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Categories and Ranking

Cloudability
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
4.7
Number of Reviews
15
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Cloud Cost Management (4th)
vRealize Business for Cloud...
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

BapineeduBollempalli - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides insightful cost analysis and reporting but could improve automation and user customization
I work on the cloud platform primarily. I work on Google Cloud Platform's cost optimization where I identify opportunities and resources to optimize costs for customers, including infrastructure costs and BigQuery costs. This also encompasses managing unused backups, data, decommissioning, archiving, right-sizing VM instances, and slot consumption. I am a consultant, not an end user of this solution. I use it internally in my company, and I collect data for the customers as I work in LTI Mindtree. Cloudability's customizable alerts help me maintain budgetary goals by providing recommendations and alerts on slot usages. It also alerts me if some VM suddenly causes a spike in cost and usage. We look at the policies in place for infrastructure optimization concerning Compute Engine, persistent disks, MIGs, and VMs, and we leverage decommissioning of VMs or persistent disks and right-sizing the Compute Engine to ensure the customer doesn't go on demand and has an appropriate size of reserved instances allocated, thereby lowering costs proactively. On a scale of one to ten, I rate Cloudability a six out of ten.
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Eric Preudhomme - PeerSpot reviewer
Hybrid cloud environment with great automation, but the pricing could be reduced
With vRealize Business the automation is great, and it's been nice to have so far, but we think that the product is not available now. We are looking and testing POC's similar to this kind of product. We believe that automation and orchestration is the real key for the future. We have a project to launch a new public cloud in Luxemburg which is the reason that we are looking for this type of solution. We think that we have to migrate to this type of solution because if we wait a few more months it may be too late.
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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The pricing isn't too expensive."
"It has already given us insight into how to optimize. So, we are now ramping up steadily its usage."
"Cloudability's customizable alerts help me maintain budgetary goals by providing recommendations and alerts on slot usages."
"Cloudability takes care of identifying and managing the cloud."
"All the tagging and mapping, which helps to create some virtual tags are useful features."
"We use the product to get a detailed level of transparency on the cloud strengths."
"Transparency and visibility are the key features."
"The sizing recommendation will look, and say, "You are only using this at 80%," then recommend a better fit for you."
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"This solution has made us aware that we are over-provisioning our virtual machines."
"I like the integration with other applications or vendors."
"The way the dashboard works with the main orchestrator to combine different types of cloud providers is helpful."
"It doesn't take long to develop an automation blueprint. You need about half an hour, and then you can install or deploy it on several systems. That was our first great advantage in the project because we urgently needed to deploy across many different systems."
"The flexibility is the product's most valuable feature."
"The tool helps us to monitor the services provided to customers as a cloud provider. The product is a monitoring solution that helps customers pay for their utilization of services."
"The most valuable feature is that it has a very easy and adaptive look and feel, compared with some other cloud solutions."
"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to compare the billing between the clouds."
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Cons

"I would improve the integration, or the preparation of the integration, for a complex environment."
"Cloudability needs to improve on data collection from cloud sources."
"Right now, what we're doing is we are manually putting the data in it, which is something which we don't like about Cloudability."
"Enhancements could be made in the user interface and customization, and leveraging GenAI would be an area for improvement in Cloudability."
"They can improve the custom range of the network."
"The API is not well-documented. It is not straightforward and difficult to use. This needs to be improved, as it is very difficult for our developers to develop automation around it."
"There are also some limitations with the dashboards and data representation in Cloudability."
"We would like them to have a linear regression, so we can be predictive for budgets, allocations, and the year's follow ups. We also want to have a longer window of analytics with better certainty that our workload will fit the model, not just in a two week window."
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"The pricing model is complicated and would be more predictable if it were simplified."
"The knowledge base is not available for the engineers, which is something that needs to be improved."
"I would like it if they could provide their customers with more qualified support."
"There are some kinks to resolve with the Web GUI user interface, as it freezes at times."
"It would be a good idea for VMware to be compatible with the most popular orchestration tools in the market."
"Better integration with other VMware toolsets would be beneficial."
"It's not always easy to find the information you need. You must have a lot of technical experience to find the right location for what you're implementing within the program."
"If you haven't established a vSphere cluster and you only have a single server to integrate, you can't deploy any service."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have seen ROI with the reserved instances, and having the ability to predict what reserved instances you can get. We can save tens of thousands of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases."
"It justifies the cost and is worth it."
"My team is one of the most expensive teams, and we look at it quite a bit. We have probably easily saved around $400,000 USD a year."
"Cloudability is a bit expensive."
"The price of the license or the usage is a percentage of the top consumption. So it varies from year to year."
"It's expensive, which is one of the problems with this solution."
"The pricing model is complicated."
"The product is a cost-effective solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Retailer
6%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise11
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cloudability?
The most crucial feature in reducing my cloud costs has been the rightsizing recommendations, along with the dashboards that track reserved instance spending coverage and utilization. As for Clouda...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudability?
I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, where one is very cheap and ten is very expensive. Pricing is one of the main issues we face. Cloudability is actually expensive, and it's quite diffic...
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What needs improvement with Cloudability?
The first one is, how to help users, especially practitioners, stick to their commitment plan. For example, how can I use Cloudability to help me optimize my selling plan and my residential plan? T...
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Also Known As

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VMware IT Business Management Suite, VMware ITBM, IT Business Management Suite, Digital Fuel
 

Overview

Cloudability is a financial management tool for monitoring and analyzing every cloud expense across any organization. It brings transparency to how and where organizations spend money on cloud resources, giving them the power to reap the most value from cloud usage possible. It aggregates expenditures into accessible and comprehensive reports, helps identify new opportunities for reducing spend and increasing cloud efficiency, offers budget alerts and recommendations via SMS and email, provides APIs for connecting cloud billing and usage data to any business or financial system, and more.

Apptio

VMware IT Business Management Suite offers in three editions: Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise. VMware IT Business Management Suite provides transparency and control over the cost and quality of IT services. By providing a business context to the services IT offers, IT Business Management helps IT organizations shift from a technology orientation to a service broker orientation, delivering a portfolio of IT services that align with the needs of line of business stakeholders. With benchmarks providing objective evidence, IT Business Management also provides the fact-based approach needed to minimize the cost of IT while maximizing the value IT delivers to its customers. Greater transparency and alignment, and the continuous improvement of IT services they enable, support IT as it seeks to develop competitive advantage through major IT transformation initiatives such as cloud, mobility and data center modernization.

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Sample Customers

Adobe, Uber, Pega, imgur, Pixable, Blackboard, Keboola, Avalara
Rent-A-Center, SAIC - (Science Applications International Corporation), Tribune Media, iGATE, EMC, Deutsche Telekom, GEFCO, Banca Ifis
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