Microsoft Azure Primary Use Case

Nicolas Chabrier - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Strategy B2B leader at Sunrise UPC

My experience primarily revolves around modernization, IT transformation, and infrastructure as a service in the cloud, along with managed services, cloud service provider strategies, designing cloud services, and monetization strategies.

So, I'm mainly focused on consulting for customers. However, I also use it personally. 

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Harmandeep Kaur - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP, Data Science Specialist at Swiss Re

People use it for various reasons in my organization. Data engineers use it to target databases for data ingestion. 

As a data scientist, I primarily use it for modeling and analytics purposes. 

Databricks is extensively used for these purposes and also for deploying models into production. It's used across the entire pipeline in my division.

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Arunprasad Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at EZ-Link Pte Ltd

We host all of our production workloads in Azure, including all environments like UAT, development, and production. 

All our mission-critical workloads run in Azure, and that includes Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure API Management (APIM), Application Gateway, Load Balancer, and a full suite of security products, including Azure Sentinel, virtual machines, Azure Monitor, and ExpressRoute for private network connectivity.

Additionally, we've recently begun using Azure Synapse for data warehousing, and our SaaS solutions include Office 365 and Dynamics 365.

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Elena Tejadillos - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Officer in Data Science at United Nations

We use the product to move data from sources to warehouses in on-premise environments. It also helps us move the data to the cloud or data lake.

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Manoj Kambli - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at Hexaware Technologies Limited

We use the solution for business analytics, data warehouse, data sharing, and data governance. I am a data engineer. I work on cloud data warehouses and data lakes.

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KopanoRamaphoi - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Rpc Data

This solution is used to migrate data to the cloud. They have a few different ways that this can happen. You can use the public cloud or private cloud, for example. Or you can use a hybrid as well. 

If you want to add some services, they have that capability to do that. Even if you want to improve your network, and you want to add your storage, or you want to maybe improve the speed of your infrastructure, they have that capability. 

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Pankaj  Khera - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr AVP - EXL Digital at EXL Services

Azure is a cloud provider. We use Azure services for various purposes, including PowerApps for app development and Azure DevOps for software development and operations.

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Paul_Anderson - PeerSpot reviewer
Group Data Architect at Arrow Global Ltd

My organization's entire infrastructure is cloud-based, so everything we have happens in Azure.

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AtulChaurasia - PeerSpot reviewer
Operational Technical Security at Metro Bank

We primarily use email accounts and SharePoint. We want to use AI and OCR services, but we don’t have many use cases.

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Ismail Peer - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Management Lead Advisor at Unionbank Philippines

We use Microsoft Teams for collaboration with different teams and parties, creating channels for both internal and external communication. In addition, we leverage Power Apps within Microsoft Office to develop workflows and automation tools.

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Mohit Vohra - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Arevpay

We primarily use Microsoft Azure for data storage on the server. Additionally, we leverage Power Automate for process automation tasks. Some of our processes benefit from AI and ML capabilities, such as image processing and recognition. Specifically, we utilize the product for its Translation APIs, including language translation functionality.

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Prateek Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam

We have deployed our enterprise application on Microsoft Azure and we are using it for our day-to-day operations and management of that application. The application has millions of users, mainly from the EMEA region, and serves our clients as well as our internal users.

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AlanGulle - PeerSpot reviewer
Data SME at Sparta Global

We deploy all of our projects in Microsoft Azure. We are a startup company. We have been since the beginning deploying our code in Azure cloud. We are actively using the full capabilities of two cloud services.

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VM
Cloud solution architect at 0

In any general use case, if we want to run any application on our own virtual machines, that's Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). If we want to use a readily available managed service in Azure, like Azure Storage, Azure Security Center, or Logic Apps, those are Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings.

This is because they're provided on the platform, and they manage them. We can run our data and applications on them. If we're using a complete application as a service provided by vendors, like Office 365 (including the email service), that's considered Function as a Service (FaaS) because we're not configuring anything on our end – we're just using it.

I'm involved in all kinds of services, whether it's IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS. It depends on the specific customer requirement.

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Felicia Bently - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst at AA New Zealand

Microsoft Azure has enabled the organization to set up efficient cloud infrastructure at cost-friendly rates. 

It has a DR backup system that keeps data under safe storage for future recovery in case of any disaster. The Azure virtual machine has been the game changer in the implementation of reliable cloud computing services. 

It allows quick connection and can successfully integrate with cloud applications to enhance better workflows. It integrates Web Application Firewall which has firm security features for monitoring data flow and can easily prevent SQL injection in web apps. 

The URL-based routing system enhances precise routing protocol based on authorized ERL paths.

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Victor Akidiva - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Semper Systemis Ltd

We use the solution for hosting business applications and the test environment.

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Assistantmgr67 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistance Manager, ICT Communication at ELNG

Our use case involves running on-premises workloads on Microsoft Azure.

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HarunRashid - PeerSpot reviewer
Principle BI Architect at Allshore Staffing

I use Microsoft Azure for a variety of applications, including medical software, IV systems, and repair projects. It is great for BI tasks, helping me analyze data and generate insights. I have also used Azure for hosting various events and managing different projects efficiently.

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Anand-Shah - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Architect at Iskraemeco

We use the product to stream data from devices to the system, transform data, and configure web apps using SaaS services.

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VM
Senior Manager Presales at NEC

My company is a platinum partner of Microsoft, owing to which we resell the platform and licenses to our customers. My company also uses the product within the organization.

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DM
IT Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We use this solution for single sign-on authentication.

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JN
Client Relationship Manager at Infomag

We use Microsoft Azure to host our applications. It is for the software development department. We also use it to host our internally developed application, ERP, and manufacturing execution applications for our clients. We use the data center in Singapore, as we are based in Malaysia, and our clients access it from the region encompassing Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

We create tenants for each of our clients where we deploy our applications. Clients or users access these applications from their respective tenants. We also train our clients to monitor the resources their tenants consume. This empowers them to adjust resources according to their needs, enabling them to manage these tasks independently.

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Amey Darekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Personal Banker at HDFC Bank

I use Microsoft Azure to prepare a design document for the security implementation concerning Azure.

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GV
New Digital Applications Specialist at Alpina Sa

We use Microsoft Azure for database service and advanced analytics.

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HF
Data engineer at Inicon S.r.l.

We utilize various Azure services such as Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory, Azure Storage, and Azure Key Vault to build our data platform.

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MP
IT Cybersecurity and Compliance Coordinator at Plaenge

Microsoft Azure is our principal could environment.

We use Microsoft Azure for Hosting Apps, Sites, and Blogs.

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PS
Assistant Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I am a technology consultant and pre-sales cloud solution architect.

