We compared Azure Stack and VMware Cloud Foundation based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
The user feedback on Azure Stack emphasizes its seamless integration with Azure cloud, hybrid cloud environment, and strong security features. Additionally, positive reviews mention competitive pricing, helpful customer service, and positive ROI. On the other hand, VMware Cloud Foundation is praised for its ease of use, scalability, and reliability. Improvements suggested include enhanced user interface and deployment process.
Features: The valuable features of Azure Stack include seamless integration with Azure cloud, a consistent hybrid cloud environment, and advanced security and compliance features. In contrast, VMware Cloud Foundation offers ease of use, seamless integration with existing VMware environments, simplified management and configuration, reliability, scalability, and flexibility.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Azure Stack is considered reasonable, with no unexpected expenses, according to user feedback. On the other hand, user feedback on VMware Cloud Foundation's setup cost is not mentioned in the summaries provided., Azure Stack has been reported to offer improved scalability, flexibility, security, and cost savings. Users appreciate its seamless integration with Azure services and ease of deployment. VMware Cloud Foundation, on the other hand, has been praised for its significant returns, improved efficiency, streamlined operations, and optimized resource utilization. It offers comprehensive features, seamless integration, and flexibility to adapt to evolving business needs. Both platforms have proven to be valuable investments with positive ROIs.
Room for Improvement: Azure Stack users have requested improvements in the user interface, documentation, platform performance, available services, and collaboration options. VMware Cloud Foundation users have highlighted the need for enhancements in interface, deployment process, configurability, documentation, compatibility, and overall user experience.
Deployment and customer support: The duration required to establish a new tech solution with Azure Stack varies, with users spending either three months on deployment and an additional week on setup, or one week for both deployment and setup. In comparison, VMware Cloud Foundation also varies in duration, with some users taking three months for deployment and others taking a week for setup., Azure Stack has received positive comments on its customer service for providing excellent assistance and prompt issue resolution, while VMware Cloud Foundation's customer service has been praised for their helpfulness, efficiency, and ability to promptly address and resolve queries and concerns.
The summary above is based on 42 interviews we conducted recently with Azure Stack and VMware Cloud Foundation users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"You can scale the solution if you need to."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of deployment for services such as SSH, creating a web site, and Azure billing services to measure the consumption of resources."
"The most valuable features are related to managing Kubernetes cluster nodes."
"One of the features I really appreciate is the Hybrid Cloud Extension UI."
"Azure is less complex and easier to use than AWS."
"It's more reliable, secure, and easy to deploy. It's much more stable as a platform."
"Azure Data Factory is a great solution for orchestration."
"The stability is good. We haven't had any issues with the viability or scalability. It's been good so far."
"The solution is very stable."
"You can use VMware Cloud Foundation with hyper-converge."
"It is a scalable platform."
"The fact that it automates a lot of manual processes in a net new environment build is most valuable."
"VMware Cloud Foundation makes it easy to set up new environments. You get hosts in a pool, which you can build into a new cluster."
"I like that VMware Cloud Foundation reduces both the installation and setup time from a matter of weeks to hours."
"We are using it for infrastructure automation."
"The ability to auto-scale is the most valuable feature."
"The solution could use more training materials to help users understand how to use the product effectively. Online training would also be a beneficial addition to the product."
"The fact that it is completely integrated into Azure, while positive, is also a downside."
"The solution's price is high, and the implementation process is difficult. I would like to see a lower price and simpler implementation for Azure Stack."
"Customers need to consider the Disaster Recovery. Microsoft tech is only providing support to Azure."
"It is not easy to set up. Technical expertise is required."
"I would only recommend this solution to smaller organizations like ours because I cannot really speculate what big issues that the bigger organizations will face."
"There should be more focus on the user interface, specifically for the management console."
"It should provide more core on the VM and support multi-scale units."
"They need to offer more support for Mac."
"Life cycle management is an area for improvement."
"From a stability perspective, there may be some issues."
"I would like to be able to connect the APIs."
"The price could be better. VMware Cloud Foundation is overpriced, but I think we get what we pay for. It would be better if it were cheaper because it would be easier to go to customers and get them to buy it. We'd get more projects, and that would be great."
"We would like the ability to write to both sites at the same time, in a synchronous fashion."
"In the early adoption of VMware Cloud Foundation, we have seen minor problems. For example, in our Federation, I see the single pane of glass where we need to manage everything, which is good. However, internally, we have a Kafka database that is distributed by the database used by the SDDC manager. During the distribution and synchronization, there is some issue and we need to stop the process."
"The tool's price tag is high."
Azure Stack is ranked 1st in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms with 57 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), Google Anthos, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) 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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