We performed a comparison between Microsoft System Center and NetApp Cloud Insights based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is easily available. That's its most valuable aspect."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"Step-by-step documentation that clarifies the implementation procedure."
"Good for managing and administering the infrastructure."
"It can generate KPIs and management reports with monthly presentations on activities and updating the environment (success and failure)."
"The detail in the alarms is great."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it helps us manage our company's application pool, license pool, application update pool, and OS updates."
"Managment Packs for Microsoft-specific products, help us implement the best practices for each product."
"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."
"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 require only one or two people turned into a six-person job."
"Cloud Insights' best features are visibility and the connector to move the workloads."
"The solution is 98 percent stable."
"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."
"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."
"The visibility and assistance with security vulnerabilities are valuable."
"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 solution's dashboard needs improvement."
"In Microsoft System Center, it is difficult to follow the steps to create dataflows at times."
"For me, the tool's UI seems to be too old."
"They should have some customized solutions or internal development, then maybe it could be easier to use different solutions or some self-developed solution."
"The platform performance and responsiveness need improvement. It still demands high computing resources."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"Most of the documentation is online, however, there are some gaps there. The product documentation still refers back to the 2012 Server. We're pretty much in 2022. There's a ten-year gap there."
"System Center hasn't updated to keep up with the industry. It needs improvements in the user interface, ease of use, and overall product functionality, particularly the cloud-monitoring features. It needs more capabilities to monitor AWS and Azure infrastructure."
"Their pricing model needs improvement."
"The first level of NetApp's technical support could be improved."
"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."
"The support is not very quick."
"Cloud Insights could offer more detail when we drill down into the Azure environment."
"Ease of reporting is one thing that they're trying to tackle. If you have a specific set of data you want from Cloud Insights, you can ask NetApp to help you build the reports from the ground up. The dashboards are intuitive, but finding the report you want is sometimes a challenge. If you don't have the report already loaded, pulling it in and letting it build its data can be cumbersome."
"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."
"In a perfect world we would have something built, right out-of-the-box, that can identify what we call "noise," and reduce the amount of data. You're presented with so much data when you first start the data collectors. For example, it brings back a lot of change rates that happen just because of standard computing, like profile changes and that sort of thing. Being able to identify things like that and categorize them and strip it down—and it probably can do that, I just haven't gotten there yet—would be very beneficial."
Microsoft System Center is ranked 29th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 18 reviews while NetApp Cloud Insights is ranked 22nd in Cloud Monitoring Software with 12 reviews. Microsoft System Center is rated 7.8, while NetApp Cloud Insights is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft System Center writes "Makes user management and application management easy for users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Insights writes "It helps with login monitoring and troubleshooting". Microsoft System Center is most compared with Oracle SOA Suite, whereas NetApp Cloud Insights is most compared with Dell CloudIQ, Datadog, Zabbix, IBM Turbonomic and ServiceNow IT Operations Management. See our Microsoft System Center vs. NetApp Cloud Insights report.
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