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We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Director and Jamcracker based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"I can manage multiple workloads whether it's on AWS, Azure, or on-premises. They can be managed by using the UCS Director.""Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.""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.""The most valuable feature of this solution is the fabric sharing.""The main feature of this solution is the integration with all the Cisco solutions and other vendors.""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.""An easy and strong configuration, along with its low cost, are some of the features of the solution."

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"The solution allows us to manage multiple cloud resources from one place."

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Cons
"Simplifying the user interface would go a long way to making it more usable.""There could be an improvement with the integration with the newest solutions from other vendors' technologies.""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.""I would like to see more integration with other solutions.""It is not easy to add or expand the product.""The product's pricing needs to improve.""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."

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"The product must improve its stability and speed."

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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."
  • "I would rate the product's pricing an eight 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 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."
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  • "The solution is a little expensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer:Currently, Cisco UCS Director is unable to integrate with another product or with a server from another brand. If Cisco UCS Director is able to integrate with another product or with a server from… more »
    Top Answer:The solution allows us to manage multiple cloud resources from one place.
    Top Answer:The solution is a little expensive. It manages so much. It is mostly targeted at big corporations. The price is not the best for what it does, but it's good.
    Top Answer:The product must improve its stability and speed.
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    Overview

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

    The Jamcracker Platform is a comprehensive cloud services broker, cloud services management and cloud governance platform, including cloud services provisioning, policy management, cloud cost management, and operations management. Jamcracker enables organizations to create, deliver, and manage multi cloud services and implement a cloud-enabled business model for offering, delivering, supporting and billing for multi cloud services. The Platform offers flexibility and scalability, with a multi-tiered, multi-tenant architecture, RESTful APIs and integration frameworks while supporting localization in terms of multiple currencies, languages and timezones. Jamcracker enables partners including telecom service providers, managed services providers, system integrators, distributors, technology and value added resellers to unify, deliver and manage SaaS, PaaS and public or private IaaS cloud services for the end customers including enterprise, mid-market, SMB and government organizations.

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    Financial Services Firm25%
    Energy/Utilities Company25%
    Retailer13%
    Government13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company30%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Government11%
    Healthcare Company8%
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    Cisco UCS Director is ranked 23rd in Cloud Management with 13 reviews while Jamcracker is ranked 33rd in Cloud Management with 1 review. Cisco UCS Director is rated 7.2, while Jamcracker is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Director writes " Enables centralized management, but the tool is complicated and expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Jamcracker writes "A scalable and easy-to-deploy solution that allows users to manage multiple cloud resources". Cisco UCS Director is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, vCenter Orchestrator, VMware Aria Operations and Cisco CloudCenter, whereas Jamcracker is most compared with IBM Cloud Brokerage.

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