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We performed a comparison between Cloudify and Red Hat CloudForms based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Pros
"The solution includes the option to run background scripts and processes from a connected API.""Product has given us the ability to catch early scaling issues that many companies hit on with private clouds.""Extensible internal functions and plugins. Can implement custom plugins to fit your scenario. Python based plugins.""TOSCA model allows modeling the application rather than the automation. It is a machine-readable representation of the application and its infrastructure, which can be used for other things too, not just for the orchestration (e.g. enterprise architecture big picture, who connects to whom).""Cloudify provides the infrastructure-as-code, as well as operational action capabilities (orchestrated startups or upgrades, and more).""It enables a single platform to communicate with the entire infrastructure.""Has great extendability which means you can build your own custom logic.""Cloudify works in cases where you have very advanced service chaining requirements. It really works well there, and it fits the best. They have a standardized markup that's based on TOSCA, which is a standard. I like the fact that they're standards-based. Their solution works extremely well if you have the talent and the manpower to write TOSCA descriptors to deploy and interchange services or to automate the configuration and turn up of services."

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"Red Hat CloudForms is a stable product. There is no issue with the stability.""The solution is compatible and integrates with various infrastructures or providers.""The most valuable features of Red Hat CloudForms are the benefit of the collective functionality.""The stability of the solution is very good. We haven't had any issues with it.""I am impressed with the product's reports.""The optimization of the solution is quite interesting.""Red Hat CloudForms is stable once it is up and running.""I am impressed with the product's ability to create dynamic catalogs."

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Cons
"The solution is a bit of a headache because mistakes happen in the blueprint every time we deploy and they require modifications.""Error handling could be improved; GUI is lacking with respect to user privileges and connectivity.""It lacked the user interface for multitenancy and basic platform management tasks. It is a leader in the niche area that they like to perform in, but it only does about 30% of top-tier advanced functions of platform management. It doesn't meet about 70% of what you need to manage a private cloud platform.""The upgrading process could be simplified.""Unlike the Docker environment, Cloudify takes time for configuration and its learning curve.""Install of the product itself could be improved and I would like to see better event monitoring.""Certainly the UI could use some intensive work, but nevertheless, overall, it’s a complete product with its 3.4 version and much better features are available with 4.0."

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"All of the areas of Red Hat CloudForms could improve. It doesn't do half of the things that it says it can do out of the box. It takes configuration to make any of it work, which is not uncommon for solutions similar to this. However, it is frustrating.""I have issues with the solution's permissions. Unlike VMware, the product doesn't allow folder-type permissions.""It is difficult to create a complete dashboard that includes all the needed features or catalogs.""The solution's provisioning engine needs to be improved.""Red Hat CloudForms could improve by allowing more customization of reports. We have to do a lot of coding to accomplish what we want. Additionally, the compatibility with the multi-cloud could improve. The latter versions of the solution removed Google support and the cost comparison between other clouds was high.""The complexity of the solution is a bit high in comparison to VMware.""Our clients had challenges or issues with the updates. Its updates should be better managed. They should provide quicker and more stable updates. Its stability can also be better. We initially faced ease-of-use and compatibility issues while integrating it. We had a lot of compatibility issues with other products. Our clients are concerned about whether it is under IBM or it is still Red Hat. Clients are not very clear about the support, and they're not really happy with it. Currently, they're getting support from Red Hat, but going forward, they're not really clear about what would be the life cycle of the product, which is a concern for them.""Because the solution needs to integrate with other products that surround it, there is a lot of configuration required, and this can be quite complex. It's not as easy as it is with, for example, VMware."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I wasn't involved in the pricing of it because we were just doing prototype work with it, but I was told by the upper management team that it was quite expensive. That was another reason we switched to Morpheus."
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  • "It is definitely cheaper than VMware. Everything is included. There is no challenge there."
  • "The price of Red Hat CloudForms was not competitive, it was expensive."
  • "Red Hat CloudForms has a subscript-based pricing model. The cost is approximately $20,000 annually which allows you to use as many users as you want."
  • "The product's licensing is based on the number of servers."
  • "Red Hat CloudForms is a bit expensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:It enables a single platform to communicate with the entire infrastructure.
    Top Answer:The solution could be improved with respect to error handling. If the deployment fails, we get an error message. If we want to troubleshoot further and deep dive, we don't have access to admin… more »
    Top Answer:Cloudify is a DevOps tool that we use for spinning up the VM. In order to do that it needs to communicate with the IP address, with the storage, the network, and with ServiceNow. It communicates with… more »
    Top Answer:I am impressed with the product's reports.
    Top Answer:I have issues with the solution's permissions. Unlike VMware, the product doesn't allow folder-type permissions.
    Top Answer:I would rate the product a four out of ten since its implementation is not as good as it sounds.
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    Overview

    Cloudify is an open-source orchestration-first cloud management platform. The solution allows applications to efficiently run across multiple cloud or data center platforms for premium multi-cloud infrastructure automation and orchestration. It provides infrastructure automation using environment as a service (EaaS) technology to deploy and continuously manage any cloud, private data center, or Kubernetes service from one central point while leveraging existing toolchains.

