VMware vSphere is a powerful and complete server virtualization platform that allows its users to create and manage virtual data centers and machines. VMware vSphere is designed to help IT departments set up and run applications using the most cost-effective computer resources. By using vSphere, organizations save the time and energy necessary for purchasing infrastructure and software and reduce ongoing maintenance and operational burdens on IT teams.
Purchase only the cheaper solution with support. I don’t recommend high-end licenses.
Compared with other vendors’ products, the pricing of the license is slightly lower. The annual S&S price is very affordable.
Purchase only the cheaper solution with support. I don’t recommend high-end licenses.
Compared with other vendors’ products, the pricing of the license is slightly lower. The annual S&S price is very affordable.
VMware Aria Automation is a cloud management tool that allows companies to simplify their cloud experience through a modern automation platform. The solution is designed to deliver self-service clouds, multi-cloud automation with governance, and DevOps-based security and infrastructure management. It helps organizations improve IT agility, efficiency, and productivity through its various features.
The solution has helped to increase infrastructure, agility, speed, and provisioning in the time to market.
From the customer perspective, the value was worth it.
The solution has helped to increase infrastructure, agility, speed, and provisioning in the time to market.
From the customer perspective, the value was worth it.
VMware Aria Operations is a high-ranking virtualization management and cloud management tool that automates and simplifies IT management to the applications it supports. It achieves this through full-stack visibility from physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure. The product allows users to enable self-driving IT operations management across private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. This is conducted with the unified operations platform that delivers continuous performance, capacity and cost optimization, and integrated compliance through artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), and predictive analytics.
Don't overallocate! This means that you don't have to buy many hosts. You can save money that way.
The pricing: It's expensive.
Don't overallocate! This means that you don't have to buy many hosts. You can save money that way.
The pricing: It's expensive.
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.
The solution's pricing is based on the device you purchase and includes support services.
The solution is expensive.
The solution's pricing is based on the device you purchase and includes support services.
The solution is expensive.
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is a versatile solution that is used primarily for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, disaster recovery, backup tiering, DAR, and file sharing and networks. The solution offers valuable features such as cloud manager, backup and compliance, data analysis, and unified storage.
ROI is seen through reduced usage space and energy consumption.
The AWS consumer-based pricing model makes it easy for developers to use their credit cards to spin up virtual servers immediately.
ROI is seen through reduced usage space and energy consumption.
The AWS consumer-based pricing model makes it easy for developers to use their credit cards to spin up virtual servers immediately.
ServiceNow IT Operations Management (ITOM) is a cloud management and infrastructure tool that facilitates the administrative and development process of creating, planning, and operating digital services, technology, application requirements, and components for organizations. Service Now ensures effectiveness, performance, and availability throughout an organization's processes and services.
The pricing is high and may be excluding the small to medium-sized enterprise businesses.
It has different subscription models.
The pricing is high and may be excluding the small to medium-sized enterprise businesses.
It has different subscription models.
Cisco Intersight is Cisco’s systems management platform that delivers intuitive computing through cloud-powered intelligence. This platform offers a more intelligent level of management that enables IT organizations to analyze, simplify, and automate their environments in ways that were not possible with prior generations of tools. This capability empowers organizations to achieve significant savings in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and to deliver applications faster, so they can support new business initiates. The advantages of the model-based management of the Cisco UCS platform plus Cisco Intersight are extended to Cisco UCS servers and Cisco HyperFlex and Cisco HyperFlex Edge systems. Cisco HyperFlex Edge is optimized for remote sites, branch offices, and edge environments.
Cisco Intersight is not cheap, but it's not the most expensive product either.
It's just the standard licensing cost. There are no additional fees.
Cisco Intersight is not cheap, but it's not the most expensive product either.
It's just the standard licensing cost. There are no additional fees.
Manage container, virtual, private, and public cloud infrastructures
It is definitely cheaper than VMware. Everything is included. There is no challenge there.
Red Hat CloudForms has a subscript-based pricing model. The cost is approximately $20,000 annually which allows you to use as many users as you want.
It is definitely cheaper than VMware. Everything is included. There is no challenge there.
Red Hat CloudForms has a subscript-based pricing model. The cost is approximately $20,000 annually which allows you to use as many users as you want.
