ServiceNow is a cloud-based task-management platform that specializes in IT operations management (ITOM), IT services management (ITSM), and IT business management (ITBM). ServiceNow allows users to manage their teams, projects, and customer interactions using a variety of different plugins and apps with which it easily integrates.
It has a higher cost compared to local/regional solutions.
It's sold as a less expensive solution, but it has to be highly modified. That's where you get into the cost.
It has a higher cost compared to local/regional solutions.
It's sold as a less expensive solution, but it has to be highly modified. That's where you get into the cost.
VMware Aria Automation is a cloud management tool that allows companies to simplify their cloud experience through a modern automation platform. The solution is designed to deliver self-service clouds, multi-cloud automation with governance, and DevOps-based security and infrastructure management. It helps organizations improve IT agility, efficiency, and productivity through its various features.
The solution has helped to increase infrastructure, agility, speed, and provisioning in the time to market.
From the customer perspective, the value was worth it.
The solution has helped to increase infrastructure, agility, speed, and provisioning in the time to market.
From the customer perspective, the value was worth it.
VMware Aria Operations is a high-ranking virtualization management and cloud management tool that automates and simplifies IT management to the applications it supports. It achieves this through full-stack visibility from physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure. The product allows users to enable self-driving IT operations management across private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. This is conducted with the unified operations platform that delivers continuous performance, capacity and cost optimization, and integrated compliance through artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), and predictive analytics.
Don't overallocate! This means that you don't have to buy many hosts. You can save money that way.
The pricing: It's expensive.
Don't overallocate! This means that you don't have to buy many hosts. You can save money that way.
The pricing: It's expensive.
IBM Turbonomic is a performance and cost optimization platform for public, private, and hybrid clouds used by customers to assure application performance while eliminating inefficiencies by dynamically resourcing applications through automated actions. Common use cases include cloud cost optimization, cloud migration planning, data center modernization, FinOps acceleration, Kubernetes optimization, sustainable IT, and application resource management. Turbonomic customers report an average 33% reduction in cloud and infrastructure waste without impacting application performance, and return-on-investment of 471% over three years. Ready to take a closer look? Explore the interactive demo or start your free 30-day trial today!
Price is a big one. VMTurbo was very competitively priced.
We felt the pricing was very fair for the product. It is in no way prohibitive for larger deployments, unlike other similar product on the market.
Price is a big one. VMTurbo was very competitively priced.
We felt the pricing was very fair for the product. It is in no way prohibitive for larger deployments, unlike other similar product on the market.
ServiceNow IT Operations Management (ITOM) is a cloud management and infrastructure tool that facilitates the administrative and development process of creating, planning, and operating digital services, technology, application requirements, and components for organizations. Service Now ensures effectiveness, performance, and availability throughout an organization's processes and services.
The pricing is high and may be excluding the small to medium-sized enterprise businesses.
It has different subscription models.
The pricing is high and may be excluding the small to medium-sized enterprise businesses.
It has different subscription models.
Cisco Intersight is Cisco’s systems management platform that delivers intuitive computing through cloud-powered intelligence. This platform offers a more intelligent level of management that enables IT organizations to analyze, simplify, and automate their environments in ways that were not possible with prior generations of tools. This capability empowers organizations to achieve significant savings in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and to deliver applications faster, so they can support new business initiates. The advantages of the model-based management of the Cisco UCS platform plus Cisco Intersight are extended to Cisco UCS servers and Cisco HyperFlex and Cisco HyperFlex Edge systems. Cisco HyperFlex Edge is optimized for remote sites, branch offices, and edge environments.
Cisco Intersight is not cheap, but it's not the most expensive product either.
It's just the standard licensing cost. There are no additional fees.
Cisco Intersight is not cheap, but it's not the most expensive product either.
It's just the standard licensing cost. There are no additional fees.
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is a cloud management tool that drives consistent governance across private and public clouds for its users. The solution brings simplicity and ease of use to managing and building cloud deployments by providing a unified multicloud management that addresses common cloud adoption challenges.