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SS
Techno Functional Project Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I am a manager of a team and we will have approximately 18 applications that will be cloud-based using this solution.

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BT
Head of Department at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

We have a private cloud, but we are interested in having a hybrid cloud that includes Microsoft Azure. This use of it as an Infrastructure as a Service will help us to expand our scale using our hardware.

Primarily, we use Azure to test services and solutions that we want to use on the public cloud. Nothing in production is being used on Azure yet because of latency.

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RS
Team Lead, Enterprise Computing Platforms at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Within my company, there are roughly 150 employees using this solution. We need about 30-35 people for maintenance.

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Peter Ojo - PeerSpot reviewer
IT infrastructure engineer at LBAN

Azure is utilized to facilitate computing needs for our clients' sites. Most often, it's employed to enable them to host their products in the cloud, manage disaster recovery, conduct backups, and host applications. Additionally, for clients with on-premise infrastructure, Azure serves to replicate that setup in the cloud. We offer Azure-based solutions to fulfill these requirements and seamlessly provide access to them, typically through domain access, after setting up payment arrangements.

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Deborah Gamelin - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President at Asset Track for Cloud, LLC

We use Azure for a variety of services and we are in the process of configuring everything. We use GoDaddy to host our domain, and then we provision from GoDaddy for services such as email. This is one of the things that I just recently configured.

Right now, we're in the process of setting up the firewall. This provides us with security for the website. Firewalls are something that I have a lot of experience with because, in my previous organization, I dealt with audits and other similar tasks that depend on security.

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Praveen Kumar Deverakonda - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Administrator at Wipro Limited

We are using the solution as a cloud environment. 

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IM
Solutions Architect at MTN

We use Microsoft Azure for migration purposes.

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GW
Business Development Executive, Managing Partner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

I know Azure. We have the tools for optimized Azure infrastructure. As a partner, as an active integrator, I am looking only for plays to make the deal. I am not an end user, prospector or client. I use it in my projects but I am not buying any solution from Microsoft for ourselves. I am the seller.

When I talk about the Infrastructure as a Service from the Microsoft, I am referring to a hybrid infrastructure. We are talking about the moving of virtual machines and workload from on-premise system to the Cloud. This is my main topic when we are talking with the client. My technical team worries about the details of how we do this. I am not so good in the technical details.

In terms of our customers' use cases, in our last project, the customers migrated the SAP system from on-premise to the Azure with SQL as a database. We helped the customer to compare on-premise infrastructures and Infrastructure as a Service in Azure, and to help them migrate the machines, the tech, and the servers from on-premise to the Cloud and to have the tools from the Quest to help them optimize because they did not want to pay so much. They only wanted to pay by use. We are looking for the perfect tier from Azure to finish the project. This was our job. That's why I like the Azure.

There is not too much perfect information out there about how to optimize the infrastructure. Microsoft is looking for the bills where the sky is the limit but the customer is looking for the real cost. We help the customer and we have the answers regarding which tier or which configuration in Azure is proper for them.

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SG
Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The use case varies by client. Sometimes it's financial tools or websites. We build tools for DevOps applications too. Our most recent use cases are retail and construction.

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VC
Senior Vice President Information Technology at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use Microsoft Azure for different use cases. For example, we are hosting our corporate website on Azure. We are a software development company and we have hundreds of development and testing environments in Azure. Additionally, we use different Microsoft services, such as Office 365 and Azure Active Directory. A lot of our services are based on these technologies.

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IP
Cyber Security Consultant at Ukroboronprom

We buy licenses in order to provide an ecosystem on Microsoft, using Azure for documents and also for accessing Office 365 and for corporate messaging and so on.

We use Azure for everything. For example, we use Microsoft Teams on Azure for our conference calls and we also use scrum tools and project management tools as well. we use it on endpoints to work in remote places. Our CRM and procurement platforms sit on Azure. There's also antivirus features on it.

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AK
Sr.Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The existing infrastructure of our customers is on-prem. We will be migrating or moving from on-prem to Microsoft Azure cloud.

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Wade Timmings - PeerSpot reviewer
Commercial Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

I use the solution in my company to virtualize apps that haven't quite become SaaS products yet. My organization gets to deal with travel-based companies, mining companies, and logistics companies that have software on which their business runs, for whom we need to put such software tools into a cloud instance because there are no current SaaS offerings in the market. My company tends to host certain software products on Azure and then deploy such solutions through Azure Virtual Desktop.

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EL
IT Administrator at a security firm with 51-200 employees

We use the product for Exchange, Microsoft Intune, SharePoint, and OneDrive.

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Marco Cenzato - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Architect at Wolters Kluwer

Our target markets are advisors and all the staff they need to manage for their customers, such as regulatory information, accounting tax, tax income, tax regulation, accounting, balance sheets. We have also targeted different niche countries. It's a very regulated market and these are our principal customer.

At the corporate level, we have another division. That does not produce or sell software, but content, normative content, educational content.

For the software division, we work with advisors and payroll consultants.

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OJ
Future Datacenter Consultant: Microsoft Azure Cloud. at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution is basically a platform as a service for web applications, virtual machines, Azure identity, et cetera.

My day-to-day is to migrate servers using Mover or some other app to access on-premises data centers. We then use Azure Migrate to move the servers in order to take advantage of the new functionalities and things like that.

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MT
Principal Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I work with our enterprise architecture. In my network, there are almost 400 total applications. I have been working here for almost six months on a network migration and in those six months, I have been working with many of those applications that have been included with the involvement of Azure in the migration.   

We are migrating everything from the old network to a new architecture. There are multiple teams that I work with and people work with me throughout the organization. I review all the target architectures and the deployment and everything that comes along with the pieces of the migration that involve Azure. Any issues, large or small, I have to look into. These issues might be simple certificate issues or they may involve multiple interfaces that need to be used for a solution.  

Because we have a very complex system, it is not easy to complete the migration. The landscape also has a mixture of different technologies and platforms. If I have to customize, I just get a Terraform script or ARM template from a developer who is assigned to that task. I review all that stuff that they give to me.  

When we went to the version of Azure that we use now, there are certain solutions that we created. If we had trouble, we worked with Microsoft to create that solution for our organization and the problems that needed to be solved.  

We define our own solutions with Microsoft that are not available in the open market. Because of the way we have used Azure, we do not really have a very focused end-product. It is a highly customized product that we have built using many tools.  

Azure is now a mixture of solutions. There are certain applications, which are IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) applications, where we just go and use them. Then there are certain applications that are a mixture of IaaS and PaaS (Platform as a Service). For certain parts, we use private clouds, public clouds, or hybrid clouds. We originally wanted to use more public clouds, but as we proceed, we are moving into more hybrid mechanisms. In the future, I don't know exactly what direction we will take because the technologies and the climate are changing so quickly.  

