Microsoft Azure Initial Setup
Nicolas Chabrier
Cloud Strategy B2B leader at Sunrise UPC
I would rate my experience with the initial setup a five out of ten, with ten being easy to set up.
It's not difficult because you are well-guided, but it requires an understanding of the philosophy and knowledge. It's definitely easier than AWS, which is more complex and designed by engineers for engineers. Managing AWS is definitely a bit more complex than Azure.
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Harmandeep Kaur
AVP, Data Science Specialist at Swiss Re
Deployment is generally stable. But there are specific scenarios, especially in Asia Pacific, where there are limitations.
Microsoft hasn't fully rolled out services in all regions yet. This can cause problems when we try to deploy certain models in those specific regions where services are unavailable.
In contrast, if you have a self-deployed API, something you created in a native language and deployed on your own server, it would be more readily available across regions.
So, the lack of Microsoft services in certain regions can become a blocker.
Arunprasad Kumar
Cloud Architect at EZ-Link Pte Ltd
The initial deployment is easy now, after five years of using it. It might have been a nightmare a few years ago, but it's very good now.
We primarily deploy using PaaS (Platform as a Service) solutions. We avoid managing virtual machines whenever possible. Approximately 90% of our mission-critical application workloads are microservices run in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). We use virtual machines for the remaining 10%. We also use Azure SQL Database. We deploy resources using Azure DevOps pipelines.
Azure's documentation assists with our deployments. I like the recommendation feature, although we sometimes need to create exceptions, as is typical with any baseline. But overall, it's helpful.
Not just the recommendations, but the entire added value is a great feature and provides valuable insights. The architectural framework pillars are also very useful to use as a whole, not just the individual recommendations.
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Elena Tejadillos
IT Officer in Data Science at United Nations
The initial setup is complicated, particularly when implementing CI/CD and automatic deployment processes. It requires a strong background in coding and administration, especially when working with containers. Maintenance is simple and falls within the realm of administration.
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Manoj Kambli
Principal Consultant at Hexaware Technologies Limited
I rate the ease of setup a nine or ten out of ten. We don't require many skill sets to provision it. The time taken for deployment depends upon the environment and the data. Generally, it can be done within hours.
KopanoRamaphoi
Consultant at Rpc Data
I personally didn't have to do an installation.
All you need to do is read the documentation, and everything you need to know is right there. It's quite straightforward in that sense.
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Pankaj Khera
Sr AVP - EXL Digital at EXL Services
I didn't handle the setup directly. Our IT team manages the provisioning of Azure services for us.
From what I understand, it was not particularly complex.
Paul_Anderson
Group Data Architect at Arrow Global Ltd
I rate the ease of setup an eight or nine out of ten. The deployment took about three months.
AtulChaurasia
Operational Technical Security at Metro Bank
The setup is straightforward and easy. Since I know about infrastructure and IT, it took me around one week to set it up. Non-IT people might struggle with the setup.
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Ismail Peer
Program Management Lead Advisor at Unionbank Philippines
Generally, the time it takes to deploy and configure a solution in Azure can vary depending on the specific requirements and complexity of the deployment. It could range from a few hours to a few days, but it ultimately depends on factors like the size of the application, the number of resources being deployed, and any custom configurations needed.
Mohit Vohra
CTO at Arevpay
I rate the tool's deployment an eight out of ten. It can be deployed in two to three hours.
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Prateek Agarwal
Manager at Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam
The initial setup is quite easy. Azure's consulting and business team is very effective and helpful. They helped us understand the product's features. They provided us with a clear roadmap for migrating our application to Microsoft Azure, for the services they offer, and for how the business could be run successfully.
The deployment took about three months. Our implementation strategy was simply to work with the vendor.
We initially assigned five to six people for the end-to-end deployment. After the initial implementation, when the Microsoft team left, we needed some resources who could handle the management of the Microsoft Azure platform. Those resources are in place in case our application goes down or there are issues that require them to directly contact the Microsoft team. But all the support and security updates are managed by Microsoft.
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AlanGulle
Data SME at Sparta Global
The deployment's easy and the pipelines are easy from the Azure DevOps, everything is integrated and it has good security. The overall setup is extremely easy.
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Vineeth Marar
Cloud solution architect at 0
The initial setup is straightforward. Nothing is truly complex unless your solution or requirement itself is complex.
The deployment time depends on my requirements. Suppose a customer needs a very small environment, like two or three cluster machines with a standard load balancer on top, running their application on those VMs. It would hardly take 30 to 45 minutes to create the virtual machines (VMs), create a load balancer, allocate a public IP address, and set up a virtual network (vNet).
At the very beginning, we had to create a subscription. Within the subscription, you'll create a resource group. And within the resource group, we'll be creating a virtual network. Inside the virtual network, we'll deploy the VMs, a load balancer, a public IP, and a network security group (NSG).
Additionally, if I want to make it more secure, I can create a firewall as well. So, all of these together should be deployable within an hour.
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Felicia Bently
Business Analyst at AA New Zealand
The setup was straightforward.
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Victor Akidiva
CEO at Semper Systemis Ltd
The initial setup is pretty straightforward. The information is readily available, and there are many local partners who are extremely supportive. Deployment is just a matter of getting the login set up. It was pretty fast.
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Assistantmgr67
Assistance Manager, ICT Communication at ELNG
The product's deployment was a bit complex. The deployment process involved selecting the suitable Microsoft Azure service for migration and considering options like application services or virtual machines (servers). It required a thorough study to determine the most appropriate solution for the business use case. Our deployment team consists of ten resources.
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HarunRashid
Principle BI Architect at Allshore Staffing
Setting up Azure initially can sometimes require assistance, especially for migrations between tenants, but overall it is user-friendly. Complexity depends on the task. Azure's support and documentation are crucial for our deployment process.
Deployment in Azure is made easy and manageable through helpful configuration and management tools. Initial deployment may take one to two hours, but subsequent deployments typically take around 30 minutes, depending on factors like database and application size. Upgrades can be even quicker, sometimes taking only 13 minutes.
