Cloud Management Platforms comparison & reviews

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Pros
  • + Extensive out-of-the-box reporting and automation
  • + Among the best at Chargeback
  • + Resource planning and rightsizing analysis
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  • + Deep support for Cisco ACI and UCS
  • + Strong Governance support
  • + Cloud-agnostic blueprinting capabilities
Cons
  • - Below average performance monitoring
  • - Below average 2nd tier public cloud support
  • - Low APAC market presense
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  • - Weakest on Security
  • - Below average Chargeback capabilities
  • - Below average DevOps support
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Maturity
Company founded in 2006. Shipping product for multiple years. Many large customers.
Incorporated in 2011 and deployed in multiple large enterprise production envrionments.
Company founded in 2010. Shipping product for multiple years. CloudCenter has many large customers. In April 2016, Cisco completed the acquisition of CliQr Technologies.
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Director of Marketing - Ron Harnik
WhatMatrix Community
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Overview
Cloud Management Platform that enables Infrastructure-as-a-Service automation by integrating seamlessly with private, public and hybrid clouds
The Scalr Hybrid Cloud Management Platform takes a fundamentally different approach to cloud management. Scalr applies policies at the organization level, rather than at the application level. For an enterprise with multiple departments or lines of business, the central IT unit can establish levels of policy-based guardrails for each department. Those departments can then operate with greater autonomy and establish any unique policy requirements on their own for their respective teams._x000D_
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Single platform to model, deploy, and manage clouds, applications, and users
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Website
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  Delivery  
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Installation
Single Virtual Machine or Multiple for HA
Scalr can be run on-premise on a private or public cloud, or delivered as SaaS.
SaaS and install options on public clouds and on-premise
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Agentless or agentless operation
vCommander is agentless
Scalr can operate with or without the Scalrizr Agent. Using the agent allows for greater orchestration and monitoring capabilites.
CloudCenter installs an agent on each target VM
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Database support
MSSQL 2017, 2016, 2014, 2012 SP3
Scalr supports a variety of out-of-box database automation options as well cloud services
Built-in database is PostgreSQL
  Administration  
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Administrator accounts
Unlimited
Unlimited. Admins can be divided across levels of trust and resposibilites.
Unlimited
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User accounts
Unlimited Active Directory and LDAP
Unlimited.
Unlimited
  Pricing  
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Pricing model
Yearly subscription.
Licensed by amount of managed end-points.
Annual subscription pricing for the SaaS and on-premises version.
  Product Details  
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Vendor specific/agnostic
Vendor agnostic
Standalone platform.
Vendor agnostic
  Services  
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24/7 support
Support included in base cost, Premium Support available
24x7 support - additional support levels are available.
Included in the Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite licens
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Professional services
Professional Services engagements are available.
Proffesional services, kick-starts, and trainings available.
Cisco Advanced Services and Partners
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  Virtualization/Private Cloud Support  
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VMware vSphere
Supported
vSphere 5.0 & above supported
Supported
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Microsoft Hyper-V
Supported
Supported via OpenStack
Supported via Windows Azure Pack
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OpenStack
Not currently supported (preview available)
Supported on Icehouse, Juno, Kilo, Liberty, Mitaka
Supported
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other
KVM and Xen Supported
Azure Pack update rollup6 and later, Cisco UCS Director
  Public Cloud Support  
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Amazon Web Services
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Google Cloud Platform
Cost comparisons only
Supported
Supported
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IBM Bluemix Cloud
Support for VMware on IBM Cloud
Supported (as private implementation)
Supported
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Microsoft Azure
Supported
Supported
Supported (including RM)
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Oracle Cloud
not supported
Not Supported
Not supported
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other
Cost modeling for Google Compute Engine, IBM SoftLayer and Rackspace
Rackspace, HP helion
Dimension Data (MCP 1.0, legacy, and MCP 2.0), Alibaba, vCloud Air Dedicated Cloud
  Containers  
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Docker
Scripted Support
Supports Docker
Supported
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3rd Party container management
Supported
Supports Kubernetes
Partly Supported
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Other
Scripted Support
Orchestration options available for CoreOS, Swarm and Mesos.
Partly Supported
  Legacy/Brownfield Environments  
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Automatic discovery of legacy VMs
Supported
Yes
Support
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Management of legacy cloud VMs
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Management of legacy private VMs
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Import of OVA/OVF VM formats
Not supported (native tools can be used)
Yes
Supports service images from other vendors
  Migration  
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Cloud-to-cloud migration
Supported
Supported
Supported
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  Administration  
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Multi-tenant support
Supported
Yes. Users can be managed locally or authenticated through LDAP/SAML.
CloudCenter supports enterprise marketplace and multi-tenant federated administration
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Published API
API published : click on details (i) for link
Extensive API support
API published : click on details (i) for link
  Configuration Management  
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Chef
Supported
Native support
Supported
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Puppet
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Ansible
Supported
Support for Ansible Tower
Supported
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SaltStack
Supported
Some integration available
Supported
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Ability to patch managed systems
Supported using scripting
Yes
Supported
  Networking  
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SDN Support
Network Fencing isolation (Vmware only)
Supports Cloud SDN eg AWS APCs and limited private eg VMware
Supports Cisco ACI
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Public cloud networking
Supports operational views. Deployment limited to use of templates (eg cloudformations)
Yes
CloudCenter uses public cloud native networking APIs to instantiate policy
Supports AWS ELB,HAProxy,Nginx
  User-Defined Actions  