But right now, we are only using Azure with images being created from the existing architecture. For Azure, we use private cloud, public cloud, and mixed, or hybrid cloud as needed and all of these work together.  

In the future, we may go for some specific function-based services or even open-market APIs. We can use open APIs with Azure. API management is also possible. So there are a lot of permutations and combinations that go with each application based on sizing and NFR (Non-functional Requirements) validation.  

For Microsoft Azure, we use the product itself as a platform, I work mostly with their services. These can be PaaS services or DNS services, monitoring services, storage services — basically all the supporting services that are available to us with Azure. Anything that is not available, we try to build on PaaS. If the services we want are not available, I have to do a complete fabrication.  

So we use mostly PaaS services for most of the supporting services and then we work further in solution optimization, which is something we can accomplish through Azure. Ultimately all that depends on the budget. If a company is ready to spend on a cloud solution, an ROI (Return on Investment) model helps. The amount of customizations and the real need for a solution comes out of the realities of the ROI.  

Our contracts are based on supplying solutions for what the customer needs. If they have selected that a particular application will be available and make this a system mandate which we have to flow, then we have to keep those applications. Azure is one of the tools that we are using to help make these kinds of customizations and to meet their expectations after the migration.  

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Victor Bergman - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Head of Technology at Imbali Customised Solutions (Pty) Ltd.

We use Microsoft Azure for the hosting of websites and the management of email and the Outlook platform. We also use the solution for the storage of online files.

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Ahmed_Eid - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Java Riyadh

We use Microsoft Azure for task management. 

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SS
Head of Service Delivery at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We use Microsoft Azure in two places. The first use case involves the Chatbot framework, and we've been using that for 18 months. This is what we predominately use it for.

Our second use involves hosting some of our critical applications. It allows us to address some of our human resource use cases in the area of policy queries, as well as some backend actions.

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Vishal Khare - PeerSpot reviewer
IT manager at Electrolux Home Products

The use case for Azure is maintenance. Azure maintains the infrastructure so we don't have to, and that's the best use case for any cloud-based application.

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AG
Digital Strategy Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

We have a complete Microsoft ecosystem. Azure comes with a variety of parts such as infrastructure as a service and platform as a service or SaaS. We are using it for infrastructure as a service and software as a service as well, so both SaaS and IaaS are being used.

All of our solutions are being deployed on the Azure server. We use the Azure authentication functionality across our organization, which is a single sign-on functionality, so it is Azure-based. We also are incorporating the DevOps framework, which, again, is being integrated to Azure. Our complete backbone is being moved to Azure, and most of our systems are moving to the cloud version.

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TR
Managing director at antarymain solutions

We use the email accounts and SharePoint. We want to use the AI and OCR services, but we do not have many use cases.

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AbasoJadhav - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at Tech Mahindra Limited

We are using Microsoft Azure for many purposes in our project. We have a cloud-based SQL Server and we are bringing data to Azure DB through the Area feature. We are using SQL Server as a database, and from there we are using the data for analysis. We are doing forecasting using all the data. 

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GS
Strategic Sourcing Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have our data lake on it. In terms of deployment, I believe we have a hybrid deployment.

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AB
IT Technical Manager

We are customers of Microsoft and I'm the IT technical manager. 

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PM
Works at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees

We don't use DevOps; we just use the Azure Cloud platform. The solution is primarily used for PaaS and FaaS.

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SK
IT Engineer at United Nations

We use the solution for multi-factor authentification while sorting out the identities. We want to use this solution for as many applications for the authentification process.

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KS
Associate Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

In our company, this solution is mainly used for configuring devices and enabling them to be used by multiple users. I'm a developer. 

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DB
Sr Solutions Architect at System Soft Technologies, LLC

The product is being used for document sharing and archiving. The company wants their customers to be able to pull certain documents that they put on file. The idea is that through active directory B2B, they will offer access to the different files and customers will be able to pull the files they need from the server. The company uses information protection to make sure that only the right people have access to the right files. We are integrators, mainly on the software side. We are partners with Microsoft Azure and I'm a senior solution architect. 

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Krupa Gandhi - PeerSpot reviewer
IT/OT Specialist at Cell Engineering Pty Ltd

We use it internally to manage all of our clients, but it also helps us connect with different customers located globally.

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Rafael Veloso - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst Cloud Support Consultant at SoftwareONE

I have worked in a consultant company and we have customers who migrate their services to the cloud and to modern applications and services using Microsoft Azure.

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IW
Cloud Architect at a legal firm with 10,001+ employees

I work for a Naval Shipyard. We build fighter ships for fighter aircraft. The Navy is our sponsor. Everything that we do is Navy or Navy-related. A lot of what we do is classified; however, I can say that we do some robotic AI work. 

Microsoft is our corporate authentication piece, so everything has to authenticate to Microsoft Azure. Everything in the whole entire company has to authenticate there. Even if you're building something, you have to be leading up to the point where it's going to authenticate to Microsoft. They are the vendor of choice, as far as authentication, but they're not the vendor of choice as far as all things at the shipyard. 

Our entire organization uses this solution. Size-wise, we're similar to a small city.

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Wai KongWong - PeerSpot reviewer
Information security consultant at Ypsilon System

We use the solution to set up access to process queuing, configure virtual instances, obtain a domain name, acquire the necessary certificates, and deploy the web server to the internet.

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YK
Co-owner at Min shan saw

Our people are familiar with Microsoft Azure, and we use it for our day-to-day operations.

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MD
Technical manager at a non-profit with 201-500 employees

I'm the technical manager of our company and we are customers of Microsoft. 

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JL
Senior data Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our current client is in the securities business, so we deal with a lot of trading data, like securities, holdings, etc. We evaluate the data quality of the daily file that comes from the current providers and transform that data using PowerPlay and Dashworks.

We're building cloud-based data warehouses by adapting on-premises data warehouses in MySQL Server. Initially, we migrated everything to the Azure SQL Data Warehouse to take advantage of all the MPP technology and stuff. In the process, we realized it was expensive for us, and we didn't need all that capacity, so we migrated that code to a simple Azure SQL database. We made it work from that point.

In our current project, we're using Power BI with Azure. We directly import data from that SQL database into Power BI using PowerPlay and ask the client architect to do some data engineering so we have serverless capacity in Azure. Right now, we are migrating to Azure Synapse, and we are actually in the process of doing a couple of PLCs with serverless capacity. Maybe we'll also use Databricks. 

