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Pros
"The solution is helpful for centralized management.""The main feature of this solution is the integration with all the Cisco solutions and other vendors.""UCS director enables us to be more productive and more agile, and also more self-sufficient because we don't have to depend on anybody else.""The product is flexible and compact. It has a lot of features.""A product that really aids in systems management without complexity.""This is a user-friendly solution that is very good and easy to use.""Feature-wise, the solution helps one to add multiple environments in one place...It is a scalable product.""I can manage multiple workloads whether it's on AWS, Azure, or on-premises. They can be managed by using the UCS Director."

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"Technical support has been good."

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Cons
"Currently, Cisco UCS Director is unable to integrate with another product or with a server from another brand.""Simplifying the user interface would go a long way to making it more usable.""The product's pricing needs to improve.""The product could allow more programmatic opportunities through better development of the API.""Normally, UCS Director is used primarily for orchestration, but when we look at a non-Cisco data infrastructure components, the UCS Director needs a bit more improvement in terms of integration with third-party systems and with existing older systems.""There could be an improvement with the integration with the newest solutions from other vendors' technologies.""I would like to see more integration with other solutions.""The tool should be a lot more intuitive and make it easy for us to understand and migrate."

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"I'm fairly new to the solution and need to explore it further."

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  • "The cost of this solution is significant."
  • "Cisco UCS Director is expensive...I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."
  • "I would rate the product's pricing an eight out of ten."
  • "On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing around five to six out of ten."
  • "The budget doesn’t work for the state and local governments."
  • "I rate Cisco UCS Director's price a three out of ten. Cisco UCS Director is not an affordable product. With Cisco UCS Director, there is a need to pay an overall price, which consists of the product, software, and support."
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    Top Answer:Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
    Top Answer:I rate Cisco UCS Director's price a three out of ten. Cisco UCS Director is not an affordable product. With Cisco UCS Director, there is a need to pay an overall price, which consists of the product… more »
    Top Answer:Currently, Cisco UCS Director is unable to integrate with another product or with a server from another brand. If Cisco UCS Director is able to integrate with another product or with a server from… more »
    Top Answer:Technical support has been good.
    Top Answer:I am familiar with the pricing and would describe it as fair. It's not too expensive.
    Top Answer:While there is always room for improvement, I cannot speak to an exact feature or aspect. I'm fairly new to the solution and need to explore it further.
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    Overview

    Cisco UCS Director enables automated delivery of physical and virtual data center resources, empowering data centers to move at the speed of business.

    SkyKick is a new kind of migration application that makes it fast, safe, and easy to move small and medium businesses to Office 365. SkyKick’s Application Suite is a cloud based solution consisting of three products that work together to help plan, move, and setup the migration to Office 365.

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    Entel, Data#3, Cegal, NESIC, LightEdge
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    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm25%
    Energy/Utilities Company25%
    Retailer13%
    Government13%
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    Computer Software Company29%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Government11%
    Healthcare Company9%
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Cisco UCS Director is ranked 24th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews while SkyKick Cloud Manager is ranked 30th in Cloud Management with 1 review. Cisco UCS Director is rated 7.2, while SkyKick Cloud Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Director writes "UI and integrations should be improved; version control is problematic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SkyKick Cloud Manager writes "Robust, reasonably priced, and offers good features". Cisco UCS Director is most compared with Cisco Intersight, vCenter Orchestrator, VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations and vCloud Director, whereas SkyKick Cloud Manager is most compared with CloudSphere.

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