Lumen Edge Private Cloud vs. Platform9 Managed OpenStack

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Lumen Edge Private Cloud
Score 7.0 out of 10
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Lumen Private Edge Cloud (replacing the former CenturyLink® Private Cloud) is a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) solution that brings VMware’s vSphere®, vSAN™ and NSX® into a natively integrated stack, delivering enterprise grade, globally available hyper-converged-infrastructure based on HPE® with CenturyLink automation and management capabilities for a consistent operational experience across cloud environments. CenturyLink Private Cloud helps boost application performance, minimize latency…N/A
Platform9 Managed OpenStack
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Platform9's Managed OpenStack enables users to deploy and operate OpenStack Hybrid Cloud with a 100% SaaS based service. The SaaS platform lets users go live with an OpenStack private cloud with its deployment tools. The Platform9 dashboard is designed to offer visibility into infrastructure across compute, storage, network, and existing workloads.N/A
Pricing
Lumen Edge Private CloudPlatform9 Managed OpenStack
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Enterprise
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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User Ratings
Lumen Edge Private CloudPlatform9 Managed OpenStack
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User Testimonials
Lumen Edge Private CloudPlatform9 Managed OpenStack
Likelihood to Recommend
Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink)
CenturyLink Private Cloud is well suited for companies that are smaller and wouldn't have to undergo scaling for a longer time. Apart from that, it does well in almost all categories. It wouldn't actually be useful for bigger companies since the UI is a bit laggy sometimes and usually, it's not advisable for big companies.
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Platform9
If you're having OnPremise Infrastructure and you want to use OpenStack in that case Platform9 Managed OpenStack is recommended to use it will cut down all the complexities of setting up and managing OpenStack IaaS. Platform9 also offers setting up OpenStack on Cloud Such as AWS, GCP, and Azure but wouldn't recommend using this kind of offering as Openstack performs well when underneath virtualized infrastructure is backed directly hypervisors not cloud providers.
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Pros
Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink)
  • robust framework
  • amazing customer support in case you're facing maintenance issues
  • collaborative ability is off the charts
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Platform9
  • It removes all the Openstack complexities and provides a simple UI to the end user.
  • Reduced the pain of System Administrator and Engineers.
  • Highly responsive support.
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Cons
Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink)
  • UI can be really improved, since it sometimes lags a lot
  • Very few know about the product, so they should advertise a bit more
  • There maybe scaling issues since it's a relatively smaller company compared to its competitors
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Platform9
  • User interface and User experience are not upto the mark. UI needs lots of improvements.
  • We need to do entire setup from the scratch.
  • Nothing as such other than UI Improvements.
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Alternatives Considered
Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink)
It doesn't stack up that well against them, since these are big companies and have huge infrastructures and they provide smooth scaling features. However CenturyLink Private Cloud is a little concise and not many people know about it, so I feel like they should advertise more and try to improve their customer outreach.
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Platform9
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Return on Investment
Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink)
  • We reduced our cloud hosting costs a lot after switching to CenturyLink Private Cloud
  • Maintenance is very easy since there is documentation available for every part
  • It had some issues with the UI but we can neglect those considering the pricing options they provide.
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Platform9
  • Platform9 simplified scaling in and out hypervisors now adding capacity takes very less time than other OpenStack environments.
  • Platfrom9 Managed Openstack gives us feeling of having our own private cloud!
  • It has increased the availability of our infrastructure which resulted lessen downtime on workloads deployed on top of it.
  • Overall it benefited us in all means.
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