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LF
CTO at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

We are resellers. We use Microsoft to provide a service to our customers.

We offer SaaS software for the marketplace. 

We offer SaaS software for the B2B marketplace and provide solutions to our customers through public cloud infrastructure.

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JW
IT Security Specialist at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're using Azure Premium P1 and it hosts our website and most of the applications we use. We are an airline company and for some of our enterprise apps, it enables things like single sign-on and hosts most of our virtual machines, as well as some of our web servers for the on-prem application. Our customer mobile app for purchasing tickets is for that purpose but we also use it for enterprise apps. I use Minecraft for my email security, but I integrate it with Azure to incorporate the single sign-on, as well as for multifactor authentication in my Office 365 environment, and the productive Parti app. I'm an IT security specialist and we are customers of Azure.

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FA
Senior Regional IT Infrastructure Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Azure cloud is a platform for many things, such as hosting, file services, application or power apps, and data lake. All these things are a part of Microsoft Azure. We're using it as a full suite. We are a big tenant with all solutions for Microsoft. We are using the latest version of Microsoft Azure.

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Fed Yunis Zapata - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Solutions Architect at Canvia

Our primary use case for Azure is for workload, database, and service migrations. I use Azure to migrate services to serverless Azure services. Some of the services I utilize within Azure are Azure SQL database, managed database, Cosmos, virtual machines, service accounts, and infrastructure as a code for migration.

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GR
Manager- Projects at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Microsoft Azure is for customers who want to move to cloud-based solutions, take advantage of licensing e.g. hardware or software licensing benefits, and other cloud-related benefits, e.g. Azure container benefits, making their applications more scalable, etc.

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SP
Market Tech Partner at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The solution does not have a specific version. We are talking more about a resource group. Whichever is the latest version is the one we use. 

The solution is used across the industry. Currently, I am working on something involving the education industry. My previous assignment focused more on clinical trials or medical data. These are two of the most recent and largest projects I have undertaken. 

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SK
Sr Engineer IT at Hical Technologies Pvt Ltd

We are primarily using the solution for the active directory, and Microsoft TPM. 

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JD
Team Manager - Public Cloud & Operations at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We use Microsoft Azure for PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS solutions. It is used in a broad spectrum of business applications for general use.

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NK
Senior Solutions Specialist (Network & Security) at Ooredoo Qatar

We use Microsoft Azure for enterprise applications.

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OK
Solution Architect at KIAN company

It is great for computer resource management at reduced cost. Also in a large environment, it gives you a lot of flexibility to provide different services, like disaster recovery and business continuity.

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OD
Head Of Information Technology at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

We have some services that are customer-facing that was put on a public cloud. We also have some of the applications that we use in-house, and we put that in our private environment.

Currently, because we have migrated our infrastructure to the cloud, we boosted some of our core applications in the Windows virtual environment. We also make use of it for our call center solution.

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SOA & BP Technical Manager at EJADA

We are vendors. We are neutral from the technologies. We provide solutions to our clients as well as implement the customer needs with the different technologies.

We have a multi-channel mobile app solution that we implement, and we have an API deployed on Azure cloud. We use API management in the Azure cloud.

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NB
IT Unit Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We use it to extend our own data centers and banking scenarios for banking solutions.

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it_user265281 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Manager / Senior Network Engineer at Warnock, Tanner & Associates

Currently we are hosting custom web applications, boxed applications, Azure VMs, Azure files for shared company files, Azure blob storage, Azure Active Directory with Active Directory sync, Single Sign On, and development and testing purposes.

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SB
Technical support engineer at 64 Network security pvt ltd

We were using Microsoft Azure for file storage and file backup. So, it was one of our backup resources. Internally, NAS is there in our company. So, we go from NAS to Veeam and Veeam to Azure.

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Joao Alves - PeerSpot reviewer
Risk Manager at Novo Banco

As the solution is cloud-based, we always use the latest solution. 

We make use of the solution in the cloud for specific internal applications.

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RL
Enterprise Architect at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our use cases are basically cost agility and efficiency.

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MS
Software Architect at a security firm with 51-200 employees
  • IoT with C# and .NET Core 2.1. 
  • Raspberry Pi with Raspbian OS.
  • Docker containers
  • For use in security applications in the retail sector
  • Using RabbitMQ for message queueing between the internet of things and the cloud.
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DD
Senior DevSecOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

In my department, we primarily use AWS. However, for single sign-on, we use Azure Directory. It helps with integration when logging into various systems. The IT operations team utilizes Microsoft Defender for tasks such as tracking various endpoints and conducting business reviews.

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EV
It at Forvent

We use the solution for PaaS, web services, databases, and AD. 

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RR
Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We use Microsoft Azure for many different services. For example, we use the Azure Boards for work and issue tracking. The Azure Repos is a place we store code, it is similar to a Git repository for us. Microsoft Azure has pipelines for the deployment of your applications across environments. There are different cloud services for different use cases in Microsoft Azure that I interact with on a daily basis.

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Sundaresan Subramanyan - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder and Managing Director at Analytic Brains Technologies Private Limited

The typical use case is where you are trying to avoid investing in a solution that you are only going to be using on a limited basis. You need a pay-as-you-go solution where you can have access when you need it, but you don't have to make a major long-term investment. For example, say you need a software application but you want someone to build that application for you, and you don't want to invest in hardware or networking or other things for on-premise deployment. You can have your solution hosted on the cloud on the Azure platform so that it can be accessed from anywhere and you don't need someone to take care of it or maintain it. You can access your software application from your home or wherever without having to worry about the server going down or anything like that.
In these cases, a cloud-based platform like Azure or Amazon Web Services can be useful.

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NK
Senior IT Manager at Excelra

We use Azure for storage, virtual machines, virtual networking, and our VPN.

We have the Microsoft Firewall set up, and we use Blob Storage.

There are many different features we use, based on different requirements.

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AL
Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Our primary use case is Infrastructure as a Service. We use it for SaaS applications, as well.

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KC
Solutions Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We are a solution provider and Microsoft Azure is one of the technologies that we help our clients to implement. For example, when one of our customers wants to migrate from on-premises to the cloud, we assist them with the process. Once they decide on technology, we build the solution.

Our clients implement Azure to use as Infrastructure as a Service.

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JO
Principle consultant at Active Data Consulting Services Pty Ltd

Building development and production environments to support business acrivity.

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CL
Owner at a media company with 1-10 employees

We are using Microsoft Azure mainly for our test environment. Addiotanlly, we use it for our enterprise resource management as we have installed a SaaS solution.

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Amarjit Rathee - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.

We are primarily using the solution for One Drive on Microsoft, as well as Office 365 and Microsoft Teams.

