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Rightscale as a CMP has lost focus
What do you like best about the product?
The simplicity of the service and ease of use
What do you dislike about the product?
Rightscale has lost focus after he acquisition from Flexara
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Movement to cloud from on-premise
Good tool for multi cloud environment
What do you like best about the product?
Biggest strength is the ease to manage multi cloud environment which is very handy for nay SaaS business.So far so good experience with the tools and organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometime issue resolution takes much longer than it should be, so bit faster resolution of issues is always desired as it sometimes is a blocker issue for the complete organization which takes few hours to resolve so it really hampers the image because our productivity goes down with it, so do take care folks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deployments being managed through this tool only,
Auditing is easy with it.
Cost and expenses forecasting is very handy
Auditing is easy with it.
Cost and expenses forecasting is very handy
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This tool must be given a chance for try out, I think it would be nice .
Cloud Management Platform in research context
What do you like best about the product?
Cloud Management Platform (CMP) provides the potential to manage usage in multiple clouds that meet our use case requirements and provides scriptable interfaces that we can leverage.
What do you dislike about the product?
A lot of our researchers leverage credit programs from the suppliers. That means billing is at best unconventional, and so while it's possible to get accounts hooked up in CMP, usage is fuzzier, and management policies based on usage are harder to implement.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We've able to prototype jobs to see what clouds cost to get typical workflows completed, and then provide that to our users in a kind of comparative shopping page. CMP provides the potential to initiate those instances and monitor them.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Think about what's important in terms of provisioning and managing instances, what orchestration you need, what kinds of networking considerations you may have.
Using Flexera
What do you like best about the product?
Easy multi cloud management with easy multi cloud integration. Deployment, server templates and arrays concept are great for reusable infrastructure.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the support is clueless about some issues
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps with deployment in all environments making sure all servers are configured the same
Good tool option for tackling challenges in public cloud management
What do you like best about the product?
Rightscale is like a swiss army knife for managing public cloud providers. One tool does it all.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI needs some update and rendering time can be faster.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing multiple public cloud providers. Single tool to use.
It helps us to assess application information to provide analytics, but the product is not instrumenting for very deep level application inspection
We had some applications which were on-premise and wanted to assess them before deciding to move them to the cloud. RISC Networks falls into the area of application discoveries, so that is what we used it for.
We have been using for an engagement for the last three months.
How has it helped my organization?
When we go to a customer's environment, there may be a lot of servers, and we have absolutely no clue what is there on those servers. All we know is there are some applications, but we don't know what state they are in. So, we need to know about the compute, storage, networking, infrastructure, etc., and RISC Networks helps us to assess this and come up with some sort of data. They also run some sort of analytics on top, which gives recommendations. That is where it helps.
What is most valuable?
The valuable feature of RISC Networks would be detecting application stack dependencies. If there are applications spread across front servers, it has a way of writing the data.
What needs improvement?
They are a bit weaker in areas where we have run to external REST services. This part is provided in our code. Applications, like AppDynamics and Dynatrace are much better because they instrument their code. If they could add this feature, the product would be better.
The major issue that I had with this product is that it is not instrumenting. Hence, I can't do a very deep level application inspection.
For how long have I used the solution?
Less than one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is nice. I have had no issues with it.
We don't put stress on it. It is like an agent which runs in the background. Thus, there is nothing more that we need to do.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We installed it on a few machines, and it did work well. We haven't tried it on a huge scale.
Our customer had around 50 servers.
How is customer service and technical support?
They did do a demo for us in the beginning and provided us a type of a sandbox for the demo. This was more of a sales demo, so it was good from that perspective, but it was not a deep dive technical demo.
Technical support was prompt the time that we contacted them. It took a couple days for them to respond to us.
How was the initial setup?
The deployment is not difficult on the AWS environment. There is a bit of a learning curve as with any product, but it is not super complex. They have pretty good tutorials and review demos.
What was our ROI?
This product would provide better ROI for larger environments.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The licensing was bought by the customer.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We considered AWS Application Discovery Service. We also talked to ATA devices.
We went with RISC Networks because we had a license of them. In addition, AWS Application Discovery Service only does a VMware or Hyper-V evaluation. This was a physical service, which they don't support.
This product came directly from the customer. ATA devices were not very independent products because they were bought out by Cisco. It was considered that there might be a bit of a bias because of that.
What other advice do I have?
Our on-premise version is a hybrid. It has a cloud part that it relies on and uses AWS Cloud software as part of it.
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