Sangfor HCI and AWS Control Tower both operate in the hyper-converged infrastructure category. While Sangfor HCI excels due to its cost-effectiveness and support, AWS Control Tower gains an edge with comprehensive governance and security features.
Features: Sangfor HCI is known for its scalability, ease of management, and cost-effectiveness with enterprise-level solutions like built-in backup and firewall integration, managed via a GUI-based interface. AWS Control Tower offers advantages in multi-account management, guardrails for enhanced security, and detailed resource management, leading to robust compliance features.
Room for Improvement: Sangfor HCI could improve its security features, compatibility with third-party solutions, lower renewal costs, and provide better documentation with built-in security options. For AWS Control Tower, areas for enhancement include security capabilities, integration with other products, refining guardrails for flexibility, improved multi-region support, and simplifying initial setups.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Sangfor HCI is typically deployed on-premises with some private cloud use, offering responsive technical support with noted language barriers. AWS Control Tower is primarily deployed on public clouds, recognized for scalability but facing complex setups and post-COVID-19 support challenges.
Pricing and ROI: Sangfor HCI is competitively priced, often cheaper than solutions like VMware, offering significant ROI with simplified licensing and operational cost savings. In contrast, AWS Control Tower follows a pay-as-you-go model, often seen as expensive but justified by the operational and security advantages, becoming a strategic choice for larger enterprises.
It is beneficial because it is totally managed by AWS, meaning I do not have to worry about scalability or durability.
It is a stable solution managed by AWS.
It is important that the system syncs automatically instead of requiring me to manually choose sync options.
It is free and does not incur additional charges.
The unified security management is a crucial aspect, and whenever an AWS organization is used, Control Tower is typically included to ensure comprehensive compliance fulfillment.
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.
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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