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MM
Chef manager at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are using Microsoft Azure for the UAT environment and data warehousing purposes.

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AP
Sr. Systems Engineer / Tech Logic Consultant. at a non-tech company with self employed

We use Microsoft Azure to patch our servers. We are also using it for creating and access management.

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GR
Senior Engineer- Hardware at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use Microsoft Azure for application sourcing and migration.

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KG
Associate Manager at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

We use the solution for executing the ADF pipelines through the database port. We provide the scripts in the database, we run it, and it goes through the ADF pipeline. Afterward, through the database command, the ADF pipeline will run and push the data into Azure SQL. 

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SA
Executive Officer at UK export finance

Our whole data center is on this basically. We are UK Export Finance, so we've got financial products there. All of our servers are hosted in Azure.

We are using an Azure subscription. We are on Azure Public Cloud, but we have got our own private subscription.

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EP
Senior Technical Consultant at The Instillery

We have been using Azure for DevOps and non-production environments. It is great when you want to deploy apps in your staging environment first using deployment slots. This allows you to flick the switch very quickly between your current prod app and the newly developed in staging to see how it behaves in the real world. If something goes wrong, you can easily switch it back.

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JR
Principal Cloud Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our primary use case is mostly for deploying services where we do not have the local infrastructure like hardware, or where it's not necessary for us to have the knowledge about how to set up a certain service. We just want to use it without concerns regarding running the service, backup, availability, etc. That's the reason we pay Microsoft the money for its Azure services, so we can just go ahead and use the product. Some of the services they've rendered have become business critical for the company, so we're using the solution on a daily basis. 

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OmarMadaeen - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development Director at Optimiza Solutions

I am a business development director who helps my clients by providing solutions during their digital transformation journey. I am a reseller of Microsoft Azure. My clients use this solution to host their data on the cloud and to have a secure database.

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Dražen Bzik - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Department at Combis d.o.o.

We are using Microsoft Azure for various databases, file storing, backup, disaster recovery. It's a very useful service.

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JE
Director at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

We primarily use the solution for backups and ASO.

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NB
Software Architect at AIOPS group

We have many use cases of Azure. For example, in this project, we usually use Jira for tracking the tasks, stories, etc., but in this case we used Azure. We used it for the whole scrum process. We also used it as our deployment environment for testing the software and production. The production was also deployed on the Azure cloud. 

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JV
Director

I generally, use Microsoft Azure for storage and to have applications running, such as the Microsoft Suite without having to have a physical desktop or hardware. I could use it wherever I want. I could use it from a tablet, instead of having all that files on a tablet, you can have it stored, saved, everything right there in Azure.

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MA
Head of Business Security Advisory at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

We use Microsoft Azure for many different things. It depends on the customer's requirements. For some, they use it for tasks, data lakes, and integration. Others use it for Business analytics.

There are a few easy ones that use it as the ESPs, a few workloads, creating a three-tier application database and web for specific internal clients, or it could be larger with several integration points.

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JL
IT Projects Manager at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

We primarily use the solution as a server for some applications. 

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Pradeep Saxena - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technical Officer at Evangelist

We are working with the latest version.

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AS
Enterprise architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

It could be used for overall migration from on-premises systems for data ingestion to data processing, data modeling, advanced analytics, and high-end reporting. Microsoft Azure can be used to move from conventional, on-premises relational and traditional data systems and big data systems to the cloud.

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SS
System Administrator at a government with 201-500 employees

We're using the product as an infrastructure as a service. I'm basically using it to host services.

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KM
Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Lavelle Networks

We are an SD-WAN vendor and we deal with a lot of networks. Microsoft Azure is one that I use regularly.

It's application migration. We run a network as a service from Azure. People are migrating to Azure, either it's MS SQL, SAP on Azure deployments or just running on Azure that we connect. 

The primary use case is to provide the SD-WAN to connect their remote offices and users to Azure and the data center.

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KR
Implementation Engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Microsoft Azure is essentially an IaaS solution, we use the DMs and everything in that.

Microsoft Azure is primarily an Infrastructure as a Service product.

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NH
Director of Analytics and Cognitive Computing at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

We use Microsoft Azure to store our data and build analytical tools on the platform. Our Trade Insight Dashboards allow users to explore trade and investment data for more than 150 countries. Users can discover the most traded products of each country, where they are sent to, where do opportunities lie, and which industry has the most potential. 

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AS
Senior System & Security Administrator at a legal firm with 51-200 employees

We use Azure for the Active Directory and integration with Exchange Online. Our customers need it to manage, connect, and administrate the permissions from Cloudbase. Here in Egypt, we are not using or connecting with the cloud-based application, but in the last two years, we have supplied the solution for our customers. In total, we have between 10 and 20 customers using Azure.

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MC
Managed IT Services Provider at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Microsoft Azure can be used for everything, including development, hosting and storage. Since it offers active directory as relates to the cloud, it can be used for directory management and logins.

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AM
Manager, Enterprise Infrastructure at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use it for infrastructure and for some of its containers. It's very similar to AWS.

We moved to it as part of the initiative for the country to start using Azure services.

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LM
CISO at a religious institution with 501-1,000 employees

One of the use cases that we have is with our installation of SAP on private. We also have some apps that we have developed that are public, and we use the security system that they provide. We also use Microsoft Sentinel, which is the SIEM that helps us to align with the alerts and the incidents. We have a combination of public and private clouds, but everything is in Azure.

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JG
IT Infrastructure Architect at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

We use this solution for IaaS, SaaS, PaaS security, identity, and Kubernetes.

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SS
Director Technology at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

In general, we use Azure for financial services.

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ManuelVallejo - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Azure is a big world with potential things that we have to check and learn. We have Azure as the data analytics, artificial intelligence, and much more. I work with technology like Microsoft, Symantec, and with Azure connectivity online, like SaaS.

We are integrators for AWS and Azure.

I don't know the exact number of users because we work with different customers. So one customer is only servicing one, another customer has probably 300, another customer has probably 500. We have different customers with a different number of users that use this technology.

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AP
Software Professional at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Microsoft Azure assists in lowering the cost of on-premises infrastructure as well as improving performance.

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JH
Senior Devops at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I was testing the integration capabilities. I deployed a simple solution with a front and back end with an SQL database. For the server-less solution, it was just to interact with the database. That's what kind of the load that I was testing. The use case was to integrate with the directory, authenticate, and then consume some of the services there.

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JS
Owner at Latreia Technologies

We have developed for our customers a website where they do onsite inspections of heavy moving equipment. They have the ability to build reports that are all web-based now and by clicking a button it goes out to their customers. This company is now starting to roll it out. They started in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and South Africa. They are currently expanding the system to Brazil and Australia. We had to move from on-premise solutions to a cloud-based system and this what we are using Azure for.

