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
  • + Leader in IT Automation
  • + Strong Multi-Cloud support
  • + Among the best at User Self-Service
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Cons
  • - Below average performance monitoring
  • - Below average 2nd tier public cloud support
  • - Low APAC market presense
  • - Below average Chargeback support
  • - Average Governance support
  • - Average Security support
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Maturity
Company founded in 2006. Shipping product for multiple years. Many large customers.
Product is in production for > 2 years with multiple large deployments
Incorporated in 2011 and deployed in multiple large enterprise production envrionments.
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Content Creator
Embotics
WhatMatrix - Rick Kilcoyne
Director of Marketing - Ron Harnik
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Overview
Cloud Management Platform that enables Infrastructure-as-a-Service automation by integrating seamlessly with private, public and hybrid clouds
Hybrid cloud management platform designed for user self-service
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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Website
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  Delivery  
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Installation
Single Virtual Machine or Multiple for HA
Single virtual machine
Scalr can be run on-premise on a private or public cloud, or delivered as SaaS.
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Agentless or agentless operation
vCommander is agentless
CloudBolt is agentless
Scalr can operate with or without the Scalrizr Agent. Using the agent allows for greater orchestration and monitoring capabilites.
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Database support
MSSQL 2017, 2016, 2014, 2012 SP3
Built-in MySQL; can be integrated with most RDBMS platforms
Scalr supports a variety of out-of-box database automation options as well cloud services
  Administration  
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Administrator accounts
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited. Admins can be divided across levels of trust and resposibilites.
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User accounts
Unlimited Active Directory and LDAP
Unlimited
Unlimited.
  Pricing  
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Pricing model
Yearly subscription.
Licensed by number of VMs managed
Licensed by amount of managed end-points.
  Product Details  
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Vendor specific/agnostic
Vendor agnostic
Vendor agnostic
Standalone platform.
  Services  
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24/7 support
Support included in base cost, Premium Support available
Support Included in base cost
24x7 support - additional support levels are available.
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Professional services
Professional Services engagements are available.
Professional services are available
Proffesional services, kick-starts, and trainings available.
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  Virtualization/Private Cloud Support  
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VMware vSphere
Supported
Supported
vSphere 5.0 & above supported
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Microsoft Hyper-V
Supported
Supported ( via nix SSH/SCP or Windows WinRM)
Supported via OpenStack
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OpenStack
Not currently supported (preview available)
Supported
Supported on Icehouse, Juno, Kilo, Liberty, Mitaka
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other
Supports
KVM and Xen Supported
  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
Supported (as private implementation)
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Microsoft Azure
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Oracle Cloud
not supported
Supported
Not Supported
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other
Cost modeling for Google Compute Engine, IBM SoftLayer and Rackspace
HP Helion, Verizon Terremark, Centurylink cloud
Rackspace, HP helion
  Containers  
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Docker
Scripted Support
Supports
Supports Docker
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3rd Party container management
Supported
Supported
Supports Kubernetes
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Other
Scripted Support
Supported
Orchestration options available for CoreOS, Swarm and Mesos.
  Legacy/Brownfield Environments  
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Automatic discovery of legacy VMs
Supported
Supported
Yes
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Management of legacy cloud VMs
Supported
Supported
Yes
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Management of legacy private VMs
Supported
Supported
Yes
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Import of OVA/OVF VM formats
Not supported (native tools can be used)
Supported
(added blueprint to content library
Yes
  Migration  
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Cloud-to-cloud migration
Supported
Supported
(via CloudEndure)
Supported
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  Administration  
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Multi-tenant support
Supported
Supported
Yes. Users can be managed locally or authenticated through LDAP/SAML.
