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CloudSphere vs Densify comparison

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.9
IBM Turbonomic's customer service is praised for prompt, knowledgeable support and efficient issue resolution, maintaining high overall satisfaction.
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Densify's customer service is proactive and expert, offering prompt, tailored solutions and fostering strong client partnerships.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
6.0
IBM Turbonomic needs an updated user interface, enhanced reporting, better documentation, and improved integration with third-party tools.
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Sentiment score
2.8
Densify users seek seamless ITSM integration, improved reporting, stable interface navigation, and BI platform examples.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
IBM Turbonomic scales effectively, managing large environments and thousands of virtual machines with flexible licensing and strong support.
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Densify offers robust scalability with no downtime, improved vCenter audits, and handles increasing workloads effectively across locations.
 

Setup Cost

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IBM Turbonomic offers flexible, cost-effective pricing, with significant savings over additional VMware hosts; negotiate for tailored deals.
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Densify offers flexible licensing and scalable pricing, though some users find costs surprising yet effective compared to competitors.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.7
IBM Turbonomic is highly stable, with minor issues quickly resolved, maintaining strong performance and reliable recovery from disruptions.
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Densify is largely stable, with minor concerns about external factors, latency, and slow searches, but support is trusted.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.2
IBM Turbonomic enhances IT efficiency through automation, resource optimization, workload management, integration, and efficient cost-performance balance.
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Sentiment score
7.5
Densify optimizes cloud resources, enhances server density, and offers analytics for precise budgeting and infrastructure efficiency.
 

Categories and Ranking

IBM Turbonomic
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Ranking in Cloud Migration
5th
Ranking in Cloud Management
4th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
205
Ranking in other categories
Virtualization Management Tools (3rd), Cloud Analytics (1st), Cloud Cost Management (1st)
CloudSphere
Ranking in Cloud Migration
16th
Ranking in Cloud Management
28th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Densify
Ranking in Cloud Migration
13th
Ranking in Cloud Management
32nd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.2
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Virtualization Management Tools (9th), Cloud Analytics (2nd), Cloud Cost Management (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 6.3%, down from 6.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CloudSphere is 0.7%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Densify is 1.2%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

SubashSubbiah - PeerSpot reviewer
It can tell us where performance is lagging on the hardware layer, but the reporting on the application layer is lacking
The automation area could be improved, and the generic reports are poor. We want more details in the analysis report from the application layer. The reports from the infrastructure layer are satisfactory, but Turbonomic won't provide much information if we dig down further than the application layer. I would like them to add some apps for physical device load resourcing and physical-to-virtual calculation. It gives excellent recommendations for the virtual layer but doesn't have the capabilities for physical-to-virtual analysis. Automated deployment is something else they could add. Some built-in automation features are helpful, but we aren't effectively using a few. We want a few more automated features, like autoscaling and automatic performance optimization testing would be useful.
Vibhor Gupta - PeerSpot reviewer
Great discovery, good support, and generally reliable
The area they need to focus most on is the capability of assessment and the landing zones. It’s lacking right now. Cloud transformation has four to five cases, including planning, discovery, assessment, and the MVC, which is called the minimal viable cloud. That comes with the architecture design or landing zone creation, where we will create resources on the cloud which we are provisioning. If we are moving onto the cloud platform, AWS, or zero GCP, we need an account. We need resources to be able to compute the network. Most organizations have their landing zone process and know how to create the resources account, compute the network layer and the security layer. However, this landing zone creation is not there in CloudSphere as a feature. It cannot create any of the cloud providers' accounts or their network security computing as a part of the orchestration layer. That orchestration layer is missing in this product. It will not discover all the applications, although they also have the catalog. They are constantly announcing their catalog to identify applications based on the service which we are discovering. 50% of the time, the application will discover automatically. However, for the other 50%, we need to find the application based on its running process. That's the automation method that we need to follow and that they call blueprint. We need to create those blueprints and then we need to tag those applications. That is the one process that takes time when we do the discovery. One of the cons of this product is that it will not discover all the applications running. It will not discover SAP or some kinds of applications that are running on those inside the application of the servers as well. When we start the scanning of, for example, 500 servers, it will not handle the scan. We need to differentiate the jobs - for example, one job for 100 servers, a second job for another 100 servers, et cetera. We cannot scan the 1,000 servers together. That causes it to take time. There’s a graph missing. It shows where all the servers have interdependencies; however, when we do actual work, it will not work properly in terms of what we present to the customer.
Amit Kantia - PeerSpot reviewer
Its most valuable feature is the ability to capture attributes in the console, but it is not a stable solution
I recommend others to use Densify. They can not only use it for reporting but for automation as well. They can implement the policies on the console easily during the build-out procedure. Stability is the primary concern to us as it is causing lots of problems. We can only make significant decisions if Densify allows us, and it takes lots of time. Thus, I rate the tool as a six out of ten.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
5%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
15%
University
8%
Comms Service Provider
5%
Manufacturing Company
27%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
13%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Turbonomic?
It offers different scenarios. It provides more capabilities than many other tools available. Typically, its price is...
What needs improvement with Turbonomic?
The implementation could be enhanced.
What is your primary use case for Turbonomic?
We use IBM Turbonomic to automate our cloud operations, including monitoring, consolidating dashboards, and reporting...
What do you like most about CloudSphere?
The product is helpful for the management, optimization, and utilization of resources.
What is your primary use case for CloudSphere?
I use the solution for our hyper-converged infrastructure within the organization for hospital management. We also ac...
What advice do you have for others considering CloudSphere?
We have a FortiGate license. The product is very good. The technical support is also very good. If the solution provi...
What do you like most about Densify?
The solution's tech support is excellent.
What needs improvement with Densify?
Densify is not a stable tool. Every time the support gets investigated, it takes much time to get refreshed.
What is your primary use case for Densify?
We are using Densify to produce reports and to get recommendations that can contribute to the area of our expertise.
 

Comparisons

 

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Sample Customers

IBM, J.B. Hunt, BBC, The Capita Group, SulAmérica, Rabobank, PROS, ThinkON, O.C. Tanner Co.
Affymetrix, Bell Helicopter, Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe, Porterville Unified School District, Interact for Health, VirtueCom, Warren Memorial Hospital, Front Porch, RMH Group, Meyers Nave, Intraworks, Information Technology, ETTE, Clackamas Community College
AIG, Bank of America, Cigna, Citi
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