A few months ago I took a one day crash course on Microsoft Azure from Microsoft. This particular course was tailored to the small and medium business implementations of Azure. After an entire day playing in Azure and learning about everything it can do I still don't see why most places would invest in it, specifically small and medium businesses.
There are certainly situations in which Azure would be a great tool to use, but I don't see those being applicable to small and medium businesses. For example, one of the really cool features of Azure is the ability to remotely host Active Directory. That's really neat if you have multiple sites and/or remote employees. But... if you have one office and everyone is on site (which, and I'm just guessing here, is probably most small and medium businesses) you won't really gain anything from that.
I couldn't help scratching my head as I left the Microsoft office and wondering what makes Azure so much better than any other co-located solution. Maybe I'm missing something, but from where I'm sitting I just don't see it.
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