Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AppFog (discontinued)
Score 6.6 out of 10
N/A
AppFog was a cloud-agnostic application and infrastructure management platform used to manage workloads across on-premises and third-party cloud environments. It has been discontinued.
$0
AWS Backup
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service from AWS, designed to make it easy to centralize and automate the back up of data across AWS services in the cloud as well as on premises using the AWS Storage Gateway. Using AWS Backup, users can centrally configure backup policies and monitor backup activity for AWS resources, such as Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon EFS file systems, and AWS Storage Gateway volumes.
$0.01
per GB per month
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
VMware 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
AppFog (discontinued)AWS BackupVMware Cloud Director
Editions & Modules
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Backup Storage - Cold Storage
$0.01
per GB per month
Restore - Warm Storage
$0.02
per GB per month
Restore - Cold Storage
$0.03
per GB per month
Backup Storage - Warm Storage
$0.095
per GB per month
Restore - Item-Level Restore
$0.50
per request
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AppFog (discontinued)AWS BackupVMware Cloud Director
Free Trial
NoNoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
AppFog (discontinued)AWS BackupVMware Cloud Director
Features
AppFog (discontinued)AWS BackupVMware Cloud Director
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
AppFog (discontinued)
6.5
2 Ratings
18% below category average
AWS Backup
-
Ratings
VMware Cloud Director
-
Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces7.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability5.32 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform management overhead6.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability6.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform access control6.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration6.62 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment creation7.42 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment replication8.42 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification6.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue recovery6.42 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes7.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
AppFog (discontinued)
-
Ratings
AWS Backup
8.9
6 Ratings
4% above category average
VMware Cloud Director
-
Ratings
Management dashboard00 Ratings8.36 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options00 Ratings7.16 Ratings00 Ratings
Encryption00 Ratings8.36 Ratings00 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
AppFog (discontinued)
-
Ratings
AWS Backup
7.8
3 Ratings
2% below category average
VMware Cloud Director
-
Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings7.93 Ratings00 Ratings
Malware protection00 Ratings7.93 Ratings00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings7.63 Ratings00 Ratings
SaaS Backup
Comparison of SaaS Backup features of Product A and Product B
AppFog (discontinued)
-
Ratings
AWS Backup
7.9
3 Ratings
9% below category average
VMware Cloud Director
-
Ratings
SaaS Product Integration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Data Restoration Options00 Ratings7.53 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Auditing and Search00 Ratings7.63 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises00 Ratings8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
AppFog (discontinued)AWS BackupVMware Cloud Director
Small Businesses
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.3 out of 10
Cove Data Protection
Cove Data Protection
Score 9.2 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Druva Security Cloud
Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.4 out of 10

No answers on this topic

Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Druva Security Cloud
Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.4 out of 10

No answers on this topic

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User Ratings
AppFog (discontinued)AWS BackupVMware Cloud Director
Likelihood to Recommend
6.6
(2 ratings)
8.4
(12 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AppFog (discontinued)AWS BackupVMware Cloud Director
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
It was very good to use in small scale projects. Considering the high end projects with many instances and multi-platform architectures, it is better to test before the application is deployed. I think few of the questions can be general - who are the system users and what size is the application focussing on? How much resources are required? Will the application require any additional services?
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Amazon AWS
There is a cost involved with data retrieval. AWS Backup is truly that, a backup. If you need to access this data on a regular basis, there are better options out there. For long term, just in case incremental backups, AWS [Backup] checks all the boxes. Just set it up, start your backups, and rest assured your data is safe.
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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
Discontinued Products
  • Quick deployment of pre-built virtual machines
  • Some of the virtual machines also are readily available with a pack of softwares
  • Good Stability. Using it as a student, I have never experienced any downtime issues with the projects deployed on AppFog.
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Amazon AWS
  • Centralized management - single pane of glass to manage backups for multiple AWS services.
  • Encryption - integrates with KMS to encrypt backup data at rest and in transit.
  • Cross Account management - manage backups across multiple AWS accounts with AWS organizations.
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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
Discontinued Products
  • Though it is good and easy for developers, it lacks operational activities and monitoring tools.
  • It is easy to deploy WAR on AppFog with its console but sometimes it can lack on the performance and feasibility.
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Amazon AWS
  • Restoring the compute nodes of the cluster should be done always
  • Having the default Roles all the necessary permission, you have to add some depending on your configurations
  • Being able to see the Jobs status in a centralize account more graphically
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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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Usability
Discontinued Products
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Amazon AWS
Overall because I can sell it white labeled and use my white labeled software like CloudBerry and the native backup apps on my synology NAS servers to store things in real time and do duplication and disaster recovery directly to it was game changing for my client in the advertising world they are never down now.
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VMware by Broadcom
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
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Amazon AWS
Support for AWS Backup is by Amazon itself so it is solid as always. If you have a business or higher level support plan you'll have no trouble getting engineers or other staff on the job to help you with whatever comes up.
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VMware by Broadcom
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
Primarily because it used to have a good free tier earlier, which it does not anymore. It's simple, and things are available to use. Compared to it's competitors, it does has less features, but that kind of acts in its favor. That adds to the simplicity, and ease of use for a new user.
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Amazon AWS
I've tried a lot of different products. Backblaze, at least from a birds-eye view is significantly cheaper than AWS/the rest. Backblaze is a little more simpler, but it's well worth it. Linode also provides backup options, however I'm only familiar with their backup on their VPS's (however you make that plural), which never gave me a problem.
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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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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • Our project was deployed with good efficiency and easily accessible.
  • The platform was much recommeded across the groups and peers.
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Amazon AWS
  • Offsite means a failure at our cloud provider means we can redeploy quickly to another data center or another provider quickly.
  • The cost can't be best.
  • Pay only for what you use. No need to pay for extra data that you don't need.
  • No minimums
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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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