Cloudability vs vRealize Business for Cloud [EOL] comparison

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Cloudability

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78% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Cloudability

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

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8.4

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reviewer2795433

Cloud Ops Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Gained multi-cloud cost visibility and have optimized spend with detailed reports and rightsizing

The IAM feature is something that we struggle with using. IBM, the company that runs Cloudability, released the Groups feature back in the summer of 2025. While Groups can be used in some parts of the tool, it can't be used across the entire tool. I've found that Groups is basically unusable because if it can't be used everywhere, you would have to run both group-based access control and direct user-based access control at the same time, which doesn't make any sense. The Groups feature has improved over time, but it's still not something we feel we can use on an everyday basis, so the IAM section remains an issue right now. Most of the tool is very well-functioning and developed, and that's the only real improvement area that we've seen.

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ThomasMeyer

Solutions Architect and project manager at MIB leipzig

Complete solution for automation, orchestration, and end-to-end lifecycle management

The most valuable feature is automation. With the automation, you can easily and quickly implement it by deploying gnashing on virtual environments. It doesn't take long to develop an automation blueprint. You need about half an hour, and then you can install or deploy it on several systems. That was our first great advantage in the project because we urgently needed to deploy across many different systems. So automation helps us to do our work quickly and easily. VMware vRealize has standardized systems for doing work after the deployment. First, you have to set up the language on the system itself. Then there are vRealize's orchestration features. You can implement code in your deployment script to do this configuration automatically. So the orchestrator is a beneficial component. With this, you can implement automatic language selection and automated integration. In other systems, you can implement a multi-blueprint or multi-system environment to deploy the entire database environment and applications on this database with one click. The lifecycle manager is also essential. In version 7.5, you must provide a dir example username and password to access the Citrix server and controller. What's more, you have to include this in your script or your code. But in version 8, you can provide the username and password or store them in the lifecycle manager. So then you can pick it up from there. And that's the only location where you have to change the password. You don't have to change it in every script. That's a massive improvement in version 8.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The sizing recommendation will look, and say, "You are only using this at 80%," then recommend a better fit for you."

"The most crucial feature in reducing my cloud costs has been the rightsizing recommendations, along with the dashboards that track reserved instance spending coverage and utilization. As for Cloudability's integration with our existing cloud infrastructure, it's not integrated directly into our AWS infrastructure but rather reads and pulls data from it, providing valuable insights and analysis for cost management."

"Cloudability's customizable alerts help me maintain budgetary goals by providing recommendations and alerts on slot usages."

"The support from IBM is fantastic"

"One of the standout features of the solution is its groups and views functionality. The solution is highly-stable. The solution is highly-scalable. The customer support is good. They can be easily contacted. The initial setup is straightforward. It's an excellent tool, especially when dealing with multiple clouds. It streamlines the process, eliminating the need to check each cloud individually."

"We can save tens of thousands of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases."

"It has already given us insight into how to optimize. So, we are now ramping up steadily its usage."

"Each user can have their own dashboard that they want to consume. Instead of having to share one dashboard for multiple users, you can create individual views for each user to view, and that view will contain only their own accounts, which allows for separation of data."

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"It doesn't take long to develop an automation blueprint. You need about half an hour, and then you can install or deploy it on several systems. That was our first great advantage in the project because we urgently needed to deploy across many different systems."

"The flexibility is the product's most valuable feature."

"This solution has made us aware that we are over-provisioning our virtual machines."

"I like the integration with other applications or vendors."

"The most valuable feature is the metering capability."

"The most valuable feature is that it has a very easy and adaptive look and feel, compared with some other cloud solutions."

"The product provides excellent daily reports."

"The tool helps us to monitor the services provided to customers as a cloud provider. The product is a monitoring solution that helps customers pay for their utilization of services."

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Cons

"They can improve the custom range of the network."

"The dashboard needs to include more graphs per team to show what individual teams are spending in a given time period."

"We have dealt with a few technical support people where we ask for one thing and they might not deliver straightaway."

"The IAM feature is something that we struggle with using."

"In general, I feel Cloudability wasn't able to support many resources."

"I wish there was a feature to temporarily remove certain recommendations from the list for teams that couldn't implement them immediately. I believe Cloudability could improve its automation functionality and enhance cost allocation modeling."

"More documentation with more use case scenarios would be nice."

"There is always room for improvement in education and training. We are not that mature in terms of our automation. It could help us identify where we could optimize in terms of build."

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"The pricing model is complicated and would be more predictable if it were simplified."

"If you haven't established a vSphere cluster and you only have a single server to integrate, you can't deploy any service."

"I would like to have an easy way of modifying the reference data that is used for the purposes of estimating the total billing."

"There are some kinks to resolve with the Web GUI user interface, as it freezes at times."

"It would be a good idea for VMware to be compatible with the most popular orchestration tools in the market."

"I would like it if they could provide their customers with more qualified support."

"The product needs some investment in configuration. I would like to see better and more optimized configuration in the tool's future releases."

"The solution's private cloud is much too expensive."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have seen ROI with the reserved instances, and having the ability to predict what reserved instances you can get. We can save tens of thousands of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases."

"The price of the license or the usage is a percentage of the top consumption. So it varies from year to year."

"Cloudability is a bit expensive."

"My team is one of the most expensive teams, and we look at it quite a bit. We have probably easily saved around $400,000 USD a year."

"It justifies the cost and is worth it."

"The product is a cost-effective solution."

"It's expensive, which is one of the problems with this solution."

"The pricing model is complicated."

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Financial Services Firm

22%

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Small Business	2
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Large Enterprise	13

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Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	3

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What do you like most about Cloudability?

The most crucial feature in reducing my cloud costs has been the rightsizing recommendations, along with the dashboards that track reserved instance spending coverage and utilization. As for Clouda...

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Pricing and setup cost for Cloudability are good. Compared to the rest of the industry, they may be a little more expensive than some other FinOps tools, but that's to be expected because they have...

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VMware IT Business Management Suite, VMware ITBM, IT Business Management Suite, Digital Fuel

Overview

Cloudability is a financial management tool for monitoring and analyzing every cloud expense across any organization. It brings transparency to how and where organizations spend money on cloud resources, giving them the power to reap the most value from cloud usage possible. It aggregates expenditures into accessible and comprehensive reports, helps identify new opportunities for reducing spend and increasing cloud efficiency, offers budget alerts and recommendations via SMS and email, provides APIs for connecting cloud billing and usage data to any business or financial system, and more.

Apptio

VMware IT Business Management Suite offers in three editions: Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise. VMware IT Business Management Suite provides transparency and control over the cost and quality of IT services. By providing a business context to the services IT offers, IT Business Management helps IT organizations shift from a technology orientation to a service broker orientation, delivering a portfolio of IT services that align with the needs of line of business stakeholders. With benchmarks providing objective evidence, IT Business Management also provides the fact-based approach needed to minimize the cost of IT while maximizing the value IT delivers to its customers. Greater transparency and alignment, and the continuous improvement of IT services they enable, support IT as it seeks to develop competitive advantage through major IT transformation initiatives such as cloud, mobility and data center modernization.

Broadcom

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Adobe, Uber, Pega, imgur, Pixable, Blackboard, Keboola, Avalara

Rent-A-Center, SAIC - (Science Applications International Corporation), Tribune Media, iGATE, EMC, Deutsche Telekom, GEFCO, Banca Ifis

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