Extreme File Performance
Azure NetApp Files allows you to target any of your business-critical file workloads with extreme file throughput with sub-millisecond response times.With three service levels you can change on-the-fly, you get the performance that’s best suited to the application.
The licensing fees for this solution vary, ranging from a single shelf to a full suite.
The performance has improved by about 30 percent.
The licensing fees for this solution vary, ranging from a single shelf to a full suite.
The performance has improved by about 30 percent.
IBM Spectrum Computing uses intelligent workload and policy-driven resource management to optimize resources across the data center, on premises and in the cloud. Now up to 150X faster and scalable to over 160,000 cores, IBM provides you with the latest advances in software-defined infrastructure to help you unleash the power of your distributed mission-critical high performance computing (HPC), analytics and big data applications as well as a new generation open source frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark.
This solution is expensive.
Spectrum Computing is one of the most expensive products on the market.
This solution is expensive.
Spectrum Computing is one of the most expensive products on the market.
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is a cloud management tool that drives consistent governance across private and public clouds for its users. The solution brings simplicity and ease of use to managing and building cloud deployments by providing a unified multicloud management that addresses common cloud adoption challenges.
Nutanix Cloud Manager offers four key value drivers:
I think it can be more cost-effective.
The pricing was quite competitive and a lot lower compared to other solutions. It wasn't cheap, but it was not as expensive.
I think it can be more cost-effective.
The pricing was quite competitive and a lot lower compared to other solutions. It wasn't cheap, but it was not as expensive.
Tackle Your Organization’s Biggest Cloud Challenges
CloudHealth has a subscription-based model.
The pricing is competitive and while other products are good they are considerably more expensive.
CloudHealth has a subscription-based model.
The pricing is competitive and while other products are good they are considerably more expensive.
VMware Cloud Director, also known as vCloud Director, is a cloud management tool that offers secure, flexible, and efficient cloud resources to thousands of enterprises and IT teams across the world. The solution serves as one of the leading cloud service-delivery platforms for businesses that want to manage and operate their services effectively. By deploying this solution, companies can benefit from virtualized networking, computing, security, and storage. These benefits can be received in a timely manner, as the infrastructure of the product is operationally ready within minutes and clients do not need to install and configure physical infrastructure.
We are able to provision new clients faster. Every month, we take on more customers.
It enables us to provision new clients more quickly.
We are able to provision new clients faster. Every month, we take on more customers.
It enables us to provision new clients more quickly.
Freshservice is an intelligent, cloud-native service management solution. It provides efficiency and agility through AI to create a contextual and intelligent experience. The solution also empowers employees to work whenever and wherever they need to work. Freshservice powers integrations and workflows at the enterprise scale, building upon an open platform and marketplace with connectors and APIs that you can extend and customize.
The pricing information is on their website. It's my understanding that their Pro Plan, for example, is around $89/month.
Its price is great. Its pricing is supposedly a lot less than ServiceNow and other alternatives.
The pricing information is on their website. It's my understanding that their Pro Plan, for example, is around $89/month.
Its price is great. Its pricing is supposedly a lot less than ServiceNow and other alternatives.
Azure Cost Management empowers organizations to monitor cloud spend, drive organizational accountabilities, and optimize cloud efficiency so they can accelerate future cloud investments with confidence.
It's free out of the box.
I think the solution was free initially.
It's free out of the box.
I think the solution was free initially.
Morpheus is a 100% agnostic cloud management platform (CMP) designed from the ground up to unify management of multi-cloud and hybrid IT while empowering DevOps teams with self-service provisioning of bare metal, VM, and container-based application services.
The license is based on the number of virtual machines that Morpheus is managing. So, it is a pay-as-you-grow model.
Initially, the license may seem like a good deal, but as we grow, it becomes costly.
The license is based on the number of virtual machines that Morpheus is managing. So, it is a pay-as-you-grow model.
Initially, the license may seem like a good deal, but as we grow, it becomes costly.
Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform leverages web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, virtualization and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable performance, cloud-like infrastructure consumption, robust security, and seamless application mobility for a broad range of enterprise applications.
A lot of my customers complain about the price of renewals, so I think that this can be improved.
Compared to VMware, the price of this solution is great.
