Cisco UCS Director vs CloudCheckr comparison

Cisco and Spot - A Flexera company are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Cisco is ranked #21 with an average rating of 8.0, while Spot - A Flexera company is ranked #24 with an average rating of 8.0. Cisco holds a 1.8% mindshare in CM, compared to Spot - A Flexera company’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 73% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 77% of Spot - A Flexera company users who would recommend it.

Cisco UCS Director

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73% willing to recommend

CloudCheckr

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77% 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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Review summaries and opinions

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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

24th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Cost Management (11th), Managed Cloud Services (5th), AI Observability (76th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Cisco UCS Director is 1.8%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CloudCheckr is 1.6%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Cisco UCS Director	1.8%
CloudCheckr	1.6%
Other	96.6%

Cloud Management

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ErnieRumfield

Senior Telecommunications Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Managing extensive VoIP services becomes efficient and seamless

We use Cisco UCS Director primarily for managing our VoIP service to maintain seamless service delivery. We operate in an enterprise government environment Cisco UCS Director is straightforward to use, which we greatly appreciate. It helps save time by making it quicker to roll out new call…

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Karan Saini

Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees

Cost governance has improved and cost visibility now drives daily compliant optimization

CloudCheckr is an excellent tool overall. The feature that stands out is how it enables cost savings and efficiency. The cost visibility and reporting are really valuable, and the dashboard is informative and enables good decision-making. The actionable recommendations are beneficial, such as the auto-generated suggestions for optimization. The built-in security and compliance checks, along with scheduled reports, save a lot of manual effort and keep both engineering and finance teams aligned. CloudCheckr has been great and has helped solve problems by ensuring proper compliance. It does not just show data; it highlights actionable items for cost savings, security improvements, and compliance gaps. Scheduled reports are received on a regular basis according to defined schedules, providing more insights that can be shared with leadership and finance teams to ensure alignment. This results in a better picture where everyone is aligned and focused on growth while effectively and efficiently using financial resources. CloudCheckr has enabled an average cost saving of approximately 25% from the last year, and this occurred while also increasing the scale of production. It has significantly reduced manual efforts that would otherwise be spent manually checking costs, tracking where spending is occurring, and verifying whether everything is properly optimized.

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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

"The solution is helpful for centralized management."

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

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

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

"Cisco's knowledge base is extensive."

"This is a user-friendly solution that is very good and easy to use."

"Better visibility and better control are the main benefits people receive from Cisco UCS Director; the automation and the orchestration part, these three to four points are the key factors to decide on Cisco UCS Director."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the fabric sharing."

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"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 solution is mostly stable."

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"CloudCheckr has impacted my organization positively by making things easier and saving time, approximately three hours a week."

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

"The recommendation section is pretty helpful."

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

"The solution is scalable for our purposes."

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Cons

"There aren’t any areas of improvement that immediately come to mind."

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

"The areas where this product can be improved are the integrations and the UI. These features are not as friendly compared to VMware products."

"The tool should be a lot more intuitive and make it easy for us to understand and migrate."

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

"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."

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

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

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"The reporting and analytic capabilities are very limited."

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

"The solution must improve its user interface."

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

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

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

"The cost of this solution is significant."

"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 solution is reasonably priced."

"The cost is on par with other providers."

"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

Manufacturing Company

17%

Computer Software Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

11%

University

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Educational Organization

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	11

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	7

Questions from the Community

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 is your primary use case for Cisco UCS Director?

Mainly in my region and country, large data center customers are using Cisco UCS Director, not the SMB or mid-market customers. More of the on-premise customers are utilizing Cisco UCS Director. Th...

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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 pricing and licensing are quite convenient. I am not certain about the exact costs involved because another team handles that aspect. Overall, the pricing was quite convenient and represented g...

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What needs improvement with CloudCheckr ?

Some aspects could be made more customizable, such as the dashboard and UI. Some features may be too advanced and may have a learning curve, potentially lacking customization. Overall, 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 - A Flexera company

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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