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Anand-Shah
Software Architect at Iskraemeco
The complexity of implementation depends on the different setups. We can utilize the portal, CLI, or alternative providers like Terraform. The deployment process in Azure varies based on the specific build requirements and the nature of the application being deployed, whether it's through GitHub or directly in Azure. The time taken for deployment in Azure varies greatly depending on factors such as the complexity of the application, the number of integrated applications, the volume of code, and the artifacts involved.
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Vivek Mehta
Senior Manager Presales at NEC
I rate the product's initial setup phase an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy.
The solution is deployed on the cloud.
The time required for the product's deployment depends on the complexity and size of the infrastructure.
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Dawn McClure
IT Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup was completed by our internal Microsoft team.
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Amey Darekar
Personal Banker at HDFC Bank
The solution’s initial setup is clear and easy.
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Gery Vasquez
New Digital Applications Specialist at Alpina Sa
The initial setup was easy. It's a good platform for deployment.
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Hassan Fatemi
Data engineer at Inicon S.r.l.
As a data engineer, I mainly use these services rather than being involved in their implementation.
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Marcelo Pissinati
IT Cybersecurity and Compliance Coordinator at Plaenge
The initial setup is straightforward.
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PriteeshSinha
Assistant Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Azure materials are pretty good compared to AWS, or any other platform materials. Azure has multiple platforms, and MS Learn is where you can learn about the platforms and the services. Then you have Docs.Microsoft.com, which you can use as a troubleshoot document or understanding of how to implement that solution. With the help of Microsoft Azure, the Microsoft platform, you have multiple types of cases which you can open in the Microsoft Portal. The premium cases are there. Then you have support cases, as well. Azure is pretty good there. Their support matrix is pretty good. The materials are there, the support matrix is there. So, that is pretty good.
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reviewer1549332
Head of Department at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is straightforward. Microsoft Azure provides an easy interface to log in and create a server.
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RakshathShetty
Team Lead, Enterprise Computing Platforms at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The initial setup was fairly easy. Pretty much all the services are easy to deploy — not very complicated as such.
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Peter Ojo
IT infrastructure engineer at LBAN
The initial setup is straightforward.
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Deborah Gamelin
Vice President at Asset Track for Cloud, LLC
The initial setup for me was easy because I have experience with Azure, as well as AWS, and a private cloud in my previous organization. I was in the internal network group, and I had all of the operational responsibilities for that area.
We were able to set it up and get it working in a day.
Migrating to Azure from AWS was not a big deal.
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Praveen Kumar Deverakonda
Senior Administrator at Wipro Limited
Microsoft provides very easy documentation, for each and every resource. So there is a very clear documentatio. It is very easy to install and start up with the cloud environment.
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Ibrahim-Mohamed
Solutions Architect at MTN
I rate Microsoft Azure a five to six out of ten for the ease of its initial setup.
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reviewer1754652
Business Development Executive, Managing Partner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The initial setup depends on the project. Because we are the Microsoft partner and we have some money for our internal tests we do the setup part. We use Azure infrastructure for our demo when we show our virtual demo machine. For my colleagues, it's not so complicated but we are using only a very small part of Azure.
When we talk about the real project, it is not so easy. We are using a very basic functionality, but I know from the other projects that it is not so easy to implement, run, test, et cetera because it's always a little complicated. Maybe it's okay. It depends on the current customer's needs.
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Sergio Garcia
Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I think the setup is complicated, but if you have experience with other Microsoft products, you should be able to figure it out. The time needed for deployment depends on the client and the solution. For example, it's very different in the case of Data Analytics, which took us two or three months to deliver the solution.
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reviewer1666392
Senior Vice President Information Technology at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The initial setup is not a problem it is similar to competitors, such as AWS.
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Igor Pigariev
Cyber Security Consultant at Ukroboronprom
The installation was mostly straightforward, although we did run into a few small issues. We had the local Microsoft team assist us, however. For the most part, everything ran smoothly.
It typically takes two to four hours to install everything.
We have a technical team of 15 people that can handle deployment and maintenance as necessary. They are IT and help desk personnel as well as two managers. We also have a team that focuses on cybersecurity and information protection.
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AmitKumar11
Sr.Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup was easy.
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Wade Timmings
Commercial Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The product's initial setup phase was simple. There are some complexities attached to the solution when it comes to certain niches and during migrations.
The solution is deployed on a public cloud.
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reviewer2348199
IT Administrator at a security firm with 51-200 employees
The tool was easy to install. The maintenance is fairly easy. When I have issues, I contact Microsoft, and the team helps me.
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Peter Baumann
Principal Consultant Data & Analytics Strategy at INFOMOTION GmbH
The technical part of setting up such a platform is typically the smaller part. And for an experienced consultant, it's okay. It's nothing special. It's more about the processes and organization, which is important to consider here.
So, I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, with ten being easy.
Typically, in Germany, we see that setting up is very complex; enterprises work well with Azure setups if users are already experienced at different points with Azure. But it's a little bit more easy compared to Google or Amazon. But it depends a little bit on the service and the environment you need.
From a technical perspective, it can set up something in a day or in some hours. That's not a problem.
The thing is more the organizational level here, what is allowed, who can do it, where the costs are going, and so on. The process is typically much more about the deployment or, depending on whether you have already built a platform and just have to automate the deployment process.
For example, it works very well, typically, but the initial setup of a platform is more for organizational things, but this is not what I do.
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Marco Cenzato
Product Architect at Wolters Kluwer
The initial setup is difficult because when you move into a fully managed cloud environment with a lot of services, you change your mind completely about how you operate and in the first month we had to learn a lot of tasks.
Looking back to the past the difficulty was not the interface of the solution, there was a lot of information to know and to have knowledge about concepts for cloud service that took time. There was a lot of documentation and finding the correct one can be difficult sometimes. When I used Google to find something, I can find a lot of information but the problem is to find the current information or the most effective information.
There is a lot of different elements you need to set up or configure, such as the environment, monitoring, deployment of applications, preparing the dashboard for monitoring, and the continuous development integration by clients.
We have two kinds of deployment, a continuous integration deployment when we don't change the database schema. This is fully unattended and can be done online with no problem for the users. It takes approximately 30 minutes but the time can vary.