A lot of my customers complain about the price of renewals, so I think that this can be improved.
Compared to VMware, the price of this solution is great.
OpenNebula provides the most simple but feature-rich and flexible solution for the comprehensive management of virtualized data centers to enable private, public and hybrid IaaS clouds. OpenNebula interoperability makes cloud an evolution by leveraging existing IT assets, protecting your investments, and avoiding vendor lock-in.
VRA is very expensive but OpenNebula is free.
We use the Community Edition, rather than the Enterprise Edition.
VRA is very expensive but OpenNebula is free.
We use the Community Edition, rather than the Enterprise Edition.
Veeam ONE, part of Veeam Availability Suite, provides a comprehensive monitoring and analytics solution for backup, virtual and physical environments. With support for Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Agents, as well as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV, Veeam ONE delivers deep, intelligent monitoring, reporting, and automation through interactive tools and intelligent learning, identifying and resolving real customer problems before they begin:
For what it does, the price is acceptable.
Veeam has been raising its prices in the last two years, so it's now lacking some competitiveness in pricing.
For what it does, the price is acceptable.
Veeam has been raising its prices in the last two years, so it's now lacking some competitiveness in pricing.
Cloudability is a financial management tool for monitoring and analyzing every cloud expense across any organization. It brings transparency to how and where organizations spend money on cloud resources, giving them the power to reap the most value from cloud usage possible. It aggregates expenditures into accessible and comprehensive reports, helps identify new opportunities for reducing spend and increasing cloud efficiency, offers budget alerts and recommendations via SMS and email, provides APIs for connecting cloud billing and usage data to any business or financial system, and more.
My team is one of the most expensive teams, and we look at it quite a bit. We have probably easily saved around $400,000 USD a year.
It justifies the cost and is worth it.
My team is one of the most expensive teams, and we look at it quite a bit. We have probably easily saved around $400,000 USD a year.
It justifies the cost and is worth it.
The solution is reasonably priced.
The solution is reasonably priced.
CloudBolt supports a variety of cloud technologies, from on-premises virtualization and private cloud to a wide range public and hybrid cloud configurations.
The system is cheaper if a customer has fewer servers since you pay by the node.
The solution is reasonably priced.
The system is cheaper if a customer has fewer servers since you pay by the node.
The solution is reasonably priced.
Cloudify is an open-source orchestration-first cloud management platform. The solution allows applications to efficiently run across multiple cloud or data center platforms for premium multi-cloud infrastructure automation and orchestration. It provides infrastructure automation using environment as a service (EaaS) technology to deploy and continuously manage any cloud, private data center, or Kubernetes service from one central point while leveraging existing toolchains.
Densify is a hybrid cloud and container resource management platform that makes workloads self-aware of their precise resource requirements and automates the resource management and selection process. This solution helps you control your cloud spend and also helps your apps perform and scale better. Densify enables you to match your cloud requirements with the optimal cloud supply. Additionally, Densify is the only technology that leverages patented, predictive machine learning-powered analytics to perform advanced modeling of workload patterns, and provide precise optimization directives. It is ideal for cloud engineers, container platform owners, and IT finance.
Setup cost is negligible, as it scales fairly well.
There was some sticker shock, as this is not just another software product to spit out graphs.
Setup cost is negligible, as it scales fairly well.
There was some sticker shock, as this is not just another software product to spit out graphs.
Cisco UCS Director enables automated delivery of physical and virtual data center resources, empowering data centers to move at the speed of business.
The cost of this solution is significant.
Cisco UCS Director is expensive...I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten.
The cost of this solution is significant.
Cisco UCS Director is expensive...I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten.
