Cisco UCS Director and Sangfor HCI both compete in the hyper-converged infrastructure space. Sangfor HCI appears to have an upper hand due to its advanced features and efficiency.
Features: Cisco UCS Director offers robust automation, orchestration, and integrated management for data centers. It provides comprehensive control across various environments. Sangfor HCI provides seamless integration and scalability with strong virtualization capabilities and user-friendly resource pooling. Its feature set delivers a streamlined, efficient infrastructure solution.
Room for Improvement: Cisco UCS Director could improve in simplifying its deployment model, enhancing flexibility in pricing, and broadening its integration capabilities beyond Cisco environments. Sangfor HCI can enhance its documentation, expand advanced user training resources, and optimize support in niche application scenarios.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cisco UCS Director has a complex deployment model requiring expertise but is supported by reliable customer service. Sangfor HCI simplifies deployment with an all-in-one solution, delivering quick implementation and responsive support, making it accessible for efficient deployment.
Pricing and ROI: Cisco UCS Director's initial cost is high, justified by its comprehensive functionalities, though ROI varies with complexity. Sangfor HCI offers a cost-effective solution with rapid ROI due to lower initial costs and operational efficiency. It provides a budget-friendly approach with promising returns.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure | 1.5% |
| Cisco UCS Director | 1.9% |
| Other | 96.6% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 4 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 1 |
| Large Enterprise | 11 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 23 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 6 |
| Large Enterprise | 3 |
Cisco UCS Director enables automated delivery of physical and virtual data center resources, empowering data centers to move at the speed of business.
Sangfor HCI is an IT infrastructure platform built on converged architecture. It integrates server virtualization, distributed storage, and networking. Sangfor HCI provides a unified management platform that converges compute, storage, networking, and security on a single software stack. This approach delivers a simplified architecture, ease of use, and reliability for business-critical applications.
Hyperconverged infrastructure is a unified system of data storage. HCI combines storage, computing, networking, and management, unlike traditional storage solutions. HCI systems enable you to build your private cloud, expand to a public cloud, or have your own true hybrid cloud. Sangfor HCI presents two product models: The Sangfor HCI server appliance is a hardware version that enables easy deployment. Sangfor HCI software is the digital version combined with a third-party server that enables flexible deployment.
Sangfor HCI supports Windows systems on desktop and is web-based. Its range of use cases cover a wide spectrum of industries, from healthcare to manufacturing. It is applicable for mid- and large-sized businesses. The software is customizable. Users can customize the logo and contact information in the user interface.
Benefits and Features
Use Cases
Sangfor HCI can be applied tin various scenarios:
Reviews from Real Users
Gabriele P., Senior Software and Systems Engineer at SAMU.IT, says "It is flexible like a hyper-convergence system. You can add nodes, and you can scale to have better performance and stability. I also like the backup feature, the recovery system, and the web interface GUI to handle everything."
A Junior Solutions Engineer at a tech services company adds that "Sangfor has many solutions, and you can easily manage their machine servers with just one management. They're always striving for greatness, and they continuously update their products. For example, they have now built endpoint security within the firewall. They are continuously improving not only the security but also all other products."
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