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Azure |
Traditional VM |
| Price |
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| Hybrid Solution |
- Easily move your workloads from your datacenter to the Azure servers and back
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| Security |
- 24 hour monitored physical security
- Intrusion prevention
- ISO Certified Datacenters
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- Most companies cannot come close to what Microsoft offers for security
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| Maintenance |
- Provides Automatic OS and service patching, built in network load balancing and resiliency to hardware failure
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- Must upgrade and maintain both hardware and software for the servers
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| Open |
- Azure enables the use of almost any language, framework, or tool to build applications
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- You are limited to whatever language is on your servers or virtualization solution
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| Speed |
- Provision resources in minutes and have access to unlimited servers and storage
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- It takes weeks to order, rack, and provision a new server or storage when more compute power is needed
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| Licensing |
- Windows, Linux, SQL, and or Oracle licensing included
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- Purchase licensing as a separate transaction - frequently committing to a three year agreement for maintenance
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