Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is a top-ranking HCI software, cloud management tool, and Software Defined Storage (SDS) tool that is marketed as the foundation for users' hybrid clouds. It offers a powerful and secure hyperconverged infrastructure to deliver all data and applications at any scale and on any cloud. The solution offers a complete software stack that allows users to unify their hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Able to grow with smaller, more linear increments of investment
The basic license that comes with the box allows basic virtualization features but advanced automation features would require an upgrade of licenses.
Able to grow with smaller, more linear increments of investment
The basic license that comes with the box allows basic virtualization features but advanced automation features would require an upgrade of licenses.
VMware Aria Automation is a cloud management tool that allows companies to simplify their cloud experience through a modern automation platform. The solution is designed to deliver self-service clouds, multi-cloud automation with governance, and DevOps-based security and infrastructure management. It helps organizations improve IT agility, efficiency, and productivity through its various features.
So much can be done with the Open Source side, and especially for smaller shops. I personally think the pricing for Enterprise is hard to justify.
The solution has helped to increase infrastructure, agility, speed, and provisioning in the time to market.
So much can be done with the Open Source side, and especially for smaller shops. I personally think the pricing for Enterprise is hard to justify.
The solution has helped to increase infrastructure, agility, speed, and provisioning in the time to market.
IBM Turbonomic is a performance and cost optimization platform for public, private, and hybrid clouds used by companies to assure application performance while eliminating inefficiencies by dynamically resourcing applications through automated actions.
Price is a big one. VMTurbo was very competitively priced.
We felt the pricing was very fair for the product. It is in no way prohibitive for larger deployments, unlike other similar product on the market.
Price is a big one. VMTurbo was very competitively priced.
We felt the pricing was very fair for the product. It is in no way prohibitive for larger deployments, unlike other similar product on the market.
VMware Aria Operations is a high-ranking virtualization management and cloud management tool that automates and simplifies IT management to the applications it supports. It achieves this through full-stack visibility from physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure. The product allows users to enable self-driving IT operations management across private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. This is conducted with the unified operations platform that delivers continuous performance, capacity and cost optimization, and integrated compliance through artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), and predictive analytics.
Don't overallocate! This means that you don't have to buy many hosts. You can save money that way.
The pricing: It's expensive.
Don't overallocate! This means that you don't have to buy many hosts. You can save money that way.
The pricing: It's expensive.
ServiceNow IT Operations Management (ITOM) is a cloud management and infrastructure tool that facilitates the administrative and development process of creating, planning, and operating digital services, technology, application requirements, and components for organizations. Service Now ensures effectiveness, performance, and availability throughout an organization's processes and services.
The pricing is high and may be excluding the small to medium-sized enterprise businesses.
It has different subscription models.
The pricing is high and may be excluding the small to medium-sized enterprise businesses.
It has different subscription models.
Cisco Intersight is Cisco’s systems management platform that delivers intuitive computing through cloud-powered intelligence. This platform offers a more intelligent level of management that enables IT organizations to analyze, simplify, and automate their environments in ways that were not possible with prior generations of tools. This capability empowers organizations to achieve significant savings in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and to deliver applications faster, so they can support new business initiates. The advantages of the model-based management of the Cisco UCS platform plus Cisco Intersight are extended to Cisco UCS servers and Cisco HyperFlex and Cisco HyperFlex Edge systems. Cisco HyperFlex Edge is optimized for remote sites, branch offices, and edge environments.
Cisco Intersight is not cheap, but it's not the most expensive product either.
It's just the standard licensing cost. There are no additional fees.
Cisco Intersight is not cheap, but it's not the most expensive product either.
It's just the standard licensing cost. There are no additional fees.
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.
The price of Sangfor is cheaper than other competing products.
The pricing of Sangfor is very competitive.
The price of Sangfor is cheaper than other competing products.
The pricing of Sangfor is very competitive.
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is a cloud management tool that drives consistent governance across private and public clouds for its users. The solution brings simplicity and ease of use to managing and building cloud deployments by providing a unified multicloud management that addresses common cloud adoption challenges.
Nutanix Cloud Manager offers four key value drivers:
I think it can be more cost-effective.
The pricing was quite competitive and a lot lower compared to other solutions. It wasn't cheap, but it was not as expensive.
I think it can be more cost-effective.
The pricing was quite competitive and a lot lower compared to other solutions. It wasn't cheap, but it was not as expensive.
VMware Cloud Director, also known as vCloud Director, is a cloud management tool that offers secure, flexible, and efficient cloud resources to thousands of enterprises and IT teams across the world. The solution serves as one of the leading cloud service-delivery platforms for businesses that want to manage and operate their services effectively. By deploying this solution, companies can benefit from virtualized networking, computing, security, and storage. These benefits can be received in a timely manner, as the infrastructure of the product is operationally ready within minutes and clients do not need to install and configure physical infrastructure.
We are able to provision new clients faster. Every month, we take on more customers.
It enables us to provision new clients more quickly.
We are able to provision new clients faster. Every month, we take on more customers.
It enables us to provision new clients more quickly.
OpenNebula provides the most simple but feature-rich and flexible solution for the comprehensive management of virtualized data centers to enable private, public and hybrid IaaS clouds. OpenNebula interoperability makes cloud an evolution by leveraging existing IT assets, protecting your investments, and avoiding vendor lock-in.
VRA is very expensive but OpenNebula is free.
We use the Community Edition, rather than the Enterprise Edition.
