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We performed a comparison between Cisco CloudCenter and NetApp Cloud Insights based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Migration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Cisco CloudCenter vs. NetApp Cloud Insights Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"Upgrades are very simple as well because they've allowed us to get updates directly in the CloudCenter Suite manager. If you need to do an upgrade to your setup afterward, you just push a button and it rolls out the parts and retires the old ones. It's seamless and very simple compared to what we've done before.""The initial setup is fairly straightforward if you have a basic setup.""The solution is agile and it has APIs for integration.""The solution includes a lot of features and is useful because you can configure all the way down to ports.""Cisco has a lot of published information and documentation that helps users understand the product and its offering very well.""I can define all components and create a blueprint for consumption across all services.""Cisco CloudCenter's scalability is good.""The initial setup process is straightforward."

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"Cloud Secure is definitely the most valuable feature and being able to see file level activity. It gives real-time alerting on possible ransomware attacks and provides file security review. It helps us to see if something abnormal is happening on the system before it's too late.""The visibility and assistance with security vulnerabilities are valuable.""The solution is 98 percent stable.""One feature we appreciate the most is its ability to take snapshots, which adds an extra layer of security and allows us to protect our data effectively.""NetApp Cloud Insights helps with login monitoring and troubleshooting. Previously, if we had performance concerns or needed to interface with other groups and their products, a task that should require only one or two people turned into a six-person job.""Among the most valuable features are the queries and reporting that allow us to look at the utilization of resources, at how well the storage is performing, and to report on which resources are being used by which business units. We can track usage across the entire environment, across applications, business units, cost centers, etc.""It is good for giving an overview of the systems and for tracking long-term trends. It is handy for root cause analysis, e.g. it can eliminate whether storage is the cause of an issue.""Cloud Insights' best features are visibility and the connector to move the workloads."

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Cons
"You don't get all the solution's benefits if you have older switches.""For many clients, the main problem with the solution is the price. Cisco is very expensive. If they could somehow make the pricing more competitive, that would be a big draw.""I'm not a big fan of CloudCenter. I don't have anything against it, however, the on-premise version has been so hard to upgrade and maintain.""They can add some of those features to make the platform more usable for different backgrounds and developer skills.""The tool should improve its security on the XDR part.""They should provide an entire cloud offering, from architecture to network security features.""Improvements are needed in UI and multi-tenancy for this solution.""The improvement I would like to see is not one thing particular to CloudCenter. I'd say it's more of a message that the system is still using a lot of the different products and if they would all just fit better together, they all could be faster together."

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"When I did need support because I was having problems with the solution, the first or the second line just didn't understand it. They were providing this only on a software as a service basis. So, they were asking all the wrong questions.""The support is not very quick.""There is room for improving the creating and managing or modifying of reports. That is still a difficult task to do and requires knowledge beyond the storage itself. I would love to see reporting improved so that we can create reports by dragging and dropping pieces into a report form and publish a report that way.""Their pricing model needs improvement.""Ease of reporting is one thing that they're trying to tackle. If you have a specific set of data you want from Cloud Insights, you can ask NetApp to help you build the reports from the ground up. The dashboards are intuitive, but finding the report you want is sometimes a challenge. If you don't have the report already loaded, pulling it in and letting it build its data can be cumbersome.""In a perfect world we would have something built, right out-of-the-box, that can identify what we call "noise," and reduce the amount of data. You're presented with so much data when you first start the data collectors. For example, it brings back a lot of change rates that happen just because of standard computing, like profile changes and that sort of thing. Being able to identify things like that and categorize them and strip it down—and it probably can do that, I just haven't gotten there yet—would be very beneficial.""The visualization needs some improvement because there are occasional delays while the system queries information.""Cloud Insights could offer more detail when we drill down into the Azure environment."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The solution is extremely expensive and has additional fees for things like monitoring."
  • "The tool's pricing is balanced with the market."
  • "The tool's pricing is expensive."
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  • "The licensing model could be improved. We love that you can use it for free for looking at NetApp products. You only need licenses to look at non-NetApp products, but as soon as you do that, you start utilizing licenses that actually would have been free in the public. So, there is a bit of an anomaly in the licensing model."
  • "Be aware of the capacity licensing and understand how that works, because it is based on capacity. Getting an understanding of that is the biggest thing."
  • "The solution's pricing is based on the device you purchase and includes support services."
  • "We are billed based on management units, so we can purchase units based on six months, twelve months, twenty-four months, or thirty-six months upfront or pay as you go depending on our requirements."
  • "The solution is expensive."
  • "The licensing is complex. The calculation depends on what you're ingesting. A terabyte of one product is not a terabyte of another product. Virtual machines don't equate so easily. It's all about the end-use managed units and having an easy place to reference how far those units go."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The initial setup process is straightforward.
    Top Answer:They should provide an entire cloud offering, from architecture to network security features.
    Top Answer:We use the product for demonstration, device provisioning, and data management.
    Top Answer:NetApp Cloud Insights helps with login monitoring and troubleshooting. Previously, if we had performance concerns or needed to interface with other groups and their products, a task that should… more »
    Top Answer:The licensing is complex. The calculation depends on what you're ingesting. A terabyte of one product is not a terabyte of another product. Virtual machines don't equate so easily. It's all about the… more »
    Top Answer:Ease of reporting is one thing that they're trying to tackle. If you have a specific set of data you want from Cloud Insights, you can ask NetApp to help you build the reports from the ground up. The… more »
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    8th
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    Also Known As
    CliQr, CliQr CloudCenter
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    Overview

    The Cisco CloudCenter solution is an application-centric hybrid cloud management platform that securely provisions infrastructure resources and deploys applications to data center, private cloud, and public cloud environments.

    With Cisco CloudCenter breakthrough application-centric technology, users
    can:

    • Model: Quickly and easily build a cloud-independent application profile that defines the deployment and management requirements of an entire application stack.
    • Deploy: Use one click to deploy the application profile and related components and data to any data center or cloud environment.
    • Manage: Apply a wide range of application lifecycle actions to set policies to enable in-place scaling, support cross-environment bursting or high availability and disaster recovery, and stop the deployment.

    NetApp Cloud Insights is an infrastructure monitoring tool that gives you visibility into your complete infrastructure. With Cloud Insights, you can monitor, troubleshoot and optimize all your resources including your public clouds and your private data centers.

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    Sample Customers
    NTT, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), CollabNet, Pratt & Miller, PZFlex
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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company34%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Healthcare Company8%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Logistics Company17%
    Legal Firm17%
    Media Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business44%
    Large Enterprise56%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise70%
    REVIEWERS
    Midsize Enterprise33%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise68%
    Buyer's Guide
    Cisco CloudCenter vs. NetApp Cloud Insights
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco CloudCenter vs. NetApp Cloud Insights and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Cisco CloudCenter is ranked 10th in Cloud Migration with 9 reviews while NetApp Cloud Insights is ranked 8th in Cloud Migration with 12 reviews. Cisco CloudCenter is rated 7.8, while NetApp Cloud Insights is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco CloudCenter writes "Useful features for configuring down to ports but extremely expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Insights writes "It helps with login monitoring and troubleshooting". Cisco CloudCenter is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, Cisco UCS Director, CloudStack and Faddom, whereas NetApp Cloud Insights is most compared with Datadog, Dell CloudIQ, Zabbix, IBM Turbonomic and ServiceNow IT Operations Management. See our Cisco CloudCenter vs. NetApp Cloud Insights report.

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