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Cisco CloudCenter [EOL] vs CloudCheckr comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Cisco CloudCenter [EOL]
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
CloudCheckr
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (18th), Cloud Cost Management (18th), Managed Cloud Services (6th), AI Observability (28th)
 

Featured Reviews

ZT
Director Of Technology at a non-profit with 11-50 employees
Useful features for configuring down to ports but extremely expensive
Our company uses the solution's GUI interface to configure and monitor ports. We look at usage and determine if there are any issues.  Cisco is a very qualified company and has been in business for many, many years.  The solution is useful because you can configure all the way down to ports.  You…
AbhishekGupta2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Centralized cloud costs have boosted savings while reporting and user experience still need work
The best features CloudCheckr offers include out-of-the-box security and compliance check features that provide over 35 different types of compliance checks at no cost, best practice checks, and alerts. Another valuable feature is the multi-cloud overview, providing unified reporting across AWS and Azure while allowing us to create different types of dashboards based on who logs into the platform. Additionally, from an MSP standpoint, there is good ease of deployment, especially the billing and chargeback functionality for a reseller or managed services provider. CloudCheckr has positively impacted my organization by helping us manage multiple customers and tens of thousands of resources while retaining performance and visibility due to its multi-cloud support. We do not have to worry about jumping from one platform to another, and the better MSP support is beneficial from a billing and chargeback automation standpoint. The integration in compliance helps identify missing areas within our customer environments and improves them. On average, it has helped us provide approximately 15 to 20% savings through right-sizing or idle resource elimination. These are some of the immediate cost savings our customers have experienced after implementing recommendations from the tool.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Cisco has a lot of published information and documentation that helps users understand the product and its offering very well."
"You can scale it easily."
"I can define all components and create a blueprint for consumption across all services."
"The solution is very, very stable, it doesn't crash or freeze, and it's very reliable."
"Cisco CloudCenter's scalability is good."
"The tool is really at the center of our whole digital transformation."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward if you have a basic setup."
"The initial setup process is straightforward."
"The recommendation section is pretty helpful."
"If you are on AWS, you don't need to even think about it, just go ahead with using the solution because there's no better tool in that segment than CloudCheckr CMx High Security."
"CloudCheckr has positively impacted our organization as we've cut AWS spend by around 25% over two years."
"The billing feature is great, it is easy to set up, the solution is mostly stable, the scalability is great, and it offers excellent technical support."
"It will automatically suggest areas for optimization."
"I have seen a return on investment of 100%, with significant cost avoidance and measurable savings within the first few months of deployment."
"Our clients use this to financially optimize their cloud platform, and based on their utilization it helps to decide whether their current platform needs to be optimized and what the ideal form is."
"It's one of the leading players for cloud optimization. It's hard to find anything better."
 

Cons

"We're moving away from it due to the fact that they discontinued the product and introduced something new that does not fit our purpose."
"They should provide an entire cloud offering, from architecture to network security features."
"Cisco can improve their product by being agnostic, not just specific to Cisco components but also supportive of other vendors."
"The tool should improve its security on the XDR part."
"The solution needs to be more simple."
"They can add some of those features to make the platform more usable for different backgrounds and developer skills."
"You don't get all the solution's benefits if you have older switches."
"The product is very expensive."
"The reporting and analytic capabilities are very limited."
"What needs to be improved in CloudCheckr CMx High Security is integration."
"CloudCheckr can be very slow sometimes."
"I was not satisfied with the customer support from CloudCheckr."
"The solution needs to work better with larger capacities of data."
"Self-healing could be a bit smoother and a bit cleaner, easier to access and more functional. That would help."
"CloudCheckr could enhance its Azure support, as it honestly feels an afterthought."
"CloudCheckr CMx High Security is complex. There are a lot of menus, and if you do not know what you are looking for you can get lost. However, the interface is self-explanatory. It's easy to understand where to go to get what you want."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool's pricing is expensive."
"The solution is extremely expensive and has additional fees for things like monitoring."
"The tool's pricing is balanced with the market."
"The cost is on par with other providers."
"The solution is reasonably priced."
"A license is needed to use CloudCheckr CMx High Security, but because we are a managed service provider, the price of the license would vary. It depends on the type of cloud users we have, for example, it would be some type of percentage or monthly billing, etc."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
Construction Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise10
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudCheckr ?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing reflects that it uses custom pricing based on your cloud spend, which is pretty standard for this category. I won't pretend it's cheap, but we'...
What needs improvement with CloudCheckr ?
CloudCheckr could enhance its Azure support, as it honestly feels an afterthought. We have some workloads on Azure and the experience compared to AWS is noticeably worse. Additionally, there's a lo...
What is your primary use case for CloudCheckr ?
A quick, specific example of how I use CloudCheckr in my workflow is that first thing every morning, I check the cost anomaly alerts. CloudCheckr flags anything that looks out of the ordinary overn...
 

Also Known As

CliQr, CliQr CloudCenter
CloudCheckr CMx High Security, CloudCheckr CMP
 

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