Microsoft Configuration Manager helps IT manage PCs and servers, keeping software up-to-date, setting configuration and security policies, and monitoring system status while giving employees access to corporate applications on the devices that they choose. When Configuration Manager is integrated with Microsoft Intune, you can manage corporate-connected PCs and Macs along with cloud-based mobile devices running Windows, iOS, and Android, all from a single management console.
Overall, I think it's fine. It's pretty much in-line because there are ways to offset it with the Office 365 licensing.
The licensing is good because they have various options, depending on what you are looking for.
Overall, I think it's fine. It's pretty much in-line because there are ways to offset it with the Office 365 licensing.
The licensing is good because they have various options, depending on what you are looking for.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a powerful network automation solution that allows organizations to handle every aspect of their application launch process within a single product. It enables users to share their automations so that teams within an organization can collaborate on various projects with ease. Ansible Automation Platform is designed to be used by all employees involved in the network automation process.
The cost is high, but it still works well.
We went with product because we have a subscription for Red Hat.
The cost is high, but it still works well.
We went with product because we have a subscription for Red Hat.
HCL BigFix is a powerful patch management tool that enables organizations to simply control their patch management operations. It is designed so that IT security and operations teams can collaborate in the most effective way possible. Users that employ BigFix can find and fix issues with their endpoints faster than those that employ its competitors. It comes with thousands of security checks that can be deployed quickly and easily. These enable users to safeguard themselves from a wide variety of digital threats.
When purchasing, buying with other IBM tools provided us with a very good discount in pricing.
I can estimate the reduced cost of servers maintenance to approximatively $500,000.
When purchasing, buying with other IBM tools provided us with a very good discount in pricing.
I can estimate the reduced cost of servers maintenance to approximatively $500,000.
You have a base license for 50 devices, and then you can add more licenses as you go.
There is a license for the use of this solution and it is priced well, there is a lot of value for the money.
You have a base license for 50 devices, and then you can add more licenses as you go.
There is a license for the use of this solution and it is priced well, there is a lot of value for the money.
SaltStack is an intelligent IT automation platform that can manage, secure, and optimize any infrastructure—on-prem, in the cloud, or at the edge. It’s built on a unique and powerful event-driven automation engine that detects events in any system and reacts intelligently to them, making it an extremely effective solution for managing large, complex environments. And with the newly launched SecOps offering, SaltStack can detect security vulnerabilities and non-compliant, mis-configured systems. As soon as an issue is detected, this powerful automation helps you and your team remediate it, keeping your infrastructure securely configured, compliant, and up-to-date.
So much can be done with the Open Source side, and especially for smaller shops. I personally think the pricing for Enterprise is hard to justify.
The pricing for this solution is roughly 20% lower than the competitive products in the market.
So much can be done with the Open Source side, and especially for smaller shops. I personally think the pricing for Enterprise is hard to justify.
The pricing for this solution is roughly 20% lower than the competitive products in the market.
HashiCorp Terraform is a powerful configuration management solution that aims to provide users with the ability to maximize the ease with which users can perform their configuration management operations. It makes it so that organizations can reliably configure and manage their infrastructure. Terraform is a tool that transforms every user into an administrator and project collaborator. Businesses that use it have at their command a solution that they can use for the entire lifecycle of their infrastructure.
The setup for Terraform is quite easy and currently, we are using their community version along with Jenkins.
They have given it to us at a monthly cost, but it is on a yearly basis.
The setup for Terraform is quite easy and currently, we are using their community version along with Jenkins.
They have given it to us at a monthly cost, but it is on a yearly basis.
Chef, is the leader in DevOps, driving collaboration through code to automate infrastructure, security, compliance and applications. Chef provides a single path to production making it faster and safer to add value to applications and meet the demands of the customer. Deployed broadly in production by the Global 5000 and used by more than half of the Fortune 500, Chef develops 100 percent of its software as open source under the Apache 2.0 license with no restrictions on its use. Chef Enterprise Automation Stack™, a commercial distribution, is developed solely from that open source code and unifies security, compliance, infrastructure and application automation with observability. Chef provides an unequaled developer experience for the Coded Enterprise by enabling users to express infrastructure, security policies and the application lifecycle as code, modernizing development, packaging and delivery of any application to any platform. For more information, visit http://chef.io and follow @chef.
When we're rolling out a new server, we're not using the AWS Marketplace AMI, we're using our own AMI, but we are paying them a licensing fee.
We are using the free, open source version of the software, which we are happy with at this time.
When we're rolling out a new server, we're not using the AWS Marketplace AMI, we're using our own AMI, but we are paying them a licensing fee.
We are using the free, open source version of the software, which we are happy with at this time.
