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Experience with Flexara CMP has been good so far
What do you like best about the product?
Maximum results in least automation on Cloud. Automation at Flexara's CMP is simple and there is a clean implemention as compared to other CMPs
What do you dislike about the product?
Flexara's support sometimes is not at par with the expectations and the resolution time is pretty high
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As compared to my last organisation the management of Cloud is pretty simple because here we use a CMP provided by Flexara.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely go for a CMP over implementing in house cloud solutions.
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Review on Flexara's CMP solution Rightscale
What do you like best about the product?
I have been using rightscale from past 1 and half year and love its simplicity in managing Cloud.
Love the fact that it has support for multi-cloud management
Love the fact that it has support for multi-cloud management
What do you dislike about the product?
The tool is great but recently there has been multiple instances when the service went down with schedules maintenance window but the folks at flexara where supportive in understanding the issue and bringing service up in no time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My organisation is taking its product to cloud and Flexara's CMP has been a great tool in transitioning to cloud platform. It makes things simple and consumers and lots of cool features to easily move to Cloud.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
CMP can serve as a good tool for quick and swift transition to Cloud. Its ease of use makes it perfect solution for each organisation currently using on-premise model.
My experience with Flexara CMP has been good so far
What do you like best about the product?
They way rightscale is implemented, it really helps managing services at cloud in a really organised and simple way. I think Flexara's solution to approach the problem is neat. I really like some of their features like server-arrays, Alerts etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
CATs in itself is a very useful concept but lack of documentation and community support, sometimes make it difficult to debug the issues. I love the feature of CWF console but it does not always help.
Also, I feel the quality of support has degraded from past few months.
Also, I feel the quality of support has degraded from past few months.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are having a service architecture with multiple micro-services and stacks running both in engineering and production environment. CMP helps in easily managing these microservices in a cleaner way.
Upgrade strategies are also implemented easily on CMP.
Upgrade strategies are also implemented easily on CMP.
great exp
What do you like best about the product?
Quick deployment of the CATs and great support on issues. This includes documentation, FAQs and on call or email support.
What do you dislike about the product?
i have to learn almost a new language for deployment. Debugging is not easy as it was on any IDE like Eclipse. Plus searching for issues online is very difficult. Onboarding a new member of the team needs easier way. There should be portals for new bees to learn , practice, view videos and see how easily can they be onboarded.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
quick deployment and a standard way of managing nodes and servers which a support team can manage without any tech knowledge.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
SUpport (FAQ's, Tutorials) and ease of onboarding
From a portfolio perspective, it has allowed us to validate what servers and applications we have
The primary use case is migrating the existing work load. Therefore, we use it to analyze our application portfolio for migrating us to AWS.
How has it helped my organization?
It identified integrations between applications that we didn't know about. It saved us a lot of hassle from that perspective, because we knew about them upfront. As opposed to migrating the applications, then finding out the integrated applications either had to be rolled back or would need some extra work.
What is most valuable?
* It gives us extra visibility that we didn't already have around how our applications are integrated with one another.
* From a portfolio perspective, it has allowed us to validate what servers and applications we have.
* It has helped us with our migration exercises.
What needs improvement?
It seemed to take a relatively long time to implement, which surprised me. I thought it would be quicker.
The initial deployment and installation does require skilled resources. I was hoping it would be easier to do, and that some of our own team could do it, but we had to engage some professional services team members to do it for us. We would have liked to have done the initial deployment and installation in-house.
While it worked well for our use case, I get the impression that it doesn't support every workload. If people are using other platforms, they might not integrate as well into this solution.
For how long have I used the solution?
Less than one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Sometimes it can be a bit slow, but overall, it works pretty well.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is easy to scale.
How is customer service and technical support?
I haven't used the technical support.
How was the initial setup?
The integration and configuration through the AWS environment was a bit difficult.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We are using the paid version of the product, which we purchased on the AWS Marketplace. We just put it on the local CIOs credit card. That was the easiest way for us to do it, and we wanted to get it up and running quickly. So, we put it down as a regular working operating expense.
It is expensive, but we can justify it. It would definitely be an expensive option in night time to run it continually. We decided to make a purchase just to help us with this migration. However, in the long-term, I don't know if we'll use it because of the cost.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
The product was recommended by AWS, so we went with it and didn't do much of a pre-evaluation. We decided to try it and see how it worked out.
I would recommend to others to look around at other options as well to do a comparison. That is something we obviously didn't do.
What other advice do I have?
We are very happy with it.
RISC Networks helps Provide detailed Assessments
What do you like best about the product?
I like this software because it is easy to use and set up as long as you have the required information ready to go. The software reports can be a great tool in assessing the heath of the network, and provide not only a great amount of detail where errors are found, but also provides checks for understanding the errors and even some limited solutions on how to address the errors.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike this software because the reports can be a bit clunky to go through and are absolutely unprintable. I also recommend that when collecting the required credentials the customer understands that certain credentials are required for a reason and not providing them will make the assessment worthless.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using this software to run detailed network assessments on our customers. We offer this as a value added service to our customer and we are able to use the reports to make long term upgrade and maintenance plans.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The newer software is much more robust than the older software platform. Both can provide great reports of the network infrastructure and network data to be able to plan and make decisions for company growth. Not for an individual company to use once. Much better suited for MSPs or consultants. Make sure that you get all required credentials and they are tested before attempting to start the assessment process, or the whole thing can take a lot longer than expected.
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