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JB
CEO at Finanblue

We use Microsoft Azure to host our software development solutions and solutions for reproduction.

We have many solutions running alongside Microsoft Azure that are mainly for the financial sector.

We use Microsoft Azure to host and develop.

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SK
Solution Architect at a sports company with 201-500 employees

We primarily use the solution as a platform for our applications and security.

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JC
Data Engineer at Prodxia

Our first deployment was CRM Dynamics, and it was done in the same way that we launched the previous version. However, it was easier than the last migration because the ease of preparing new machines with the wizard contributed to the quick implementation. It also includes great hardware specifications such as SSD Premium, which wasn't there until last year.

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AS
Digital Ad-Operations at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We wanted to deploy applications and have them interact with services on the back-end, so we deployed Azure for this. The performance has been quite good.

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TC
Associate Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I mainly use Azure for data analytics and implementation.

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CT
Business Development Manager at ITQS

Its main use case is data center migration. We are doing data center migration to Microsoft Azure.

Azure is a set of different services, and the version depends on the service that you choose, but normally, we work with the latest version.

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Mitul Rajput - PeerSpot reviewer
GM COE at Anuntatech Management Services Ltd

We primarily use the solution for our infrastructure. It's specific to server regulation and desktop regulation.

We used it for our customers in the pandemic. In terms of expansion on-premise, they were not able to do so due to the chip shortage. Therefore, we are moving everything to cloud and we are capacity-building - a temporary requirement. We are shifting them to the cloud.

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BR
senior system integrator at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

We are using Microsoft Azure for deploying our Windows. Additionally, Microsoft Azure for some analytic functions where we can have all our sales data and budgeting can be done.

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VG
Systems Architect at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our primary use cases are for GPU-centric computing and deploying web services infrastructure solutions. 

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SJ
Director Of Sales Marketing at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

I have developed a platform on Azure for the semiconductor industry. Azure is an excellent choice for enterprises in sectors like semiconductors, biochemistry, etc.

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TU
Managing Director at D3

We are using SharePoint through Azure.

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TP
IT Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees

I have been using Microsoft Azure for Infrastructure as a Service in the cloud. We're using it to get the devices registered and be Azure Ready at home or the office.

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MT
Senior Manager Global Database Services at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We use this solution to build VMs and create databases. 

We absolutely plan to continue using Azure in the future. We actually plan on increasing our usage.

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RV
Director of Technology at WinSoft IT, C.A.

We are a solution provider and Azure is one of the products that we offer to our customers. However, there is a problem. It is impossible to sell a cloud-based model here in Venezuela because we have strong inflation and most of our clients are immigrating to on-premises solutions.

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FV
CEO at CLIFURVA

Right now we're designing our desktop solutions. I need, for example, to use a virtual desktop and I need to use infrastructure as a service. I am looking for other infrastructure as a service solutions as well,

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JA
Software Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I'm currently trying to build a new product for my company using Microsoft Azure. Prior to that, I was using Microsoft Azure on the cloud to deploy microservices using specific Azure services to host the microservices. But the most common Azure services that we're using is the App Service and relational databases. In terms of the application, the first one was just the Microsoft Azure application and the second one was an integration with Elastic Stack. I'm a software architect.

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MM
Cloud Security Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It's primarily used for access to the cloud or the virtual machines and to have a cloud-based solution that can handle tasks such as data processing, or for having data storage, and all types of other things.

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VT
Data Science Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We use Microsoft Azure for blob storage and for a lot of the components that they have inside the cloud.

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MB
Works at CGI

We are customers of Microsoft and I'm an IT architect.

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AB
Network and systems administrator at a recruiting/HR firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use Azure for Office 365.

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RK
Microsoft and Dev-ops Architect at Mphasis

Working Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to create a Kubernetes cluster. 

We are maintaining two environments of Kubernetes cluster on Azure using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

We have used other managed PaaS services like ACS, Database, and monitoring, integrated with Jenkins for continuous integration and continuous deployment. 

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MC
Senior Services Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Most of our Customers do not want to have a single Cloud Service Provider (CSP) and have been adopting a Multi Cloud or a Hybrid Cloud scenario. We have addressed client requirements and have adopted CSP depending on the use case. We have worked with Azure and have provided niche solution such as Government Commercial Cloud, Healthcare Cloud etc.

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Santiago Ochoa - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Open Source & Cloud Advisory Services Architect IBM

I use Microsoft Azure for different clients. I have different workloads or different architecture in Azure.

The most common use case is for migrations from on-premise to cloud. The principal solution is for a virtual machine, storage, and networking. 

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PB
Independent consultant

Most workloads can be migrated to Azure. For example, say a small business wants to have a website or even do development. 

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SP
IT Systems Administrator at a transportation company with 51-200 employees

We use Microsoft Azure for our IDB. That is our primary use, but we also have a certain degree of MDM through Microsoft.

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WS
IT Consultant at Hostlink IT Solutions

In my country, many organizations want to migrate their operations to the cloud. This is why we are using Microsoft Azure.

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FD
IT Project Manager, Senior Java Developer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I am a customer of Microsoft Azure and this solution is for my personal use. 

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HT
System Administrator and DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It's similar to AWS.

It's an infrastructure as a service.

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AL
Digital Architecture Project Leader at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We are a consultancy company. We provide technology solutions for our clients. We use Microsoft Azure to provide infrastructure for our clients. 

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RR
Country Manager at Orion Consultores C.A

We use Azure as an infrastructure service. Most of our customers have web servers but we also manage Azure for SAP R/3. It works fine. They do have a lot of options for SAP All-In-One, but we don't have as many options for SAP Business One. What Azure offers for Business One customers is too short to have enough servers certified. It works fine but it's not a complete solution for customers that use SAP Business One.

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ET
Customer Success Manager - Architect: Cloud and Data Platform at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

My experience is in development and architecture of technology. This includes experience with cloud, cloud maintenance, and multi-cloud. I am certified in Azure Fundamentals. My company is a partner reseller of Microsoft Azure. In our organization, we have approximately 1000 people using this solution and we have plans to increase our usage in the future.

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CM
Director comercial at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

We've been using Microsoft Azure for federal government installations, and it has been really useful. Azure works well with the servers and equipment that we use. We've been deploying a hybrid environment, so this has been a great tool for our clients. For example, we've been upgrading systems for a secure health institution in Mexico City, so we deployed an Azure-based management system for the entire institution. However, things weren't so easy for some of our other clients. In one case, we used Azure to manage all the mortgages, connectivity, and databases for a huge mortgage provider. We managed all that information in Microsoft Azure. 

