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We performed a comparison between Cisco CloudCenter and VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Pros
"Cisco CloudCenter's scalability is good.""Upgrades are very simple as well because they've allowed us to get updates directly in the CloudCenter Suite manager. If you need to do an upgrade to your setup afterward, you just push a button and it rolls out the parts and retires the old ones. It's seamless and very simple compared to what we've done before.""I can define all components and create a blueprint for consumption across all services.""You can scale it easily.""The initial setup process is straightforward.""The solution is agile and it has APIs for integration.""The initial setup is fairly straightforward if you have a basic setup.""Cisco has a lot of published information and documentation that helps users understand the product and its offering very well."

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"We use dashboards quite heavily, but one of the features that have really stood out is some of the policies we've created to alert us of particular situations.""We are able to create an internal price of the product that we can then sell to clients. We get the cost plan at a good discount and then resell it with a mark up to our enterprise-level clients. This flexibility in pricing is one of the solution's best features.""The product is easy to use in terms of monitoring all the environments. It works for multiple clouds.""The most valuable thing I have found is the cost saving recommendations""It's stable. For report presentation, it's been fast.""The pricing is rather competitive right now.""The solution is useful for cloud transparency and visibility in reports and dashboards that I have generated, especially the pre-populated dashboards.""This solution is fast and very easy to understand, even if you are not a technician."

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Cons
"Improvements are needed in UI and multi-tenancy for this solution.""The solution needs to be more simple.""They can add some of those features to make the platform more usable for different backgrounds and developer skills.""You don't get all the solution's benefits if you have older switches.""The tool should improve its security on the XDR part.""I'm not a big fan of CloudCenter. I don't have anything against it, however, the on-premise version has been so hard to upgrade and maintain.""They should provide an entire cloud offering, from architecture to network security features.""The improvement I would like to see is not one thing particular to CloudCenter. I'd say it's more of a message that the system is still using a lot of the different products and if they would all just fit better together, they all could be faster together."

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"I would like to see better integration from CloudHealth to create easier setup and implementation.""They should provide information or tools to tune the cloud resources according to the environment size.""The export features regarding CSV files and specifically around identifying savings plans have room for improvement, as well as the drill-down features for reservation utilization.""It would be helpful to have a mobile version or a tablet version, especially for people who are outside of the office.""The performance and accuracy of Cloud Health need to be improved.""The Perspectives feature could be better.""CloudHealth needs to start building out Turbonomics-types of features that help the customers who are using CloudHealth really understand everything down to the server level, the virtual machine level.""If you are working with the OS you need help and other connectors to get more information."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The solution is extremely expensive and has additional fees for things like monitoring."
  • "The tool's pricing is balanced with the market."
  • "The tool's pricing is expensive."
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  • "The licensing fees depend on how big the company is. If you are a larger company then you have a better contract with a better price. The price is different for a small company."
  • "CloudHealth has a subscription-based model."
  • "The pricing is competitive and while other products are good they are considerably more expensive."
  • "I give the cost of the solution an eight out of ten."
  • "There could be flexibility in pricing for the product."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The initial setup process is straightforward.
    Top Answer:They should provide an entire cloud offering, from architecture to network security features.
    Top Answer:We use the product for demonstration, device provisioning, and data management.
    Top Answer:The product is easy to use in terms of monitoring all the environments. It works for multiple clouds.
    Top Answer:I give the cost of the solution an eight out of ten.
    Top Answer:There could be flexibility in pricing for the product. They should provide information or tools to tune the cloud resources according to the environment size. It will help us get the right cost… more »
    Ranking
    18th
    out of 75 in Cloud Management
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    775
    Comparisons
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    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    698
    Rating
    7.8
    15th
    out of 75 in Cloud Management
    Views
    2,657
    Comparisons
    1,732
    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    299
    Rating
    8.2
    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    CliQr, CliQr CloudCenter
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    Overview

    The Cisco CloudCenter solution is an application-centric hybrid cloud management platform that securely provisions infrastructure resources and deploys applications to data center, private cloud, and public cloud environments.

    With Cisco CloudCenter breakthrough application-centric technology, users
    can:

    • Model: Quickly and easily build a cloud-independent application profile that defines the deployment and management requirements of an entire application stack.
    • Deploy: Use one click to deploy the application profile and related components and data to any data center or cloud environment.
    • Manage: Apply a wide range of application lifecycle actions to set policies to enable in-place scaling, support cross-environment bursting or high availability and disaster recovery, and stop the deployment.

    Tackle Your Organization’s Biggest Cloud Challenges

    VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth delivers intelligent insights that help you optimize costs, improve governance, and build your Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE).

    Simplify Financial Management

    Report spend by cost center, drive financial accountability against budgets and find ways to optimize your cloud spend.

    EXPLORE FINOPS SOLUTIONS

    Streamline Operations

    Create custom policies that automate daily cloud operations, speed decision making, and reduce risk.

    OPTIMIZE CLOUD OPERATIONS

    Strengthen Security & Compliance

    Visualize, investigate, and prevent lateral movements that exploit resource relationships, misconfigurations and entitlements.

    Sample Customers
    NTT, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), CollabNet, Pratt & Miller, PZFlex
    Pinterest, Dow Jones, RhythmOne, Ziff Davis, Acquia, Mentor Graphics, Lookout, Veracode, SwiftKey, Amtrak, Shi, Imgur, SumoLogic, NewsUK, Cloudera, Canvas
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company34%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Healthcare Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization28%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business44%
    Large Enterprise56%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise70%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business40%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise40%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise34%
    Large Enterprise51%
    Buyer's Guide
    Cisco CloudCenter vs. VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco CloudCenter vs. VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Cisco CloudCenter is ranked 18th in Cloud Management with 9 reviews while VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is ranked 15th in Cloud Management with 9 reviews. Cisco CloudCenter is rated 7.8, while VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco CloudCenter writes "Useful features for configuring down to ports but extremely expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth writes "Useful for Cloud transparency and visability". Cisco CloudCenter is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, Cisco UCS Director, CloudStack and Faddom, whereas VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is most compared with Azure Cost Management, Cloudability, IBM Turbonomic, VMware Aria Operations and Densify. See our Cisco CloudCenter vs. VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth report.

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