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.
"It is very easy to share documents."
"This platform is popular with technical users because of the abilities for customization and fine-tuning performance."
"The most useful feature of Google Cloud is that it's basically completely managed or fully managed. There is no administration or maintenance needed from the user, and it's very simple to use."
"Technical support has been good."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to spin."
"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."
"It's robust, and it has a wide reach in terms of office applications including storage."
"Good storage and ease of access."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very robust, especially for building Java."
"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."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very easy to use compared to other cloud technologies. It has a very good performance."
"PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime."
"It provides a set of developer-friendly tools that simplify application deployment."
"We find its stability and scalability valuable."
"The solution is stable and resilient. In our company, we do not even see any challenges with the solution."
"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 price of the solution could be more transparent."
"They could always offer even more storage at the base level."
"I consider Azure more secure than Google and Amazon because of all its certifications, but Google is secure enough and improving."
"The ease-of-use could be improved for less technical users."
"The solution could improve by being less expensive."
"The analytics that they have are very focused. It serves Google and not really the client."
"It would be nice if they could offer more free storage."
"Monitoring and usage reporting could be improved."
"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, they should offer additional applications for the databases, and improve the deployment experience."
"There are no synthetic application monitoring and real-time monitoring features."
"The user interface should be simpler to navigate because it t can take time for users to learn it."
"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."
"In the next release, I would like to see easy integration with external tools."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry doesn't have certain advanced features."
"It should offer more security 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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