Avada Software Infrared360 vs VMware Tanzu Data Solutions comparison

The compared Avada Software and Broadcom solutions aren't in the same category. Avada Software is ranked #78 in APM , and holds a 0.4% mindshare in the category. Broadcom is ranked #8 in Data Warehouse , with an average rating of 8.6, and holds a 4.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Avada Software users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

Avada Software Infrared360

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100% willing to recommend

VMware Tanzu Data Solutions

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89% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Avada Software Infrared360

Average Rating

8.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (78th), Business Activity Monitoring (8th), Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) (12th), Server Monitoring (35th)

VMware Tanzu Data Solutions

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database Development and Management (5th), Relational Databases Tools (13th), Data Warehouse (8th), Message Queue (MQ) Software (5th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Application Integration solutions, they serve different purposes. Avada Software Infrared360 is designed for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability and holds a mindshare of 0.4%, up 0.1% compared to last year.
VMware Tanzu Data Solutions, on the other hand, focuses on Data Warehouse, holds 4.5% mindshare, up 3.7% since last year.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Avada Software Infrared360	0.4%
Dynatrace	5.6%
Datadog	4.9%
Other	89.1%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
VMware Tanzu Data Solutions	4.5%
Snowflake	9.5%
Teradata	8.8%
Other	77.2%

Data Warehouse

Featured Reviews

Walter Kuhn

ICT Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Role-based access to queues, giving us more insights into problems

* We now have the possibility of getting a central perspective on all tenants. * We have defined access roles for developers. Therefore, they can 'read in' their queues on the development and testing stages. With special roles, they may also write. This improves our development and testing cycle. * For operative systems, we have restricted the access. Still, selected people can react if something is happening in the various BOQs.

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Karthik Shivaram

Sr. Manager at STI INFOTECH PVT LTD

Improved multi-cloud data management has simplified operations and supports seamless Kubernetes

From my perspective, the biggest challenge with VMware right now is the pricing. To be very honest, in many cases I find myself recommending alternative solutions instead of VMware. Even if those alternatives come with a bit more complexity, customers are often more willing to accept that than the current VMware pricing model. In the past, VMware used a socket-based licensing model, which was easier for customers to understand and budget for. Now the shift to a core-based licensing model has significantly increased costs for many environments, especially for organizations running modern high-core CPUs. One positive aspect of the new model is that VMware has bundled several components together. For example, earlier when deploying vSphere, customers also had to purchase vCenter separately for management. Now multiple components are packaged into a single SKU, which simplifies some aspects of procurement and deployment. While this consolidation has its benefits, the overall licensing and commercial costs remain very high. Pricing is not the only issue. I believe Broadcom also needs to reconsider its strategy in light of the current market conditions. The approach they are taking may be strategic from a business perspective, but from what I see in the field, it is leading to lost opportunities. Many customers who previously relied on VMware are now actively exploring alternative virtualization platforms. I’m not sure where this direction will ultimately lead, but based on my experience, it is already affecting adoption. Since you’ve been trying to reach me for some time—and we also had a discussion a couple of years ago—I hope this feedback helps Broadcom understand the current sentiment in the market and potentially make adjustments. Another important concern is the way features are bundled. In many cases, customers only need basic virtualization and high availability capabilities. However, the current packaging often includes additional features that they may not need. A good analogy is that if a customer only needs an entry-level car, we shouldn’t be forced to sell them a Rolls-Royce. VMware could benefit from adopting a more modular or à la carte licensing model, where customers can choose only the components they truly require. For example, if a customer only needs core virtualization functionality, they should be able to purchase just that. This would allow partners and solution providers to better align solutions with customer requirements and position VMware more competitively in the market. Another challenge I want to highlight is the pricing model based on U.S. dollars and the way multi-year licensing is handled. In many enterprise and government projects, customers prefer to commit to three-year or five-year licenses and pay the full amount upfront. However, in approximately 20% of the deals I work on, we lose opportunities because VMware only provides dollar-based pricing for the first year. When it comes to the following years, the contract requires renewals annually rather than allowing a fixed multi-year upfront payment. This approach is particularly problematic for government and public sector customers. Many of them are ready and willing to pay for three or five years in advance, but the current VMware model does not support that structure effectively. Because pricing is tied to the U.S. dollar and subject to yearly adjustments, VMware does not lock in pricing for the full term. From a customer’s perspective, this introduces uncertainty and makes procurement more complicated. Ideally, if a price is quoted—for example, $100 per year—it should remain consistent across a multi-year agreement. Customers would be comfortable committing to a five-year term if the price were fixed and predictable. Unfortunately, that flexibility is currently not available across VMware products, whether it is vSphere, VMware Tanzu solutions, or other offerings. For large enterprise environments, one-year commitments are usually not practical. Many enterprise customers prefer longer-term agreements for budgeting and procurement reasons. Even when they are willing to accept the higher cost associated with the core-based licensing model, the lack of a clear multi-year upfront option often becomes a deal-breaker.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Administration, Monitoring, and Delegation are the most valuable features of the solution."

"I highly recommend Infrared360 for an all-in-one IBM MQ tool."

"The product has a small footprint on our system, they're very knowledgeable of MQ, which we use, and the features that they provide for monitoring our MQ system are just really, really good."

