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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CloudPortal Business Manager

    Score6 out of 10
    N/ACloudPortal Business Manager is a unified cloud services delivery and business management platform that enables cloud services automation for provisioning, billing, metering and user management. It was aquired by Accelerite from Citrix in 2016.N/A

    Spot by NetApp

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ASpot by NetApp, now including CloudCheckr, helps companies to run their cloud investments. The Spot product suite uses machine learning and analytics to automate and optimize cloud infrastructure, to ensure that workloads and applications always have the best possible infrastructure that is available, scalable and available at the lowest possible cost. Spot’s technology provides insights into cloud costs, recommendations for how to optimize utilization and costs, and automation to implement…N/A

    VMware Cloud Director

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AVMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director) is a cloud service-delivery platform used by cloud providers to operate and manage cloud-service businesses. The vendor states that by using VMware Cloud Director, cloud providers deliver secure, efficient, and elastic cloud resources to thousands of enterprises and IT teams across the world.N/A
    Pricing
    CloudPortal Business ManagerSpot by NetAppVMware Cloud Director
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    CloudPortal Business ManagerSpot by NetAppVMware Cloud Director
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    CloudPortal Business ManagerSpot by NetAppVMware Cloud Director
    Cloud Management
    Comparison of Cloud Management features of Accelerite CloudPortal Business Manager and Spot by NetApp and VMware Cloud Director
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    Accelerite CloudPortal Business Manager
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    Ratings
    Spot by NetApp
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    VMware Cloud Director
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    Cloud Management Security00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost Management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Governance and Compliance00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Systems Integration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    CloudPortal Business ManagerSpot by NetAppVMware Cloud Director
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    Usability
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    In-Person Training
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    Configurability
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    User Testimonials
    CloudPortal Business ManagerSpot by NetAppVMware Cloud Director
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Accelerite
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    NetApp
    CloudCheckr is fantastic for those that are purely in the Cloud as it provides everything you need under one roof for a comprehensive configuration and usage monitoring tool. It has SysLog capabilities though so you can farm out the alerts into a SIEM or other log management system, so hybrid environments could also benefit from its use.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    If you have a lot of customers that all need to have a separate place to work in, without the possibility of getting in each other way, and you want to safe yourself a lot of work. Than I strongly recommend you Cloud director. Ofcourse, only if you have a VMware environment as your working environment. If you just have a small group of customers and you can easily handle the work that's coming from it, then it is overkill to add cloud director to your environment. In a later station, you can always introduce cloud director (so tis never to late if you still want to use it)
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    Pros
    Accelerite
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    NetApp
    • Detailed Best Practices. It's important to align your cloud to industry best practices for security and cost—it just performs better if it's used the way it's meant to be used. AWS is very flexible, and that's great when you have special requirements, but you've got to at least know when you're using something in a non-standard way so you can think through the implications.
    • Cost Reduction. Some recommendations are almost impossible to make at least for our setup, but many, many others are easy. We only have to log into CloudCheckr every few months and make a few changes for it to more than pay for itself.
    • Right-Sizing. This is related to the other points, but for some reason is separate from their cost module. The metrics it's able to pull only tell half the story, so it's good to verify it's sizing recommendations before making changes. But it does show you what instances to focus on first, and even if you choose a slightly different size to move it to, it does clearly indicate it's current size isn't appropriate. And this works both ways, if the size is too big, you can save some cash by making it smaller, but if it's too small, you want to be sure to scale up before you run into performance problems.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • Building virtual racks
    • Managing the customers' network and security
    • Simplicity but the completeness of IaaS solution
    • Integration with major software providers
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    Cons
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    NetApp
    • CloudCheckr features have a tendency to break without warning. Functionality in place for months could suddenly stop working.
    • CloudCheckr support often delays work on support tickets for fixing broken application functionality.
    • The CloudCheckr platform and documentation website often crash or experience performance degradation.
    • CloudCheckr cost reporting is often impacted by faulty code or broken report functionality. This can contribute to a low level of confidence in CloudCheckr's ability to deliver accurate cost reporting.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • The add-on/extension required on the internet browser sometimes are difficult to get working at first. We've experience instances where the add-on/extension latest versions will not work and have to downgrade to an older version.
    • The server console lacks features and tools. For example it would be useful to have a copy and paste tool or a file upload tool.
    • The vCloud Director management site uses Adobe Flash, which makes it impossible to use on a mobile device.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Accelerite
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    NetApp
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    VMware by Broadcom
    i give 10 for technically vCloud Director nearby with use case hyperscaller dashboard, but need improvement for billing need improve for integration with AVI Load balancer, NSX T, Surrounding 3rd party example for backyup as services purposes, can be create flavor for selective Operating System and also for specific sizing and
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    Usability
    Accelerite
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    NetApp
    Overall, CloudCheckr covers all our AWS monitoring needs and great integration through SysLog into our SIEM to capture alerts for investigation. The reports are great and allow for an easy daily review. Small improvements could be made to the interface and better filtering in places would be good. Great product and the price is fair.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    vCloud Director don't have any new feature, my feeling says that vCloud Director not become primary product of VMware, if this happen vCloud Director will be terminated. VMware should provide cloud management platform with agnostic with another virtualization technology example openstack, hyperv also with hyperscaller that will be have good feature
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    Support Rating
    Accelerite
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    NetApp
    Fantastic Support team who are responsive and address question and concerns promptly with a thorough explanation and fast resolution.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    Suppor Excellent with global support, also collaborate with Global Support, Easy to open case from desktop, Easy to maintenance support, Reachable support with a broadcom, but sadly we suffer for positioning vcloud director right now that we have to collaborate with management. We contact support and also create ticket for that icon
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    In-Person Training
    Accelerite
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    NetApp
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    VMware by Broadcom
    So far good when i get course vcloud director but with limit country for offline class at that time not included with exam so we can't claim any certfication for that (vCloud Director). Its good if this course also available online version so we can join from any place and any time
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    Alternatives Considered
    Accelerite
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    NetApp
    There are a few products out there that'll do an aspect or two of what CloudCheckr does, but I honestly couldn't find anything nearly as comprehensive as CloudCheckr.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    vCloud Director is definitely my favorite as far as cloud managers. The only thing that compares is Cisco UCS Director, but it has slightly different functionality and purpose. I understand why a lot of clients still go with vCloud Director even though VMware intends to sunset it
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    Scalability
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    NetApp
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    VMware by Broadcom
    vcloud director have ui ux user friendy not complex and also can do many task exampe for providing copmpute allocation vcpu , ram and storage, Can Segregation Departement with ala carte virtual machine spesification. Can do dedicated portal for each organization this things to avoid mis provisioning workload virtual machine to another organization
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    Return on Investment
    Accelerite
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    NetApp
    • CloudCheckr has allowed us to increase resell margins as an MSP.
    • CloudCheckr has made us aware of cost savings opportunities that exceed the price of the platform itself.
    • CloudCheckr has given us additional visibility that has allowed us to manage and understand cloud computing costs.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • Saves a lot of time, and time is money
    • Stable, so little to non downtime
    • With P1 , good support
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