    Cloudify Product Highlights

    • Fully customizable (white label, add, and modify widgets)
    • Create a custom view per business units, groups, user role
    • Easy integration with any 3rd-party/homegrown portal
    • Identify and eliminate task execution failures via a visual interface
    • Easy service composition that allows you to create new or update existing services
    • Switch between code and topology views
    • Import existing automation templates and scripts into Cloudify and automatically convert them into certified environments.
    • Intelligent and declarative engine that automates the entire lifecycle management
    • Intuitive UX and dashboards allowing complete visibility and control over usage, behavior, faults, and events of application/network services.

    Cloudify Features

    Cloudify has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Elastic caching
    • Post-deployment automation
    • Deployment monitoring
    • Service catalog
    • Real-time code validation
    • Plugins (Kubernetes, Ansible, AWS Cloud Formation, Azure ARM, Terraform)
    • Advanced Kubernetes management UI
    • Multi cluster action
    • Governance and compliance
    • Self-serve experience

    Cloudify Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing Cloudify. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Operation agility: Cloudify gives your organization and DevOps teams the ability to react to resource needs, evolve, and adapt quickly over time. 
    • Self-service: Cloudify provides a self-service catalog and portal framework for cloud automation and cloud orchestration to provide a helpful and intuitive experience for environments, apps, and services setup and management.
    • Real-time visibility: Cloudify enables you to visually track all task executions. By implementing Cloudify, you can monitor progress and status of each execution step on Cloudify’s cloud orchestration platform, identify and eliminate task execution failures via a visual interface, and you can also apply management actions, such as stop, correct, and resume, quickly. 
    • Reduce design and configuration time: The Cloudify solution has a visual editor, allowing greater visibility into blueprint structure and dependencies, and drag-n-drop service composition that helps you leverage shared resources and components for ultimate open-source infrastructure and cloud orchestration.
    • Fast deployment: Another benefit of Cloudify is that it helps speed up deployments of your test/dev/production environments from your CI/CD.
    • Enables continuous updates: With Cloudify, you have continuous updates for your production environments. Cloudify enables your organization to monitor health, heal failures, update patches, and scale resources without any environment downtime.
    • Governance: By using the Cloudify solution, you can accommodate governance changes and can scale and update operations according to your certified architecture. 
    • Easier to manage Kubernetes: Cloudify makes it simple for you to manage multi Kubernetes clusters via service orchestration, enabling you to manage the application service itself rather than just its infrastructure. 
    • Cost optimization: With Cloudify, you can control costs by employing end-to-end modeling of the entire infrastructure. The solution offers cost-saving policies, which include the decommissioning of formerly complex services and resources.

    Manage container, virtual, private, and public cloud infrastructures

    Managing a complex, hybrid IT environment can require multiple management tools, redundant policy implementations, and extra staff to handle the operations. Red Hat® CloudForms simplifies IT, providing unified management and operations in a hybrid environment.

    As your IT infrastructure progresses from traditional virtualization toward an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) model, CloudForms evolves, protecting your investments and providing consistent user experience and functionality.

    Sample Customers
    Proximus Partner Communications (Israel) VMware NTT Data Metaswitch Spirent Communications Lumina Networks Atos Fortinet
    Cox Automotive, Penn State, FICO, G-ABLE, Seneca College, ITandTEL, The Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS), MyRepublic, Macquarie, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, CBTS, Network Data Solutions (NDS)
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Insurance Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Comms Service Provider24%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Media Company12%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business33%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise62%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business36%
    Large Enterprise64%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise67%
    Buyer's Guide
    Cloudify vs. Red Hat CloudForms
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudify vs. Red Hat CloudForms and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Cloudify is ranked 20th in Cloud Management with 12 reviews while Red Hat CloudForms is ranked 7th in Cloud Management with 10 reviews. Cloudify is rated 8.0, while Red Hat CloudForms is rated 6.4. The top reviewer of Cloudify writes "Works very well for advanced service chaining requirements and has extremely advanced engineers for support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat CloudForms writes "Easily integrates with various out-of-the-box or third-party vendors". Cloudify is most compared with Morpheus, VMware Aria Automation, CloudStack, OpenNebula and Scalr, whereas Red Hat CloudForms is most compared with Morpheus, VMware Aria Automation, vCloud Director, OpenNebula and IBM Cloud Automation Manager. See our Cloudify vs. Red Hat CloudForms report.

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