Cisco CloudCenter vs SaltStack comparison

Cancel
You must select at least 2 products to compare!
Cisco Logo
176 views|105 comparisons
87% willing to recommend
SaltStack Logo
2,885 views|1,597 comparisons
94% willing to recommend
Comparison Buyer's Guide
Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Cisco CloudCenter and SaltStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Zerto, Nasuni and others in Cloud Migration.
To learn more, read our detailed Cloud Migration Report (Updated: April 2024).
769,479 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Featured Review
Quotes From Members
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use.
Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros
"The initial setup process is straightforward.""The solution is agile and it has APIs for integration.""The initial setup is fairly straightforward if you have a basic setup.""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.""You can scale it easily.""The solution includes a lot of features and is useful because you can configure all the way down to ports.""Cisco CloudCenter's scalability is good.""I can define all components and create a blueprint for consumption across all services."

More Cisco CloudCenter Pros →

"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to provide environmental security.""We monitor the configurations against CIS standards. We run CIS benchmarks and maintain configurations with higher CIS values for each server.""It is a highly stable solution.""The automation functionality has been most valuable. With a click of a button, we are able to automate provisioning, the build of new hardware and apply patches. These are all extremely important and differentiated tasks that can be automated in SaltStack.""SaltStack has given us the ability to deal with systems at scale and rectify issues at scale.""I want to build automation that is intelligent, part of the fabric of our environment, and is somewhat self-sustaining. I think SaltStack can help me do this.""The ability to programmatically describe the desired state of a single, or an entire fleet of servers, on-premises, and in a cloud environment."

More SaltStack Pros →

Cons
"They should provide an entire cloud offering, from architecture to network security features.""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.""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.""Improvements are needed in UI and multi-tenancy for this solution.""The tool should improve its security on the XDR part.""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.""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."

More Cisco CloudCenter Cons →

"Its configuration process could be better.""SaltStack's features are minimal.""This solution could be integrated with more hardware for an improved offering.""It is difficult to set up.""A hardened set of tests would be much appreciated.""Web UI.""There is a little bit of pain when it comes to libraries and what is needed to run the product."

More SaltStack Cons →

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."
  • More Cisco CloudCenter Pricing and Cost Advice →

  • "So much can be done with the Open Source side, and especially for smaller shops. I personally think the pricing for Enterprise is hard to justify."
  • "The pricing for this solution is roughly 20% lower than the competitive products in the market."
  • "The solution is free of cost."
  • "It is an open-source product."
  • "SaltStack is an open-source product."
  • More SaltStack Pricing and Cost Advice →

    report
    Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Cloud Migration solutions are best for your needs.
    769,479 professionals have used our research since 2012.
    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:We monitor the configurations against CIS standards. We run CIS benchmarks and maintain configurations with higher CIS values for each server.
    Top Answer:SaltStack's features are minimal.
    Top Answer:We use SaltStack for configuration management, where we maintain configurations of 150 servers. It also helps with file integrity monitoring.
    Ranking
    10th
    out of 38 in Cloud Migration
    Views
    176
    Comparisons
    105
    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    698
    Rating
    7.8
    14th
    Views
    2,885
    Comparisons
    1,597
    Reviews
    4
    Average Words per Review
    225
    Rating
    7.8
    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    CliQr, CliQr CloudCenter
    Learn More
    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.

    SaltStack is an intelligent IT automation platform that can manage, secure, and optimize any infrastructure—on-prem, in the cloud, or at the edge. It’s built on a unique and powerful event-driven automation engine that detects events in any system and reacts intelligently to them, making it an extremely effective solution for managing large, complex environments. And with the newly launched SecOps offering, SaltStack can detect security vulnerabilities and non-compliant, mis-configured systems. As soon as an issue is detected, this powerful automation helps you and your team remediate it, keeping your infrastructure securely configured, compliant, and up-to-date.

    Sample Customers
    NTT, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), CollabNet, Pratt & Miller, PZFlex
    IBM CloudTD BankScotiaBankLinkedIneBayLiberty MutualTargetHyattCyxteraNetAppFacebookLyft
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company34%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Healthcare Company8%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company46%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Cloud Solution Provider8%
    Healthcare Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company14%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    University8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business44%
    Large Enterprise56%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise70%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business40%
    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise37%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise71%
    Buyer's Guide
    Cloud Migration
    April 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Zerto, Nasuni and others in Cloud Migration. Updated: April 2024.
    769,479 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Cisco CloudCenter is ranked 10th in Cloud Migration with 9 reviews while SaltStack is ranked 14th in Configuration Management with 33 reviews. Cisco CloudCenter is rated 7.8, while SaltStack is rated 8.2. 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 SaltStack writes "Orchestration tool that powers automation of processes with the click of a button". Cisco CloudCenter is most compared with Cisco Intersight, Cisco UCS Director, VMware Aria Automation, CloudStack and Faddom, whereas SaltStack is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Configuration Manager, HashiCorp Terraform, Red Hat Satellite and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

    We monitor all Cloud Migration reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.