We compared Azure Stack and VMware Cloud Foundation based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
The user feedback on Azure Stack emphasizes its seamless integration with Azure cloud, hybrid cloud environment, and strong security features. Additionally, positive reviews mention competitive pricing, helpful customer service, and positive ROI. On the other hand, VMware Cloud Foundation is praised for its ease of use, scalability, and reliability. Improvements suggested include enhanced user interface and deployment process.
Features: The valuable features of Azure Stack include seamless integration with Azure cloud, a consistent hybrid cloud environment, and advanced security and compliance features. In contrast, VMware Cloud Foundation offers ease of use, seamless integration with existing VMware environments, simplified management and configuration, reliability, scalability, and flexibility.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Azure Stack is considered reasonable, with no unexpected expenses, according to user feedback. On the other hand, user feedback on VMware Cloud Foundation's setup cost is not mentioned in the summaries provided., Azure Stack has been reported to offer improved scalability, flexibility, security, and cost savings. Users appreciate its seamless integration with Azure services and ease of deployment. VMware Cloud Foundation, on the other hand, has been praised for its significant returns, improved efficiency, streamlined operations, and optimized resource utilization. It offers comprehensive features, seamless integration, and flexibility to adapt to evolving business needs. Both platforms have proven to be valuable investments with positive ROIs.
Room for Improvement: Azure Stack users have requested improvements in the user interface, documentation, platform performance, available services, and collaboration options. VMware Cloud Foundation users have highlighted the need for enhancements in interface, deployment process, configurability, documentation, compatibility, and overall user experience.
Deployment and customer support: The duration required to establish a new tech solution with Azure Stack varies, with users spending either three months on deployment and an additional week on setup, or one week for both deployment and setup. In comparison, VMware Cloud Foundation also varies in duration, with some users taking three months for deployment and others taking a week for setup., Azure Stack has received positive comments on its customer service for providing excellent assistance and prompt issue resolution, while VMware Cloud Foundation's customer service has been praised for their helpfulness, efficiency, and ability to promptly address and resolve queries and concerns.
The summary above is based on 42 interviews we conducted recently with Azure Stack and VMware Cloud Foundation users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"You can scale the solution if you need to."
"The most valuable features are that it is a Hybrid, and we can easily integrate with the Microsoft Public Cloud."
"Microsoft support is fast."
"Its customer service is good."
"Azure Stack is very stable."
"We use Azure Stack for migration, application modernization, and cloud-native modernization."
"The solution is certainly stable."
"It is helpful from a security point of view because we can create our own isolated, private environments that contain virtual networks, and we can put security rules in place."
"You can use VMware Cloud Foundation with hyper-converge."
"The most valuable features in VMware Cloud Foundation are life cycle management and ease of use."
"It is a scalable platform."
"The fact that it automates a lot of manual processes in a net new environment build is most valuable."
"VMware Cloud Foundation provides us with the vSphere dashboard through which we can manage, monitor, schedule, and spin up your virtual machines. We can manage, monitor, and get reports of your infrastructure."
"The most valuable aspect of VMware Cloud Foundation is you can manage everything from area."
"They have in release 4.0 features from vSphere and Cloud Suite. It's a complete data center."
"The most valuable area is the ECS environment which includes many features."
"I would like to see better network integration."
"Having more options and customization would be an improvement."
"The solution is not user friendly. I'd prefer to move over to AWS, which is much easier in this sense."
"As opposed to AWS, Azure is a costly solution. It's on par with AWS more than anything else."
"It would be better to have more services and functionality when it comes to database software and computing."
"The price of the OCR could be more competitive with Google."
"Overall support needs improvement because they are not agile across services."
"The licensing model of Azure Stack is complicated."
"Life cycle management is an area for improvement."
"The documentation could be easier to read"
"They need to offer more support for Mac."
"VMware Cloud Foundation could be more flexible in terms of supporting other integration and components."
"In the early adoption of VMware Cloud Foundation, we have seen minor problems. For example, in our Federation, I see the single pane of glass where we need to manage everything, which is good. However, internally, we have a Kafka database that is distributed by the database used by the SDDC manager. During the distribution and synchronization, there is some issue and we need to stop the process."
"The deployment is clumsy and complex. There are too many things that need to be done in order to deploy."
"The tool's price tag is high."
"The interface is good, but there are compatibility issues or issues with the certificate for the VCenter."
Azure Stack is ranked 1st in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms with 61 reviews while VMware Cloud Foundation is ranked 2nd in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms with 23 reviews. Azure Stack is rated 8.0, while VMware Cloud Foundation is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Stack writes "Effective tool for cloud and on-premise environments that offers seamless deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Cloud Foundation writes "Offers automated deployment features that enhances operational efficiency and simplifying complex tasks ". Azure Stack is most compared with AWS Outposts, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Google Anthos and VMware Software Defined Data Center, whereas VMware Cloud Foundation is most compared with Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), AWS Outposts, Google Anthos and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Azure Stack vs. VMware Cloud Foundation report.
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