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AppFog (discontinued)

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3 Reviews and Ratings

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What is AppFog (discontinued)?

AppFog was a cloud-agnostic application and infrastructure management platform used to manage workloads across on-premises and third-party cloud environments. It has been discontinued.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features AppFog (discontinued) has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 3 ratings of AppFog (discontinued)'s features
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Top Performing Features

  • Development environment replication

    Ease of replicating new development environments

    Category average: 7.8

  • Development environment creation

    Ease of creating new development environments

    Category average: 8

  • Ease of building user interfaces

    Ability to build flexible user interfaces using drag-and-drop tools

    Category average: 7.9

Areas for Improvement

  • Platform access control

    Rules controlling what data different user categories can access

    Category average: 7.8

  • Issue monitoring and notification

    Integrated monitoring and notification of issues and problems

    Category average: 7.3

  • Scalability

    Ease of scaling up or down to meet demand

    Category average: 8.2

Reviews

What users are saying about AppFog (discontinued).
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Appfog - Develop and deploy fast and easy.

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Appfog is one of the best PAAS service providers. It has many technologies to choose from with variety of platform and databases.
  • It has good performance and capacity to withstand multiple instances for multiple users. It is highly scalable.

Cons

  • Though it is good and easy for developers, it lacks operational activities and monitoring tools.
  • It is easy to deploy WAR on AppFog with its console but sometimes it can lack on the performance and feasibility.

Return on Investment

  • Our project was deployed with good efficiency and easily accessible.
  • The platform was much recommeded across the groups and peers.

Other Software Used

Google App Engine, Salesforce.com

Good Academic Service Platform

Incentivized
Verified User
Contributor in Engineering (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Quick deployment of pre-built virtual machines
  • Some of the virtual machines also are readily available with a pack of softwares
  • Good Stability. Using it as a student, I have never experienced any downtime issues with the projects deployed on AppFog.

Cons

  • A little slow as compared to AWS.
  • Not sure about the latest versions, but compared to its competitors, it was missing out on some services.
  • Used to be a free service, but isn't completely free anymore.

Return on Investment

  • Saved time while creation of quick POCs.
  • Happy managers since they see things quickly working.
  • Some missing services always gave a second thought about AppFog.

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