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We performed a comparison between Avepoint FLY and Densify based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.""The most valuable feature of AvePoint FLY is its ability to install or use multiple client servers using a single master server and balance the migration load depending on our needs.""The solution is very straightforward to use. It's not overly difficult to figure out.""The initial setup phase can be described as a very user-friendly one...The solution's technical support was good since they responded very promptly."

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"The Control Console is an incredible way to give a quick view of current capacity utilization allowing technical people to drill down quickly and allowing business/management people to get a quick overview of the environment.""The tool will come back and tell us that we can operate with 1,000 minutes as an example, save 90% on the contractual rate and not run into any issues.""The ability to increase server density inside of my environment, which has helped me drive reduction in costs.""The solution's tech support is excellent.""The Densify Control Console, and Environment Status.""The Control Console provides a very easy to read dashboard of "too little/just right/too much" resources both for current data and on a historical or predictive basis.""Densify's ability to aggregate multiple on-premise vCenters and multiple cloud accounts, gives it a level of visibility not found in many places.""I would say that the initial thing is that it provides us with a technological basis to expand capacity management beyond Excel."

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Cons
"Technical support is lacking in that they don't seem to respond. I do a lot of research myself. I can't rely on them.""The solution's reporting could be improved because it does not have a lot of reporting capabilities.""Right now, AvePoint FLY doesn’t provide us with help to identify the size of the mailed items for a certain period.""The initial setup is a little bit more complex than setting up Cloud Backup for Avepoint."

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"A closer integration to the service management processes.""Unfortunately the tools and mechanisms which really came to maturity in the cloud, and were not mainstream on-premise, are still not implemented.""It seems that the mechanism for integration is, it goes so far but I think there could be some standard integration to normal remedy service now etc. I think that should be out of the box.""Some parts of the interface are rather complex and require a bit of time to navigate, but this has never stopped us as a Densify advisor is readily available to help with our "how to" queries.""Initially we talked about some custom reporting, wherein our customer expected certain reports on a few areas, like how the storage is allocated, how the network performance is doing, and how the network utilization is happening for a virtual machine.""In terms of integration, the tool has great data. However, it's not always meaningful because the true business attributes of how most Fortune 500 companies operate are not maintaining in one tool, they're in a school of many tools.""The solution's stability is the primary concern for me.""Normalization of CPU utilization is required. At present, the data is available based on entitlement level."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "We are using the trial version and find it to be costly. It's something around $20. With another attachment, the cost was lower, at about $3. However, you seem to have to buy more licenses than you need."
  • "The prices of the tool are neither low nor high, so it can be considered a moderately-priced product."
  • "AvePoint FLY's pricing is good enough for its capabilities."
  • "There are two different ways of licensing Avepoint FLY. So either you can use set up a licensing form based on objects which we do not recommend because then it will be more costly. So what you do is you set up the migration based on the users instead."
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  • "Setup cost is negligible, as it scales fairly well."
  • "Cost is always involved, but then I feel that this solution is better than other products that we have."
  • "Densify has licensing setup so you can collect data without licensing. It gives you the ability to collect on everything, then choose later what you would like to license."
  • "There was some sticker shock, as this is not just another software product to spit out graphs."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.
    Top Answer:There are two different ways of licensing Avepoint FLY. So either you can use set up a licensing form based on objects which we do not recommend because then it will be more costly. So what you do is… more »
    Top Answer:Right now, AvePoint FLY doesn’t provide us with help to identify the size of the mailed items for a certain period. As a discovery tool, AvePoint FLY provides us with information at a folder or… more »
    Top Answer:The solution's tech support is excellent.
    Top Answer:Densify is not a stable tool. Every time the support gets investigated, it takes much time to get refreshed.
    Top Answer:We are using Densify to produce reports and to get recommendations that can contribute to the area of our expertise.
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    Overview

    True to its name, AvePoint FLY will help you fly through your migration to Microsoft 365 Cloud. AvePoint FLY is a highly-regarded solution that will quickly facilitate the migration and consolidation of data from file shares such as Google Drive, Slack, Dropbox, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 groups, and more, to your Microsoft 365 cloud.

    AvePoint FLY is easy to set up and deploy and very easy to use. It provides for a thorough, speedy migration process that will save you and your organization time and money, while also ensuring any and all regulatory and compliance protocols are being thoroughly satisfied during the entire process.

    Here is a quick rundown of how the solution works:

    Analyze: AvePoint FLY starts with an intuitive analysis tool that can easily identify and determine which files are used regularly and are pertinent versus which files are stale and can be deleted or archived. The software can help enhance the migration planning and overall migration process while avoiding costly potential problems and threats. AvePoint FLY can easily understand what your current architecture comprises and make the very best, most precise decisions regarding your migration to Microsoft 365 cloud. The solution will greatly reduce administration time and will help you avoid costly hiccups and other issues, keeping the migration process moving smoothly at all times.

