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Datacenter and Cloud Services

byMicrosoft
in Cloud Computing
4.2

Overview

Product Information on Datacenter and Cloud Services

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Datacenter and Cloud Services?

Datacenter and Cloud Services is a software that provides organizations with infrastructure management, virtualization, storage solutions, and scalable cloud computing capabilities. The software enables secure hosting, deployment, and management of applications and data across both on-premises datacenters and cloud environments. It supports disaster recovery, data backup, and resource optimization to help businesses maintain operational continuity and agility. By facilitating integration with virtual machines, containers, and Hybrid cloud models, the software addresses challenges related to diverse workloads, IT resource allocation, and compliance requirements. Its automation and monitoring tools allow users to streamline administration, improve efficiency, and gain insights into system performance.

Datacenter and Cloud Services Pricing

Datacenter and Cloud Services from Microsoft are offered through a subscription-based pricing model with payment options that include pay-as-you-go and reserved capacity. The software allows users to select services and resources based on usage, with charges determined by factors such as compute, storage, bandwidth, and additional managed features. Enterprise agreements and volume discounts are available for organizations with larger requirements.

Overall experience with Datacenter and Cloud Services

Sr Research Analyst
50M - 250M USD, Media
FAVORABLE

“Get in the cloud.”

4.0
Dec 24, 2018
It is cloud enables availability of many other services like web apps, VM's CDN, SQL servers. The centralized management of all resources in the portal is amazing.
Senior Programmer/Analyst
1B - 3B USD, Finance (non-banking)
CRITICAL

“Implementation was to complex, needed more help”

3.0
Jun 6, 2017
Good working experience and knowledgable

About Company

Company Description

Updated 11th August 2023

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.

Company Details

Updated 25th March 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1975
Head office location
Redmond, Washington, United States
Number of employees
10000+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
https://microsoft.com

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it helps reduce the PCI scope also the support and implementation team is very supportive and responsible.

Like

Once set up eases implentation

Like

Love that Azure enables us to work with new technologies that would be out of reach for us because of cost or just ability to learn about them. The machine learning services are terrific in this regard; we are going to be able to use some of these in our consumer products (like voice recognition, recommendation engines, etc.) at low cost and with a lower learning curve than would otherwise have been possible.

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the pricing module is not transparent.

Dislike

complexity

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None.

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4.2

(36 Ratings)

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  • System Administrator
    50M-1B USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Implementation was simplistic but more features would be nice.

    4.0
    Nov 4, 2019
    Datacenter products are stable and easy to implement. Could be more a more feature rich environment for monitoring and reporting
  • Sr Research Analyst
    50M-1B USD
    Media
    Review Source

    Get in the cloud.

    4.0
    Dec 24, 2018
    It is cloud enables availability of many other services like web apps, VM's CDN, SQL servers. The centralized management of all resources in the portal is amazing.
  • IT Professional
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Easy to implement and maintain. high return on investment.

    5.0
    May 3, 2018
    Product reliability, customer , support has been nothing short of outstanding. ROI is 100% or better.
  • TI Especialist
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    The implementation was complicated, but the result was satisfactory.

    4.0
    May 3, 2018
    The provider was diligent in communications with our interruption management team. The problems were solved. We appreciate the problem of the supplier's owner and his ability to work with our interruption management team. We should have more narrowly designed the bandwidth of the wide area network for the initial data load.
  • IT Architect
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Government
    Review Source

    The Difficult made manageable

    4.0
    Jun 1, 2017
    Microsoft is a solid vendor. Just need to ensure that they are not forcing a standard solution but more of a focused solution that addresses the unique challenges within your organization and environment
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