Microsoft IIS vs. Tanzu Application Catalog

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft IIS
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft IIS is an application server and infrastructure.N/A
Tanzu Application Catalog
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
The Tanzu Application Catalog (or Bitnami) provides packaged applications for any platform. The platform delivers and maintains a catalog of 130+ ready-to-run server applications and development environments in partnership with cloud providers including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle, driving over 1.5 million deployments per month. Bitnami was acquired by VMware in 2019.
$0.50
per month
Pricing
Microsoft IISTanzu Application Catalog
Editions & Modules
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10GB
$0.50
per month
T3A Nano
$3.38
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft IISTanzu Application Catalog
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
Microsoft IISTanzu Application Catalog
Application Servers
Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft IIS
7.5
28 Ratings
6% below category average
Tanzu Application Catalog
-
Ratings
IDE support8.020 Ratings00 Ratings
Security management7.028 Ratings00 Ratings
Administration and management8.028 Ratings00 Ratings
Application server performance8.028 Ratings00 Ratings
Installation9.028 Ratings00 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance5.017 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft IIS
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Ratings
Tanzu Application Catalog
8.1
5 Ratings
1% below category average
Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings8.45 Ratings
Platform management overhead00 Ratings7.45 Ratings
Workflow engine capability00 Ratings8.45 Ratings
Platform access control00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.45 Ratings
Development environment creation00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Development environment replication00 Ratings8.85 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.45 Ratings
Issue recovery00 Ratings7.24 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings7.25 Ratings
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User Ratings
Microsoft IISTanzu Application Catalog
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(28 ratings)
8.8
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(9 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.8
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.4
(6 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft IISTanzu Application Catalog
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Publishing applications or websites is easy with Microsoft IIS. You don't need external software or complicated tutorials involving command lines and editing configuration files. On other hand, sometimes the troubleshooter needs a high knowledge of Windows Server, Registry, and tools to debug the application. If you need to host non-Microsoft technology as PHP pages or have a low budget, I recommend IIS equivalent software as Apache.
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Broadcom
The best way to take advantage of VMware Application Catalog (Bitnami) is as in the case I mentioned, that you constantly implement these free software, where any time saved is important in terms of installation, configuration and testing environment, it really is a very useful solution, also if you need a good community and support; however the cloud and VMs solutions is not designed for huge products, these can be slow or remain insufficient if the use of these grows a lot, even though it is an easy-to-use product, you need to have enough knowledge in terms of installation and management of cloud solutions, a beginner can find himself in trouble
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Pros
Microsoft
  • A big advantage that we use all the time is reviewing the logs that automatically get generated in IIS. It has helped us troubleshoot various problems in our applications over the years.
  • IIS integrates really well with Visual Studio and TFS. We are able to quickly deploy new applications and changes to applications when requested by the business.
  • IIS has proven that it is easy to configure and maintain with minimal effort.
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Broadcom
  • pre-packaged templates they provide.
  • ease of cloud-deployment of your projects.
  • The development community page always has useful information and there is a lot of support.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Angular/node apps don't run on IIS, or at least we never figured out how. Rather we ended up using nginx.
  • There are still occasional memory leaks - check your recycle settings!
  • If you have very heavy usage for web APIs, IIS requires regular restarts for reasons unknown.
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Broadcom
  • Possibility to configure the implementation through mobile devices
  • Sometimes the performance of the VMs is slower than expected
  • A best way to do the upgrades, you have reinstall and reconfigure in this process
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
We have no intention to replace all applications running on top of the IIS platform. Not all applications support other platforms and not all support staff are skilled in Linux/Apache platform support. Whereas IIS may not be the best performing or most secure web platform available, for the aforementioned reasons, it is impossible not to continue use of this product.
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Broadcom
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Usability
Microsoft
As I've mentioned earlier, Microsoft IIS is very simple and easy to use. The user interface is a little bit overloaded with a huge number of different options, but once you have a little clue of what you are doing and what you need - no issues at all.
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Broadcom
Most of it is intuitive. I think some of the awkwardness is found by new users who are unfamiliar with other software applications.
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Reliability and Availability
Microsoft
ARR (application request routing) in Microsoft IIS Server enables the web-admins to increase the web app reliability and availability through the rule based routing and load balancing of HTTP requests which in turn provides highly available server. IIS 7.0 Manager also provides kernel as well as user mode caching for faster performance and in case if the server fails, the IIS server has good amount of details logged in its log files which help understand and debug the cause quickly. Load balancing facilitates IIS server to fight against availability issues.
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Broadcom
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Performance
Microsoft
In my experience, I have never had significant issues with IIS performance. Sometimes I've experienced issues with loading time, but it is mostly related to the web site code. However Amazon, Microsoft and Google providing free cloud services with very limited resources, and in that scenario, "heavy" websites on IIS could be the issue. In other situations - performance is good.
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Broadcom
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Support Rating
Microsoft
As mentioned earlier there is so much documentation or guides or stack overflow questions out there that someone will have faced the same or very similar scenario to what you are going through that you will almost certainly find a solution to what you are after.
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Broadcom
They have an expert team, not just a frontline team that has learned the FAQs but a team that knows the product.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Apache is java. Java is unnecessary complex. No developer wants to invest in learning all the hundreds of text based configuration files to get something done. Also, apache gives you the most evil and un-usable user interface possible. [Microsoft] IIS makes [life] after development easy, which is already complex enough to be bothered by something as mundane as exposing your work over the internet.
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Broadcom
VMware Application Catalog (Bitnami) offers better tools to complete the task faster and more efficiently. The customer support and knowledge base is also well presented and trained
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Scalability
Microsoft
Microsoft IIS Server is scalable if the underlying server configuration is done correctly. Use x64 edition v/s 32bit and using 32bit mode application pools are some of the tweaks to be done to make the IIS server scalable. There are too many small configurations need to be carried out in order to make a highly scalable IIS server hence not giving full score in this area.
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Broadcom
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Allowing us to internally host our monitoring websites allows quick access to data that can be quite hidden, saving developer time.
  • It was inexpensive compared to more bulky solutions saving upfront cost.
  • It’s easy to install and enable allowing more developer savings.
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Broadcom
  • We save a lot of time implementing the apps, less engineers working on this phase
  • The upgrade process of the apps can be a pain and a waste valuable time
  • The mains options of the VMware Application Catalog (Bitnami) are free so is important for save money in our organization
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