I do, and think it's a good proposition for startups.
Office 365 makes it easy to setup the organisational IT (login based on your own domain, email, storage, document collaboration, chat). Add Power BI if you need fancy (realtime) analytics and charts.
Then you create a private git repository (using the same login) for your startup product and configure continuous deployment using Visual Studio Online and Azure. Most of the Visual Studio Services are node-based now, so it's cross-platform and you can deploy to Linux too.
It's also easy to add other services if you want (Slack, Zoho, Google).
All this is managed with a single login, paid with only two bills (Office 365 and Azure are separate). The Azure bill can be lowered if you get into BizSpark.
This all saves a lot of work, a single person can create and manage a very advanced infrastructure without too much effort.
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I do, and think it's a good proposition for startups.
Office 365 makes it easy to setup the organisational IT (login based on your own domain, email, storage, document collaboration, chat). Add Power BI if you need fancy (realtime) analytics and charts.
Then you create a private git repository (using the same login) for your startup product and configure continuous deployment using Visual Studio Online and Azure. Most of the Visual Studio Services are node-based now, so it's cross-platform and you can deploy to Linux too.
It's also easy to add other services if you want (Slack, Zoho, Google).
All this is managed with a single login, paid with only two bills (Office 365 and Azure are separate). The Azure bill can be lowered if you get into BizSpark.
This all saves a lot of work, a single person can create and manage a very advanced infrastructure without too much effort.
I think the question meant... for running applications with real workloads. IaaS