Azure Virtual Machine vs dedicated server

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Dabiel Kabuto picture Dabiel Kabuto · Jun 23, 2014 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

I need to provide a desktop application up to 10 users. This application is a ERP, basically database mining and reporting. I will use Windows Server to offer support to concurrent users via Remote Desktop Connection.

Do somebody have experience comparing the performance between Azure Virtual Machine and a dedicated server?

At the present, I use Azure, but changing the settings to a powerful machine does not seem to affect to the time to generate reports, specially when the application needs to read the database or load the dlls for first .

Answer

ITPro Guy picture ITPro Guy · Jun 23, 2014

I used both systems and I prefer Azure, it's cheapest and you shouldn't worry about some things that you should if you have your own server on premise.

Anyway, I recommend you Azure RemoteApp, it's a new feature, introduced at the last build by Microsoft and it's more powerful if you only need that feature of your server.

Changing IaaS to SaaS, maybe you should consider that option for this service.

https://www.remoteapp.windowsazure.com

H.

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