Infrascale overcomes the complexity of creating backup and disaster recovery solutions without sacrificing performance and reliability. We provide fast, secure recovery that enables customers to feel confident that their data is fully protected from any type of disaster, whether it be operational, environmental, or malicious. Infrascale provides data protection for SaaS applications, endpoints, and servers. Our licensing fees are billed every four months. The licensing is based on how much data you have plus what appliances you need. Pricing Our licensing fees are billed every four months. The licensing is based on how much data you have plus what appliances you need.  BMC Helix Cloud Security BMC Helix Cloud Security is a SaaS tool designed to help organizations reduce compliance and security lapses resulting from next-gen container and cloud technologies. The solution offers a fully transparent, user-friendly view of all compliance data gathered throughout container resources, cloud, and data centers. BMC Helix Cloud Security can be used to insert compliance inquiries precisely in DevOps workflows for immediate assessment in relation to critical “go, no-go” conclusions throughout the entire workflow.  AWS Savings Plans Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that provides savings of up to 72% on your AWS compute usage. This pricing model offers lower prices on Amazon EC2 instances usage, regardless of instance family, size, OS, tenancy or AWS Region, and also applies to AWS Fargate usage. AWS Cost Management AWS Cost Management tools give you visibility into your AWS costs and usage. There are a range of AWS Cost Management tools to help you access, organize, understand, control, and optimize your costs. We have signed a long-term contract with AWS. There are different service levels that will determine the level of support you have. We get AWS Cost Management for free because we use AWS services. Pricing We have signed a long-term contract with AWS. There are different service levels that will determine the level of support you have. We get AWS Cost Management for free because we use AWS services. AWS Control Tower AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a new, secure, multi-account AWS environment. It establishes a landing zone that is based on best-practices blueprints, and enables governance using guardrails you can choose from a pre-packaged list. The solution is free. On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing an eight. Pricing The solution is free. On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing an eight. Cisco CloudCenter The Cisco CloudCenter solution is an application-centric hybrid cloud management platform that securely provisions infrastructure resources and deploys applications to data center, private cloud, and public cloud environments. The solution is extremely expensive and has additional fees for things like monitoring. The tool's pricing is balanced with the market. Pricing The solution is extremely expensive and has additional fees for things like monitoring. The tool's pricing is balanced with the market.  CloudSphere CloudSphere is an intelligent cloud management platform that enables organizations to plan, optimize, secure, and scale their cloud adoption. The platform has three solutions to help organizations manage dynamic, multi-cloud environments, including cloud migration planning, cloud cost management, and cloud security posture management. By using application intelligence (AI), the platform is able to discover and collect all of the data points that collectively define an application across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. Because the solution is very scalable, it can accommodate companies of all sizes. It depends on how that model will be used. It might be anywhere between $4 and $15 per license per month. It’s less expensive than other options. The product is very expensive. Pricing It depends on how that model will be used. It might be anywhere between $4 and $15 per license per month. It’s less expensive than other options. The product is very expensive. CloudEndure Live Migration CloudEndure's Live Migration technology enables companies to reduce migration complexity and eliminate risk. It's automated migration solution utilizes block-level continuous replication, application stack orchestration, and automated machine conversion to ensure 100% data integrity. Whether you are migrating to, across, or within clouds, CloudEndure Live Migration gives you the flexibility and security enterprises need to succeed in today’s fast-paced digital ecosystem. Live Migration's price is good. For me, the price of the tool is cheap and very good. It is flexible pricing since you pay just for what you use. Pricing Live Migration's price is good. For me, the price of the tool is cheap and very good. It is flexible pricing since you pay just for what you use. AWS Trusted Advisor AWS Trusted Advisor is your customized cloud expert! It helps you to observe best practices for the use of AWS by inspecting your AWS environment with an eye toward saving money, improving system performance and reliability, and closing security gaps.  Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Oracle Enterprise Manager is Oracle's integrated enterprise information technology (IT) management product line, which provides the industry's only complete, integrated, and business-driven enterprise cloud management solution. Oracle Enterprise Manager creates business value for IT by leveraging the built-in management capabilities of the Oracle stack for traditional and cloud environments, enabling customers to achieve unprecedented efficiency gains while dramatically increasing service levels. The licensing costs are largely too high. Our customer uses Oracle Universal Credits to pay for their license on an annual basis. The price is definitely affordable. Pricing The licensing costs are largely too high. Our customer uses Oracle Universal Credits to pay for their license on an annual basis. The price is definitely affordable.  