Azure Active Directory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Microsoft Azure is the best tool for Microsoft based platforms, it is not necessarily the best tool for non-Microsoft platforms and services such as Linux. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is really easy to deploy your applications, and if you are using powershell then the software development life cycle is managed in a snap.

Wonderful management system and great dashboard.

Visual Studio integration is one of the features I love the most.. I've used Azure for more than 3 years and I think it is a really good option compared to other clous solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Too many areas to include in your budget planning when calculating how much to spend. Hadoop prices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Microsoft does the patching for you as long as you properly setup affinity. No down time for your servers in that model.

It is quick to deploy new servers when needed and to configure them to be fault tolerant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VPN setup is somewhat clunky and not intuitive to what they are looking for. Also, it is somewhat limiting in the number of subnets/servers supported. We also would have like more granular security in that we could allow you to configure the network portion but not get into the server portion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The part I most like about MS Azure is that it has significantly grown over year and currently offers a rich variety of cloud services that can be easily leveraged by developers for building cloud apps.

The second best thing about Azure is that it can be easily managed using the portal and or powershell cmdlets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Always the problem with evolving technologies , azure features change rapidly in short period of time, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Flexibility

EASY Connectivity to our MS AND SAAS Enviros Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing so far. Not sure the security on the product is as good as what is advertised. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You will find the best mix of Microsoft Products/Services related to servers, hosting, databases, and many other services at Microsoft Azure.

Administrative Portal, has all needed features.

Billing portal, great detail about your service billing and consumption. Multiple subscriptions.

Wide options and price levels for virtual machines (This is the feature I use the most).

If you need to setup separate accounts to handle different projects and cost, you just need to add extra subscription to your account, and assign the services properly to each subscription, that way you will charge your customers fairly and easily.

Since you find a lot of options and services in a single roof, you may think the Control Panel is complex, but it doesn't. This product is for technical users and IT professionals with Microsoft technologies expertise.

If you need Visual Studio 2013, there is an option to have it on a monthly per user fee that is less expensive than getting the full package, and is integrated with AZURE.

You will find some free tier services, like small MySQL server databases (20 MB). This is useful for small projects and testing.

A good level of documentation is available. with code examples for every mayor development tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't dislike anything in particular at this point in time. Maybe to have better (lower) pricing on some of the products. (but who doesn't?)

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The ease of use with which I can get started with a machine of my own Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

need better documentation of the Azure API Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.