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Snyk vs VMware Cloud Director comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 4, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.7
Users praise Snyk for efficient vulnerability identification, enhancing security, saving developer time, and improving early-stage development cost-efficiency.
Sentiment score
6.9
VMware Cloud Director improves client provisioning, resource control, and efficiency, but opinions vary on its long-term cost-effectiveness.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.5
Snyk's support is responsive and effective, praised for direct engineer access, engagement, and comprehensive assistance with minor improvement areas.
Sentiment score
6.9
VMware Cloud Director's support is praised for effectiveness but criticized for delays, improving complex case handling, and communication.
Their response time aligns with their SLA commitments.
Our long-standing association has ensured smooth communication, resulting in favorable support experiences and satisfactory issue resolution.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Snyk is scalable, integrates with cloud services, scans quickly, and is preferred over on-prem for large deployments.
Sentiment score
7.4
VMware Cloud Director excels in scalability, enabling efficient workload management and integration, highly rated for large-scale deployments.
Snyk allows for scaling across large organizations, accommodating tens of thousands of applications and over 60,000 repositories.
VMware Cloud Director is quite scalable; I would rate it nine out of ten.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Snyk is stable with responsive support, though users face minor integration challenges and isolated performance issues in large projects.
Sentiment score
7.7
VMware Cloud Director is highly rated for stability and reliability, despite occasional issues and interoperability challenges during deployment.
There are occasional problems when trying to increase the parameters of a virtual machine.
 

Room For Improvement

Snyk users seek reduced false positives, improved integration, more languages, enhanced AI, better UI, and faster API responses.
VMware Cloud Director needs improved integration, GUI, search, interoperability, cost options, automation, and features found in competitors.
The inclusion of AI to remove false positives would be beneficial.
Both Veracode and Snyk should implement this new scoring system for CVSS and AIVSS.
It lacks the ability to select branches on its Web UI, forcing users to rely on CLI or CI/CD for that functionality.
The console methods make management difficult until VMware tools are installed.
 

Setup Cost

Snyk offers scalable, user-based pricing seen as expensive but valuable, with negotiable packages for enterprise cloud deployments.
VMware Cloud Director is pricey but offers extensive features, with flexibility options for cost-conscious buyers against major cloud competitors.
Snyk is recognized as the cheapest option we have evaluated.
After negotiations, we received a special package with a good price point.
The pricing for VMware Cloud Director is more or less reasonable, especially when compared to Cisco, which is significantly more expensive.
 

Valuable Features

Snyk offers comprehensive security with seamless integration, automation, and developer-friendly tools, enhancing risk management and usability.
VMware Cloud Director offers scalable, user-friendly cloud management with strong integration, automation, and multi-tenancy for private and hybrid environments.
Our integration of Snyk into GitHub allows us to automatically scan codebases and identify issues, which has improved efficiency.
Snyk helps detect vulnerabilities before code moves to production, allowing for integration with DevOps and providing a shift-left advantage by identifying and fixing bugs before deployment.
The best feature of Snyk is the integration with our ticketing system, which is Jira.
A notable feature is the Independent Disk, which allows detaching a virtual drive from one virtual machine and attaching it to another, enabling more flexibility in operations.
 

Categories and Ranking

Snyk
Ranking in Cloud Management
14th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
48
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (5th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (8th), Container Security (5th), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (2nd), Software Development Analytics (2nd), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (16th), DevSecOps (2nd), Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) (1st)
VMware Cloud Director
Ranking in Cloud Management
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
68
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Snyk is 1.2%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Cloud Director is 6.3%, down from 7.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

meetharoon - PeerSpot reviewer
Affordable tool boosts code scanning efficiency but faces integration hurdles
The most important feature of Snyk is its cost-effectiveness compared to other solutions such as Check Point. It is easy to consolidate Snyk across multiple entities within a large organization. Additionally, our integration of Snyk into GitHub allows us to automatically scan codebases and identify issues, which has improved efficiency.
NiteshKumar1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides crystal clear dashboarding and allows you to manage and monitor your infrastructure
The overall dashboarding is very crystal clear. The ability to switch from one infrastructure to another infrastructure and get into detailed information, whether it is compute, storage network, or whatever. That helps you get a holistic view of the overall infrastructure running in your landscape. This also helps the leadership and management be aware of the right potential investment strategy by looking at the potential utilization. vCloud Director also provides ways and means through which you can make a prediction or a forecast of the infrastructure that would be needed in the future, depending on what you are currently running. That does not take away the fact that we have to be completely aware of our pipeline projects in our schedule so that you can plan your infrastructure requirements accordingly. vCloud Director provides multifold features that have been beneficial to the end users.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
7%
Computer Software Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
10%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How does Snyk compare with SonarQube?
Snyk does a great job identifying and reducing vulnerabilities. This solution is fully automated and monitors 24/7 to find any issues reported on the internet. It will store dependencies that you a...
What do you like most about Snyk?
The most effective feature in securing project dependencies stems from its ability to highlight security vulnerabilities.
What needs improvement with Snyk?
There are a lot of false positives that need to be identified and separated. The inclusion of AI to remove false positives would be beneficial. So far, I've not seen any AI features to enhance vuln...
Would you change anything about VMware vCloud Director if you could?
VMware vCloud Director works very well and there are not many things that I would like to see changed. However, a single thing comes to mind when I think of improvements and that is integration. In...
What is the biggest improvement you saw at your company after you started using VMware vCloud Director?
For my company, VMware vCloud Director noticeably increased operational efficiency. When I started working here a few years ago, my organization was using another cloud management tool. We switched...
Is vCloud Director convenient for building applications?
When it comes to building applications, vCloud Director offers you various methods to create cloud-ready ones. For example: Your DevOps team is supported through Infrastructure as Code services w...
 

Also Known As

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vCloud Director
 

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Sample Customers

StartApp, Segment, Skyscanner, DigitalOcean, Comic Relief
MicroStrategy, National Democratic Institute, and NYSE Euronext.
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