DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs NetApp Cloud Insights comparison

Broadcom and NetApp are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Broadcom is ranked #54, while NetApp is ranked #33 with an average rating of 8.8. Broadcom holds a 0.5% mindshare in IM, compared to NetApp’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

DX Unified Infrastructure Management and NetApp Cloud Insights are competitors in the infrastructure management tools category. NetApp Cloud Insights has the upper hand due to its comprehensive features and strong analytics, although DX Unified Infrastructure Management offers better pricing and support.

Features: DX Unified Infrastructure Management provides scalability, a variety of monitoring probes, and a comprehensive console for managing and updating configurations. Its user-friendly customization capabilities make it suitable for various platforms. NetApp Cloud Insights offers deep analytics and the ability to map multi-tiered issues, which provides extensive visibility across environments. Its dashboards and data visualization tools are efficient and clear, aiding in seamless integration and advanced analytics.

Room for Improvement: DX Unified Infrastructure Management needs improvements in customer support for access to specialized personnel and scaling VMware monitoring capabilities. Enhancements in automated discovery tools and dashboard speed would be beneficial. NetApp Cloud Insights could improve report creation tools, simplify the user interface, and enhance capabilities for detailed Azure environment insights along with anomaly detection.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: DX Unified Infrastructure Management offers deployment across hybrid and on-premises environments, yet post-CA acquisition, better customer support is needed, with technical support responsiveness often requiring escalation. NetApp Cloud Insights supports both public and private clouds, providing more consistent customer service and technical assistance. While DX offers deployment flexibility, NetApp stands out with reliable customer service.

Pricing and ROI: DX Unified Infrastructure Management is cost-effective, with varied pricing based on probe and robot count, allowing for customizable expense structures. Its quick ROI benefits come from automated processes reducing manual intervention. Though not the cheapest, its comprehensive functionality justifies the pricing. NetApp Cloud Insights is affordable compared to other cloud solutions, with pricing based on capacity. Despite a complex licensing model, it provides value, especially around efficient resource allocation for NetApp products. DX offers lower initial costs, whereas NetApp delivers cost savings through resource optimization.

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Categories and Ranking

DX Unified Infrastructure M...

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

54th

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

40th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

120

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (76th), Server Monitoring (23rd), AIOps (24th)

NetApp Cloud Insights

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

33rd

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

24th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of DX Unified Infrastructure Management is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Insights is 0.2%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Mark Tukh

Principal Presale Consultant at Ness Technologies

Great scalability, versatility, infrastructure coverage and ease of implementation

I rate the initial setup an eight out of ten. The number of people needed for deployment depends on the customer, but we usually need at least one person and two to three at other times. The initial implementation takes about two months. The full implementation can be infinite because you may want to implement more. The product does not require a lot of maintenance. To increase the implementation, we push additional services in the first and second years to make it more robust and fully implemented. We usually sell to big enterprises. It can also be affordable for smaller enterprises, but we don't work with them a lot. We have from 2,000 to 10,000 workers. So the product itself can have five, ten or even 20 users.

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Scott Lauters

Associate IT Director at Wolters Kluwer

It provides a single pane of glass, giving us visibility into the environment

All our production clusters are in Cloud Insight. It provides a single pane of glass, giving us visibility into the environment, which allows us to understand if any issues are going on across any of our clusters. The main issue we were looking to address was the lack of visibility across all the clusters in one single view. We're using Cloud Insight's Unified Manager. It has improved our ability to support and see the immediate status of the entire environment. If we have a critical incident, we can quickly see these issues and loop in monitoring teams and other teams. For example, if our app team thinks there are issues in the environment, we can quickly see if anything related to storage is part of the problem. It improved our organization by unifying all the various support teams. We all have the same view of what's happening in the environment. The dev team knows what storage is used or not, and we can quickly move on to other activities. Cloud Insights provides a single tool for containers and other cloud-based architectures, but we're not using some of those things, such as Kubernetes. We're primarily leveraging the monitoring and reporting. The solution does a great job of inventorying our resources. It allows us to put the tags on the devices. The process is fast. It also gives you the dependencies. I can dig down into all the related components. Cloud Insight's advanced analytics feature does a good job of highlighting the areas where there might be issues in the future.

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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

"It delivers our customers many metrics, so they may make decisions"

"It reduced cycles for a lot of quick out-of-the-box functionality. It also allowed us to get away from being stuck in SNMP, VTP V2, based off of agent deployment."

"The benefit is easy installation. Thus, the model approach of the product and out-of-the-box probes, which deliver direct value."

"Easy admin functionality. You can quickly do all the admin functionality without reducing cycles."

"It provides a comprehensive monitoring solution for our open systems."

"Technical support is great."

"DX UIM is scalable."

"Monitors the infrastructure asset and also monitors as an IT service."

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"Cloud Insights' best features are visibility and the connector to move the workloads."

"Among the most valuable features are the queries and reporting that allow us to look at the utilization of resources, at how well the storage is performing, and to report on which resources are being used by which business units. We can track usage across the entire environment, across applications, business units, cost centers, etc."

"Cloud Secure is definitely the most valuable feature and being able to see file level activity. It gives real-time alerting on possible ransomware attacks and provides file security review. It helps us to see if something abnormal is happening on the system before it's too late."

"NetApp Cloud Insights helps reduce the time spent on problem resolution by up to 50% for my customers, making their operations significantly more efficient and productive, which is a perfect outcome."

"Its ability to quickly inventory our resources, figure out interdependencies across them, and assemble a topology of your environment is brilliant. There is a price associated with it. Whenever you target a NetApp environment, it is included in the price but whenever you want to add different vendors, like VMware and Cisco, the price greatly spikes. Inventorization helps us a lot to visualize the environment."

