IBM Cloudability vs. vRealize Operations (discontinued)

Good tool to start FinOps journey in a medium sized (or above) company. Currently missing AI capabilities that are now available with a lot of FinOps vendors in the market. Also, apptio currently does not have FOCUS dataset nomenclature, that can be worked upon.

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With the introduction of API-based event alerts, there is no need for a proxy, which is a good option. Its ability to manage infra on a real-time basis is a good option that helps monitor, administer and troubleshoot virtual machines.

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• It shows the visibility into the cost and a single pane of glass for all of our cloud providers, multiple products in those multi-cloud. So it shows us our spending across the cloud by vendor, by product, and by all the tags that we have in the cloud. So it gives us visibility into many different directions in our cost.

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• Troubleshooting Workbench to work on multiple data at one place.
• Datacenter Resources/ Cost Optimization Suggestions.
• Centralized Management between on-premises and cloud resources.
• Customized management packs.

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• It would be good to see if it offers integrations with wide variety of tools like Service NOW, MS Teams, DataDog, Slack and also with cloud native Notification services like SNS etc.
• It would be great if Apptio cloudability provides comprehensive documentation and training
• There is scope for improvement on Enhanced cost optimization Algorithms.

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• If we can integrate it with other products, then it will be quite useful. Integration with some network devices and storage devices would be useful.
• It basically supports the system with big-size VM disks; it should be made available to support other devices and hardware as well.
• They may also need to improve on complex configuration.

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We decided to build our own home-grown FinOps tool, but the results of the proof of concept were very promising.

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Very strong tool, nearly as clunky as older tools like CloudCheckr and much more fully featured than newer tools like Pileus. It's easy to get started with drilling into data for experienced FinOps users; others end users have a learning curve, but I don't think that's specific to Apptio Cloudability. The biggest drawback I find is the tool is buggier than others (e.g. CloudHealth), and constantly having to refresh a browser makes for a poor user experience.

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It has a good GUI to monitor real-time logs for cloud applications. This is quite a useful tool and preferred over most of the competitive applications in the market.

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Only been 1 or 2 occaisions when not available, in 3 years

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Afternoons tend to be a little slower, due to US traffic I assume

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While there have been few support cases where the experience was good. But in multiple support cases it's firstly delayed and even after weeks or months of time, team is not able to provide us with the RCA of the issue. All they are claiming is the issue is now fixed which I still see coming back after few days or weeks as we've never identified and addressed the root cause.

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The support is pretty good however some of the KB articles still reference different versions of the product so it can be hard to find answers to common questions

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Training was adequate, but the real learning begins when you start using the product, like most things. All major functions were covered so as an entry point, was a good introduction to the product. The training pace was good as well, the areas were covered in decent depth, without being too much of an information overload.

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Within months

I like IBM Cloudability compared to IBM SPSS Statistics because I think SPSS is a bit outdated. In my opinion, IBM Cloudability is more modern and helps present data better than SPSS could. Compared to Microsoft 365, I would say they are about even. One thing I like about Microsoft 365 compared to IBM Cloudability is data manipulation is a bit easier with formulas which I can't say I have been able to do with IBM Cloudability.

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We are a VMware shop and need monitoring from VMware. Also, I am not the decision maker here. I believe because of being a VMware shop we choose VRO and also may be my company got a great deal. I like this product although there is a lot of stuff to improve

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Works as designed

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• Apptio Cloudability has enabled us to charge back 100% of our cloud spend to our business users and on an automated basis through the use of ApptioOne
• Apptio Cloudability's transparency and metrics have enabled us to save millions of dollars in cloud spend across our user base.

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• We believe that the ability to preplan deployments with vRealize has proven its return on investments.
• Our troubleshooting time has been reduced with vrealize because its constantly collecting performance data. typically vrealize will tell us cause of fault before we can determine it ourselves.

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