We compared Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Google Cloud based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Pivotal Cloud Foundry offers seamless deployment and strong automation, while Google Cloud is praised for its robust scalability and excellent performance. Pivotal Cloud Foundry has fair pricing with positive ROI, but needs improvements in scalability and documentation. On the other hand, Google Cloud requires enhancements in speed, reliability, and pricing transparency.
Features: Pivotal Cloud Foundry is highly scalable and flexible, simplifying development and deployment. The extensive documentation and resources make it user-friendly. In contrast, Google Cloud offers seamless integration, excellent performance, and reliable customer support. Its security measures ensure data safety.
Pricing and ROI: Pivotal Cloud Foundry has reasonable setup costs with a straightforward and transparent licensing process, according to user feedback. Google Cloud's pricing is competitive, offering good value for money. Users appreciate Google Cloud's flexible licensing options and find the setup costs reasonable., Pivotal Cloud Foundry's ROI is praised for its scalability, streamlined processes, and increased productivity. Google Cloud's ROI showcases value and positive returns.
Room for Improvement: Pivotal Cloud Foundry could benefit from improvements in scalability, documentation, support resources, features and flexibility, and performance optimization. On the other hand, Google Cloud needs enhancements in speed, reliability, ease of use, pricing transparency, and customer support.
Deployment and customer support: Based on user feedback, the duration required to establish a new tech solution with Pivotal Cloud Foundry can vary from weeks to months, with varying times for deployment and setup. On the other hand, with Google Cloud, the duration can also vary greatly, with some users taking several months for deployment alone and others requiring just a week. The specific circumstances and requirements play a key role in determining the time needed for both products., Pivotal Cloud Foundry users praise its responsive and helpful customer service, while Google Cloud customers appreciate its excellent assistance and reliable support team. Both provide prompt and knowledgeable assistance.
The summary above is based on 57 interviews we conducted recently with Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Google Cloud users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"There is no downtime. It is very reliable."
"We can increase the storage as we need."
"It is stable. It is easy to learn and very straightforward."
"Google Cloud performs well."
"You can just connect and start using it through a browser within a few minutes."
"The solution can scale."
"The infrastructure is easy to manage."
"I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is the UI, it is easy to use."
"It supports CI/CD, and is integrated with the CI/CD very well."
"PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime."
"We find its stability and scalability valuable."
"It is a scalable product...We are not facing any particular issues since most of the applications in our company are written in Java and .NET."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to scale. The services that connect to the database are also very good."
"The solution is stable and resilient. In our company, we do not even see any challenges with the solution."
"The management side for the database needs some work. Currently, you do everything from the APP. It would be nice to have an interface where you can go in and maintain data and deal with records and do something online."
"The storage available for this solution could be improved, especially compared to a solution like Microsoft which offers 1 TB of storage. Google cloud offers only 30 GB."
"I find it hard to download items, especially on their operating system."
"Microsoft's solution is more common, Google Cloud could improve by being more compatible with different platforms or entities."
"The price of the license could be cheaper."
"Another issue is the applicability of local language data capturing mechanisms, which are more advanced on cloud service providers, but still there is room to grow. Also, their hybrid version isn't available in all markets worldwide, so I'm hoping that it will be released globally soon"
"I would like to see more code generation features that enable you to take user input in simple English and automatically convert it to code."
"The solution could be a bit cheaper."
"The user interface should be simpler to navigate because it t can take time for users to learn it."
"It should offer more security features."
"There are no synthetic application monitoring and real-time monitoring features."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is not scalable, infinitely, because when you install it on a set of virtual machines it is very hard to scale. It's easy to scale on an application level, but not it is not similar to if you were using Amazon. Amazon you can scale thousands of applications."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve the documentation. They are good, but they could improve more. Additionally, it would be beneficial if there were more use case examples."
"The Pivotal Cloud Foundry's initial setup has a learning curve for my team, but it was easy to use."
"Regarding the setup phase, every step is a hurdle. With Pivotal Cloud Foundry, I won't get any proper resources for that. Even if I Google it, there is no proper solution for Pivotal Cloud Foundry."
"In the next release, I would like to see easy integration with external tools."
Google Cloud is ranked 5th in PaaS Clouds with 66 reviews while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is ranked 7th in PaaS Clouds with 15 reviews. Google Cloud is rated 8.2, while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Google Cloud writes "Great for big data with off-the-charts scalability for storage and databases". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pivotal Cloud Foundry writes "Easy to use, simple to sign-in, but lacking graphical interface". Google Cloud is most compared with Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud, OpenShift and SAP Cloud Platform, whereas Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most compared with Microsoft Azure, OpenShift, Amazon AWS, VMware Tanzu Application Service and Cloud Foundry. See our Google Cloud vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry report.
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