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AppFog (discontinued) vs. GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AppFog (discontinued)
Score 6.6 out of 10
N/A
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.N/A
GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
A real-time network monitoring solution focusing on the network user's perspective, that helps administrators to understand how well an organization’s important applications are performing. It offers dashboards that help to identify network use, traffic bottlenecks and problem areas by looking at application or Level 7 performance by app, user, device, and location.N/A
Pricing
AppFog (discontinued)GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AppFog (discontinued)GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
AppFog (discontinued)GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator
Considered Both Products
AppFog (discontinued)
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose AppFog (discontinued)
Appfog was one of the requirements of our project since it was the fastest growing PAAS provider. Also it was easy to deploy an application with multiple options to choose for the development environment for our application. It was "ALL in ONE."
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose AppFog (discontinued)
Primarily because it used to have a good free tier earlier, which it does not anymore. It's simple, and things are available to use. Compared to it's competitors, it does has less features, but that kind of acts in its favor. That adds to the simplicity, and ease of use for a …
GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator
Exinda was a good balance between cost and capability. We replaced an aging Packetshaper infrastructure with Exinda.
Features
AppFog (discontinued)GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
AppFog (discontinued)
6.5
Ratings
21% below category average
GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator
-
Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability5.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform management overhead6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform access control6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration6.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment creation7.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment replication8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue recovery6.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
AppFog (discontinued)GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator
Small Businesses
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Score 8.6 out of 10
NinjaOne
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
AppFog (discontinued)GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator
Likelihood to Recommend
6.6
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AppFog (discontinued)GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator
Likelihood to Recommend
AppFog is good for academic purposes. It comes in very handy for cloud deployments.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Well suited to traffic control and prioritization WAN Op is limited and does not work reliably
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Anonymous
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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.
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Anonymous
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  • Ease of deployment
  • Traffic policy config
  • Admin console is easy to navigate
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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.
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Anonymous
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  • WAN Optimization does not work well
  • Reporting, while available, is difficult to work with
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Alternatives Considered
Appfog was one of the requirements of our project since it was the fastest growing PAAS provider. Also it was easy to deploy an application with multiple options to choose for the development environment for our application. It was "ALL in ONE."
Verified User
Anonymous
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Exinda was a good balance between cost and capability. We replaced an aging Packetshaper infrastructure with Exinda
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Anonymous
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Return on Investment
  • Our project was deployed with good efficiency and easily accessible.
  • The platform was much recommeded across the groups and peers.
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  • Minimize bandwidth expenditures by prioritizing the traffic we care about and controlling the traffic we do not care about.
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Anonymous
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