Cloudify vs. Turbonomic
As of June 2019, Cloudify is ranked 8th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews vs Turbonomic which is ranked 2nd in Cloud Management with 91 reviews. The top reviewer of Cloudify writes "Enables us to catch scaling issues early on, and has extensible functions and plugins". The top reviewer of Turbonomic writes "I don't have to care for and feed each individual VM, nor make sure that the environment's balanced just the right way. The reporting could be better graphically". Cloudify is most compared with Red Hat CloudForms, Cisco CloudCenter and SaltStack. Turbonomic is most compared with VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), Densify and CloudHealth. See our Cloudify vs. Turbonomic report.
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TOSCA model allows modeling the application rather than the automation. It is a machine-readable representation of the application and its infrastructure, which can be used for other things too, not just for the orchestration (e.g. enterprise architecture big picture, who connects to whom). Cloudify provides the infrastructure-as-code, as well as operational action capabilities (orchestrated startups or upgrades, and more). Product has given us the ability to catch early scaling issues that many companies hit on with private clouds. Extensible internal functions and plugins. Can implement custom plugins to fit your scenario. Python based plugins. You can use only what you need. You can remove certain Cloudify functions from the framework to create a "minified" version of what you need. This might only consist of the messaging delivery system, and the orchestration functions. Valuable features are auto-scaling and load balancing. | The system automatically sizes and moves resources based on the needs of the applications. We have seen a 30% performance improvement overall. The biggest value I'm getting out of VMTurbo right now is the complete hands-off management of equalizing the usage in my data center. The most important feature to us is an objective measurement of VM headroom per cluster. In addition, the ability to check for the right-sizing of VMs. With over 2500 ESX VMs, including 1500+ XenDesktop VDI desktops, hosted over two datacentres and 80+ vSphere hosts, firefighting has become something of the past. We have VM placement in Automated mode and currently have all other metrics in Recommend mode. It became obvious to us that there was a lot more being offered in the product that we could leverage to ensure our VMware environment was running efficiently. The ability to monitor and automate both the right-sizing of VMs as well as to automate the vMotion of VMs across ESXi hosts. |
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Install of the product itself could be improved and I would like to see better event monitoring. Certainly the UI could use some intensive work, but nevertheless, overall, it’s a complete product with its 3.4 version and much better features are available with 4.0. Unlike the Docker environment, Cloudify takes time for configuration and its learning curve. | Enhanced executive reporting standard with the tool beyond the reports that can be created today. Something that can easily be used with upper management on a monthly or quarterly basis to show the impact to our environment. The one point is the reporting. We do have reports out of it, but they're not the level of graphical detail I would like. Remove the need for special in-house knowledge and development. Since the introduction of a HTML 5 based interface, our main - but minor - criticism of a less than intuitive operation managers' GUI would be the area of improvement. I like the detail I get in the old user interface and will miss some of that in the new interface when we perform our planned upgrade soon. The old interface was not the clearest UI in some areas, and could be quite intimidating when first using the tool. While the product is fairly intuitive and easy to use once you learn it, it can be quite daunting until you have undergone a bit of training. |
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Information Not Available | Price is a big one. VMTurbo was very competitively priced. You should understand the cost of your physical servers and how much time and money you are spending year over year on expanding your virtual farm. What I can advise is to trial the product, taking advantage of the Turbonomic pre-sales implemention support and kickstart training. Licensing is per socket, so load up on the cores rather than a lot of lower core CPUs. We felt the pricing was very fair for the product. It is in no way prohibitive for larger deployments, unlike other similar product on the market. Contact the Turbonomic sales team, explain your needs and what you're looking to monitor. They will get a pre-sales SE on the phone and together work up a very accurate quote. |
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| VMTurbo Operations Manager | |
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Overview | |
Cloudify is an orchestration-first cloud management platform, that is open source and based on the TOSCA standard, with multi-cloud and hybrid stack support. Cloudify supports all of the most popular clouds, alongside cloud native technologies, and even non-virtualized and bare metal environments. Cloudify is inherently built for integration, OEMability and interoperability, enabling organizations to build best of breed IT stacks, with full lifecycle automation - day 0 thorugh day 2 operations (provisioning, deployment, monitoring and remediation) of enterprise and legacy applications alongside networking services and functions - without having to sacrifice control, all while providing tools for operations and developers alike. Cloudify provides a single pane of glass across infrastructure, while supporting your existing tools and installbase. Cloudify is built for pluggability through its open architecture model, bringing the web scale best practices of orchestration and automation into the world of hybrid stacks and clouds. With powerful workflows that map to complex dependencies, policies and relationships through model driven service orchestration, Cloudify delivers robust cloud application management without requiring organizations to change existing work processes or the codebase of their existing applications. | Turbonomic continuously analyzes real-time workload demand and matches it to compute, storage and network resources in a virtualized, private or public cloud environment. The platform provides placement, sizing and provisioning actions across hosts, clusters, datastores, data centers and clouds to deliver the quality of service users define. These decisions can be automated or taken manually. Turbonomic's autonomic platform enables virtual and cloud environments to become self-managing in real-time, thus assuring performance while maximizing the efficiency of the underlying infrastructure. |
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Sample Customers | |
| Proximus Partner Communications (Israel) VMware NTT Data Metaswitch Spirent Communications Lumina Networks Atos Fortinet | JPMorgan Chase, First Canadian Title, UBS, Aetna, Alpha Maxx, London School of Economics, Expedia, JMC Steel Group, Southern Waste Systems. |
Top Industries | |
No Data Available | Financial Services Firm14% Healthcare Company14% Manufacturing Company12% Energy/Utilities Company8% Healthcare Company17% Financial Services Firm12% Manufacturing Company11% Marketing Services Firm10% |
Company Size | |
No Data Available | Small Business11% Midsize Enterprise28% Large Enterprise61% Small Business17% Midsize Enterprise23% Large Enterprise60% |
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