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Pros
"It offers enough support so that you don't need to have the need to get another device."

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"It's stable. For report presentation, it's been fast.""The solution is useful for cloud transparency and visibility in reports and dashboards that I have generated, especially the pre-populated dashboards.""The pricing is rather competitive right now.""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.""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.""The solution is good for cloud cost management.""The most valuable thing I have found is the cost saving recommendations""This solution is fast and very easy to understand, even if you are not a technician."

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Cons
"The solution is just too expensive, so maybe the pricing could be better."

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"It would be helpful to have a mobile version or a tablet version, especially for people who are outside of the office.""If you are working with the OS you need help and other connectors to get more information.""The performance and accuracy of Cloud Health need to be improved.""They should provide information or tools to tune the cloud resources according to the environment size.""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.""I would like to see better integration from CloudHealth to create easier setup and implementation.""The solution doesn't offer the best functionality, unfortunately. Some features just simply aren't on offer. The solution needs to offer more product milestones."

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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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    Top Answer:The product is easy to use in terms of monitoring all the environments. It works for multiple clouds.
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    Overview

    Piston Enterprise OS (pentOS) is an enterprise grade cloud operating system meeting the security and governance needs of enterprises wanting to use OpenStack for their infrastructure services. pentOS is an OpenStack distro that builds on top of the OpenStack codebase adding some proprietary features to meet the security and governance needs of the enterprise customers.

    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.

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    Kuwait Petroleum Italia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    Pinterest, Dow Jones, RhythmOne, Ziff Davis, Acquia, Mentor Graphics, Lookout, Veracode, SwiftKey, Amtrak, Shi, Imgur, SumoLogic, NewsUK, Cloudera, Canvas
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    Educational Organization29%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business40%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise40%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise35%
    Large Enterprise50%
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    Cisco Piston Enterprise OS is ranked 51st in Cloud Management while VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is ranked 15th in Cloud Management with 9 reviews. Cisco Piston Enterprise OS is rated 9.0, while VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Piston Enterprise OS writes "A simple interface and helpful support for a solution that grows with us". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth writes "Useful for Cloud transparency and visability". Cisco Piston Enterprise OS is most compared with , whereas VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is most compared with Azure Cost Management, IBM Turbonomic, VMware Aria Operations, Cloudability and Densify.

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