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We performed a comparison between Densify and Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Densify vs. Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"The solution's tech support is excellent.""The Control Console is an incredible way to give a quick view of current capacity utilization allowing technical people to drill down quickly and allowing business/management people to get a quick overview of the environment.""The Densify Control Console, and Environment Status.""Densify's ability to aggregate multiple on-premise vCenters and multiple cloud accounts, gives it a level of visibility not found in many places.""The ability to increase server density inside of my environment, which has helped me drive reduction in costs.""The tool will come back and tell us that we can operate with 1,000 minutes as an example, save 90% on the contractual rate and not run into any issues.""I would say that the initial thing is that it provides us with a technological basis to expand capacity management beyond Excel.""The Control Console provides a very easy to read dashboard of "too little/just right/too much" resources both for current data and on a historical or predictive basis."

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"The most valuable features of Nutanix Clusters are Prism Central, Micro-segmentation, and cluster scaling automation.""The most valuable feature is having the full features of my Nutanix on-premises applications in the cloud.""The solution can scale well.""In terms of dealing with our business-critical workloads, Nutanix is a highly scalable, highly resilient, and very high-performing solution.""The most valuable feature of Nutanix Clusters is to protect the data.""I've been very pleased with their support overall.""The overall infrastructure is the most valuable part of Nutanix Cloud Clusters.""Having a single pane of glass where you can have both your on-prem and anything else that you spin up within AWS is useful."

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Cons
"A closer integration to the service management processes.""It seems that the mechanism for integration is, it goes so far but I think there could be some standard integration to normal remedy service now etc. I think that should be out of the box.""Initially we talked about some custom reporting, wherein our customer expected certain reports on a few areas, like how the storage is allocated, how the network performance is doing, and how the network utilization is happening for a virtual machine.""Normalization of CPU utilization is required. At present, the data is available based on entitlement level.""Unfortunately the tools and mechanisms which really came to maturity in the cloud, and were not mainstream on-premise, are still not implemented.""The solution's stability is the primary concern for me.""In terms of integration, the tool has great data. However, it's not always meaningful because the true business attributes of how most Fortune 500 companies operate are not maintaining in one tool, they're in a school of many tools.""Some parts of the interface are rather complex and require a bit of time to navigate, but this has never stopped us as a Densify advisor is readily available to help with our "how to" queries."

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"We've had some challenges with the implementation.""Some of the interfaces aren't as intuitive as they should be.""I'd like more flexible options to get in and out of migration modes.""There are still some things that could be improved about the product.""The pricing can be better.""The technical support for Nutanix Clusters could be better.""The reporting has room for improvement.""The biggest weakness with Clusters at this point is that the adoption rate is low because customers don't know enough about it."

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  • "Setup cost is negligible, as it scales fairly well."
  • "Cost is always involved, but then I feel that this solution is better than other products that we have."
  • "Densify has licensing setup so you can collect data without licensing. It gives you the ability to collect on everything, then choose later what you would like to license."
  • "There was some sticker shock, as this is not just another software product to spit out graphs."
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  • "I am working on one configuration that is priced at $50,000 USD, whereas another one that I'm working on is estimated to cost $250,000 USD."
  • "There are positives and negatives to licensing. It all makes sense now, but it took a while. When the licenses first changed, it was a bit confusing."
  • "The solution has been more costly at this point. We do not see any cost savings."
  • "The price is high."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The solution's tech support is excellent.
    Top Answer:Densify is not a stable tool. Every time the support gets investigated, it takes much time to get refreshed.
    Top Answer:We are using Densify to produce reports and to get recommendations that can contribute to the area of our expertise.
    Top Answer:The overall infrastructure is the most valuable part of Nutanix Cloud Clusters.
    Top Answer:While a minimum of three blocks and four nodes is necessary to mitigate risk, the associated cost is substantial. I would like to see a reduction in this cost. The reporting has room for improvement… more »
    Ranking
    32nd
    out of 75 in Cloud Management
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    717
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    342
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    6.0
    19th
    out of 75 in Cloud Management
    Views
    149
    Comparisons
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    5
    Average Words per Review
    609
    Rating
    8.6
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    Also Known As
    Nutanix Clusters
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    Overview

