CloudDRIVE vs. VMware Cloud Director

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CloudDRIVE
Score 6.9 out of 10
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CSS Corp in Milpitas, California offers CloudDRIVE, a cloud management platform designed to optimize application performance and reduce costs post cloud migration, and smooth adoption of new cloud capabilities and applications.N/A
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.6 out of 10
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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
CloudDRIVEVMware Cloud Director
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CloudDRIVEVMware Cloud Director
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
CloudDRIVEVMware Cloud Director
Considered Both Products
CloudDRIVE
Chose CloudDRIVE
Basically this cloud is much more practical than others, it is fast and have greater storage capacity, but in reality, almost all cloud applications have the same function.
VMware Cloud Director
Chose VMware Cloud Director
Another option was own scripting or maintaining the end users in the backend (vcenter). This costs to much time to maintain (scripting) and has a big change of a Security breach. It was not an option for us either way.
Chose VMware Cloud Director
Hyper-V is built on a Windows platform that includes services not needed for the virtual environment adding overhead. With vCloud I'm not required to maintain a host OS or it's updates. The requirement to maintain storage devices is no longer needed with vCloud as well.
Chose VMware Cloud Director
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 …
Best Alternatives
CloudDRIVEVMware Cloud Director
Small Businesses
VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.6 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
IBM Turbonomic
IBM Turbonomic
Score 9.3 out of 10

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Enterprises
vRealize Operations (discontinued)
vRealize Operations (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10

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User Ratings
CloudDRIVEVMware Cloud Director
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User Testimonials
CloudDRIVEVMware Cloud Director
Likelihood to Recommend
It seems to be adequate for those companies that have a lot of information and have the need for many of their workers to integrate or can visualize their information quickly and at any time. It helps to save space on the company's servers and it is very easy to access, it is also easy to use and understand, and it is a scalable storage system
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For a CSP it's the best choice. For internal uses, even in presence of different business units, it's not so easy and flexible to manage. It assures a high level of multitenancy, often not needed for internal purposes. But it could be used in this case, just not created for these purposes. Network management is great.
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Pros
  • Keeps my information safe in the cloud which is safer
  • I can view my information from any device at any place and time
  • With this application, I can transfer the data with ease
  • Automatic backup of all files is performed
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  • Manages multi-tenancy very well. You can setup resource pools of compute, network, and storage that are independent of each other.
  • Easy to create and manage multiple environments.
  • Has lease management technology and can easily set leases and expire them based on pre-configured time frames.
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Cons
  • Internet access is needed at all times
  • If many people manage the cloud they can make the mistake of deleting some files
  • Confusing legal coverage, there are countries that do not have data protection laws
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  • Logging, there is a lot of logging but is not always clear where to look for the right logging.
  • The syncing of policy, you can't see if or what he did/didn't sync and the status of it.
  • More integrations with VMware product (click like Availability)
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Alternatives Considered
Basically this cloud is much more practical than others, it is fast and have greater storage capacity, but in reality, almost all cloud applications have the same function.
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Another option was own scripting or maintaining the end users in the backend (vcenter). This costs to much time to maintain (scripting) and has a big change of a Security breach. It was not an option for us either way.
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Return on Investment
  • Reduction of expenses in the company
  • A lot of capacity to keep information
  • You can store any type of file
  • It could improve if you could see files without internet
  • Sometimes a little slow
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  • vCloud Director requires less IT administration. For example, there isn't a need to maintain esx host. or storage administration like creating luns.
  • A negative impact is cost. vCloud Director has a monthly cost for storage, processor core, memory, and licensing.
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