Cisco UCS Director vs CloudCheckr comparison

Cisco and Spot are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Cisco is ranked #21 with an average rating of 8.0, while Spot is ranked #30 with an average rating of 7.0. Cisco holds a 1.4% mindshare in CM, compared to Spot’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 73% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 66% of Spot users who would recommend it.

Cisco UCS Director

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66% willing to recommend

Cisco UCS Director

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Cisco UCS Director and CloudCheckr are competing products in the infrastructure management and cloud cost optimization categories. CloudCheckr is considered superior due to its robust features that justify the higher cost.

Features: Cisco UCS Director focuses on infrastructure automation with features like orchestration, provisioning, and centralized management of on-premises data centers. It supports multi-cloud environments with integration across Cisco solutions. CloudCheckr offers cloud optimization with strong cost management, security compliance, and multi-cloud management capabilities. It provides detailed analytics for cloud resources and a user-friendly interface.

Room for Improvement: Cisco UCS Director could improve its integration with non-Cisco solutions, enhance its user interface for better usability, and expand its feature set for hybrid cloud environments. CloudCheckr may benefit from simplifying its deployment process, reducing the learning curve for new users, and enhancing its reporting capabilities for better customization.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cisco UCS Director offers straightforward on-premises deployment with detailed technical support suited for enterprise settings. CloudCheckr has a scalable cloud deployment model, offering global customer support that requires initial education but provides a comprehensive user experience.

Pricing and ROI: Cisco UCS Director generally offers competitive pricing with lower initial setup costs and strong long-term ROI due to its efficient resource management. CloudCheckr, while having higher setup costs, delivers significant ROI by enabling substantial cost savings through cloud resource analytics and optimization.

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco UCS Director

Ranking in Cloud Management

21st

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

CloudCheckr

Ranking in Cloud Management

30th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Cost Management (10th), Managed Cloud Services (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Cisco UCS Director is 1.4%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CloudCheckr is 1.2%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Sunny Nair

Solution Architect and Senior Consultant at Keysight Technologies

Good multi-cloud management capability, but third-party and legacy integration needs improvement

Normally, UCS Director is used primarily for orchestration, but when we look at a non-Cisco data infrastructure components, the UCS Director needs a bit more improvement in terms of integration with third-party systems and with existing older systems. I feel that more development or a more integrated road map should be set up so that it becomes a common platform for any infrastructure. In the next release of this solution, I would like to see changes in the navigation controls of UCS Director. That would be helpful. Modifying the icons that are available for use, as well as virtualization aspects.

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Peter Ramnath

Associate Director, ITSM & Onboarding at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Provides recommendations regarding how cost and consumption can be adjusted, but the reporting and analytic capabilities are very limited

We are not happy with the product’s reporting capabilities. We are planning to change the solution. The security compliance feature doesn’t give much data because CloudCheckr has done a majority of its development on AWS. The majority of our clients are on Microsoft Azure. There are a lot of features and information available for Amazon, but not for Azure. The tool wasn't meeting our expectations. The reporting and analytic capabilities are very limited. There's no ability to do scheduled email reports. The report could only be sent to a single email address. The tool was not very usable. We had multiple clients and tasks to work with.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"An easy and strong configuration, along with its low cost, are some of the features of the solution."

"The product is flexible and compact. It has a lot of features."

"The main feature of this solution is the integration with all the Cisco solutions and other vendors."

"I can manage multiple workloads whether it's on AWS, Azure, or on-premises. They can be managed by using the UCS Director."

"The reason we went with Cisco is that it comes at a very negligible cost as part of the BOQ. Compared to the competition's products, which are incredibly expensive, UCS Director is low-cost."

"Cisco UCS Director is straightforward to use, which we greatly appreciate."

"Feature-wise, the solution helps one to add multiple environments in one place...It is a scalable product."

"UCS director enables us to be more productive and more agile, and also more self-sufficient because we don't have to depend on anybody else."

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"It's one of the leading players for cloud optimization. It's hard to find anything better."

"It will automatically suggest areas for optimization."

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"The recommendation section is pretty helpful."

"The solution is mostly stable."

"The solution is scalable for our purposes."

