Apache CloudStack vs. Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)

Whether our clients are VPS hosting providers or operate private cloud infrastructure for their internal enterprise requirements, CloudStack provides solutions in an easy to implement and operate way that is simple to provide training for. The learning curve for our customesr adopting CloudStack for the management of their cloud infrastructure is shallow, enabling our clients to come up to speed quickly without having to outsource their administrative functions any longer than necessary

Clarify before hand any additional charges for remote hand and arrangement/SLA for remote hand. Negotiate well on these terms as they tend to be more flexible around this. Clarify shipping and handling charges if any.

Incentivized

• Low-cost solution
• Open-source
• Engaged community
• Solid documentation
• Is a very reliable tool for orchestration with good usability

Incentivized

• 24/7 monitoring
• Immediate notification in the event of failures
• Dedicated Senior DBA
• Dedicate Account rep

Incentivized

• Sometimes you can find undocumented bugs that can compromise the entire infrastructure.
• [If] you don't have an official support channel, you have try to find out the source of the problem by yourself.
• Volume size limitation. Other players allow you to create volumes up to 64TB while ACS allows only 2TB volumes

• San Jose facility power outage caused damage to company's credibility, this should not occur again being 7x24 facility and backup generator
• Avoiding too many management changes will help create good connection with individuals for sustained harmony

Incentivized

Price and facility equipment, location of the hosting facility factor into the decision to renew

Incentivized

The University, my first large implementation, had a big issue with 149 small data centers spread on São Paulo State, this data centers costs to university were very high, the consolidation idea in two data centers were awesome, but were worried with the management, so we adopted ACS to management of all 576 physical hosts. Now a days the university is delivering IaaS for all staff, students, teachers and researchers, they are using these resources to delivery services to their clients and have a great results in research area

Navisite's rates were better and they seemed to have more SQL Server expertise. This was about 5 years ago and it may not be the case anymore

Incentivized

• Low-cost solution (free and open-source)
• More than 2000 users using it simultaneously
• Stable and reliable
• Up and running since 2012

Incentivized

• Cost savings by not having a full-time DBA on staff - saving of at least 50K a year
• Data team not on call 24/7
• Navisite team will try to fix issue if possible - e.g. shrink log files that have grown

Incentivized