Carbonite Migrate Carbonite Migrate allows you to easily migrate physical, virtual and cloud workloads to and from any environment with minimal risk and near-zero downtime. Options for finely tuned automation help orchestrate every stage of the process. The licensing costs are really high. In terms of pricing, I think it's an expensive tool. Pricing The licensing costs are really high. In terms of pricing, I think it's an expensive tool.  SolarWinds Virtualization Manager SolarWinds Virtualization Manager reduces downtime by 53% and time spent troubleshooting by 59%. Analyze and remediate VM performance problems by viewing active, critical, and warning issues in your environment. The is an annual subscription needed to use this solution. The maintenance and support are a part of the package, meaning it is included in the product's price. Pricing The is an annual subscription needed to use this solution. The maintenance and support are a part of the package, meaning it is included in the product's price.  RightScale Cloud Management Platform With the RightScale Multi-Cloud Platform, you can mix and match public clouds, private clouds, and virtualized environments to meet your cloud portfolio strategy. In addition to clouds, you can support a portfolio of hypervisors — KVM, Xen, and vSphere — as well as operating systems — CentOS, RHEL, SUSE, Ubuntu, and Windows. A portfolio approach gives your enterprise the ability to future-proof your cloud strategy, optimize cost and performance, access a global footprint with best-of-breed capabilities, and gain financial flexibility and negotiating leverage. Due to its implementation's complexity, it was delivered for a minimal value at a high cost. It is expensive. Pricing Due to its implementation's complexity, it was delivered for a minimal value at a high cost. It is expensive. BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management BMC's cloud management platform drives digital innovation with agile, full-stack service provisioning across cloud and traditional platforms. BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management scales easily while integrating with essential compliance and governance policies to reduce risk.  Granulate Real-Time Continuous Cloud Compute Optimization.  Cloudamize Cloudamize is a cloud computing analytics platform that provides data analysis and recommendations to speed and simplify cloud assessment, migration, and cost management. Apptio One ApptioOne unifies financial and operational data into a unified model built on the industry-standard taxonomy of cost categorization. Utilizing sophisticated allocation rules along with focused metrics and KPIs, we enable organizations to answer the most strategic questions about investments and accelerate budgeting and forecasting processes. By explaining investments and variance to plan more quickly to constituencies and executive management, organizations can uncover opportunities to optimize cost structures, reduce risk, and accelerate growth. It comes with a considerable cost. Apptio One is an expensive solution. Pricing It comes with a considerable cost. Apptio One is an expensive solution.  ParkMyCloud ParkMyCloud, a Turbonomic company, provides an easy-to-use platform that helps enterprises automatically identify and eliminate wasted cloud spend. More than 1,000 enterprises around the world - including Sysco, Workfront, Hitachi ID Systems, Sage Software, and National Geographic - trust ParkMyCloud to cut their cloud spend by millions of dollars annually. ParkMyCloud’s SaaS offering allows enterprises to easily manage, govern, and optimize their spend across multiple public clouds.  Google Cloud Billing Google Cloud's cost management tools provide the visibility, accountability, control, and intelligence you need so that you can scale your business in the cloud with confidence. Tailored to meet the needs of organizations of all sizes, these tools help reduce complexity and increase the predictability of your cloud costs. The licensing fees are monthly and cost approximately $100.00. Pricing The licensing fees are monthly and cost approximately $100.00.  Opvizor Opvizor puts you in control over everything you love about Vmware and automates all the rest. With Opvizor you will spend more time developing, designing, and implementing solutions to challenging problems and control every microdetail of your virtualized vSphere network with pinpoint-accurate, real-time monitoring and support tools  Quest Foglight for Virtualization Foglight for Virtualization provides the holistic insight you need into the health, risk and efficiency of your virtual infrastructure. Reduce operational costs, speed deployments, reduce the performance impact of changes and simplify the complexity of your data center infrastructure with end-to-everything visualization.  CoreStack CoreStack® Enterprise Enables You to be agile and eliminate waste while proactively mitigating risks by making your cloud governance intelligent and autonomous. It applies Cloud-as-Code™ approach to govern the four critical components of your cloud  CAST AI CAST AI combines instant AI-driven cloud optimization with Kubernetes. It’s one platform that cuts your cloud bill in half, boosts the power of DevOps 10X, and guarantees business continuity by giving you 100% uptime.  Velostrata Velostrata software lets you move workloads to the public cloud in minutes, while controlling and automating where storage resides—on premises, in the cloud, or a combination of both. Related categories |
