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525 views|403 comparisons
33% willing to recommend
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195 views|156 comparisons
87% willing to recommend
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Carlos Bittrich
Quick to deploy but being deprecated by IBM and should be merged with Kubernetes
The administration of the runtime environment is almost zero, as most of it is being managed by Cloud Foundry itself. Very easy to auto-scale... Read more →
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We're hoping to offer it as an open stack solution to our customers. Initial setup takes a lot longer than we expected.
The cost is really a big benefit. It gives us an extra string to our bow. We run quite a big hosted-enterprise solution for customers on the... Read more →
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  • "IBM has a free tier and payment option depending on the products selected."
  • "You are allocated a minimum amount of resources in the free tier. This seems fair and highly scalable, as you pay per usage as per cloud pricing schemes."
  • "The pricing models should be reworked to the needs of a wider range of companies. Some customers will not be able to afford it until quite a few years into production, even after good PoC results and a successful launch."

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Cloud Foundry?
    Top Answer:Cloud Foundry builds the runtime environment directly without requiring dependency management from the user.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloud Foundry?
    Top Answer:Use autoscaling to define the right number of instances. Usually, the cloud providers define a default size for memory or the number of instances. Try to see if you can decrease these numbers so that… more »
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    What needs improvement with Cloud Foundry?
    Top Answer:In IBM Cloud, the product has been deprecated in favor of Kubernetes, which is a more complicated infrastructure to manage. CF should be merged with the Kubernetes project. This could benefit both… more »
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    Ranking
    21st
    out of 37 in PaaS Clouds
    Views
    525
    Comparisons
    403
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    742
    Rating
    4.0
    24th
    out of 37 in PaaS Clouds
    Views
    195
    Comparisons
    156
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    Also Known As
    HPE Helion Cloud, HP Helion
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    Cloud Foundry
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise
    Overview

    Cloud Foundry, home of the open source application development technologies CF Application Runtime and CF Container Runtime, is more than a platform. It’s a flexible way of embracing digital transformation that helps businesses evolve in the face of constant change. To put it another way, with Cloud Foundry, companies can rest assured they will have the right tool for the right job.

    The HPE Helion Platforms are HPE Helion OpenStack, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering, and HPE Helion Stackato, a cloud-native application platform. They are based on industry-leading open source projects in OpenStack and Cloud Foundry and provide enterprise customers with flexibility in software and hardware. With HPE Helion OpenStack and HPE Helion Stackato, you can simplify the development, deployment, and delivery of applications you design for cloud. Enterprises often need to quickly develop, deploy, and scale cloud applications across a mix of public and private clouds. To achieve this, they architect cloud apps to be modular and easy to modify in an agile way. The HPE Helion Platform enables large organizations to gain the benefits of supporting these new types of apps, while still meeting required SLAs for security, governance, and privacy.
    Sample Customers
    Grape Up, c-Com, KONE, TITAN, CSAA, Bosch, Allstate, Verizon, West Corp., Telstra
    ACA Fashion Software, myLoc, Mendix, Comline AG, Nava Solutions, 20th Century Fox, Zhejiang University, iService Global, Okinawa Cross Head, Creative Photo Cloud, Zuora, Ormuco, Ecad, MyCloud, Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS)
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company21%
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Manufacturing Company12%
    Marketing Services Firm9%
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    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise62%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Cloud Foundry is ranked 21st in PaaS Clouds with 2 reviews while HPE Helion is ranked 24th in PaaS Clouds. Cloud Foundry is rated 5.0, while HPE Helion is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Cloud Foundry writes "Quick to deploy but being deprecated by IBM and should be merged with Kubernetes ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Helion writes "We're hoping to offer it as an open stack solution to our customers. Initial setup takes a lot longer than we expected". Cloud Foundry is most compared with Pivotal Cloud Foundry, VMware Tanzu Application Service, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS and OpenShift, whereas HPE Helion is most compared with Dell ECS, Amazon AWS and IBM Public Cloud.

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