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SM
Vice President of Delivery & Deployment at TekFriday Inc

I am a Microsoft-certified Azure Admin. I manage Azure infrastructure as well as AWS infrastructure.

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HB
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution comes with multiple features, including managing resources and creating a virtual machine. We have the possibility to create a virtual machine depending on the type of storage we want and the hardware configuration we want. We also use it to manage our code base because it comes with all the ICT features to allow continuous integration and so on. We are customers of Microsoft Azure

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Enrico Boseli - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We use it for cloud adoption for medium and large companies. We are using its latest version.

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JK
DevOps Lead at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are primarily using the solution for DevOps purposes.

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RR
Mobile Lead Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Azure Cloud App Services can be classified as a MEAP, Mobile Enterprise Application Platform. It is also a Platform As A Service solution. These Cloud PaaS services are the backbone and the back-end structure that you can use to build omnichannel applications (mobile + web SPA + Kiosk). Azure App Service eases the creation of flexible Express Node.js or .NET WCF microservices. It has an API based on OData and integrated security with OpenID Connect with federated or corporate login. If you need a quick mobile solution, particularly an enterprise mobile solution, this is a wonderful choice.

We use this solution as a template to build mobile, back-end-of-corporate-omnichannel apps. 

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Hema Patil - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Affiliate at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Microsoft Azure is entirely our current cloud computing product in which the team is engaged. We are using the stack for development and application logs, and audit perception from the application. We are using the log services.

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JP
IT Architect at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

The information is confidential, so I cannot discuss what we use Microsoft Azure for. 

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PP
Management Executive at a security firm with 11-50 employees

We use the solution for analytics, storage and retention, for just about everything.

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EB
Information Technology Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We primarily use the solution in our lab. We use it for critical services for the most part.

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AK
Technical Lead at FD

We are using this solution for multiple purposes. For example, for a chatbot and for multiple authentications for service technologies we are developing.

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MM
Junior Mobile Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

We have a project with a company that needs support for their IoT devices. We're setting up some databases for them. That's all I can say about it because it's confidential. But we're using the HSM and the Key Vault for security purposes. A wider area or a wider group can connect to this public cloud for security and storage. We also have our own application implemented on that cloud.

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SS
Information Technology Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

I primarily used the solution for hypothetical cases. I used the solution to look at the 2019 active directory environment, some remote SQL storage, and storage access from on-premises to the cloud.

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KT
President at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

The solution is mainly used for setting up a big data platform on Azure and using some Azure items to navigate the data links and Data Factory.

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MM
AVP (Enterprise Architecture) at National Stock Exchange of India Limited

We are going to use Microsoft Azure to move some on-premise servers into the cloud so that our data can be held there.

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MG
Web Developer at Indiana

We host various sites and utilize this solution for purchasing domains as well. It's simple to host small sites and back-end software applications on Azure instead of on regional servers

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AM
RPA Developer

We have an internal system we are currently building. We use machine learning, where we are training models for extraction. You send a document or an invoice and move it to Azure using an endpoint, and then you get the extracted information. That is what we are currently doing. 

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PV
Senior System Administrator at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are using Active Directory in Azure, so it's for all of the Office 365 services.

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JG
General Manager at a tech company with 11-50 employees

Our production system is on Microsoft Azure. We are using the latest version of this solution.

We have services for the data in the SQL Server database. We also have servers for our web-based applications. All transactions occur in this environment. We also have a mirror environment in Azure, which is a different cloud geographically. 

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SW
Senior System Engineer at a engineering company with 11-50 employees

We primarily use the solution to host the web server.

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FA
Systems Administrator Team Leader at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

This year, we built our own data center, and we use this solution to extend it into the cloud.

We have implemented the ExpressRoute connection, which is an established circuit between the local provider and the Microsoft network edge. This leads you directly to the Microsoft data center.

The digital workload transfers from on-premises here to the Azure cloud, which is a hybrid model. We have two different zones in Azure. One is for the intranet, and the other is for the internet.

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MU
IT Senior Consultant and trainer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

I primarily use Microsoft Azure for application development in our development environment.

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Carlos Mardinotto Junior - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Expert at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I only use Microsoft Azure for queries, creating databases, and applying rules. The data lakes are very simple to connect. 

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KL
Team Lead Information Security Control at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

I am a Team Lead of Information Security Control. We currently have 200 users working with Azure in our organization. 

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Veerender Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Owner at Software Technology

We use Microsoft Azure for our internal systems during elections. We monitored the election party and we had a database of 20 million users.

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SG
Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operations Officer at a energy/utilities company with 1-10 employees

It is the backend system to support our SaaS products.

We have its cloud-based latest version.

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OO
Information System Auditor (IT Audit) at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We subscribed to Microsoft Azure, which is a platform as a service where we have our applications in the cloud. We use applications, such as Office 365, on the Azure platform and we are diversifying our infrastructure in the Azure environment from our on-premise solutions.

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RS
Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using this solution as a cloud computing platform.

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SB
Senior Architect, Technology Transformation Group at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Microsoft Azure is mainly used for legacy system migration. We also use it for platform development and new custom development package solutions.

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SH
IT strategist at Convergent Wireless Communications

I'm using the entire Microsoft Azure suite for storage applications and database applications.

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RR
Chief Technology Officer at a tech company with 51-200 employees

We just use it as a virtual environment.

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Oswaldo Figueredo - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Engineer and Infrastructure Management at Colciencias

We use it for various services and business applications. 

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RA
Channel Manager (Engineer) at Dataguard MEA

Implementation of Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery solution, where we used Carbonite Availability as the primary tool and Microsoft Azure as secondary/target location.

Real-time replication configured from one point to another for business continuity and high availability. 

Altogether, there are eight servers in the local premise which are entirely replicated to the cloud. The kept cloud servers are idle until a disaster happens with the on-premise servers. The project setup was successful even with real-time testing. It was done with automatic failover and failback.  

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JG
Product Architect at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are a service provider and Azure is one of the products that I use to assist my clients.

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RS
Data Architect at Prolifics

My current project is to carry out a comparison between Azure, AWS, and GCP, the three variants of cloud in order to analyze the best possible solution. In terms of costing and services I've been carrying out a comparison between all three. We are currently building the machine learning pipeline. We're partners with Microsoft and I'm a data architect. 

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AC
General manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We primarily use Azure for our ERP system and DR usage. It is set up for multiple production workloads.

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JR
Project Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

We, as consultants of Azure, have used the SQL storage accounts, Databricks for computing models, and Data Factory for ETLs. 

