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Xtium vs vCloud Air comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

vCloud Air
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Database as a Service (DBaaS) (19th), Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (21st)
Xtium
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Managed Service Providers (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

vCloud Air and Xtium aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. vCloud Air is designed for Database as a Service (DBaaS) and holds a mindshare of 2.2%, up 0.6% compared to last year.
Xtium, on the other hand, focuses on Managed Service Providers, holds 4.8% mindshare, up 3.5% since last year.
Database as a Service (DBaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
vCloud Air2.2%
MongoDB Atlas11.8%
Amazon RDS11.7%
Other74.3%
Database as a Service (DBaaS)
Managed Service Providers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Xtium4.8%
Kyndryl4.5%
Guardian and Vigilance3.7%
Other87.0%
Managed Service Providers
 

Featured Reviews

it_user613995 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Solutions Architect - EMEA & APAC at Blue Medora
With the VPC, you can run your workloads in an active state, use it for development work and for hosting SQL/Exchange Servers in IaaS; RaaS/DaaS for DR activities.
All three components of the vCloud Air are equally valuable and important, i.e., IaaS, DaaS and RaaS. I like the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) offering compared to the Dedicated Cloud. It gives me the flexibility to utilize the pay-as-you-go option. You can run your workloads in an active state at reasonable prices. I have seen lots of companies use it for their development work, as well as for hosting SQL and Exchange Servers, i.e., in the active-passive mode instead of Replication (RaaS). Disaster Recovery is also a great feature that is affordable and easy to use. Disaster Recovery is a great component of the vCloud Air, where you can protect the on-premises cloud infrastructure, by providing self-service recovery options using the vSphere Replication. Some of the features that really stand out and I have used in my projects are: * Direct Connect: It provides high speed and private line connectivity. * Offline Data Transfer: For encrypted bulk data transport.
it_user231270 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems & Network administrator with 501-1,000 employees
HTTP & SMTP proxies are valuable but their derivatives need to be improved.
IPS Content filtering Application control Gateway anti-virus HTTP & SMTP proxies VPN server It provides multilayer security for both employees and students. Content filtering criteria HTTP/S proxy derivatives DNS refresh for entries More protocols in proxies (i.e. IMAP, SMB, AFP) I've used…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"VMware Workstation has an interesting feature to manage vSphere infrastructure (and also stand-alone ESXi hosts) that is really powerful and useful, for example to avoid to install the vSphere client (or the integration plugin) just to open one VM console or to change the power status for some VM."
"The Cloud DRaaS solution provided the organization with new levels of flexibility and cost control, together with rapid expansion capability."
"This is the part that should be making admins and CIOs smile."
"Full service Infrastructure As A Service provider."
"It provides multilayer security for both employees and students."
 

Cons

"I don’t think it is quite where EC2 is with regard to capabilities and features but VMware is investing a lot in vCloud Air."
"I feel the user interface/portal can be improved further. I did experience timeout issues and the UI was performing slowly at times."
"It’s a really good idea, but the current implementation is very limited: you can simply see your VMs and just open the VM console."
"Content filtering criteria HTTP/S proxy derivatives DNS refresh for entries More protocols in proxies (i.e. IMAP, SMB, AFP)"
"Need to improve customer messaging"
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