Azure Stack Primary Use Case

SS
General Manager for Data and Software Engineering at Phillips

Azure Stack is a well-suited solution, especially for small to medium-sized businesses. While its scalability for large corporations is still untested, it is an excellent option for smaller enterprises looking to leverage the entire Azure platform. Azure offers a wide range of services, catering to various needs. For those interested in no-code or low-code automation, Microsoft provides the Power Platform, which includes tools like Power Apps for automation, Power Pivot, and more. These are ideal for teams or departments looking to streamline processes. If someone wants to use Azure as an enterprise data platform, they offer good solutions like Azure Data Lake, specifically using ADX Gen 2 for enterprise storage, which is commonly used. It pairs well with Databricks, especially when handling performance-intensive tasks, as Azure Synapse can be expensive for certain scenarios, such as data warehousing. For typical ETL tasks using Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Storage, the costs are quite reasonable.

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Óscar  Manuel - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Cloud and Cybersecurity at MSTelcom

Our company provides local cloud services with multiple platforms and Azure Stack is one of our platforms.

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AD
Strategic Cloud Consultant at Shell

Our businesses have diverse scopes, leading to a wide range of requirements that we use this solution for. These encompass everything from the initial onboarding process in an on-premises environment to aspects like security, analytics, and integration.

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BK
Head of Information Security at Pallion

We use Microsoft 365 for email, PowerPoint, Word, and Dynamics 365 for financial needs.

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PD
General Manager at Advance Record Management

My company uses Azure Stack to host the records management software.

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JL
Senior Information Technology Architect at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Our company uses the solution for normal production and visibility of our systems. We have 400 users and are at proof of concept while we complete governance. 

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Darryl Thompson - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Leader at Safripol (Pty) Ltd.

We use the analytics side of Azure Stack extensively. I use Azure Stack for advanced analytics, AI machine learning, and business intelligence to report and interpret data. We also use the solution to store our data repositories from a data lake perspective.

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BJ
Head of Digital Engineering at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Our company uses the solution to host and run an application in the cloud. We have 25,000 customers who use our application. 

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Chetan Jayatheertha - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead DevOps Consultant at itcinfotech

We are using it in our company and the customer's company as well. So, it works on both sides. For certain development environments, we need to build our internal environment, and we need it for that. Similarly, we need to build the production environment for the customer, and we use it for that.

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Vishwas Samant - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Enterprise Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We primarily utilize Azure Stack for hybrid cloud deployments, mainly for scaling up compute resources quickly when needed. This involves spinning up instances on the public cloud, specifically Azure, to manage workloads distributed across on-premises and the public cloud. Additionally, we employ Azure Stack for certain floor-based or edge computing solutions, particularly in locations such as factories, to store, maintain, and support specific operations.

Azure Stack serves a crucial role in our hybrid cloud strategy because we can't place all our data in the public cloud for various reasons. One key use case for Azure Stack is data localization, especially in countries like Australia and Denmark where strict data regulations are in place. For applications and data that cannot leave the country, we rely on Azure Stack to maintain and manage them locally. Meanwhile, for other workloads, we leverage the public cloud, predominantly Azure, to meet our requirements.

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WM
Sr IT Services Consultant at Emircom

We have a client using Azure Exchange for their organization, including emails and Outlook. This is the most recent use case. 

And another client has a lot of cloud migrations at the moment. Some are from the Azure Stack to the Oracle Cloud, and others from the Alibaba Cloud to the Azure Stack. There are different projects ongoing at the moment, which are mostly targeted over the migration of the cloud to and from Azure and onwards.

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MC
Technology Consultant at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

So we have offered Azure Stack to one of the biggest telco companies here in the Philippines. We have two sites there, and so far, their business has been growing good. They want to deploy more sites here in the Philippines using Azure Stack.

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Zahid Eshaque - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at CompTech Network System Ltd

We use the solution to run our ERP software and mail servers.

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SW
Consultant at Phoenix Technologies

Our company's customers consume the products installed from Azure Stack, so that is the usage of Azure Stack for our company. Speaking about Azure Stack from a financial perspective, if I have to talk about ERR, it is approximately 4,000 USD per month.

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SC
CISO at LinkTree Technologies Limited

We use the solution for its virtual machine features.

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Thomas Jørgensen - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Specialist at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The product is an on-premise data center for SQL servers and for virtualized environments.

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AD
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I use a lot of services in Azure.  I have worked with completely isolated environments, building infrastructure from scratch using Terraform, Chef, Puppet, and other such tools.

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Jagadeesh J - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Lead at redBus

Our company is trying to build an application out of Azure Stack. We are trying to build an API out of Azure Stack, which will communicate with the ERP systems.

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RA
Lead Architect at a computer software company with 1-10 employees

We are looking to implement asset management of marks and enrollment.

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OA
Head of Architecture and DevOps at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Our primary use cases are computing, data platform along with migrating event-driven architecture. We use a lot of data bricks and data components. From the integration to data, and from the application deployment perspective to the platform as a service.

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Cariappa M - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Business Officer at Knowledge Lens

We're using the latest version.

It's deployed on the cloud, mainly as a Kubernetes container.

