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  • "Our licensing is on a yearly basis. We pay for the license and then we pay the support every year."
  • "This solution is expensive and the licensing is more attractive for Haveri."
  • "The price is reasonable, and one of the reasons that this product was selected."
  • "We provide the VMware solution to our clients, for which they pay a perpetual license."
  • "The concept of hyper-convergence is smart. I don't know if it can be applied with less cost to be more affordable for small or medium-sized companies. The cost is a very important factor for it. We are currently depending on SAN storage. However, the hyper-converged solutions are depending on the storage within the hosts, such as vSAN in the VMware. It is a smart solution."
  • "We pay a yearly fee, based on our entries."
  • "The licensing module is somewhat complex. Calculating the cost is complicated. Many of our clients are unclear about the billing system and the traffic metering."
  • "The licensing cost is manageable because they have different versions available, standard, essential, and advanced."
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    Top Answer:The solution's most valuable feature is its good automation features.
    Top Answer:The product is expensive, and the pricing needs improvement. They provide licenses every year.
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    55th
    out of 75 in Cloud Management
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    9th
    out of 64 in Process Automation
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    Rating
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    Service Delivery Manager
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    Overview

    IBM Service Delivery Manager is a single solution that provides all the necessary software components to implement cloud computing. Cloud computing is a services acquisition and delivery model for IT resources, which can help improve business performance and control the costs of delivering IT resources to an organization. As a cloud computing quick start, IBM Service Delivery Manager allows organizations to benefit from this delivery model in a defined portion of their data center or for a specific internal project. Potential benefits include:

    • Reduction in operational and capital expenditures.
    • Enhanced productivity - the ability to innovate more with fewer resources.
    • Decreased time-to-market for business features that increase competitiveness.
    • Standardized and consolidated IT services that drive improved resource utilization.
    • Increased resiliency to market demands.
    • Improved quality of service for IT consumers.
    VMware vCenter Orchestrator simplifies the automation of complex IT tasks and integrates with VMware vCloud Suite components to adapt and extend service delivery and operational management, effectively working with existing infrastructure, tools and processes.
    Sample Customers
    Whogohost Ltd., Infinity Computers and Communications Company, Outokumpu, Salesbox, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Seekr, CLOUD M, CenterPoint Energy, Apptimate AB, WeCloud AB, Earth Signal, DSB Consulting, Inventive, SKIData AG
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    REVIEWERS
    Comms Service Provider21%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Computer Software Company10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Government10%
    Retailer6%
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business34%
    Midsize Enterprise25%
    Large Enterprise41%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    IBM Service Delivery Manager is ranked 55th in Cloud Management while vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 44 reviews. IBM Service Delivery Manager is rated 0.0, while vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4. On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCenter Orchestrator writes "Enables us to do administration on a centralized layer when using multiple VMware ESX servers". IBM Service Delivery Manager is most compared with , whereas vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Cisco UCS Director and ServiceNow Orchestration.

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