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    Top Answer:It enables a single platform to communicate with the entire infrastructure.
    Top Answer:The solution could be improved with respect to error handling. If the deployment fails, we get an error message. If we want to troubleshoot further and deep dive, we don't have access to admin… more »
    Top Answer:Cloudify is a DevOps tool that we use for spinning up the VM. In order to do that it needs to communicate with the IP address, with the storage, the network, and with ServiceNow. It communicates with… more »
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    20th
    out of 75 in Cloud Management
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    1,355
    Comparisons
    774
    Reviews
    4
    Average Words per Review
    596
    Rating
    8.3
    Unranked
    In Cloud Management
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    Also Known As
    Enstratius, Dell Cloud Manager
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    Overview

    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.

    Cloudify Product Highlights

    • Fully customizable (white label, add, and modify widgets)
    • Create a custom view per business units, groups, user role
    • Easy integration with any 3rd-party/homegrown portal
    • Identify and eliminate task execution failures via a visual interface
    • Easy service composition that allows you to create new or update existing services
    • Switch between code and topology views
    • Import existing automation templates and scripts into Cloudify and automatically convert them into certified environments.
    • Intelligent and declarative engine that automates the entire lifecycle management
    • Intuitive UX and dashboards allowing complete visibility and control over usage, behavior, faults, and events of application/network services.

    Cloudify Features

    Cloudify has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Elastic caching
    • Post-deployment automation
    • Deployment monitoring
    • Service catalog
    • Real-time code validation
    • Plugins (Kubernetes, Ansible, AWS Cloud Formation, Azure ARM, Terraform)
    • Advanced Kubernetes management UI
    • Multi cluster action
    • Governance and compliance
    • Self-serve experience

    Cloudify Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing Cloudify. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Operation agility: Cloudify gives your organization and DevOps teams the ability to react to resource needs, evolve, and adapt quickly over time. 
    • Self-service: Cloudify provides a self-service catalog and portal framework for cloud automation and cloud orchestration to provide a helpful and intuitive experience for environments, apps, and services setup and management.
    • Real-time visibility: Cloudify enables you to visually track all task executions. By implementing Cloudify, you can monitor progress and status of each execution step on Cloudify’s cloud orchestration platform, identify and eliminate task execution failures via a visual interface, and you can also apply management actions, such as stop, correct, and resume, quickly. 
    • Reduce design and configuration time: The Cloudify solution has a visual editor, allowing greater visibility into blueprint structure and dependencies, and drag-n-drop service composition that helps you leverage shared resources and components for ultimate open-source infrastructure and cloud orchestration.
    • Fast deployment: Another benefit of Cloudify is that it helps speed up deployments of your test/dev/production environments from your CI/CD.
    • Enables continuous updates: With Cloudify, you have continuous updates for your production environments. Cloudify enables your organization to monitor health, heal failures, update patches, and scale resources without any environment downtime.
    • Governance: By using the Cloudify solution, you can accommodate governance changes and can scale and update operations according to your certified architecture. 
    • Easier to manage Kubernetes: Cloudify makes it simple for you to manage multi Kubernetes clusters via service orchestration, enabling you to manage the application service itself rather than just its infrastructure. 
    • Cost optimization: With Cloudify, you can control costs by employing end-to-end modeling of the entire infrastructure. The solution offers cost-saving policies, which include the decommissioning of formerly complex services and resources.

    Enstratius helps organizations manage applications across private, public and hybrid clouds, including automated application provisioning and scaling, application configuration management, usage governance, and cloud utilization monitoring.  Enstratius is available as software-as-a-service or as on-premises software, enabling full control from within a customer’s data center, or via a hosted service. Enstratius supports more than 20 public and private cloud platforms, including OpenStack, VMware, Rackspace, Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure, with the added flexibility to easily add new clouds. 

    Sample Customers
    Proximus Partner Communications (Israel) VMware NTT Data Metaswitch Spirent Communications Lumina Networks Atos Fortinet
    A global enterprise software vendor, a large systems integrator, a mid-sized digital marketing agency
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company21%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Insurance Company6%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company35%
    Government7%
    Energy/Utilities Company7%
    Logistics Company6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business33%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise61%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise59%
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    Cloudify is ranked 20th in Cloud Management with 12 reviews while Dell Enstratius [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Cloud Management. Cloudify is rated 8.0, while Dell Enstratius [EOL] is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Cloudify writes "Works very well for advanced service chaining requirements and has extremely advanced engineers for support". On the other hand, Cloudify is most compared with Morpheus, VMware Aria Automation, CloudStack, OpenNebula and Scalr, whereas Dell Enstratius [EOL] is most compared with Cisco Intersight.

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