    Migrate: AvePoint FLY tremendously simplifies the migration process by accurately consolidating the file shares using intuitive, policy-driven controls and solid migration planning to ensure every file share migrates according to your preset plans and protocols. You can choose to migrate in real time or schedule the migration for whenever you desire. The entire migration process can be managed with a simple drag-and-drop selection from the dashboard.

    Monitor: You can closely track the progress and the results of your migration on the very user-friendly, easy-to-understand dashboard to ensure your pre-set, policy-driven controls and protocols are being met every step of the way. There are several different value-added reports available to access that will closely monitor what results and actions are being taken throughout the entire migration process. You can share that information with your clients and necessary team members so that everyone is fully aware of the progress of the migration at all times.

    Support: AvePoint FLY offers outstanding, 24/7 support for the solution and throughout your migration process. There are several different support options available: phone, online, email, and now even a new customer portal.

    AvePoint FLY is a great option if you need to declutter, purge or organize your data and you want it done quickly and economically. AvePoint FLY offers very flexible pricing options to fit just about every budget and every business size.

    Reviews from Real Users

    The solution is very straightforward to use. It's not overly difficult to figure out. Everything seems to be quite flexible. This is helpful as this was part of our requirements for a solution. The solution is quite stable and the performance has been good. - Manoj K., Senior System Administrator at a computer software company

    Densify is a hybrid cloud and container resource management platform that makes workloads self-aware of their precise resource requirements and automates the resource management and selection process. This solution helps you control your cloud spend and also helps your apps perform and scale better. Densify enables you to match your cloud requirements with the optimal cloud supply. Additionally, Densify is the only technology that leverages patented, predictive machine learning-powered analytics to perform advanced modeling of workload patterns, and provide precise optimization directives. It is ideal for cloud engineers, container platform owners, and IT finance.

    Densify works by:

    • Establishing application demand patterns that are based on business cycles, seasonality, peaks, valleys, and other variables.

    • Building normalized models of cloud supply and ingesting the entire cloud catalog and latest technologies.

    • Considering numerous factors, such as performance benchmarks, cost, technical rules, tags, and policies. The solution uses business and functional tags, operational realities, and granular policy control.

    Densify Features

    Densify has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Integration with management and provisioning systems
    • Machine learning-based analytics
    • Automated resource optimization
    • App owner collaboration
    • Tailored efficiency reports
    • Observability
    • Controllability
    • Capacity optimization
    • Policy driven, automated governance
    • VM placement
    • Predictive analytics

    Densify Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing Densify. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Automated resource management: Densify provides your organization with automated resource management at scale, with elasticity at an affordable low cost.
    • Full stack visibility: The Densify solution offers full stack visibility with improved efficiency by determining container size and node resources.
    • Financial visibility: In addition to full stack visibility, one of Densify’s other advantages is that it offers full financial visibility and cost intelligence for both reporting as well as chargebacks.
    • Resizing and rebalancing: Densify analyzes your private cloud infrastructure, providing resizing and rebalancing recommendations.
    • Helps you choose the right host environment: Densify automatically routes workloads to the best hosting environment based on detailed workload requirements. For workloads not requiring immediate placement, it reserves capacity to ensure it is available when required.
    • A true SaaS implementation: Because Densify is a true SaaS implementation, there is no software to maintain or to learn.
    • Better for IT finance: The solution is good for IT finance because it collects and analyzes your detailed billing data, giving you visibility into your spending, what services you’re buying, and how to better manage your costs. In addition, it can also generate reports that cover your spending and your utilization of reservations and reserved instances and savings plans.
    • Reduce risk and costs: Machine learning-based analytics help your organization optimize consumption to eliminate waste and overprovisioning while ensuring performance.
    • Cost-efficient: The Densify solution is cost-efficient, helping you drastically reduce per-processor software license costs by placing workloads intelligently.
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    AIG, Bank of America, Cigna, Citi
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Government11%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company23%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Retailer9%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business35%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise54%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise82%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise72%
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    Avepoint FLY is ranked 6th in Cloud Migration with 4 reviews while Densify is ranked 15th in Cloud Migration with 9 reviews. Avepoint FLY is rated 9.0, while Densify is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Avepoint FLY writes "An admin tool that admins use to migrate data if there is an M&A or internal request to migrate content". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Densify writes " Its most valuable feature is the ability to capture attributes in the console, but it is not a stable solution ". Avepoint FLY is most compared with Avepoint Migration Platform, whereas Densify is most compared with IBM Turbonomic, Granulate, Cloudability, VMware Aria Operations and VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth.

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