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.
"Its customer service is good."
"Azure Data Factory is a great solution for orchestration."
"The initial setup is very, very simple."
"The best thing about this product is that it is user-friendly and intuitive."
"It's a good and cost effective solution for any organization. We can deploy the tech solution on premises and also in the cloud."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"Azure offers a wide range of services, catering to various needs."
"From my experience, this solution is suitable for enterprise companies."
"It is a scalable platform."
"They have in release 4.0 features from vSphere and Cloud Suite. It's a complete data center."
"The most valuable features in VMware Cloud Foundation are life cycle management and ease of use."
"The ability to auto-scale is the most valuable feature."
"The fact that it automates a lot of manual processes in a net new environment build is most valuable."
"I like that VMware Cloud Foundation reduces both the installation and setup time from a matter of weeks to hours."
"VMware Cloud Foundation's most valuable features are password and certificate management. The SDDC manager tool is the front tool we are using to manage the entire VCF stack. In the SDDC manager, we can able to rotate, and update the passwords of all users. Anything in the VMware portfolio, we can manage from a single dashboard and we have various data centers. We have connected everything into one Federation. From one single place, we are managing our entire virtual interactions."
"The most valuable area is the ECS environment which includes many features."
"If you look at the documentation set, there are rims and rims of it. You try to drive something from the console, and it's quite complex. It's not it's not easy and straightforward. You've gotta sit down and review it, look at the documentation, and work your way through it. It's not intuitive."
"The user interface could be more user friendly."
"The licensing model of Azure Stack is complicated."
"Azure Stack should be open to different technologies for more virtualization environments to accept it."
"From a security perspective, there are certain things which could be improved."
"I would like to see better support for containers."
"Customers need to consider the Disaster Recovery. Microsoft tech is only providing support to Azure."
"Certain elements are difficult to deploy."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"Life cycle management is an area for improvement."
"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."
"VMware Cloud Foundation could be more flexible in terms of supporting other integration and components."
"The deployment is clumsy and complex. There are too many things that need to be done in order to deploy."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"The platform needs improvement in terms of troubleshooting."
"We would like the ability to write to both sites at the same time, in a synchronous fashion."
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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