Once a month, or less, there is a major release. In this case, often we modify the database schema. This requires stopping all the applications, no user can have access while the modification to the database is taking place. The operation takes from half an hour to an hour and a half depending on the database schema and the types of modification required. When we change the structure of tables we have hundreds of thousands of records that can take a lot of time.
We are moving to a more continuous development strategy. We are trying to have more applications because at the moment we have approximately seven web apps and a lot of services, but they are too tightly bound to the database. They're trying to divide them for more flexibility and to have continuous deployment. We had no continuous deployment. Normally we deployed some minor releases once or two a week, and there is a major release once a month. We are moving to have more continuous deployment.
We are working this year on test automation from unit test integration. They're investing a lot in this because we managed numbers for the tax declaration. Regulation can be problematic.
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OmarJimenez
Future Datacenter Consultant: Microsoft Azure Cloud. at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
For the most part, the initial setup is straightforward. It was not overly complex. I worked with a Microsoft support engineer. I had contact with the product group and know the technical advisors and technical matters, which made it very easy for me.
For example, in comparison. I tried to use Amazon Web Services by myself, and I got confused as I didn't have that level of support. With Azure, the interface is nice, and it's pretty straightforward. Anybody with a little bit of technical knowledge about working, virtual machines, or similar items can use it with little to no problem. The implementation is pretty good.
The time it takes to deploy the solution depends on the customer environment. If they have 25 servers versus five there will be radically different deployment times.
Typically, we use Microsoft strategies as a foundation assessment. We'll look at the customer environment and be in the background for a couple of weeks to pull some data so we can have a better understanding of the customer environment. After that, we create a plan to start migrating the servers. Each client is unique.
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reviewer1242897
Principal Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup was simple and it is simple for a simple application. If I want to build with a simple application, I simply go do that. But if I have a very heavy interface-based application, then the choices become more difficult and involved.
If I have a WebSphere application, that is easy. A complex platform or a complex interface dependence becomes difficult to implement because of restrictions. If I can not simply go and deploy as it is, obviously it is more complex to deploy in the system.
For a small company with a typical landscape of Microsoft technology, it becomes very easy to work with Azure. It is possible to go through that setup by yourself and test your servers and the entire functionality.
After deployment, you will require maintenance. We can not simply have a production list and push everything out. You need pre-production, testing, and then deployment. All that has to be done on Azure.
There are a lot of things you will have to work out with security certificates. Meanwhile, things keep on changing in the product itself. New upgrades keep on rolling out. If the old version does not support the new upgrade, then you will need to get involved with patching and other upgrades to take care of the issues that are introduced.
We have a dedicated team for maintenance. We know we need to do testing and that is why we created tasks for that. But, generally, I think complexities in the setup depend upon what applications you are building. Simple applications and simple systems make for simple deployment.
Victor Bergman
Executive Head of Technology at Imbali Customised Solutions (Pty) Ltd.
The solution's initial setup is straightforward, especially with the SSL. Getting the SSL certificate is more straightforward with Microsoft Azure than with Amazon Web Services.
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Ahmed_Eid
Director at Java Riyadh
I rate the product's deployment an eight out of ten. It can be completed in a few hours.
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reviewer1736526
Head of Service Delivery at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is pretty much straightforward.
Our initial deployment took between six and eight weeks. This period had more to do with our setup being compliant with some of the features on Azure.
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reviewer1521363
Digital Strategy Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup was a bit complex. It was getting ruled out sometimes, but it was at a Pan-India level. So, it was expected to take some time; it took about 8 to 12 months. Overall, it was good.
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it_user105252
CTO at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
Very straightforward. In fact almost too much so. Its easy to try and overthink the setup and waste time looking for things you don’t need to be looking for.
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Thillai Raja
Managing director at antarymain solutions
The initial setup is straightforward. It took me around one week to set up the product. I did the deployment myself since I am into IT.
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AbasoJadhav
Team Lead at Tech Mahindra Limited
The deployment of Microsoft Azure is easy because it is cloud-based.
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reviewer1078404
Strategic Sourcing Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It was complex, and that was mostly because of the security needs. We had to understand how things fit together.
The original deployment, just for testing, took about half a day, but to really get it going and to be able to allow access to people, other than the administrators, took more time. We're a financial institution, so we had to have everything monitored and secure. It probably took about four months to get it functional on the production side.
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AdrianBuenaventura
IT Technical Manager
The initial setup is quite simple. We currently have 20 users on the infrastructure side in addition to 20+ developers.
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reviewer1430709
Works at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees
The installation process is not very straightforward.
When you want to install with a higher level of security inside the infrastructure, nothing communicates. Therefore, engineering security and network engineers need to understand what they have to do exactly, and what the problem is. With Aure, there's a learning curve for installation. You need to work with it for at least one year before you get comfortable enough and are able to troubleshoot and configure everything relatively well.
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Senthil Kumaran
IT Engineer at United Nations
The initial setup is straightforward for me since I have done it before, for people new to installing it could experience some difficulty.
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reviewer1496493
Associate Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
There is no setup as such, it's on a server and it's a matter of configuring on the cloud. If you need, you can spawn 3,000 machines with a single execution and 10,000 or so test scripts within minutes.
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DonBilbrey
Sr Solutions Architect at System Soft Technologies, LLC
The initial setup is fairly complex. There is a ton of documentation, but once you get through that it's really not difficult, it's just not intuitive. The product requires better documentation that explains things. I think a lot of it has to do with the licensing requirements. It's not obvious and so you can be following a step-by-step tutorial and still not get it right because the software requirements aren't right but it doesn't give you that in clear text.
You can probably set this up within 30 minutes, realistically, as long as you know all the steps. Unfortunately, it took about four or five hours to troubleshoot the situation because we didn't understand what the license requirements were. We had to go and obtain those licenses and try it a second time. It'll be fine now because we understand it but there are certain things like having to be a security administrator within the roles and responsibility matrix, and that's not really outlined in the documentation.
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Krupa Gandhi
IT/OT Specialist at Cell Engineering Pty Ltd
The initial setup was seamless and very fast. It took a few hours to complete the whole process.
Rafael Veloso
Analyst Cloud Support Consultant at SoftwareONE
The solution can be easy to implement. You could start easily, there are some services that have simple steps, and you could speed up the entire process. However, there are some more difficult deployments in more complicated architectures. You could start easily in the solution and then you can improve your skills.
