Why We Built Azure VM Manager
An honest look at the operational problem behind our first productized offering—and the principles guiding its development.
The operational problem
Azure gives infrastructure teams powerful tools for managing virtual machines. The difficult part is maintaining a consistent operational process across subscriptions, environments, and recurring tasks. Actions can become fragmented across portal sessions, scripts, tickets, and individual operator knowledge.
143IT built Azure VM Manager to create a more controlled path for those tasks. The product is intended to make Azure VM operations easier to request, track, and audit without hiding the underlying responsibility of managing production infrastructure.
Built from infrastructure experience
Rob Lo, Founder and Principal Cloud Architect at 143IT, has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise infrastructure and IT operations across Azure, AWS, VMware, identity, security, infrastructure as code, DevOps, and AI-assisted automation.
Azure VM Manager applies that operational perspective to a focused product: reduce repetitive work, make actions visible, and provide an auditable record without making unsupported promises about outcomes.
Controlled operations
Turn repeatable VM tasks into explicit workflows with clear inputs, status, and outcomes.
Operational visibility
Give infrastructure teams a consistent view of requested actions and their progress.
Auditability by design
Record who requested an action, what was targeted, and how the operation completed.
Product launch status
Azure VM Manager is being prepared for an assisted launch. Qualified organizations will be able to request a demonstration and discuss an assisted trial. Product capabilities, pricing, security requirements, and support terms will be published as they are finalized.
This page describes 143IT's own product-development experience. It does not present invented customers, fabricated testimonials, or unverified performance metrics.