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Categories and Ranking

Cloudability
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
16
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Cloud Cost Management (3rd)
vRealize Business for Cloud...
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
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reviewer2784351 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2784351
Digital Marketing, Marketing Technology & Analytics Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Gained clear cost visibility and forecasting but still needs finer insights using resource tags
Cloudability offers excellent features including trends, graphs for cost utilization, and forecasting capabilities. The forecasting feature has helped me understand how the resources are utilized and how the cost is burned, and then I use it to make changes to keep the cost in control. Cloudability has positively impacted my organization as it helps us understand cost utilization, make corrections, and understand the forecasting of the cost. It has made reporting much easier.
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ThomasMeyer
Solutions Architect and project manager at MIB leipzig
Complete solution for automation, orchestration, and end-to-end lifecycle management
The most valuable feature is automation. With the automation, you can easily and quickly implement it by deploying gnashing on virtual environments. 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. So automation helps us to do our work quickly and easily. VMware vRealize has standardized systems for doing work after the deployment. First, you have to set up the language on the system itself. Then there are vRealize's orchestration features. You can implement code in your deployment script to do this configuration automatically. So the orchestrator is a beneficial component. With this, you can implement automatic language selection and automated integration. In other systems, you can implement a multi-blueprint or multi-system environment to deploy the entire database environment and applications on this database with one click. The lifecycle manager is also essential. In version 7.5, you must provide a dir example username and password to access the Citrix server and controller. What's more, you have to include this in your script or your code. But in version 8, you can provide the username and password or store them in the lifecycle manager. So then you can pick it up from there. And that's the only location where you have to change the password. You don't have to change it in every script. That's a massive improvement in version 8.
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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 support from IBM is fantastic"
"Each user can have their own dashboard that they want to consume. Instead of having to share one dashboard for multiple users, you can create individual views for each user to view, and that view will contain only their own accounts, which allows for separation of data."
"Cloudability has positively impacted my organization as it helps us understand cost utilization, make corrections, and understand the forecasting of the cost."
"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 Cloudability's integration with our existing cloud infrastructure, it's not integrated directly into our AWS infrastructure but rather reads and pulls data from it, providing valuable insights and analysis for cost management."
"Transparency and visibility are the key features."
"It provides us visibility, then we can turn around and can give the leadership team more information, which we could not previously give them."
"The sizing recommendation will look, and say, "You are only using this at 80%," then recommend a better fit for you."
"The tool helps us to resize on AWS correctly."
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"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to compare the billing between the clouds."
"The most valuable feature is the metering capability."
"The product provides excellent daily reports."
"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."
"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."
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Cons

"Cloudability needs to focus on more cloud providers."
"There is always room for improvement in education and training. We are not that mature in terms of our automation. It could help us identify where we could optimize in terms of build."
"They can improve the custom range of the network."
"Enhancements could be made in the user interface and customization, and leveraging GenAI would be an area for improvement in Cloudability."
"We have dealt with a few technical support people where we ask for one thing and they might not deliver straightaway. It seems like they are a stretched across multiple customers."
"In general, I feel Cloudability wasn't able to support many resources."
"I would like the API functionality to improve. The update time after uploading data could also be improved."
"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was adequate, but it could be made better."
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"The solution's private cloud is much too expensive."
"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."
"The pricing model is complicated and would be more predictable if it were simplified."
"The product needs some investment in configuration. I would like to see better and more optimized configuration in the tool's future releases."
"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."
"I would like to have an easy way of modifying the reference data that is used for the purposes of estimating the total billing."
"The knowledge base is not available for the engineers, which is something that needs to be improved."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the license or the usage is a percentage of the top consumption. So it varies from year to year."
"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."
"Cloudability is a bit expensive."
"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."
"It's expensive, which is one of the problems with this solution."
"The product is a cost-effective solution."
"The pricing model is complicated."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
23%
Computer Software Company
11%
Retailer
6%
Manufacturing Company
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 Enterprise12
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?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was adequate, but it could be made better.
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What needs improvement with Cloudability?
It would be beneficial if we could use resource tags to provide more fine-grained visibility.
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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.

Broadcom
 

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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