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reviewer1453347
Cloud Architect at a legal firm with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is very complex because we're a complex corporation.
The review board has actually approved all of the Microsoft Office 2016 products and applications. We have the licenses, however, we're not using them.
Teams is the one collaborative product that everybody wants to use. We've approved Microsoft Teams on the web only. Because of our security constraint, we don't want our users to use every feature that's actually on Teams. We don't want to allow third-party vendors to use that application in order to get into our environment.
For example, you can share your screen, but I can't share my screen. I can share an application if it's been approved, but I can't share my screen. The only way I can actually talk to you is if we talk about topical issues that you would read about in the newspaper or something like that. I can't tell you anything that's company proprietary.
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Wai KongWong
Information security consultant at Ypsilon System
Microsoft Azure's deployment is straightforward for me, given my experience and understanding of the Azure system. It is not difficult for me to handle.
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Darren Brodrick
Managing Owner at Transform8tion Limited
I rate the ease of setup a five out of ten. The product is deployed on the cloud. The deployment took a few hours.
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Ye ZawKhant
Co-owner at Min shan saw
The solution’s initial setup is very straightforward.
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reviewer1013517
Technical manager at a non-profit with 201-500 employees
The initial setup is not very complex. It's quite straightforward to get a new platform and be in production. We carried out the implementation ourselves. We have 350 employees and everybody uses Azure. We have four IT professionals dealing with maintenance.
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Jose Antonio Lopez Mesa
Senior data Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is easy to set up Azure. For deployment and maintenance, we have a team of five or six people consisting of one tech leader, three developers, and one QA.
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Laurent Fichet
CTO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
It is easy to install.
It took us a few months to deploy. I did not take a lot of time to move to Azure but moving to another infrastructure using microservice takes longer.
We are coming from a moderate approach to installation and going for a modular one that is based on microservices.
To be able to manage the microservices, we made some modifications.
The length of time it took to complete the implementation was primarily due to changes we made to the infrastructure that was required for our customers.
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JayronWilliams
IT Security Specialist at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I can only speak from my own experience and I have many Microsoft certificates, including as a Microsoft solution architect expert in Azure, so it might be easier for me than it is for others. I tend to do a lot of things on the app and I use it on a daily basis. Even if I don't know where something is, the documentation on techniques, everything is there. I wasn't involved in the deployment at this company but in my previous position, it took a couple of days, not very long. Microsoft provided support. It's just a matter of configuring the tenant.
Amey Darekar
Personal Banker at HDFC Bank
The installation is handled by another team. I was not involved in the installation of this solution.
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reviewer1417791
Senior Regional IT Infrastructure Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup was simple. It was done in stages.
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Rasa VilkaitienÄ—
Quality Assurance Engineer at OAD
The solution's initial setup was quite easy, and you can get support to help you with the installation.
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reviewer936228
Manager- Projects at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
As Microsoft Azure is a cloud-based solution, installation was easy.
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reviewer1027320
Market Tech Partner at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is straightforward.
The deployment does not take long. In fact, the deployment time is not really applicable. When it comes to Azure, we are talking more about a platform than a proper product. I'm more into migration.
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SunilKumar12
Sr Engineer IT at Hical Technologies Pvt Ltd
The initial setup is easy if you understand Microsoft and have some experience. Otherwise, it is very difficult.
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reviewer1605231
Team Manager - Public Cloud & Operations at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is complex but it is more to do with the nature of what we want to achieve and less to do with the nature of the product.
To a certain extent, it is complex, but on the other hand, once you know what you are doing, nothing is complex.
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Nouman Khan
Senior Solutions Specialist (Network & Security) at Ooredoo Qatar
The initial setup is very straightforward.
The installation time varies; it can take as little as five minutes or as long as several hours.
Because there are so many products, we have quite the team. We have anywhere from five to ten people to manage and maintain the complete infrastructure.
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OmidKoushki
Solution Architect at KIAN company
As for the initial setup, the GUI in Microsoft is very simple and very handy, but in Azure Container Service, it is not very handy and is very complex. You would need to go forward with CLI.
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Oluseye Doherty
Head Of Information Technology at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
The initial setup is very straightforward.
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Essam Younis
SOA & BP Technical Manager at EJADA
We have installed many competitive products, such as Appigee and IBM, but Microsoft Azure is the easiest one to install.
While I was not a part of the deployment, I know it took them less than a week.
We have a team of 10 to 15 for the deployment, customization, and implementation of this solution.
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Nelson Boavida
IT Unit Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It is complex because the solutions are complex. It depends on how you want to do the setup. For our business scenario, it is complex because there are a lot of security rules that are involved in it.
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Network Manager / Senior Network Engineer at Warnock, Tanner & Associates
Huge learning curve for me. I found just diving in was incredibly difficult. Much lab time required to understand how things work together. Once you get going however it all makes sense.
I also find the GUI to be more intuitive then AWS and feels better.
They are constantly changing the GUI while they continue migrating the ASM model to the ARM model. Since this is a living platform it can change from one day to the next adding features.
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Saikrishna B
Technical support engineer at 64 Network security pvt ltd
The solution's initial setup is straightforward. When you need to create multiple tasks, the solution can get complex. I am not involved in the deployment process.
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Remy Martel De La Chesnaye
President at Team Parsec
The deployment of the solution is quick and easy.
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Joao Alves
Risk Manager at Novo Banco
As the solution is cloud-based there is no installation involved.
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reviewer1540920
Enterprise Architect at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup isn't straightforward. You need to bring in an experienced system integrator to help you with the knowledge transfer. That's the approach we took.
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Michelle Sollicito
Software Architect at a security firm with 51-200 employees
No, it is simpler in Azure than in AWS.
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reviewer2349756
Senior DevSecOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The tool's deployment is easy.
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Erik Våge
It at Forvent
I rate Microsoft Azure's deployment a seven out of ten. It takes around half an hour to complete. You need two resources to handle the deployment. I am involved in its maintenance.
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reviewer1786524
Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The initial setup of Microsoft Azure is very straightforward. You don't have to do any setup. You only have to sign up on the Microsoft Portal, and then you can start using it.