"The best feature I like about CloudCheckr CMx High Security is its simplicity. I love that it's not rocket science to use the solution. Even if you're not familiar with the cloud, you can easily figure out how to use CloudCheckr CMx High Security. You can use AWS, you can use Azure, and you can use GCP with the solution because the integration is quite simple. You can also use multi-cloud with it, and you could see the billing part. You'll have complete visibility into your cost which I love about the solution. I also love that data on any security issues and vulnerabilities are available on the go with CloudCheckr CMx High Security. You don't need to do anything different. Just run the scan and you'll have all these open findings in the tool, in terms of the priority level, so if it's critical, it will tell you, "It's critical," and you need to fix it right away."

"The most valuable feature of CloudCheckr CMx High Security is granular reporting. Additionally, the user interface is easy to use."

Cons

"The product could allow more programmatic opportunities through better development of the API."

"It is not easy to add or expand the product."

"There could be an improvement with the integration with the newest solutions from other vendors' technologies."

"There are a lot of bugs in the solution. This is an area in the solution that can be improved."

"We cannot depend on this solution to manage all of the data center's infrastructure."

"Currently, Cisco UCS Director is unable to integrate with another product or with a server from another brand."

"Simplifying the user interface would go a long way to making it more usable."

"The product's pricing needs to improve."

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"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."

"What needs to be improved in CloudCheckr CMx High Security is integration. All the clouds are going quite fast, for example, all the cloud providers: Microsoft, Google, etc. CloudCheckr CMx High Security is good with AWS, no doubt about it, but with Azure and Google Cloud, I find that the solution is slow in that direction. If the vendor planned for CloudCheckr CMx High Security to be automated just for AWS, then it does make sense. If not, if the vendor is also targeting good integration with Google and Microsoft, then CloudCheckr CMx High Security integration needs improvement, in particular, it has to be faster. At the moment, its integration with Azure is not as good as its integration with AWS. With GCP, integration is nowhere."

"The solution must improve its user interface."

"Self-healing could be a bit smoother and a bit cleaner, easier to access and more functional. That would help."

"Many features still need to be implemented in this tool."

"The solution needs to work better with larger capacities of data."

"The performance of the tool really needs to be improved."

"The reporting and analytic capabilities are very limited."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost of this solution is significant."

"Cisco UCS Director is expensive...I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing around five to six out of ten."

"The budget doesn’t work for the state and local governments."

"I would rate the product's pricing an eight out of ten."

"I rate Cisco UCS Director's price a three out of ten. Cisco UCS Director is not an affordable product. With Cisco UCS Director, there is a need to pay an overall price, which consists of the product, software, and support."

"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

Computer Software Company

25%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Computer Software Company

19%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cisco UCS Director?

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco UCS Director?

While the pricing might be seen as expensive, it provides value for money due to reliable service and excellent technical support.

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What needs improvement with Cisco UCS Director?

It should be more of a cloud-based architecture for Cisco UCS Director, and it should be affordable to small customers as well because the pricing is a major challenge when we talk about Cisco UCS ...

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What do you like most about CloudCheckr ?

The recommendation section is pretty helpful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudCheckr ?

The price depends on the actual Azure consumption and what we feed into it. The cost is on par with other providers.

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What needs improvement with CloudCheckr ?

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Also Known As

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CloudCheckr CMx High Security, CloudCheckr CMP

Overview

Cisco UCS Director enables automated delivery of physical and virtual data center resources, empowering data centers to move at the speed of business.

Cisco

CloudCheckr CMx High Security is a cloud management platform that provides complete visibility into cost and security issues. The primary use cases are day-to-day operations, cloud management, identifying open vulnerabilities and issues from a security perspective, and cost management and optimization.

The solution is praised for its stability, simplicity, ease of use, scalability, excellent technical support, and granular reporting. CloudCheckr CMx High Security provides priority-level data on security issues and vulnerabilities, making it easy to identify critical issues that need immediate attention.

Spot

Sample Customers

Entel, Data#3, Cegal, NESIC, LightEdge

Accenture, Logitech, Ingram, Cloudar, Infor, DXC, Cornell University, DLT, Lumen, Lightstream, Choice Hotels, B-Tech, SmileShark, PTP, Explicity, JCH Technology, Siemens Mobility

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