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IA
Head of IT Infrastructure at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

Our primary use case of Azure is for customer facing systems, it's hosted over mobile apps and is used for scaling up and down. We partner with Microsoft and I'm the head of IT infrastructure. 

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VG
Senior Director at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

We primarily use the solution for cost reasons, for example, when a client's hardware refresh is coming and they don't want to incur the cost on the hardware. We also use it for capacity as, when they buy hardware, those are constrained by capacity. 

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VM
Remote Product Manager

We use the solution as our cloud service provider for product and project management.

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SK
Project Specialist at integra software

We use this solution to host applications for our customers. We're implementers, we support our clients.

We have 32 customers using this solution. We have a technical team that handles all maintenance-related issues. We have multiple teams in place for each and everything. For each platform, we have an integrated team in place. 

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AM
CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We sell Microsoft products, and licensing that is involved in an Open License.

We sell a variety of solutions to our customers.

Microsoft Azure is a very good solution for many customers. We prefer to offer hybrid solutions to our smaller-sized customers.

The online will be through Azure or 365 and the databases we prefer locally.

It is used with Exchange, all of the mail, team, and the share products such as SharePoint.

Also for security with AI, which we are still testing.

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KS
Architect at a tech company with 201-500 employees

Within our organization, there are roughly 15 people using this solution.

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JV
Architect/ Project Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The primary use case of this solution is generally for infrastructure service, and also for VC-migrations and district modernization using the platform service. We're a consulting firm so we use this solution and also deploy it for our customers. I'm an architect/project manager and we are partners of Microsoft.

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JW
Regional Head of IT at a engineering company with 51-200 employees

We are using Azure to run cloud-based applications. 

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AA
Technical Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I was working on a project with a Czech company related to big data architecture and Databricks. The main goal was to provide a robust architecture to create data lakes with Databricks and Data Warehouse, provide self-service to the business area, etc. And I have experience with SAP as well. So one of our systems connects to create the ETL to load all the data to the data lake and other data businesses like Oracle, SQL, etc.

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AK
Information Technology Solutions Architect at Injazat

I am a system integrator and some of my customers are using Microsoft Azure for one server and others are using 10 servers. I have a few customers that are only using the Office 365 services within Microsoft Azure.

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JC
cloud solution architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are CSP distributors. We are indirect resellers.

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MV
Managing Director at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

It's cloud computing. It's just an alternative to buying physical servers and storage.

Within our organization, there are roughly 2,000 employees using this solution. We definitely plan to keep using this solution in the future.

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ML
Team Lead Regional - Equipo Comercial de Soporte Técnico at SEGA

We are a Microsoft Partner for Central America. The solution is in our portfolio, we provide managed services on Azure for our customers and we use it for our services infrastructure.

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AM
Cloud Business Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We are partnered with both Microsoft and AWS. We use the Azure platform for our systems, and we are also a reseller that offers architecture and design services. One use case for Azure is building Active Directory Systems and creating a hybrid environment for the customers. Another is SQL Database. The third is systems like Linux 365. So we are reselling managed 365 solutions for our customers.

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TA
Process Manager at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We are using Microsoft Azure for test case management and automation code repositories.

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LS
Chief Technology Officer at SYSDE

We use Microsoft Azure as a cloud-based platform.

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WL
Senior Solutions Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We help our customers to migrate from on-premises to Azure. 

We generally sell the infrastructure as a service, meaning we help our customers to migrate their on-premises VMware to cloud.

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AT
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use this solution to integrate with multiple versions of ServiceNow, for automatic ticket closure and ticket opening.

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MN
Asst. Manager, Cloud Solutions at Corporate Projukti Limited

We primarily have the solution working as an infrastructure as a service.

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GH
Assistant Professor at a university with 51-200 employees

I'm working on cloud-based systems and I'm using Microsoft Azure for storage and for other purposes.

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SN
Product Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it to host virtual machines and migrate new web applications to the cloud.

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KB
CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We are using this solution to provide backend services to our customers. I am not very technical but we are using the document and storage services of Azure.

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SM
System Administrator at A&T Systems

Everything we have is hosted on Azure, include our email, as well as applications that we use like SharePoint and Office 365.

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RM
Team leader Modern Workplace, Senior Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

With Microsoft Azure, you can replace internal IT infrastructure platforms, and you can create new cloud-driven software developments.

Microsoft Azure is a large cloud computing platform. It's a large cloud service for Microsoft that is built on top of tens of thousands of services.

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IC
ICT Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Microsoft Azure is an directory and identity management solution in the cloud, similar to an access gateway.

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LS
Enterprise Technology Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We have been using it to modernize customers' environments. We propose that the customers consider moving a number of things into the public cloud instead of building and maintaining everything on-premise. 

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MS
Presales Network & Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Within our company, there are around 150 employees using this solution. We have a technical team of about five or six people. 

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CQ
Cloud Arquitect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use the solution as a single point to check all our application metrics from tool to application. 

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JA
sales at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We are resellers of Intel-based processors and Microsoft software. We offer Windows 10, Windows 2019 server, and HCI for example.

We are a technology-based company and we set things up for people. We are dealing with educational establishments, and moving them from on-premises situations to the cloud.

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SH
Technical Manager at Systex Software & Service

We are a software development company and the primary use case of this solution is to create applications for our customers using the MSDN premium.

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MS
Senior Microsoft Solution Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our use case is infrastructure as a service and backup.

Azure is a cloud-based service, so its version is always current.

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SI
Systems Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

A lot of customers are turning to Microsoft Azure. We are using the latest version and we are a Microsoft Gold partner. We use it as a backup solution. It is also used for authentication and cancellations. We are providing these types of solutions as a live requirement, and we are moving customers to their Cloud Station.

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AM
Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We are using the solution for applications.

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SL
Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We work with a lot of cloud-related products, including Azure.

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DBA

Installation of SQL Server, Cloudera Hadoop, and MySQL. The performance has been great.

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DG
Architect DevSecOps at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used Microsoft Azure mainly for repositories and management.

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ST
Head of PMO and Service Delivery Management at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We are using Microsoft Azure for hosting our applications in a secure environment. We are using AI and machine learning models.

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GR
Architecture and Solutions Director at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We are a system integrator and Microsoft Azure is one of the products we implement for our clients. We offer a service for DR solutions with it.

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EW
Technical Pre-Sales at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We use it for virtual machines.

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DN
Co-Founder and CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We are using it for disaster recovery and application hosting. We always have its latest version because it is cloud-based.

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MG
Architect at GSPANN Technologies, Inc

We are using Microsoft Azure to access the Azure cloud database.

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KK
Senior Software Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it to create virtual machines for the key vaults and our processes. 

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