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Sundaresan Subramanyan
Founder and Managing Director at Analytic Brains Technologies Private Limited
It's fairly easy, but it really depends on a lot of factors, such as the size of your application, how many databases you have and how many web servers you have.
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NaveenKumar21
Senior IT Manager at Excelra
Normally, we log in and then we roll out the services for instances that we want, based on the requirements. It only takes a couple of minutes to deploy.
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manager813261
Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is straightforward. I can say that because my use case was greenfield, starting out fresh. It was a whole new installation and everything was straightforward.
It took between a month and two to deploy. The installation is not a big deal once you have the necessary license, and then you can begin testing.
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Karthikeyan Chinnadurai
Solutions Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The installation and initial setup are easy. We implemented over the course of a few days.
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John ONeill
Principle consultant at Active Data Consulting Services Pty Ltd
Setting up was quite simple, before jumping in though make sure you watch some of the video's on the MVA site about virtual networking and so forth, the Azure user interface makes deploying these resources relatively straight-forward.
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Chief Executive Officer at HubStor
In general, there is a small learning curve in regards to the public cloud concepts and the Azure user portal, but nothing terrible.
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reviewer1729404
Owner at a media company with 1-10 employees
Some of the aspects of the implementation of the solution are very easy if you know which tool you have to use. It's not too complicated if you know which tool you will be using but to find the right tool to do the necessary functions sometimes takes some time. I'm not doing the setup every day. I have one engineer that it is his job. But nevertheless, I also want to do the setup to know how it's working.
I am not sure how long the implementation took for our DLP project, once we started the implementation we started to use other tools and eventually returned to the main project.
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Amarjit Rathee
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
We have a team that handles the implementation.
Depending on the situation, you don't need too many people to maintain it. We always start with one resource and go from there.
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reviewer1672716
Chef manager at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The initial setup is straightforward.
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Ashen Perera
Sr. Systems Engineer / Tech Logic Consultant. at a non-tech company with self employed
The initial setup was straightforward.
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reviewer1573923
Senior Engineer- Hardware at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
As for the initial setup, it's very straightforward. You can automate, create a blueprint, credit stack, etc. It's not complex.
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Sarwar Alam
Executive Officer at UK export finance
The setup is quite straightforward. It is not at all hard.
We've got a third-party maintenance company that actually maintains our Azure space.
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Edgar Parra
Senior Technical Consultant at The Instillery
The key here is design. You need to design and orchestrate how you want your VMs (geo-redundant, in an availability set, size of VMs, etc.). It is the key to understanding the costs of each set of VMs available to you in terms of size and computing resources. Also, understand what type of storage will be required for you to deploy your virtual infrastructure SSD storage and larger disks. Plan to use this (Standard, Basic, or Premium) and it needs to be taken into consideration depending of what you want to use Azure for.
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reviewer1220712
Principal Cloud Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The start was far easier than we expected it to be, but the complexity caught up with us half a year later also. It got more complex as we went along. We carried out the deployment ourselves. I'm a very experienced administrator, I know a lot about concepts of data centers. I know how they work, I know how to set them up. This is just another data center, it's just that it's not mine.
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OmarMadaeen
Business Development Director at Optimiza Solutions
The initial setup is quite complex and took about six months.
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Dražen Bzik
Head of Department at Combis d.o.o.
My projects are normally complex. However, the implementation of Microsoft Azure is very simple.
The length of time the full deployment can take depends on the complexity of the project. It can vary from one month to half a year. It depends on the goal of the project.
I would rate the initial setup of Microsoft Azure a four out of five.
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reviewer1214379
Director at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
The initial setup is not simple. You need to be trained. It's not like it's just ready to be implemented - you need to be trained in what you are doing.
The deployment is quick and only takes about one day.
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NikolayBachvarov
Software Architect at AIOPS group
Azure is a cloud tool, so the installation is a very easy process.
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Jose Vazquez
Director
The installation was easy.
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reviewer1628190
IT Projects Manager at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup isn't exactly straightforward. The deployment is a complex process.
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Pradeep Saxena
Chief Technical Officer at Evangelist
The initial setup is not complex. The solution is user-friendly. A good working knowledge enables one to do a pretty good job in comparison with AWS.
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Anoop Anoop SLK
Enterprise architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Installation is very fast and can take a few minutes to an hour. A lot of documentation is available, so it could be done in-house.
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Sarith Sasidharan
System Administrator at a government with 201-500 employees
We did not find the initial setup to be too complex. It's pretty straightforward. A company should be able to handle the deployment without too many issues.
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Karthik Madhava
Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Lavelle Networks
The initial setup was easy.
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Server and StorageIO Group (Storage IO): Independent IT Advisor, Author, Blogger and Consultant with 1-10 employees
Having used AWS, VMware, as well as Windows, there was a little bit of a learning curve, just as there was for others.
However, navigating the UI, shells, and figuring out what was where, without spending weeks in seminars, training, and watching videos, was actually pretty intuitive.
If you are not used to working with AWS or others, or if you have some tools, Azure is actually pretty extensible and getting easier to working from Windows and vice versa.
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Software Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The setup for us is quite complex because we need to integrate it into a custom solution. The setup includes development time and changes to our core systems. This is not an easy task, but it's not at the fault of Azure or any other cloud service provider. The API has a learning curve, but anyone familiar with cloud services, and the use of a remote API should have no problem learning and implementing their system.
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reviewer1712571
Implementation Engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
The initial configuration is straightforward. We only need an email ID and we can sign up in a matter of minutes.
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reviewer1128801
Director of Analytics and Cognitive Computing at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
The initial setup is not complicated.
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Amgad Soliman
Senior System & Security Administrator at a legal firm with 51-200 employees
It's a cloud-based application, so installation is straightforward and doesn't take much time.
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reviewer1686495
Managed IT Services Provider at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The setup of everything is very quick, although the real issue revolves around the speed at which the changes get synchronized. While this may take 24 hours, there are occasionally issues which arise, such as problems with the DNS or general networking issues. This requires one to involve Microsoft tech support.
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reviewer1392516
Manager, Enterprise Infrastructure at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
There isn't really an initial setup. it's on the cloud and subscription-based.