Nutanix Cloud Manager offers four key value drivers:
I think it can be more cost-effective.
The pricing was quite competitive and a lot lower compared to other solutions. It wasn't cheap, but it was not as expensive.
I think it can be more cost-effective.
The pricing was quite competitive and a lot lower compared to other solutions. It wasn't cheap, but it was not as expensive.
VMware Cloud Director, also known as vCloud Director, is a cloud management tool that offers secure, flexible, and efficient cloud resources to thousands of enterprises and IT teams across the world. The solution serves as one of the leading cloud service-delivery platforms for businesses that want to manage and operate their services effectively. By deploying this solution, companies can benefit from virtualized networking, computing, security, and storage. These benefits can be received in a timely manner, as the infrastructure of the product is operationally ready within minutes and clients do not need to install and configure physical infrastructure.
We are able to provision new clients faster. Every month, we take on more customers.
It enables us to provision new clients more quickly.
We are able to provision new clients faster. Every month, we take on more customers.
It enables us to provision new clients more quickly.
Azure Cost Management empowers organizations to monitor cloud spend, drive organizational accountabilities, and optimize cloud efficiency so they can accelerate future cloud investments with confidence.
It's free out of the box.
I think the solution was free initially.
It's free out of the box.
I think the solution was free initially.
Morpheus is a 100% agnostic cloud management platform (CMP) designed from the ground up to unify management of multi-cloud and hybrid IT while empowering DevOps teams with self-service provisioning of bare metal, VM, and container-based application services.
The license is based on the number of virtual machines that Morpheus is managing. So, it is a pay-as-you-grow model.
Initially, the license may seem like a good deal, but as we grow, it becomes costly.
The license is based on the number of virtual machines that Morpheus is managing. So, it is a pay-as-you-grow model.
Initially, the license may seem like a good deal, but as we grow, it becomes costly.
Cloudability is a financial management tool for monitoring and analyzing every cloud expense across any organization. It brings transparency to how and where organizations spend money on cloud resources, giving them the power to reap the most value from cloud usage possible. It aggregates expenditures into accessible and comprehensive reports, helps identify new opportunities for reducing spend and increasing cloud efficiency, offers budget alerts and recommendations via SMS and email, provides APIs for connecting cloud billing and usage data to any business or financial system, and more.
My team is one of the most expensive teams, and we look at it quite a bit. We have probably easily saved around $400,000 USD a year.
It justifies the cost and is worth it.
My team is one of the most expensive teams, and we look at it quite a bit. We have probably easily saved around $400,000 USD a year.
It justifies the cost and is worth it.
The solution is reasonably priced.
The cost is on par with other providers.
The solution is reasonably priced.
The cost is on par with other providers.
CloudBolt supports a variety of cloud technologies, from on-premises virtualization and private cloud to a wide range public and hybrid cloud configurations.
The system is cheaper if a customer has fewer servers since you pay by the node.
The solution is reasonably priced.
The system is cheaper if a customer has fewer servers since you pay by the node.
The solution is reasonably priced.
Cloudify is an open-source orchestration-first cloud management platform. The solution allows applications to efficiently run across multiple cloud or data center platforms for premium multi-cloud infrastructure automation and orchestration. It provides infrastructure automation using environment as a service (EaaS) technology to deploy and continuously manage any cloud, private data center, or Kubernetes service from one central point while leveraging existing toolchains.
Densify is a hybrid cloud and container resource management platform that makes workloads self-aware of their precise resource requirements and automates the resource management and selection process. This solution helps you control your cloud spend and also helps your apps perform and scale better. Densify enables you to match your cloud requirements with the optimal cloud supply. Additionally, Densify is the only technology that leverages patented, predictive machine learning-powered analytics to perform advanced modeling of workload patterns, and provide precise optimization directives. It is ideal for cloud engineers, container platform owners, and IT finance.
Setup cost is negligible, as it scales fairly well.
There was some sticker shock, as this is not just another software product to spit out graphs.
Setup cost is negligible, as it scales fairly well.
There was some sticker shock, as this is not just another software product to spit out graphs.
AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a new, secure, multi-account AWS environment. It establishes a landing zone that is based on best-practices blueprints, and enables governance using guardrails you can choose from a pre-packaged list.
The solution is free.
On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing an eight.
The solution is free.
On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing an eight.
BMC Helix Cloud Security is a SaaS tool designed to help organizations reduce compliance and security lapses resulting from next-gen container and cloud technologies. The solution offers a fully transparent, user-friendly view of all compliance data gathered throughout container resources, cloud, and data centers. BMC Helix Cloud Security can be used to insert compliance inquiries precisely in DevOps workflows for immediate assessment in relation to critical “go, no-go” conclusions throughout the entire workflow.
AWS Trusted Advisor is your customized cloud expert! It helps you to observe best practices for the use of AWS by inspecting your AWS environment with an eye toward saving money, improving system performance and reliability, and closing security gaps.
Oracle Enterprise Manager is Oracle's integrated enterprise information technology (IT) management product line, which provides the industry's only complete, integrated, and business-driven enterprise cloud management solution. Oracle Enterprise Manager creates business value for IT by leveraging the built-in management capabilities of the Oracle stack for traditional and cloud environments, enabling customers to achieve unprecedented efficiency gains while dramatically increasing service levels.
The licensing costs are largely too high.
Our customer uses Oracle Universal Credits to pay for their license on an annual basis. The price is definitely affordable.
The licensing costs are largely too high.
Our customer uses Oracle Universal Credits to pay for their license on an annual basis. The price is definitely affordable.
CloudPhysics continually analyzes your vSphere environment, tracking changes, projecting trends, and proactively surfacing the hot spots you need to pay attention to now – before they cause problems. We deliver unique, meaningful insights that give vSphere administrators the confidence to act boldly to reduce risk and trim waste, without compromising the safety of your virtual infrastructure or the applications it supports.
It's expensive, which is one of the problems with this solution.
The pricing model is complicated.
It's expensive, which is one of the problems with this solution.
The pricing model is complicated.
Zesty is a powerful automated cloud optimization management solution that enhances cloud efficiency, improves DevOps productivity, and reduces cloud costs without human intervention. The solution auto-scales cloud resources to fit real-time application needs, eliminating repetitive and mundane infrastructure management tasks for DevOps engineers. Its artificial intelligence technology guarantees that you only provide the resources that your application needs.
Zesty platform users have access to a customizable dashboard, which enables them to manage and monitor all of their operations and processes in a single place. The platform also facilitates budget tracking, which helps reduce costs and increase the efficiency of your business. By using Zesty, your organization can also manage compliance management to reduce risks and errors. The solution is ideal for small, medium, and large enterprises.
Real-Time Continuous Cloud Compute Optimization.
Cloud Native Autonomous, AI-driven Performance Boost.
Organizations utilize the cloud for increased flexibility and fast growth but face growing cloud bills. Granulate is engineered for cloud-native and hybrid environments – providing significant cost reduction and performance optimization without any code changes.
ApptioOne unifies financial and operational data into a unified model built on the industry-standard taxonomy of cost categorization. Utilizing sophisticated allocation rules along with focused metrics and KPIs, we enable organizations to answer the most strategic questions about investments and accelerate budgeting and forecasting processes. By explaining investments and variance to plan more quickly to constituencies and executive management, organizations can uncover opportunities to optimize cost structures, reduce risk, and accelerate growth.
It comes with a considerable cost.
Apptio One is an expensive solution.
It comes with a considerable cost.
Apptio One is an expensive solution.
Cloudamize is a cloud computing analytics platform that provides data analysis and recommendations to speed and simplify cloud assessment, migration, and cost management.
CoreStack® Enterprise Enables You to be agile and eliminate waste while proactively mitigating risks by making your cloud governance intelligent and autonomous. It applies Cloud-as-Code™ approach to govern the four critical components of your cloud
CAST AI combines instant AI-driven cloud optimization with Kubernetes. It’s one platform that cuts your cloud bill in half, boosts the power of DevOps 10X, and guarantees business continuity by giving you 100% uptime.
