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Pivotal Cloud Foundry

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Stephen Hack
Easy to use, simple to sign-in, but lacking graphical interface
Pivotal Cloud Foundry has helped our organization by the way we've set it up, it's easy to sign in, bind services, push services, and create YAML... Read more →
Rajbir Singh
There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services
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"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the deployment is easier.""Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very easy to use compared to other cloud technologies. It has a very good performance.""We find its stability and scalability valuable.""The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is the UI, it is easy to use.""Stability is not a concern with this product.""It supports CI/CD, and is integrated with the CI/CD very well.""The solution is stable and resilient. In our company, we do not even see any challenges with the solution.""I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities."

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"Image backup is a valuable feature. Even though this is a common feature, it is very helpful for us.""There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services.""The most valuable feature for us is the support, which is really efficient."

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"It should offer more security features.""There are no synthetic application monitoring and real-time monitoring features.""There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the future of Pivotal Cloud Foundry.""The user interface should be simpler to navigate because it t can take time for users to learn it.""It is not straightforward to setup.""Pivotal Cloud Foundry doesn't have certain advanced features.""In the next release, I would like to see easy integration with external tools.""Pivotal Cloud Foundry is not scalable, infinitely, because when you install it on a set of virtual machines it is very hard to scale. It's easy to scale on an application level, but not it is not similar to if you were using Amazon. Amazon you can scale thousands of applications."

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"It would be nice to have more built-in suites compared to others. It would enable easier integration.""It doesn't offer Elastic IP like AWS. And also we can't configure our server based on region."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Licensing is on a monthly basis and right now we pay $24/month. There are no other costs over and above that."
  • "You're paying for the number of virtual machines you want to install in the installation."
  • "The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is based on the customer's requirements. However, the price is comparable to other similar solutions."
  • "The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve. However, in this category of solutions, they are all expensive."
  • "The pricing is on the higher side and there are cheaper options available."
  • "We do pay for the licensing cost because we have opted for a private cloud setup. So, it is a cloud setup, and we have to make payments based on the cloud size. I do not consider it very costly when comparing it to the market."

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  • "The service includes licenses (for operating systems, databases, etc.). Asset management is easier with services like that."
  • "Comparatively, this solution is a bit expensive."

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    Which would you recommend - Pivotal Cloud Foundry or OpenShift?
    Top Answer:Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a cloud-native application platform to simplify app delivery. It is efficient and effective. The best feature is how easy it is to handle external services such as database… more »
    What do you like most about Pivotal Cloud Foundry?
    Top Answer:I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pivotal Cloud Fou...
    Top Answer:I would say it is around a nine out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. Just short of Oracle. It's sort of Oracle cloud.
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    Also Known As
    PCF, Pivotal Application Service (PAS), Pivotal Container Service (PKS), Pivotal Function Service (PFS)
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    Overview

    Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) is the leading enterprise PaaS, powered by Cloud Foundry. PCF provides a cloud-native application platform that allows you to continuously deliver any app to every major private and public cloud with a single platform. PCF is proven to accelerate feature delivery with higher developer productivity and a 200:1 developer to operator ratio. PCF's built-in security and self-healing capabilities reduce risk in your app portfolio while maintaining high-availability at scale to keep customer facing systems online even in the most challenging circumstances. pivotal.io

    Rackspace is a listed company that specializes in hybrid cloud environments to support your applications and sites. The environments are based on its open-source operating system OpenStack.Rackspace Cloud caters for the private cloud, public cloud, dedicated servers, or a hybrid of platforms.

    Your Rackspace Cloud environment is customizable according to your cloud requirements, and all products work together seamlessly from one portal.

    Sample Customers
    Humana, Citibank, Mercedes Benz, Liberty Mutual, The Home Depot, GE, West Corp, Merrill Corporation, CoreLogic, Orange, Dish Network, Comcast, Bloomberg, Internal Revenue Service, Ford Motor Company, Garmin, Volkswagen, Solera, Allstate, US Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, ScotiaBank
    3D Capacity, Acquity Group, Axios Systems, Behance, Blastro, Dominos Pizza, and Sage.
    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm56%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Retailer11%
    Government11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm38%
    Manufacturing Company21%
    Insurance Company5%
    Computer Software Company5%
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    Company Size
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    Small Business33%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise4%
    Large Enterprise86%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business73%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise18%
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    Pivotal Cloud Foundry is ranked 7th in PaaS Clouds with 15 reviews while Rackspace Cloud [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in PaaS Clouds. Pivotal Cloud Foundry is rated 7.6, while Rackspace Cloud [EOL] is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Pivotal Cloud Foundry writes "Easy to use, simple to sign-in, but lacking graphical interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rackspace Cloud [EOL] writes "There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services". Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most compared with Microsoft Azure, OpenShift, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud and VMware Tanzu Application Service, whereas Rackspace Cloud [EOL] is most compared with .

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