IBM Kubecost vs. VMware Cloud Director

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Kubecost
Score 8.0 out of 10
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IBM Kubecost is a self-hosted Kubernetes cost visibility and optimization platform that provides real-time insights to help teams reduce cloud spend and scale cost efficiently.
$449
per month 100 nodes
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
IBM KubecostVMware Cloud Director
Editions & Modules
Business
$449
per month 100 nodes
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM KubecostVMware Cloud Director
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
IBM KubecostVMware Cloud Director
Best Alternatives
IBM KubecostVMware Cloud Director
Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
IBM Turbonomic
IBM Turbonomic
Score 8.8 out of 10

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Enterprises
vRealize Operations (discontinued)
vRealize Operations (discontinued)
Score 9.1 out of 10

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User Ratings
IBM KubecostVMware Cloud Director
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM KubecostVMware Cloud Director
Likelihood to Recommend
Apptio an IBM Company
Kubecost is very useful tool for organizations looking to manage their cost for their kubernetes environment. its a well suited tool for organizations looking to expand their kubernetes environment or start their kubernetes journey. Having a tool like this is very useful for not only the users but for leadership to manage cost and overall management of their environment
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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
Apptio an IBM Company
  • Show namespace level cost and usage
  • Allow rightisizibg At namespace level
  • Show effectiveness of current resources allocation
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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
Apptio an IBM Company
  • I think there is room for improvement in IBM Kubecost if you Streamline IBM Kubecost more with AWS cost explorer
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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
Apptio an IBM Company
While Kubecost is very critical tool, providing useful information about your organization's kubernets cost patterns, it could use additional features like better integration with other IBM tools. Having the ability to incorporate other IBM tools will be helpful for users and leadership as well as increase overall awareness of what other Products IBM provides.
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VMware by Broadcom
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Alternatives Considered
Apptio an IBM Company
Namespace cost, usage and efficiency data and ability to optimize for k8 containers
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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
Apptio an IBM Company
  • Cost savings
  • cost monitoring
  • budget control
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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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