Kaminario K2 (discontinued) vs. ParkMyCloud

Kaminario K2 (discontinued)

ParkMyCloud

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Kaminario K2 was an on-premise flash array storage. Silk updated its brand and focus to reflect the move of customers to the cloud. The former Kaminario K2 product is no longer available.	N/A
ParkMyCloud	Score 9.2 out of 10	N/A	ParkMyCloud, a Turbonomic company, provides a platform that helps enterprises automatically identify and eliminate wasted cloud spend. More than 1,000 enterprises around the world - including Sysco, Workfront, Hitachi ID Systems, Sage Software, and National Geographic - trust ParkMyCloud to cut their cloud spend by millions of dollars annually. ParkMyCloud’s SaaS offering allows enterprises to manage, govern, and optimize their spend across multiple public clouds. Turbonomic…	$0 unlimited instances, 1 teams, 5 users, and 1 cloud accounts

Pricing

Kaminario K2 (discontinued)

ParkMyCloud

Editions & Modules

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Free: $0
unlimited instances, 1 teams, 5 users, and 1 cloud accounts
Standard: $3
unlimited instances, 10 teams, 20 users, and 10 cloud accounts
Pro: $4
unlimited instances, 20 teams, 40 users, and 20 cloud accounts
Enterprise: Contact Us
unlimited: instances, teams, users, cloud accounts, and more features

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	ParkMyCloud
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More than 500 instances: please contact the vendor.

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Community Pulse
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	ParkMyCloud
Top Pros	Pro Super simple Pro Simple to use	Pro Cloud platform Pro Cloud service Pro Easy to monitor
Top Cons	Minus Support is lacking Minus Data reduction Minus Third party	Minus Simple user Minus Simple user interface

Features

Kaminario K2 (discontinued)

ParkMyCloud

Cloud Management

Comparison of Cloud Management features of Product A and Product B
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued) - Ratings	ParkMyCloud 10.0 1 Ratings 13% above category average
Cloud Management Security	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Automation and Orchestration	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Cost Management	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Cloud Management Performance Monitoring	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Governance and Compliance	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Resource Management	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Systems Integration	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	ParkMyCloud
Small Businesses	DBeaver Score 8.5 out of 10	VMware Cloud Director Score 9.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	DBeaver Score 8.5 out of 10	Rubrik Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises	DBeaver Score 8.5 out of 10	Rubrik Score 8.9 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	ParkMyCloud
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	ParkMyCloud
Likelihood to Recommend	Silk K2 works well in our mixed-use virtual environment. I would not hesitate to place any workload on K2, it has always performed well. We use fiber-channel connectivity as it replaced our large legacy storage array, replacing one rack of spinning disks with 4U of flash. Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	IBM ParkMyCloud is well-suited for companies that have large cloud data sets in AWS or Azure and need to closely monitor the usage costs associated with the cloud. It is well-suited for companies with a large spend on cloud resources, but not very useful for entities with smaller cloud budgets. Incentivized Thomas Young Owner, previous CEO Read full review
Pros	Silk Great performance Great support Super-simple to use Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	IBM ParkMyCloud is great at notifications. ParkMyCloud's user interface is great, and makes it easy to monitor activity. ParkMyCloud is precise. It's almost amazing how it knows when to shut off. Incentivized Thomas Young Owner, previous CEO Read full review
Cons	Silk Not well known, so third-party support is lacking Data reduction is good, but not as good as expected (actual 2.7:1) Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	IBM The simple user interface is sometimes too simple. It's tough to tell whether the software actually does save money, but it seems like it does. The default recommendations provided by company are just ok. Incentivized Thomas Young Owner, previous CEO Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Silk We performed a bake-off with K2 and one other vendor and they performed identically. K2 pricing was aggressive, performance was great, and it offered the features that we needed at a price that we could afford Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	IBM ParkMyCloud seems to be more cost effective than the alternatives I have run across. The software also seems to have a user interface that is second to none. I'm not sure on the other aspects of the software - latency, accuracy, ease of customization - compared to the other software tools. They seem to be good as well. Incentivized Thomas Young Owner, previous CEO Read full review
Return on Investment	Silk Installing K2 reduced runtime of one of our batch processes, freeing up one employee for other tasks. Less time managing storage. Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	IBM ParkMyCloud has had a positive ROI in that it has saved money by limiting resource usage. ParkMyCloud has had a negative ROI in that it's hard to tell whether the time spent implementing the solution was worth it sometimes. ParkMyCloud has been a positive overall experience because it gets IT professionals thinking about costs, something they're not apt at doing often. Incentivized Thomas Young Owner, previous CEO Read full review
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