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Published API
API published : click on details (i) for link
Published API
Extensive API support
  Configuration Management  
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Chef
Supported
Extensive Chef inegration
Native support
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Puppet
Supported
Supports both Puppet OpenSource and Enterprise
Supported
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Ansible
Supported
Ansible open source is supported
Support for Ansible Tower
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SaltStack
Supported
Partially Supported
Some integration available
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Ability to patch managed systems
Supported using scripting
Supported using scripting
Yes
  Networking  
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SDN Support
Network Fencing isolation (Vmware only)
Supports Vmware NSX
Supports Cloud SDN eg AWS APCs and limited private eg VMware
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Public cloud networking
Supports operational views. Deployment limited to use of templates (eg cloudformations)
Supports cloud networks including AWS VPC and ELB
Yes
  User-Defined Actions  
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Conditional Actions
Supported
Supports Rules based on Boolean tests
Yes
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Pre- and Post-Install Actions
Supported
Supports both pre- and post-install actions
Yes
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Scheduled Actions
Supported
Actions can be scheduled
Yes
  Orchestration & Workflow  
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Native Workflow
Supported
Supported
Yes
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3rd Party Orchestration
Supported via scripting framework
Supported
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Webhooks
Supported
Supported
Yes
  Third-Party Automation  
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ServiceNow
Supported
Supported through scripting
Yes
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3rd Party Automation
Supported via scripting framework
Integrates with HP Server Automation
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CMDB integration
Supported
Supported
Yes - Scalr integrates with tools such as ServiceNow and Remedy through the Webhook system
  User-Defined Properties  
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Automatic hostname creation
Supported
Multiple ways to auto-create hostnames
Yes
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Configuration tags
Supported
User-defined tags supported
Yes
  Placement  
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Best Execution Venue - Performance
Supported
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Planned
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Best Execution Venue - Security
Supported
Supported
(via generic orchestration actions)
Planned
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Best Execution Venue - Cost
Supported
Supported
(via generic orchestration actions)
Planned
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Runtime policies
Supported
Supports runtime policies
Yes
  Provisioning  
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Bare-metal provisioning
Supported with use of 3rd party PXE boot solutions
Supports bare-metal provisioning using IPMI, Cobbler, and Razor
Yes - via a connector such as OpenStack
  Reconfiguration & Expiration  
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Ability to change VM configuration
Supported
Can increase CPU, memory, and disk
Yes
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Live change VM resources
Supported
Can increase CPU, memory, and disk without reboot
Depends on the platform
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Scheduled expiration
Supported
Expiration can be set at provisioning or by property
Yes
  Uptime Management  
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Continuous Infrastructure Testing
Supported
Product tests requested services on a scheduled basis
Limited
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HA/DR features
Supported
Supported
Hosted apps
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  Service Portal  
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End-User Self-Service
Supported
Allows self-service through user portal
Yes
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Service Catalog
Supported
Has Service Catalog for end-user ordering
Yes
  Localization  
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Support for multiple languages
English Only
Text presented to end users can be localized
Only via partners.
  Built-In Features  
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Application-centric deployment
Supported
Applications can be published to service catalog
Yes
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Approval workflow
Supported
Supports approval workflows
Yes
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Auto-scaling
Supported in AWS
Supported via scalable blueprints
Yes
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Bursting to public cloud
Partially supported
Supported via scalable blueprints
Yes
  Quotas  
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Quotas
Supported
Quotas by org, business unit, dept, team, or project
Yes
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  Cost Management/Chargeback  
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Cloud expense reporting
Supported
Product has several built-in reports as well as support for custom reports
Yes
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Consumption-based billing
Supported
You can view recent costs from AWS and Azure
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Cost allocation
Supported
Costs can be tracked by user and/or group
Yes
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User-defined rates
Supported
Rates defined by application administrator
Yes
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Multiple currency support
Supported
Switch Currency but not mulitple currency
No
  Third-Party Integration  
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Integration with financial mgmt tools
Supported via API
Possible but not included in base product
Through Webhooks and tagging.
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  Inventory  
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Real-time environment inventory
Supported
Provides real-time inventory and reporting
Yes
  Automatic Updates  
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Discover & update changed systems
Supported
Discovers and syncs changes
On initial import
  Job reporting  
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Detailed job status reporting
Supported
Supported
Yes, as part of general logging
  Multi-Tenancy  
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Reporting by customer
Supported
Supported
Yes
  Uptime Management  
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SLA reporting
Supported
Partially Supported
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  Group management  
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Multi-level support
Supported
Nested groups are supported
Yes
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Role-based access controls
Supported
Supported
Yes
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User-defined groups
Supported
Supported
Yes
  Identity Management  
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Active Directory support
Supported
Integrates with Active Directory
Yes
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LDAP support
Supported
Integrates with LDAP
Yes
  Security Features  
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Credential management
Supported
Supports credential management
Yes
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Key vaulting
Supported
Supported
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Support for single signon
Supported
Supported
Yes
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Logging/auditing of administrative access
Supported
All admin actions are logged in Server History
General logging
  Third-Party Integration  
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Integration with enterprise security tools
Supported via script
Integration is possible
Integration available through Webhooks and orchestration engine
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  Third-Party Integration  
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Jenkins integration
Supported
Jenkins is supported
Yes
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GitHub integration
Custom integration scripting
Supported
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other
Supported
HipChat, Microsoft Systems Center, Acquia, Slack
Scalr can work with any code repo.
  PaaS Capabilities  
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Cloud Foundry support
Support for PKS
Partially Supported
Yes
  Usability Features  
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Diagramming
Not Supported
Partially Supported
No
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Reusable service blueprints
Supported
Blueprints can be shared across environments
Yes
  VM management  
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Out of band console
Supported
Supported
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Built-in SSH access to VMs
Supported
Browser-based support for both RDP and SSH.
Yes
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Snapshotting
Supported
Supported
Yes, for DB and storage
  Community Support  
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User Contribution Site
Forum Only
Click on (i) for details
Yes

Matrix Score

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