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Lindsay Mieth
CISO at a religious institution with 501-1,000 employees
As far as the setup goes, most of it is pretty simple. When we started working with Microsoft Intune and a little bit on the unified labeling, it became a bit more complicated, but we're getting through it.
Shared active directory and multifactor authentication (MFA) are a little bit difficult to introduce because once you put something on it, it affects all of their Office products and anything that deals with Microsoft, whether it is SharePoint, OneDrive, or something else. Often, we want to activate it for an app and not so much for everything else, but that's our peculiar quirk. I don't think there is anything that Microsoft needs to change necessarily.
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reviewer1260291
IT Infrastructure Architect at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees
It's as complex as it wants to be. There's nothing initial about it.
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Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The setup was straightforward; with the help of TechNet, if there were any issues then they were easily solvable.
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SrEngineer672
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It was a learning curve to get it up and running. If I had prior training I would have found it straight forward but the time lines for implementation meant I had to "dive in".
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reviewer1164615
Director Technology at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Azure setup is pretty straightforward and we mostly handle it in-house. However, it depends upon the complexity of the use case, how we are deploying, and the kind of application we are building. The build and deployment times depend on how we structure our packaging.
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reviewer1123320
Software Professional at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I was not involved with the initial setup. We have a team of two members to deploy and maintain the infrastructure.
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JorgeHerran
Senior Devops at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It was not very difficult to set up the solution. In the beginning, it's a bit difficult to just find the services and things like that. They need a kind of list or something, something more visible. That would help.
Our implementation was not too big. It took maybe two days. Another deployment we did took maybe three. I'm not really a complete expert. It might have taken a bit longer for me due to my lack of experience.
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Jan Stander
Owner at Latreia Technologies
The installation was straightforward. Once you have a Microsoft ID everything else just falls into place.
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Jose Barbosa
CEO at Finanblue
The initials setup is difficult. It requires specialists.
Similar to Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services, it is complex.
It can take six to twelve months to deploy this solution.
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reviewer1447569
Solution Architect at a sports company with 201-500 employees
There isn't much of an implementation process as the solution is in the cloud.
However, you do need to do some configurations in order to ensure it's set up as you need it to be. This part of the process takes a minimal amount of time.
We have about 60 to 70 people who can handle deployment and maintenance within our organization.
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DigAd3059
Digital Ad-Operations at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup was straightforward.
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CTO at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
The initial setup was moderately complex. The use of PowerShell greatly increases the ability to fine-tune workloads, i.e., after the initial setup was completed.
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reviewer1157862
Associate Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup was straightforward.
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Carlos_Torres
Business Development Manager at ITQS
Its setup is easy.
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Mitul Rajput
GM COE at Anuntatech Management Services Ltd
As a cloud-based solution, the initial setup is very simple, very straightforward.
We were able to deploy the solution in one day for a few clients.
We have 20 team members that are technical (Azure system admins) and can handle the deployment and maintenance. We offer 24/7 coverage.
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reviewer1724199
Systems Architect at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
Installation may not be easy for novices, but for experienced folks, it's fairly straightforward. You can do it yourself.
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reviewer936300
Director Of Sales Marketing at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Azure installation is complicated. When we first deployed Azure, it was challenging. By contrast, AWS is easy to install and maintain. Azure is tough. It takes from one to two weeks to fully deploy. Our technical team responsible for deploying and managing Azure has 30 people.
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TonderayiUsada
Managing Director at D3
The initial setup was easy.
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reviewer1680546
IT Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees
The initial setup and deployment were straightforward.
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reviewer979968
Senior Manager Global Database Services at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is very complex because of the landing zone. Only Microsoft can create the landing zone. Implementation is very fast; it only takes a few minutes.
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FERNANDO VASQUEZ
CEO at CLIFURVA
The initial setup is not difficult or complex. It's pretty straightforward. It's easy. A company shouldn't have any issue with the process.
We sell the solution to our clients and it takes six months to one year to deploy it.
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reviewer1534578
Software Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I think the initial setup is straightforward. I have around 20 microservices, so deployment took probably two weeks. It took longer than a previous implementation which took several hours.
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reviewer1548732
Cloud Security Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
There isn't really an initial setup. It's on the cloud. You don't really have to deploy anything or set anything up.
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reviewer1381527
Data Science Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
In terms of deployment, each product requires a number of staff to deploy the model of machine learning or to build the stature to consume the data. It really depends.
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Marc-Bernier
Works at CGI
Four years ago the initial setup was quite complex but lately I find it's becoming increasingly easier, and the set up rules for securities are a lot simpler. These are things that are improving all the time.
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reviewer1465602
Network and systems administrator at a recruiting/HR firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup was easy because we didn't do anything.
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Ramesh Karanam
Microsoft and Dev-ops Architect at Mphasis
The initial setup is very easy; straightforward.
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MandarChitre
Senior Services Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup of Microsoft Azure is complex.
I rate the initial setup of Microsoft Azure a four out of five.
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Santiago Ochoa
Consultant at Open Source & Cloud Advisory Services Architect IBM
Whether the initial setup is straightforward or complex depends on the client. There are some products that are more complex to set up. However, for me, it's easy to deploy different features or different products. It's easier compared to on-premise deployments.
Deployments can be two to three months for an enterprise.
For maintenance, you need a good team with good skills in Microsoft Azure, especially in the cloud due to the fact that it's a bit different. Things are different in the cloud compared with on-premise.
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reviewer1753023
Independent consultant
Azure setup is straightforward. There is no comparison to on-premises deployment because it's all automated. It's very fast, but I can't compare the speed to other vendors because I've never deployed AWS or Google.
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reviewer1644435
IT Systems Administrator at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
I wasn't present or involved at the time of installation. I came along later. I started with the company after that.
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Win Sein
IT Consultant at Hostlink IT Solutions
The installation is easy.
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HimanshuTejwani
System Administrator and DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It's a cloud service. There is no installation.
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reviewer1328976
Digital Architecture Project Leader at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is easy. We have developed a DevOps automatic process, which makes it very fast to deploy. It takes just a few minutes.
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reviewer1752084
Customer Success Manager - Architect: Cloud and Data Platform at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup of Azure is complex. It took almost 6 months to deploy the solution.
