There was no cloud solution in production before vRealize. But I'm aware of one other cloud solution because I formerly worked for a huge Hardware and software Company and this has a cloud solution. We had some major IT provider as a customer when we first started using cloud solutions. It wasn't easy to integrate 3rd party solutions. I was on the steering committee meetings and we had a discussion with that customer about for example integrating Citrix in this cloud solution. It was unbelievable. And here, we realized it was so easy. But maybe we had the right staff now in the project. It depends on your personnel. 

I did try other options including Nutanix Beam. They are all similar solutions, although I did like Beam the best. The graphical user interface was easy to understand. There were more reporting tools. I liked the emails and the reporting and monitoring. I like that it was accurate with the prices on the public cloud.

With vRealize Business the automation is great, and it's been nice to have so far, but we think that the product is not available now. We are looking and testing POC's similar to this kind of product. We believe that automation and orchestration is the real key for the future.

We have a project to launch a new public cloud in Luxemburg which is the reason that we are looking for this type of solution. We think that we have to migrate to this type of solution because if we wait a few more months it may be too late.

We did not use another solution prior to this one.

We have not used another solution previous to this one.

We are a service provider and we mostly provide infrastructure services. We have got some expertise with VMware. A specific customer that we are dealing with asked us to deliver VMware services. They also requested that the specific service that we implement for them was vCloud Director. We do not have those services in house, so we actually went to a third-party to acquire those services for the client.  

We sell all of the VMware services including ESXi (Elastic Sky X Integrated), VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method), and all the VMware products. We are a VMware platinum partner, so we sell all their services including VMware on AWS.  

We also deal with Business for Cloud Orchestration and vCenter Orchestrator.  

I used vCloud before, which is another cloud solution of VMware. It is most useful for public cloud, because it works better in multi-tenant infrastructure, while vRealize is better for mono-tenant infrastructure. For instance, when you have a private cloud and you want to manage various virtual machines, a lot of infrastructure for only a customer, this is the better solution. If you are a cloud provider and want to use VMware technologies for your platform it's better to use vCloud.