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.
"The availability has been increased."
"It is very easy to share documents."
"Google Cloud is user friendly and reliable. The most valuable feature is the security of Google Cloud."
"It's easy to work with."
"It didn't take long to get everything set up and understand what was going on. Things are pretty clear."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud is its security."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The solution's features are very good and our staff loves using them."
"The solution is stable and resilient. In our company, we do not even see any challenges with the solution."
"The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is the UI, it is easy to use."
"I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities."
"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."
"We find its stability and scalability valuable."
"Stability is not a concern with this product."
"The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is auto-healing and the plenty of other features that are provided."
"PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime."
"I would like to see Google Cloud become more competitive when it comes to price."
"I consider Azure more secure than Google and Amazon because of all its certifications, but Google is secure enough and improving."
"Microsoft's solution is more common, Google Cloud could improve by being more compatible with different platforms or entities."
"The security of the solution can always be improved."
"It could have a reporting tool included."
"If there were more documentation and training, it would be very helpful in explaining the underlying processes."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"Google Cloud could improve the integration with other solutions."
"It should offer more security features."
"I'd like to see a larger service offering."
"In the next release, they should offer additional applications for the databases, and improve the deployment experience."
"The user interface should be simpler to navigate because it t can take time for users to learn it."
"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."
"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."
"The Pivotal Cloud Foundry's initial setup has a learning curve for my team, but it was easy to use."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve on the technology it is a bit complex."
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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