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Shashi Jeevan M P
Vice President of Delivery & Deployment at TekFriday Inc
It was straightforward.
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reviewer1465254
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup was straightforward because it was linked to our Microsoft account and it's just a question of activating your subscription. They have some training videos and their help and support is very responsive. I've contacted them multiple times on some problems and they were very helpful. I've also used their chat-bot feature and if that doesn't help, you get passed to human support.
Enrico Boseli
CTO at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Its initial setup is very easy.
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reviewer1386936
DevOps Lead at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup is not complex at all. It's very easy and very straightforward. The process shouldn't give a company any trouble.
I can't recall the exact length of time it took to deploy the product.
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Rodrigo Ramele
Mobile Lead Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The initial setup is very straightforward. You can very easily have an application up-and-running almost out-of-the-box. The learning curve is steeper once you need to start building more services or when you need to take care of performance issues.
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Head of Software Architecture at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The setup isn't complex; on the contrary, in less than 15 minutes I was already using Azure.
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Senior Consultant | Architect at DHL
Nice and smooth since the beginning.
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IT & PMO Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The only complexity was the initial setup of a site-to-site VPN to connect our LAN to Azure. The required Azure site-to-site VPN gateway is not fully supported on older firewalls, so you must be careful. For details please read: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...
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reviewer1620747
IT Architect at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is simple. It's not a big deal.
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reviewer1598412
Management Executive at a security firm with 11-50 employees
As it is a cloud-based solution, there is no installation involved. It is more about configuration.
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reviewer1598556
Information Technology Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup is not overly complex or difficult. It's very simple. It's quite straightforward.
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Anu Kaple
Technical Lead at FD
The installation is straightforward.
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reviewer1553589
Junior Mobile Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
The initial setup was straightforward.
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reviewer1547352
Information Technology Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
For a layperson or someone who is not trained, it wasn't an easy initial setup. It had some complexities.
I've personally gotten used to the process. The deployment, for example, wouldn't take that long now. While in the beginning, a deployment might take a month, now that I am more comfortable with the solution and more familiar, I can likely do it in a few days.
That said, it depends on a company's plans and its own unique environment and complexities. It can vary. Most people seem to struggle with all of the connections they had before.
The number of people you need to deploy or maintain the solution really depends on the size of the environment. After implementation, you could probably scale back your employees from 10% to 50% with Azure.
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reviewer1468518
President at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
I can't speak to the initial setup as I didn't have any experience with it. I wasn't part of the implementation process.
I did mage the Azure DevOps deployment.
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MEGHNAD MAHATA
AVP (Enterprise Architecture) at National Stock Exchange of India Limited
I have not actually gone through the initial setup yet. So I am trying to figure that out. They want me to go through the training so I can understand the setup.
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Francis Olowu
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The initial setup was very straightforward, as we knew what is required from the technical perspective and as a business. Which we specified in an architectural design before hand.
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reviewer1772160
Manufacture at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
In terms of the initial implementation, how difficult or easy it is depends on the services. The most common deployments are pretty clear and it's pretty simple, however, in some cases, it's very difficult.
The deployments can be fast. For the simplest ones, five minutes is enough. However, sometimes when you are trying to use a specific service, for example, the cloud solution, it could take days or weeks just to get it available.
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reviewer1578912
RPA Developer
The initial setup was excellent.
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reviewer1544235
Senior System Administrator at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
As a cloud-based product, there is no installation.
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reviewer1499406
General Manager at a tech company with 11-50 employees
It is pretty easy. You just have to follow the step-by-step guidelines. The deployment happens almost immediately. If you need to increase or upgrade a server or have a new server, you just go to the portal and create a new resource, such as a server or a disk. It is very fast. There is no waiting time at all.
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reviewer1096965
Systems Administrator Team Leader at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our design was complex because we wanted it done in a certain way. There were lots of things to be done. We just experienced problems in the firewall's compatibility with Azure because when you implement a firewall, it's not as straightforward as in the case when you implement it on-premises. This led to some challenges and we had to troubleshoot the deployment of one firewall for a full month.
Even the local providers did not have experience with how to deploy that one firewall, which is why we spent so much time troubleshooting. It turns out that when you deploy a firewall on-premises and you want to migrate to the cloud, there are certain considerations that you have to keep in mind, which makes it more complex.
For our second firewall implementation, it was faster and better.
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Diretor de Sistemas de Informação at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Complex in the beginning, because the company I was migrating had some peculiarities.
The latter move was totally stable as we did a cutoff migration and no garbage was imported. Some downtime was expected, but this was minimal.
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Cloud/System Administrator at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The setup/installation depends from which service you start (for example, start to use DNS which is much easier vs the web applications).
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Carlos Mardinotto Junior
BI Expert at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The configuration of Microsoft Azure can be difficult because of the mapping.
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reviewer937401
Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operations Officer at a energy/utilities company with 1-10 employees
Its initial setup is straightforward. It took about two weeks.
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reviewer1406421
Senior Architect, Technology Transformation Group at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I was not a direct part of the installation, therefore, I can't really comment. I can't directly speak to if the process was easy or difficult.
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reviewer1542381
Chief Technology Officer at a tech company with 51-200 employees
It has a pretty straightforward deployment. There are just a couple of clicks. The deployment takes about a day.
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reviewer1537263
IT Manager at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is quite straightforward.
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Oswaldo Figueredo
Platform Engineer and Infrastructure Management at Colciencias
It is easy to set up.
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reviewer1297236
Product Architect at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup was fairly simple. If we did have any issues then we would consult with Microsoft Professional Services, or some of our cloud architects, just to figure out how to resolve them.
We follow the Microsoft update paths. There isn't any maintenance required because it's a managed service and the providers take care of it.
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reviewer956922
Head of Architecture - Digital at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
In terms of the UCs, they are very cumbersome. It's not very user friendly.
Each deployment takes around ten minutes. We do around 300 a day.
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RahulSahay
Data Architect at Prolifics
The complexity or otherwise of the initial setup depends on the person who will be using it. If you take the AutoAI services from other vendors, those are more graphical, more eye pleasing versus what Microsoft offers and less complicated to implement. With Azure ML, values have to be manually fed into the columns and that's clearly going to be more time consuming.