"The administration piece makes it very easy to do MQ administration. It gives us a lot more flexibility and capabilities."

"It's what we use for monitoring our MQ system, so the features that they provide are just really, really good."

"IR360 does not require a large team to manage our entire middleware estate and allows the leveraging of a logical model of reuse."

"One way it's helped the business is how you're able to empower MQ users, without your administrators, to be able to do different types of processes in the environment."

"Monitoring that ties into our incident management system"

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"VMware Tanzu Data Solutions has positively impacted my organization because it is efficient, easy, fast, and aids in the creation and administration of web servers."

"It works very well with large database queries."

"Being MPP which is a bulk operator - we were able to do 1.5 million calculation in 15 minutes."

"With RabbitMQ cluster servicing micro-services, we don't have any downtime and we don't lose any data."

"Greenplum is a high powered, multi-node database that was chosen for its capacity to ingest and query data at extremely high rates of speed, enabling in-database analytics and statistical output on granular levels of data that was otherwise inaccessible before its deployment."

"It's super easy to deploy and it also supports different languages and analytics."

"Append Only tables, data compression and bulk load and extraction using External Tables are very valuable features for us."

"The message routing is the most valuable feature. It is effective and flexible."

Cons

"Some of the graphics in the interface could be improved. It's pretty basic."

"The user interface could be sexier and more ergonomic. The competing products have similar problems."

"The user interface could be sexier and more ergonomic."

"One area where they could improve is with their documentation. Some sections are not up to date with new release information and providing additional samples in some areas would be very helpful."

"The UI can be cumbersome - but we are still using the Viper interface and we have not had the time to check out the Alloy interface which is supposed to be much improved."

"One area where they could improve is with their documentation. Some sections are not up to date with new release information and providing additional samples in some areas would be very helpful."

"We are still working with the FTE/MFT subscription monitoring and reporting functionality. That is an area in which we would like to see further development taking place."

"We definitely need a better overview in terms of a dashboard giving us insights."

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"The performance needs to be improved."

"Improve the ability to handle the large message load."

"The installation is difficult and should be made easier."

"The pricing is very high. To be honest, instead of VMware products, I am pushing other products."

"Scalability issues are present. Most of our functions or jobs are queued due to that."

"It should support more feature that do exist on Postgres – like JSON datatype."

"The next release should include some of the flexibility and features that Kafka offers."

"When you have complex tasks, RabbitMQ is hard to use."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Start small, then increase licensing later as per your demand."

"Because the licensing is at the QMGR level, you need to have at least a small cushion of licenses for occasional enterprise needs."

"Avada Software's licensing metric is very good because the license fees are based on the number of connections (which have not increased for us very much over the years) rather than the CPU processing power (which increases significantly whenever our hardware is upgraded) or the number of users (which has increased for us a lot since our original purchase)."

"Our internal budget calculation model incorporates the pricing per endpoint for any new projects. However, as our footprint for distributed queue managers shrinks as part of our shared middleware hub deployment, the initial licensing and support costs have been reduced over the last five years."

"Since the tool is an open-source product, there is no need to pay anything."

"On a scale of one to five, with five being the most competitive pricing, I would rate this solution as a four."

"We are using the open-source version of this solution."

"The solution's pricing is cost-effective as it does not involve significant expenses. Licensing is required only for the server, while clients do not need any licensing. Therefore, it proves to be a cost-efficient option."

"It is an open-source platform. Although, we have to pay for additional features."

"The price is pretty good."

"are using the open-source version, which can be used free of cost."

"The product is available for free use since it is an open-source technology."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

24%

Construction Company

12%

Printing Company

Marketing Services Firm

Financial Services Firm

17%

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	5

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	30
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	49

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Also Known As

Infrared360

Greenplum, Pivotal Greenplum, VMware RabbitMQ, VMware Tanzu GemFire, VMware Postgres

Overview

Avada Software specializes in Enterprise Middleware solutions. Founded by some pioneers in SOA, MQ and J2EE technology, Avada’s Flagship product, Infrared360, is a holistic & innovative private cloud enabled portal providing self-service administration, monitoring, load testing, auditing & statistical reporting for Enterprise Middleware including IBM’s middleware stack of MQ, IIB (message broker), WAS, and Datapower, as well as other applications servers such as JBoss, TC Server, Weblogic, and other messaging technologies such as Tibco EMS and Kafka*.

Accessed via any web browser on any device, Infrared360 is a single web application, yet scales to 2500+ endpoints without deploying anything (no agents, no scripts) to those endpoints.

Using trusted ‘spaces’ and delegated visibility and control, the portal uniquely provides different business units or even different application users virtual ‘spaces’ in which to work. Within those spaces are only the objects and resources the user has been granted visibility. Role policy dictates permissions on those resources.

It is the ONLY Enterprise Messaging Solution with a built in SOA engine that lets you leverage internal and external services for managing and correcting problems within your middleware messaging environment.

*Kafka coming soon

Avada Software

VMware Tanzu is a robust platform tailored for data warehousing, complex analytics, BI applications, and predictive analytics. It excels in scalability, performance, and parallel processing, enhancing data handling efficiency. Users report significant productivity improvements and streamlined operations, making it ideal for comprehensive data solutions.

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