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CN
Commercial Director at BinBox Global Services

I recommend Azure Stack 100% for hybrid cases, dev & test, banking, financial (banking, insurance) , healthcare, public sector.

Also, The assessments include the following standards:

PCI-DSS addresses the payment card industry.

CSA Cloud Control Matrix is a comprehensive mapping across multiple standards, including FedRAMP Moderate, ISO27001, HIPAA, HITRUST, ITAR, NIST SP800-53, and others.

FedRAMP High for government customers.

The compliance documentation can be found on the Microsoft Service Trust Portal. The compliance guides are a protected resource and require you to sign in with your Azure cloud service credentials.

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JR
Deputy General Manager at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are providing solutions based on Azure Stack to customers. It has the same interface as Microsoft Azure in a local context.

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Mustafa Kavcioglu - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at Halkbank

Currently, we are just using it to plan for our proof of concept and internal testing, not for production.

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Robert Urech - PeerSpot reviewer
Director for Business Development at LIVING CONSULTORIA

We use Azure Stack primarily for hosting customer applications .NET applications. We use mainly App Service, Blob Storage, and Cognitive Services. 

We develop applications on the Microsoft platform, infrastructure, and servers. Our servers are Windows, and we use the .NET framework and C# programming language. Everything is easier in Azure.

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MH
Information Technology Manager at a university with 51-200 employees

We're getting more serious with Office 365 now. We start from the mailbox, the mail server exchange, and then we also have SharePoint. We have migrated all the local network drives, shared drives, home drives, to Office 365 SharePoint. We have been making use of the document library for sharing, and this year, we've started to use more of Microsoft Teams as a kind of collaboration, for online meetings within the organization and also to communicate with our students. Microsoft Teams is not the only software that we use, we also use Zoom for class meetings, and then Microsoft Teams for team meetings, really.

As an education provider, we have many students — over a thousand students actually; they are also the users of this domain. We also have 250 permanent and casual staff, it's quite a big number.

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GN
IT Manager at Grace Assembly of God
AR
Sr. Practice Lead, Solutions Architect at Inspirisys Solutions Limited

We are a solution provider and we provide cloud service to our customers using Azure Stack. Some of the services that they use are Microsoft Intune, Azure Active Directory, and Azure Storage.

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TC
Solutions Specialist at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is geared towards customers with large Microsoft footprints, in which it is very advanced. There is tight integration in respect of Microsoft workloads and extremely intelligent performance. Customers can use it to run SQL Server, Active Directory, VDI, Windows Server and other workloads. Many users use it for their dynamics, although I am not aware of a lot of deployments with SAP HANA. One who has a 60 or 70 percent footprint in the data center with Microsoft can save a lot. 

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YR
R&D Operations Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There are multiple use cases for us in regards to this solution, including IoT, DevOps, storage, analytics, and many, many other scenarios.

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AA
Transformation advisor at System technique

I am using Azure Stack to build a lot of different solutions.

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BK
Exec Manager IT Security & Risk at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

Our use case is for accessing central records and updating the backend system.

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OO
CyberSecurity Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We primarily use the solution for everything from VM storage to networking to app services.

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IR
Lead solution architect at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees

Last year I used the solution to develop phone applications. We did some work with AAD which is the Azure Active Directory. We used the solution to its full potential.

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MH
Managing Partner at Data Beyond

We use Azure primarily for sales management. Specifically, we use it to help us manage the delivery of digital solutions that we provide to clients.  

We also use it for our own internal accounting, tracking our CRM document management, and we have developed different tailor-made solutions through which we provide additional services to our clients.  

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AR
‎VP Product Management at Telkomtelstra

We are a managed cloud service provider and provide Azure hybrid cloud services. We operate Azure Stack on our data center and resell Azure publicly.

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OA
Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using the Microsoft Azure Stack Development Kit (ASDK) in an evaluation environment issued by Microsoft, and not in a production environment. It is deployed within a VM on top of the Azure public cloud.

The goal of our evaluation is to see if it is sufficient to support becoming a cloud provider for companies in our local market.

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it_user883662 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our primary use case of Azure Stack is for a customer that's an ISP. They supply services to their clients where they offer the Azure Stack capability.

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ZM
IT Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use Azure Stack to deliver Microsoft's Azure services from our organization's data center.

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VL
Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We are a solution provider and Azure Stack is one of the products that we implement for our clients. One of our clients is using it as an IaaS, where they have control over the infrastructure.

As we learn more about this product, security-wise, and about the tools that are available, we can apply this to what our customers are looking for.

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it_user1255440 - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-Sales Engineering Manager - Cloud Computing at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It's a good and cost-effective solution for any organization. We can deploy the tech solution on-premises and also in the cloud.

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VT
Technical Architect at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

We use Azure Stack for our of our customer applications.

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IS
Founder at PT. Taruwara Digital Teknologi

I am using the Azure Stack for Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Basically, I use the OCR from Microsoft, which is the reason for using Azure.

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MA
Lead Enterprise Architect at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

We are a solution provider and the Azure Stack is one of the technologies that we use to provide services to our customers.

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GK
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We are using Azure Stack for the indicators and automation build.

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