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.
"I have found this solution to be a quick and advanced way to run my models through."
"My customers appreciate all the features that Google Cloud has to offer. They are looking for solutions for computing engines, storage, web hosting, and various other needs. The most useful feature depends on their specific requirements and how they plan to utilize Google Cloud. Each customer has their own unique set of needs and the Google Cloud provides a range of options to meet those needs."
"The solution is scalable."
"Google Cloud is user friendly and reliable. The most valuable feature is the security of Google Cloud."
"Google Cloud is very user-friendly."
"Good storage and ease of access."
"I like the simple features that allow me to share documents with others."
"We can increase the storage as we need."
"The most valuable features of Pivotal Cloud Foundry are its ease of use and the command line interface has the ability to push instances to the cloud easily."
"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."
"It provides a set of developer-friendly tools that simplify application deployment."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to scale. The services that connect to the database are also very good."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the deployment is easier."
"Google Cloud would benefit from more detailed practical hands-on training especially in your mother tongue, not just English."
"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 price of the solution could be more transparent."
"The price could improve. Every customer would agree, that they would like the price to be reduced."
"I find it hard to download items, especially on their operating system."
"They could always offer even more storage at the base level."
"The solution could be a bit cheaper."
"The product could be improved by expanding the initial storage space available."
"There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the future of Pivotal Cloud Foundry."
"The Pivotal Cloud Foundry's initial setup has a learning curve for my team, but it was easy to use."
"I'd like to see a larger service offering."
"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."
"It should offer more security features."
"Something that can be done better is canary deployment. So, right now, we're using blue-green deployment. The support for canary deployment would be nice."
"There are no synthetic application monitoring and real-time monitoring features."
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 Alibaba Cloud, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), OpenShift and SAP Cloud Platform, whereas Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most compared with OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, VMware Tanzu Application Service and Cloud Foundry. See our Google Cloud vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry report.
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