"It is good for giving an overview of the systems and for tracking long-term trends. It is handy for root cause analysis, e.g. it can eliminate whether storage is the cause of an issue."

"One feature we appreciate the most is its ability to take snapshots, which adds an extra layer of security and allows us to protect our data effectively."

"The visibility and assistance with security vulnerabilities are valuable."

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Cons

"How we can get more native information from CA's solutions."

"CA UIM needs some improvement with performance reporting (if we compare it to CA eHealth)."

"Better support and more accessible resources are crucial. Customers have expressed that support is not as flexible, and it is difficult to obtain necessary information quickly."

"The dashboards need to be improved."

"I think it can be improved by a greater provision of specialized technical support, as there are very few trained personnel there."

"It is a little complex to use versus other softwares."

"The company has not kept pace with developments."

"I'd also like to see more probes. More probes in the sense that we were coming across devices that we're expected to monitor and manage for which, out of the box, there isn't a nice, clean solution. There are probes that are dedicated for certain devices and certain device types, which is great. But then there are times we come across nuanced products that we have to develop our own solution for. There are probes that exist in there that allow us to make a customized solution, but it takes a lot more time."

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"The visualization needs some improvement because there are occasional delays while the system queries information."

"Cloud Insights could offer more detail when we drill down into the Azure environment."

"Most of the time, I initially connect with entry-level support, and then I need to request a higher-tier support level, which can result in delays."

"The first level of NetApp's technical support could be improved."

"Their pricing model needs improvement."

"In my opinion, one area where NetApp Cloud Insights could be improved for the next release is the console, which I find a bit complex."

"There is room for improving the creating and managing or modifying of reports. That is still a difficult task to do and requires knowledge beyond the storage itself. I would love to see reporting improved so that we can create reports by dragging and dropping pieces into a report form and publish a report that way."

"Even though I work with NetApp, it still takes time for me to navigate and find components, so new customers might require considerable hands-on experience to efficiently use the console, indicating that it could be more user-friendly."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license cost depends on the number of probes and robots."

"CAD $400,000 annually."

"Pricing for DX Unified Infrastructure Management isn't cheap at all. It's a complex tool, so you have to pay more. No one is happy with a large bill to pay, but if it's a complex product and you designed a complex solution to be monitored, it'll be your fault that you need to buy an expensive product, and that would be implicit in the design of DX Unified Infrastructure Management. Monitoring is just a small part of it. Sometimes you have to pay a significant amount of money for a complex yet very good solution."

"Reasonable setup cost and licensing prices."

"This product is expensive compared to other vendors (SolarWinds, ManageEngine)."

"The product-price ratio is better than other brands such as Fortinet or SonicWall."

"We are billed based on management units, so we can purchase units based on six months, twelve months, twenty-four months, or thirty-six months upfront or pay as you go depending on our requirements."

"The solution is expensive."

"The solution's pricing is based on the device you purchase and includes support services."

"The licensing is complex. The calculation depends on what you're ingesting. A terabyte of one product is not a terabyte of another product. Virtual machines don't equate so easily. It's all about the end-use managed units and having an easy place to reference how far those units go."

"The licensing model could be improved. We love that you can use it for free for looking at NetApp products. You only need licenses to look at non-NetApp products, but as soon as you do that, you start utilizing licenses that actually would have been free in the public. So, there is a bit of an anomaly in the licensing model."

"Be aware of the capacity licensing and understand how that works, because it is based on capacity. Getting an understanding of that is the biggest thing."

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Financial Services Firm

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Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Educational Organization

Manufacturing Company

33%

Computer Software Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

10%

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Questions from the Community

What is your primary use case for DX Infrastructure Manager?

We are an integrating company that offers DX Unified Infrastructure Management to customers. We help them set it up, do the integration, and provide support. Our end customers include financial ins...

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What advice do you have for others considering DX Infrastructure Manager?

I would recommend DX Unified Infrastructure Management to others as it is a good and reliable solution. I would rate it nine out of ten due to its robust functionality and capability to support inf...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DX Infrastructure Manager?

The pricing of DX Unified Infrastructure Management is high and often a concern for customers. The cost is higher compared to other Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), which is feedback we hav...

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What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Insights?

NetApp Cloud Insights helps with login monitoring and troubleshooting. Previously, if we had performance concerns or needed to interface with other groups and their products, a task that should req...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Insights?

The licensing is complex. The calculation depends on what you're ingesting. A terabyte of one product is not a terabyte of another product. Virtual machines don't equate so easily. It's all about t...

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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Insights?

In my opinion, one area where NetApp Cloud Insights could be improved for the next release is the console, which I find a bit complex. Even though I work with NetApp, it still takes time for me to ...

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Also Known As

DX Infrastructure Manager, DX Infrastructure Manager for Z Systems and CA UIM for zSystems, CA UIM (DX Infrastructure Manager), CA Nimsoft Monitor, CA UIM, DX Infrastructure Manager

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Overview

DX Unified Infrastructure Management is the only solution that provides an open architecture, full-stack observability and zero-touch configuration for monitoring traditional data center, public cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments.

Designed to ensure an optimal end-user experience, this solution provides a modern HTML5 operations console that makes it easy and fast for today’s IT teams to implement, use, and scale – leading to faster time to value.

Broadcom

NetApp Cloud Insights is an infrastructure monitoring tool that gives you visibility into your complete infrastructure. With Cloud Insights, you can monitor, troubleshoot and optimize all your resources including your public clouds and your private data centers.

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Sample Customers

CBNCloud, IIJ Global Singapore, AT&S, AXSOS, Aozora Bank, HCL Technologies, IntelliNet, Securex

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