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AndyChan3
General manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The initial setup is straightforward and the deployment can be completed within short time. Now we can deploy most components/services within a day or two.
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Pre-Sales/System Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
No, it is easy to configure and use.
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Director of Operations at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The setup was complex. There is a lot of training that needs to occur with both development teams and infrastructure teams. It is a different approach. In some ways, it is more structured.
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Lead Engineer Solutions at a media company with 51-200 employees
Everything you do for the first time can be complex. Setting up a VM in Azure is straightforward, but setting up a Disaster Recovery plan or moving a complete infrastructure to Azure can be complex.
Most of the complexity has to do with initial lack of experience. Diving into the material, study and hard work together with colleagues helps a lot.
An experienced System Administrator with years of on-premise experience will be able to make the move to Azure.
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Owner with 51-200 employees
As simple as can be.
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reviewer1647507
Project Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
The initial setup was straightforward - one fifth of the work in comparison to AWS. It took about three months in total.
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reviewer1257582
Director Software Engineering at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Initial setup was straightforward and flawless.
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reviewer1624224
Head of IT Infrastructure at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
The initial setup is straightforward, we use a third party for that.
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reviewer1645737
Senior Director at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup is neither easy nor difficult. It's somewhere between straightforward and complex. Usually, with our clients, we don't get straightforward projects. However, we can't say they are the most complex out there either.
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reviewer1628289
Remote Product Manager
The installation of this solution was straightforward.
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SathishKumar
Project Specialist at integra software
Overall, the initial setup is quite straightforward. Installation takes roughly four to five days.
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reviewer606297
CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The installation is very easy.
Most areas of the application can be installed in a few minutes, but the configuration is a different story.
The configuration is dependent on the demands or the environment.
it can take hours or it can take days.
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Karthikeyan Sivasamy
Architect at a tech company with 201-500 employees
The initial setup was quite straightforward. Deployment depends on your requirements. Typically, I can deploy it within a weeks time.
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reviewer1501542
Architect/ Project Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup is straightforward, the environment is mature with a lot of documentation.
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reviewer1314534
Owner and Senior Technical Architect at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Its initial setup is straightforward. You don't have to do anything. It is all done for you.
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Azure Portfolio & Innovation Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
In general, it was straightforward, but was really well analyzed and planned in order to minimize possible problems and complexity.
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reviewer1708899
Regional Head of IT at a engineering company with 51-200 employees
Azure is pretty easy to deploy. It's not very complicated.
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Abdul Khaliq
Information Technology Solutions Architect at Injazat
The initial setup is easy.
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reviewer1333911
cloud solution architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It can be complex when you deploy it on your own.
I have studied it, for me it was easy, but for our customers, it could be simplified. We want to make their lives easier.
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reviewer1063173
Managing Director at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The initial setup is very straightforward. It only takes minutes because it's cloud provisioning.
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reviewer1383426
Principal Enterprise Architect at a construction company with 201-500 employees
The Azure setup itself is a big procedure, but once that setup is done, the adoption is basic, allowing developers to use the Azure platform for their resource site. Then we slowly open the Azure for the website and we slowly allow Azure to impact our office.
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reviewer1428051
Cloud Business Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The initial setup for Azure was straightforward.
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reviewer1663731
Process Manager at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Microsoft Azure's initial setup is simple.
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reviewer861231
Senior Solutions Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
The issue of installation does not concern us, as our job is solely to help our customers to migrate.
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reviewer1578471
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The setup was straightforward and the documentation is good.
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M A Nakib
Asst. Manager, Cloud Solutions at Corporate Projukti Limited
The initial setup is not complex at all. It's straightforward as the product is basically focusing on a pay as you go model.
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reviewer931998
Assistant Professor at a university with 51-200 employees
The installation of Microsoft Azure is straightforward.
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reviewer1450398
Product Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
It was quite easy to setup.
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SUDHIR MALIK
System Administrator at A&T Systems
The initial setup is not complex.
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reviewer1697340
Team leader Modern Workplace, Senior Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
As a cloud solution, there is no installation.
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reviewer1646865
ICT Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Initial setup was straightforward. Migration managed with out issue
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reviewer1548741
Enterprise Technology Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
For those who are familiar with Azure, the initial setup is not that complex. However, for those who are using Azure for the first time, it's probably a bit more involved because they may need to create their own virtual data centers in the cloud with the necessary security measures. I think that often this is a bit underestimated mostly because of a lack of knowledge on the part of the new customer.
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President and Founder with 51-200 employees
Straightforward
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reviewer1006845
Presales Network & Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We didn't have any problems setting it up.
View full review »CQ
reviewer1374594
Cloud Arquitect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's really very straightforward to set up the solution. It's not complex at all. You just need to set up the features your need.
The solution doesn't require too much maintenance.
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John Arnold
sales at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The initial setup is straightforward.
We do hundreds of deployments and each individual one is different.
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reviewer991623
Senior Microsoft Solution Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It was straightforward. It took just two weeks.
View full review »HD
reviewer919047
Business Analyst at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Azure is very easy to manage
View full review »AK
reviewer1394046
Cloud Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup was easy and it only takes a few minutes to install.
View full review »it_user388488
IT Analyst at a government with 501-1,000 employees
It does not involve any setup, just having an Outlook or Microsoft account.
View full review »ST
reviewer1721916
Head of PMO and Service Delivery Management at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The initial setup is straightforward.
View full review »RS
reviewer1719114
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The installation is straightforward because there is no installation required.
View full review »GR
reviewer1111578
Architecture and Solutions Director at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The initial setup is complex because there are a lot of options used to configure it.
View full review »EW
reviewer1443363
Technical Pre-Sales at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It is easy and quick to deploy.
View full review »DN
reviewer1537635
Co-Founder and CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I didn't do the installation, but its installation is easy. For its deployment and maintenance, we have two engineers.
View full review »MG
Mastan G
Architect at GSPANN Technologies, Inc
The installation is straightforward.
If you want to install it, it would have to be on a VMware virtual machine.
If you have some experience, it doesn't take much more than thirty minutes to an hour to complete the installation.
View full review »it_user654165
Director General with 11-50 employees
Really straightforward. We didn’t need to learn anything different.
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