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Conditional Actions
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Pre- and Post-Install Actions
Supported
Yes
Supported using pre- and post-install scripts
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Scheduled Actions
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Orchestration & Workflow  
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Native Workflow
Supported
Yes
Integration with Cisco UCS Director and ServiceNow
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3rd Party Orchestration
Supported via scripting framework
Not supported
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Webhooks
Supported
Yes
Not Supported
  Third-Party Automation  
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ServiceNow
Supported
Yes
Supported
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3rd Party Automation
Supported via scripting framework
Not Supported
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CMDB integration
Supported
Yes - Scalr integrates with tools such as ServiceNow and Remedy through the Webhook system
Limited capability
  User-Defined Properties  
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Automatic hostname creation
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Configuration tags
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Placement  
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Best Execution Venue - Performance
Supported
Planned
Supported
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Best Execution Venue - Security
Supported
Planned
Not supported
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Best Execution Venue - Cost
Supported
Planned
Supported
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Runtime policies
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Provisioning  
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Bare-metal provisioning
Supported with use of 3rd party PXE boot solutions
Yes - via a connector such as OpenStack
Limited capability
  Reconfiguration & Expiration  
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Ability to change VM configuration
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Live change VM resources
Supported
Depends on the platform
Supported
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Scheduled expiration
Supported
Yes
Supported via aging policies
  Uptime Management  
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Continuous Infrastructure Testing
Supported
Limited
Supported
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HA/DR features
Supported
Hosted apps
HA Supported for the CMP application
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  Service Portal  
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End-User Self-Service
Supported
Yes
Central feature of CloudCenter
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Service Catalog
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Localization  
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Support for multiple languages
English Only
Only via partners.
Supported
  Built-In Features  
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Application-centric deployment
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Approval workflow
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Auto-scaling
Supported in AWS
Yes
Supported
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Bursting to public cloud
Partially supported
Yes
Not supported
  Quotas  
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Quotas
Supported
Yes
Supported
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  Cost Management/Chargeback  
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Cloud expense reporting
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Consumption-based billing
Supported
Supported
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Cost allocation
Supported
Yes
No native integration (Billing API available)
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User-defined rates
Supported
Yes
Application level monitoring
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Multiple currency support
Supported
No
Not supported
  Third-Party Integration  
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Integration with financial mgmt tools
Supported via API
Through Webhooks and tagging.
API based
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  Inventory  
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Real-time environment inventory
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Automatic Updates  
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Discover & update changed systems
Supported
On initial import
Supported
  Job reporting  
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Detailed job status reporting
Supported
Yes, as part of general logging
Supported
  Multi-Tenancy  
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Reporting by customer
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Uptime Management  
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SLA reporting
Supported
Supported
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  Group management  
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Multi-level support
Supported
Yes
through a SSO IDentity Provider (IDP) that supports SAML 2.0 protocol
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Role-based access controls
Supported
Yes
through a SSO Identity Provider (IDP) that supports SAML 2.0 protocol
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User-defined groups
Supported
Yes
Supports security profiles
  Identity Management  
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Active Directory support
Supported
Yes
Supported
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LDAP support
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Security Features  
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Credential management
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Key vaulting
Supported
Not supported
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Support for single signon
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Logging/auditing of administrative access
Supported
General logging
Not supported
  Third-Party Integration  
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Integration with enterprise security tools
Supported via script
Integration available through Webhooks and orchestration engine
Not supported
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  Third-Party Integration  
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Jenkins integration
Supported
Yes
Supported
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GitHub integration
Custom integration scripting
Partly Supported
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other
Supported
Scalr can work with any code repo.
CloudCenter supports UCS Director
  PaaS Capabilities  
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Cloud Foundry support
Support for PKS
Yes
Not supported
  Usability Features  
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Diagramming
Not Supported
No
Supported
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Reusable service blueprints
Supported
Yes
It is possible to save an modeled application as a reusable template
  VM management  
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Out of band console
Supported
Not supported
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Built-in SSH access to VMs
Supported
Yes
Can use SSH or VNC via web browser
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Snapshotting
Supported
Yes, for DB and storage
Supported
  Community Support  
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User Contribution Site
Forum Only
Yes
Supported

Matrix Score

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  • CloudBolt Software
  • Scalr
  • Cisco
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  • 2 nd
  • 8 th
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