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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure StorSimple

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AStorSimple was acquired by Microsoft in 2012. The StorSimple storage gateway appliance is now a part of Microsoft's Azure StorSimple Hybrid Cloud Storage solution.

    $4.11

    Per Day

    AIOps from Broadcom

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AAIOps from Broadcom is a solution designed to enable IT teams to converge full-stack monitoring across the digital environment with intelligence and automation. With AIOps, teams establish proactive, automated remediation capabilities to drive user experiences, while improving operational efficiency. The product is an evolution of the CA Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) platform acquired with CA Technologies by Broadcom in 2018, which combined capabilities from CA Operational…N/A

    Microsoft System Center

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft System Center is an enterprise-grade IT Operations Management (ITOM) suite designed for the centralized administration of data center infrastructure, virtualized environments, and hybrid cloud workloads. The platform provides unified management across heterogeneous environments, including support for Windows Server, Linux, and Azure Stack HCI. System Center is Microsoft's ITOM stack for organizations that maintain a significant on-premise footprint, vs the company's Azure-based…

    $1,323

    per month

    Pricing
    Azure StorSimpleAIOps from BroadcomMicrosoft System Center
    Editions & Modules
    Virtual Appliance
    $4.11
    Per Day
    Cloud Array
    $4.11
    Per Day
    Physical Appliance
    $43.84
    Per Day
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    Standard Edition
    $1323
    Datacenter Edition
    $3607
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure StorSimpleAIOps from BroadcomMicrosoft System Center
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
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    91%
    Would buy again
    31 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    31 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    21 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    28 Answers
    Features
    Azure StorSimpleAIOps from BroadcomMicrosoft System Center
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Azure StorSimple and AIOps from Broadcom and Microsoft System Center
    Feature
    Azure StorSimple
    -
    Ratings
    AIOps from Broadcom
    8.1
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Microsoft System Center
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    Ratings
    Application monitoring00 Ratings7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Azure StorSimpleAIOps from BroadcomMicrosoft System Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.3
    (58 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (14 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
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    User Testimonials
    Azure StorSimpleAIOps from BroadcomMicrosoft System Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Onsite storage needs and backing up to Azure.
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    Broadcom
    For servers and Network monitoring Broadom products easily delivers outcome, they offer great depth and breadth of monitoring. DX IM covers 140+ technologies in case of Data center monitoring, tremendous alerts and metric collection. Network monitoring product is well mature and offers end to end monitoring of network , these two products offer great monitoring of on prem data center and network infrastructure. DX APM is another powerfull product for application performance monitoring and analytic. AIOps is a suite of products, Powerfull products such as DX IM & DX NetOps should be offered as SaaS service, these two products cover full data center monitoring or cloud infra monitoring. If they move them to SaaS it will attract many opportunities of monitoring
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    For companies with more than 10 Windows devices and needing to standardize the OS, AV, access, share resources, and install software. SCCM is the way to go. This software is unnecessary if the business is all remote users and not in an office-type setting. There are cloud offerings or none to accomplish what a business needs.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Performance via the SSD drives.
    • Writes back to our Private Cloud via Azure.
    • Easy to Admin via Web client interface.
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    Broadcom
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    Microsoft
    • Allows the grouping of devices by user.
    • Allows controlling updates being deployed to user devices.
    • Allows for the repurposing of machines by being able to load new or updated software on machines that already are in the system.
    • Allows us the ability to wipe a machine clean and restore it back to the configuration that was assigned the machine.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Additional fail-over functionality
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    Broadcom
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    Microsoft
    • The product could improve in the area of having better mechanisms in place with how the SCEP client is deployed/installed from the server on the management side. We have run into this firsthand with the client not installing on an endpoint, and then having to take the time to investigate why it was not installing.
    • A second improvement that can be made is to keep trying to improve the products detection rate for finding malware/viruses. The case can be made that there are some products out there that do a better job at this and have a higher detection rate.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    If I wanted to use just onsite storage the StorSimple device is already paid for.
    Incentivized
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    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is tightly integrated to Microsoft Windows servers os monitoring with great product support.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Broadcom
    Broadcom AIOps Suite has all the products to achieve the full stake observability and they very tightly integrated to each other.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    It is not user-friendly for the most part. With IT infrastructure, sometimes it cannot handle excess requests. Every few months, you will need an upgrade in terms of server resources to keep up with incoming alerts and requests. This does not happen all of the time, but it does happen when there are too many requests.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Broadcom
    Broadcom support was awesome, Professional team was available as on demand. Technical support folks follow the diagnostic process and deliver the customer satisfaction
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    Microsoft
    There is a fair amount of documentation out there to help you when you have questions or run into issues with this product as well as tutorials on some of the more common tasks. Between the documentation and the overall ease of use we haven't had to deal with direct Microsoft support for this product.
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
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    Broadcom
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    Microsoft
    Easy to install with intuitive interactive interface during the installation process a and integration to MS SQL was smooth
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Easy to use and highly compatible with our MSFT Hyper-V environment
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    Broadcom
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    Microsoft
    We previously used a mix of FOG and Clonezilla to image machines. The biggest issues with these products is that changing one piece of the image required you to rebuild the entire image itself. These pieces of software also did not allow you to manage applications and Windows Updates, causing IT to have to constantly touch machines after they were imaged and update or manage them with a much more hands on approach.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Great Folks on the MSFT Implementation team
    • Great value on year 2
    Incentivized
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    Broadcom
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    Microsoft
    • It has allowed the enterprise to standardize on a single platform for monitoring.
    • Easier troubleshooting of issues with Microsoft platforms.
    • Greater visibility of issues across platforms when applications are hosted in a mixed environment.
    • Additional costs for monitoring systems that are not directly supported with additional packs (iSeries, Linux on Power).
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