    Densify is a hybrid cloud and container resource management platform that makes workloads self-aware of their precise resource requirements and automates the resource management and selection process. This solution helps you control your cloud spend and also helps your apps perform and scale better. Densify enables you to match your cloud requirements with the optimal cloud supply. Additionally, Densify is the only technology that leverages patented, predictive machine learning-powered analytics to perform advanced modeling of workload patterns, and provide precise optimization directives. It is ideal for cloud engineers, container platform owners, and IT finance.

    Densify works by:

    • Establishing application demand patterns that are based on business cycles, seasonality, peaks, valleys, and other variables.

    • Building normalized models of cloud supply and ingesting the entire cloud catalog and latest technologies.

    • Considering numerous factors, such as performance benchmarks, cost, technical rules, tags, and policies. The solution uses business and functional tags, operational realities, and granular policy control.

    Densify Features

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

    • Integration with management and provisioning systems
    • Machine learning-based analytics
    • Automated resource optimization
    • App owner collaboration
    • Tailored efficiency reports
    • Observability
    • Controllability
    • Capacity optimization
    • Policy driven, automated governance
    • VM placement
    • Predictive analytics

    Densify Benefits

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

    • Automated resource management: Densify provides your organization with automated resource management at scale, with elasticity at an affordable low cost.
    • Full stack visibility: The Densify solution offers full stack visibility with improved efficiency by determining container size and node resources.
    • Financial visibility: In addition to full stack visibility, one of Densify’s other advantages is that it offers full financial visibility and cost intelligence for both reporting as well as chargebacks.
    • Resizing and rebalancing: Densify analyzes your private cloud infrastructure, providing resizing and rebalancing recommendations.
    • Helps you choose the right host environment: Densify automatically routes workloads to the best hosting environment based on detailed workload requirements. For workloads not requiring immediate placement, it reserves capacity to ensure it is available when required.
    • A true SaaS implementation: Because Densify is a true SaaS implementation, there is no software to maintain or to learn.
    • Better for IT finance: The solution is good for IT finance because it collects and analyzes your detailed billing data, giving you visibility into your spending, what services you’re buying, and how to better manage your costs. In addition, it can also generate reports that cover your spending and your utilization of reservations and reserved instances and savings plans.
    • Reduce risk and costs: Machine learning-based analytics help your organization optimize consumption to eliminate waste and overprovisioning while ensuring performance.
    • Cost-efficient: The Densify solution is cost-efficient, helping you drastically reduce per-processor software license costs by placing workloads intelligently.
    Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is a hybrid multicloud platform with natively integrated networking between private and public clouds. It allows seamless application migration and license portability across all environments and enables customers to run the full Nutanix software stack anywhere—in private or public clouds.
    Sample Customers
    AIG, Bank of America, Cigna, Citi
    The Home Depot, JetBlue, Hyundai, ShiftLeft
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company24%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Retailer9%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company25%
    Healthcare Company13%
    Wholesaler/Distributor13%
    Government13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company30%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Healthcare Company7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise82%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise74%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise40%
    Large Enterprise30%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise69%
    Buyer's Guide
    Densify vs. Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Densify vs. Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    Densify is ranked 32nd in Cloud Management with 9 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is ranked 19th in Cloud Management with 9 reviews. Densify is rated 8.8, while Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Densify writes " Its most valuable feature is the ability to capture attributes in the console, but it is not a stable solution ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) writes "Helps manage costs, eliminates waste, and has excellent technical support". Densify is most compared with IBM Turbonomic, Intel Granulate, Cloudability, VMware Aria Operations and VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, whereas Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is most compared with VMware Cloud Foundation, Azure Stack, AWS Outposts, VMware Cloud on AWS and Microsoft Azure. See our Densify vs. Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) report.

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