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.
"Google Cloud is a good alternative solution. I think it's a better fit for Mac operating systems than Windows. If you're utilizing Google Cloud for something like big data, then their big query is decent."
"It's robust, and it has a wide reach in terms of office applications including storage."
"Google Cloud is perceived as a cost-effective and user-friendly option, especially compared to AWS. The current affordability and ease of use make it suitable for medium-sized companies. While the complexity may increase in the future, for now, Google Cloud is considered easy to use."
"You can just connect and start using it through a browser within a few minutes."
"It is stable. It is easy to learn and very straightforward."
"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 automatic sync between my mobile device data and photos to the cloud is the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very robust, especially for building Java."
"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."
"It supports CI/CD, and is integrated with the CI/CD very well."
"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."
"Stability is not a concern with this product."
"The solution is stable and resilient. In our company, we do not even see any challenges with the solution."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"The product must provide AI features."
"There are issues with stability."
"The solution could improve by being less expensive."
"They could always offer even more storage at the base level."
"Current technologies keep on changing, so definitely those new changes need to be incorporated quickly. The competition is always out there to be one step ahead. How those open-source platforms can be easily integrated into the cloud, is going to be the key in the future."
"It would be nice if they could offer more free storage."
"Security features could be improved."
"I'd like to see a larger service offering."
"The Pivotal Cloud Foundry's initial setup has a learning curve for my team, but it was easy to use."
"The user interface should be simpler to navigate because it t can take time for users to learn it."
"There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the future of Pivotal Cloud Foundry."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve the documentation. They are good, but they could improve more. Additionally, it would be beneficial if there were more use case examples."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve on the technology it is a bit complex."
"In the next release, they should offer additional applications for the databases, and improve the deployment experience."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry doesn't have certain advanced features."
Google Cloud is ranked 5th in PaaS Clouds with 66 reviews while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is ranked 8th 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), Red Hat OpenShift and SAP Cloud Platform, whereas Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, Amazon AWS, VMware Tanzu Application Service and Cloud Foundry. See our Google Cloud vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry report.
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