IBM Cloudability for US Federal
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Key tool to show up how is your cloud spend
What do you like best about the product?
Capabilties to deive cost transparency, coat allocation and give you insghts for your strategy
What do you dislike about the product?
It requires a quite maturity on your IT Governance tonproperly understand the outcomes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coat transparency, cost allocation and efficiency
Take control of your cloud spend
What do you like best about the product?
Great insight into Cloud spend and cloud utilisation data. Cloudability has given us a platform to properly understand our cloud spend, how our cloud spend is trending and actions we can perform to optimize our cloud spend. It has empowered us to make metric based decisions and greater proactivity in addressing cloud usage before the big bill lands at the end of the month.
What do you dislike about the product?
This isn't a cheap tool, and for many organisations they will potentially just see this as "more cloud cost" and therefore not realise the benefits such a product and solutions can provide them.
There are some minor improvements we'd like to see, particularly around rightsizing recommendations and preferences. For example you can avoid certain instance types for EC2 in AWS but you can't do the same for EBS and avoid SC1 storage. This leads to a lot of rightsizing alerts which either have to be snoozed or filtered.
There could also be improvements as to how cluster costs are, particularly around deeper insights of usage of resources and networking, hopefully future integrations with newly acquired Kubecost will improve this.
There are some minor improvements we'd like to see, particularly around rightsizing recommendations and preferences. For example you can avoid certain instance types for EC2 in AWS but you can't do the same for EBS and avoid SC1 storage. This leads to a lot of rightsizing alerts which either have to be snoozed or filtered.
There could also be improvements as to how cluster costs are, particularly around deeper insights of usage of resources and networking, hopefully future integrations with newly acquired Kubecost will improve this.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Identifying where cloud spend goes
Identifying ways to prevent cloud spend spiralling
Helping with chargeback and showback of cloud spend
Identifying ways to prevent cloud spend spiralling
Helping with chargeback and showback of cloud spend
A great product for cloud cost transparency
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use; customization and ability to apply role-based access relatively easily. Cost optimization recommendations are sometimes better than recommendations provided by a provider natively.
What do you dislike about the product?
Enhancement rollouts are very slow. Product roadmap target dates almost never met. Customer support has deteriorated since IBM takeover
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cloud cost transparency across a federated environment
Improved insight into cloud spend and budgeting
What do you like best about the product?
The way the UI presents the information allowing for actionable results. Ease of use and the ability to use business metrics to group and sort spend. Powerful reporting and dashboarding capabilities.
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost of the solution can be prohibitive and the budgeting and planning elements not being able to be dashboarded in the essentials package. K8s integration is good but is missing deeper integration with K8s which hopefully the recent Kubecost acquisition will help improve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Visibility and cost control
Cloud ability takes the confusion out of numbers
What do you like best about the product?
I like the accessibility and logical outlay
What do you dislike about the product?
There are multiple logon screens to go through!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Timely and accurate reporting
Excellent Finops Product
What do you like best about the product?
Solid product that ingests all of the relevant data from our cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP). and provides transparency and savings insights across multiple levers for each.
What do you dislike about the product?
Reporting is not great for reporting on containers, escpecially for AWS. We would like to get better information for usage and potential savings as well. This has improved over time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provides the best reporting solution by ingesting the several million rows of data each month. Gives us insights on how to best perform finops - savings for multiple opportunities, anything from undersubscribed CPU/storage, unused instances, Allows us to customize the reporting to target specific focus areas: tagging, reserved instances, efficiencies.
Cloydability as a single pane of glass
What do you like best about the product?
At American we have been able to create visibility for our cloud spend vs budget as a single pave of glass with this tool. It is a huge step towards the FinOps maturity
What do you dislike about the product?
Lot of optimization recommendations cannot be executed
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Enables Visibility and improves accountability for cloud costs with reporting , alerting etc.
Transparency and visibility into all cloud costs in central place
What do you like best about the product?
You can see all your cloud costs/usage in one place
What do you dislike about the product?
Reporting is cumbersome-time consuming to create customized reports
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Visibility of our cloud spend
Good self service tools for looking at cloud costs
What do you like best about the product?
I like how people are able to see their cloud costs and opportunities through Cloudability through various charts and reports.
What do you dislike about the product?
Having to reprocess data when account mappings or business metrics change (rather than it being instantaneous)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It lets us group accounts from multiple csp into specific tags and see those costs in one view. It benefits managers and engineers who want to view those details and share those betweens one another.
Unmatched User Experience for Cloud Data Clarity
What do you like best about the product?
It's a really intuitive software, it's easy to teach people how it works. It also cleans up the noise with the GL by providing only the data you're asking to see. It's a clean UI and is organized very well. The rightsizing recommendations have provided a lot of benefits to our team and the newly added snoozing functionality is a great help when looking at potential savings! We have some other tools where we just retrieve the data they provide via APIs since their UI is too convoluted, but we never run into that issue with Cloudability. Lastly, their APIs are a huge help to our team when we've needed to pull the data into our custom internal reporting.
What do you dislike about the product?
When creating a dashboard, you can't bring multiple datasets into the same dashboard. Cloudability works in segmented tabs, so rightsizing lives on one page, cloud spend lives on another, same with budgeting / forecasting. It would be beneficial if they could bring it all together in one system, so end users could see a mix of datasets in one dashboard. Apptio BI has been a great solution to this problem from the initial tests we've had.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
our organization built an internal tool where users had to check their cloud spend account by account. However, cloudability lets you create views, which has been really beneficial for team leads that manage 20+ accounts.
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