VRA is very expensive but OpenNebula is free.
We use the Community Edition, rather than the Enterprise Edition.
VMware Tanzu CloudHealth, formerly known as VMware Aria Cost Powered by CloudHealth, is a specialized cloud management platform tailored for Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization. It offers comprehensive visibility into cloud spending across various providers, enabling users to identify areas for optimization and make informed resource allocation decisions. With features like reserved instance management, resource rightsizing, and automated cost governance policies, it facilitates financial management for optimal cost efficiency. Beyond cost optimization, Tanzu CloudHealth enhances cloud operations through workload optimization and governance automation, catering to multi-cloud environments encompassing public, private, and hybrid clouds. Its primary focus remains on enabling organizations to effectively manage and reduce cloud expenditures while supporting operations across diverse cloud platforms.
CloudHealth has a subscription-based model.
The pricing is competitive and while other products are good they are considerably more expensive.
CloudHealth has a subscription-based model.
The pricing is competitive and while other products are good they are considerably more expensive.
I am working on one configuration that is priced at $50,000 USD, whereas another one that I'm working on is estimated to cost $250,000 USD.
The solution has been more costly at this point. We do not see any cost savings.
I am working on one configuration that is priced at $50,000 USD, whereas another one that I'm working on is estimated to cost $250,000 USD.
The solution has been more costly at this point. We do not see any cost savings.
Cloudify is an open-source orchestration-first cloud management platform. The solution allows applications to efficiently run across multiple cloud or data center platforms for premium multi-cloud infrastructure automation and orchestration. It provides infrastructure automation using environment as a service (EaaS) technology to deploy and continuously manage any cloud, private data center, or Kubernetes service from one central point while leveraging existing toolchains.
CloudBolt supports a variety of cloud technologies, from on-premises virtualization and private cloud to a wide range public and hybrid cloud configurations.
The system is cheaper if a customer has fewer servers since you pay by the node.
The solution is reasonably priced.
The system is cheaper if a customer has fewer servers since you pay by the node.
The solution is reasonably priced.
The solution is reasonably priced.
The cost is on par with other providers.
The solution is reasonably priced.
The cost is on par with other providers.
AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a new, secure, multi-account AWS environment. It establishes a landing zone that is based on best-practices blueprints, and enables governance using guardrails you can choose from a pre-packaged list.
The solution is free.
On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing an eight.
The solution is free.
On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing an eight.
Manage container, virtual, private, and public cloud infrastructures
It is definitely cheaper than VMware. Everything is included. There is no challenge there.
Red Hat CloudForms has a subscript-based pricing model. The cost is approximately $20,000 annually which allows you to use as many users as you want.
It is definitely cheaper than VMware. Everything is included. There is no challenge there.
Red Hat CloudForms has a subscript-based pricing model. The cost is approximately $20,000 annually which allows you to use as many users as you want.
IBM Spectrum Computing uses intelligent workload and policy-driven resource management to optimize resources across the data center, on premises and in the cloud. Now up to 150X faster and scalable to over 160,000 cores, IBM provides you with the latest advances in software-defined infrastructure to help you unleash the power of your distributed mission-critical high performance computing (HPC), analytics and big data applications as well as a new generation open source frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark.
This solution is expensive.
Spectrum Computing is one of the most expensive products on the market.
This solution is expensive.
Spectrum Computing is one of the most expensive products on the market.
Due to its implementation's complexity, it was delivered for a minimal value at a high cost.
It is expensive.
Due to its implementation's complexity, it was delivered for a minimal value at a high cost.
It is expensive.
OpenText Cloud Service Automation provides open, heterogeneous, extensible enterprise-grade cloud service lifecycle management to design and orchestrate full stack services. CSA embraces existing automation assets with an enhanced orchestration engine, which provides IT with an informed, transparent delivery of secure compliant services for the hybrid cloud.
OpenText Cloud Service Automation's pricing is average.
OpenText Cloud Service Automation's pricing is average.
The IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management, running on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, provides consistent visibility, governance and automation from on premises to the edge. Enterprises gain capabilities such as multicluster management, event management, application management and infrastructure management. Enterprises can leverage this IBM Cloud Pak to help increase operational efficiency that's driven by intelligent data analysis and predictive golden signals, and gain built-in support for their compliance management.
Cloud Application Manager facilitates customer IT transformation by orchestrating the delivery of infrastructure, applications and services across multiple clouds. Manage any infrastructure from a single interface by utilizing the platform's inherent features, including Application Lifecycle Management, as well as Managed Services Anywhere and deployment of CenturyLink Cloud, CenturyLink Private Cloud on VMware Cloud Foundation, Microsoft Azure, or AWS Cloud instances.
The Jamcracker Platform is a comprehensive cloud services broker, cloud services management and cloud governance platform, including cloud services provisioning, policy management, cloud cost management, and operations management. Jamcracker enables organizations to create, deliver, and manage multi cloud services and implement a cloud-enabled business model for offering, delivering, supporting and billing for multi cloud services. The Platform offers flexibility and scalability, with a multi-tiered, multi-tenant architecture, RESTful APIs and integration frameworks while supporting localization in terms of multiple currencies, languages and timezones. Jamcracker enables partners including telecom service providers, managed services providers, system integrators, distributors, technology and value added resellers to unify, deliver and manage SaaS, PaaS and public or private IaaS cloud services for the end customers including enterprise, mid-market, SMB and government organizations.
The solution is a little expensive.
The solution is a little expensive.
