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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Canonical OpenStack

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ACanonical OpenStack is the cloud openstack option from Canonical in the UK. Using private and public cloud infrastructure at the same time allows users to optimise CapEx and OpEx costs. Users can create cost-effective, enterprise-grade public cloud infrastructure on Ubuntu.

    $7,500

    one-time fee

    Oracle VDI

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) can be used to deploy managed virtual desktops and access them from anywhere while keeping data and applications safe.N/A
    Pricing
    Canonical OpenStackOracle VDI
    Editions & Modules
    Private Cloud Build
    $75,000
    fixed price
    Private Cloud Build Plus
    $150,000
    fixed price
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Canonical OpenStackOracle VDI
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAdditional features, functionality, and integrations are available via add-ons—
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    Canonical OpenStackOracle VDI
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    User Ratings
    Canonical OpenStackOracle VDI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    2.5
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Canonical OpenStackOracle VDI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Canonical Ltd
    Ubuntu OpenStack is well suited for startups where there are very tight financial constraints. As Ubuntu OpenStack is open source, the startup organizations will not have to spend a lot when compared to their commercial offerings in the market. Ubuntu OpenStack is less appropriate in organizations where they don't want to have private on-prem clouds. As deploying a private on-prem cloud is a very cumbersome and tedious task, the organizations must have a dedicated team to manage such on-prem deployments.
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    Oracle
    Considering Oracle VDI is not supported by Oracle anymore, and will not receive any future updates, I wouldn't recommend Oracle VDI for most scenarios. Unless your organization is under some strict contractual agreement or there is a feature in Oracle VDI that isn't supported in its modern successors/competitors (haven't come across a feature like that based on my experience), I would recommend using something like VMware Horizon.
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    Pros
    Canonical Ltd
    • Very easy to use, learning curve is very short. Don't need to invest months of training before using it
    • Well suited with Jenkins for automated tests
    • Works well on large sets of heterogeneous hardware
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    Oracle
    • Providing desktop operating system virtualization is way more manageable using this Oracle suite.
    • It has a robust security infrastructure and provides great audit trails.
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    Cons
    Canonical Ltd
    • More customizable options while choosing virtual machine configurations would be great.
    • To have regular online learning sessions directly from Ubuntu OpenStack experts [to] help users and for those who implement it.
    • Giving admin more control on what privileges they can grant to their users.
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    Oracle
    • Frequent disconnects causing me to have to reboot my server.
    • Can be laggy at times.
    • Freezes regularly.
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    Usability
    Canonical Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    From the end user's perspective the usability is not impacted at all.
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    Performance
    Canonical Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    The easiest way to describe the performance is like this - when it is working, it works almost flawlessly. When it starts freezing, your day is going to get very interesting very quickly. As I have stated earlier, I used it for one purpose, and it did what I needed it to most of the time, but I did have issues with it.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Canonical Ltd
    Everybody knows VMWare which is the world's number one in data center infrastructure management. OpenStack is lot lot less expensive but doesn't offer all the functionalities you have with VMWare especially for High Availability and load balancing. You should go for OpenStack if you need an easy to use solution without the need for external consultants. If you don't have the capacity to manage your own infrastructure you had better go for VMWare.
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    Oracle
    VMware Horizon does everything that Oracle VDI is capable of doing and offers many more features, and unlike Oracle VDI, it is still receiving constant updates. Oracle VDI was a great solution for enterprise-level management of virtualized desktop when it was getting updates, but now that it won't be getting any, I would put it in the "outdated technology" category.
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    Return on Investment
    Canonical Ltd
    • Lighter on initial spending for the organization.
    • Deployments which have no vendor locking makes management decisions easier.
    • Support from great community saved lot of time for engineers managing it.
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    Oracle
    • Pricing Models were harsh to begin with, so we invested more money on the license than we needed to.
    • Due to all of the laggy, buggy, and crashing interfaces, our administrators spent considerable additional time working on simple operations.
    • We missed out on many advanced features that Oracle VDI's competitors were rolling out, so we couldn't benefit from them.
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