Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

Composite Score

9.0 /10

CX Score

9.2 /10

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What is Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines?

Migrate your business- and mission-critical workloads to Azure infrastructure and improve operational efficiency. Run SQL Server, SAP, Oracle® software and high-performance computing applications on Azure Virtual Machines. Choose your favorite Linux distribution or Windows Server.

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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines won the following awards in the Cloud Infrastructure as a Service category

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Conflict Resolution

2023

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

5 Top Rated Capabilities

9 Top Rated Features

2023

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Ratings

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91 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+92 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines?

1% Negative

4% Neutral

95% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Fair

Feature Ratings

Average 86

Load Balancing

Cloud Integration

Access Management

Analytics and Reporting

Cloud Backup

Systems Performance Management

Data Migration

Encryption and Decryption Support

SLA Management

Workflow Management

Capacity Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 84

Ease of IT Administration

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Reviews

Georges A.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Education
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Submitted Apr 2022

AZURE means blue skies, and that's what it offers.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

Full integration and management of installed Microsoft services and applications.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Reporting on all activities, security management of registered users, licensing, emails, and applications: this platform makes my job a lot easier.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Though updates are crucial, sometimes it takes a while to find where the new placements of certain menu items are.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

This is by far one of the best platforms you may ever use. From it, you can manage every aspect of your servers and registered accounts. Whatever you need to be done, AZURE is already there.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Brayan I.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Finance
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

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Submitted Feb 2022

Best product so far

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

It was very easy to implement comapany products to allign with what Azure was offering on cloud and off cloud

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

costing and billing

What do you dislike most about this product?

have not yet used the product to reach a point of finding something to dislike

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

when you get to know more about the product you will realize, this is the right product when you want to move your business processes to the cloud

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Jonathan H.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Entertainment
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Feb 2022

Excellent cognitive services for innovation

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

What differentiates Microsoft Azure from other similar products are the cognitive services. There are two services in particular that appear to be unique: those are Bing Search cognitive services, and the format of the speech to text API.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favourite aspect of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform is the cognitive search feature, which returns relevant results from Bing search, which can be fed into finding a relevant image from a contextual text search.

What do you dislike most about this product?

What I dislike most about Microsoft Azure is the complexity of the reporting services. To date, I have not managed to figure out how to have simple reports detailing the usage of products. I also dislike the support services of Microsoft Azure, which were slow and completely unable to resolve an issue.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

At the date of writing, Microsoft Azure offers $200 of free credit for 30 days. I recommend anyone considering Microsoft Azure to take advantage of this, to get an idea if this is a good architectural fit for you.

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Unique Features

Cons

Less Efficient Service
Less Effective Service
Less Caring

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Ratings

91 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Load Balancing Allows distribution of workloads across multiple computing resources.

Cloud Integration Includes real-time data integration, APIs, and data quality.

Access Management Includes social sign-on, external authorization, and fraud detection.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Cloud Backup Includes backup schedules, encryption algorithms, and data support.

Systems Performance Management Includes monitoring, analyzing and configuration in order to optimize performance and increase efficiency.

Data Migration The ability to select and extract data from one storage system to another

Encryption and Decryption Support Support for real-time decryption and re-encryption of information.

SLA Management Includes a contracted delivery time, automated escalations, and timely resolutions.

Workflow Management Includes ability to support flexible and comprehensive workflow-based capabilities.

Capacity Management Monitor system utilization and provide alerts when pre-defined thresholds are reached.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Reviews

Georges A.

AZURE means blue skies, and that's what it offers.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Brayan I.

Best product so far

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Jonathan H.

Excellent cognitive services for innovation

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

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Feature Ratings

Load Balancing

Cloud Integration

Access Management

Analytics and Reporting

Cloud Backup

Systems Performance Management

Data Migration

Encryption and Decryption Support

SLA Management

Workflow Management

Capacity Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of IT Administration

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization