Scalability, affordability and the flexibility of the product.
Scalability, affordability and the flexibility of the product.
Probably the 2 main areas where things could be improved are getting direct console access to VM's and its Azure backup solution to add backup types (eg System State).
3 months
We went with the volume license of credits and still find it difficult to activate those credits as there is a particular website you have to go to.
There has been documented issues with stability, however we did not experience it.
No issues encountered.
Good, I can shoot email questions and get responses in a good amount of time.
Technical Support:I haven't had to raise a technical support for Azure though for Office 365 I have and I've found it excellent.
We looked at AWS, a locally based cloud provider and a datacentre.
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".
In-house
We are able to provide services to clients that allows us get a good ROI once we have deployed Azure to them.
We looked at AWS, a locally based cloud provider and a datacentre.
Get onboard with Microsoft and the Azure team and listen out to their partner training. They did a big Azure for IT Pros via their channel 9 msdn a few weeks ago. There is plenty of webinars and e-books which will teach you what you want to know.