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Firefly vs Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure comparison

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
5.7
Firefly boosts profits by streamlining processes, improving market time, reducing costs, and enhancing image quality, generating valuable returns.
Sentiment score
6.4
Sangfor HCI offers cost-effective management and better returns, but ROI varies based on usage and user experience.
We are currently improving 40% of our go-to-market time.
Senior Software Consultant at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
Profit generation increases by about 5 to 10 percent due to the efficiency Firefly provides, even after accounting for its costs and related expenses.
Senior Data Consultant at Simple MDG
The images that we are using from Firefly and rendering on the page look very nice, attracting our users to come back and see the pages again and again.
Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy Services
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.2
Firefly's customer service is efficient and responsive, with prompt issue resolution and high customer satisfaction and confidence in Adobe.
Sentiment score
7.0
Sangfor HCI customer service is largely praised for responsiveness but occasionally faces language barriers and documentation concerns.
Our issues are typically resolved within the required SLA.
Senior Cloud Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Customer support is pretty good because if there is any issue, we raise a support ticket to the Adobe console and the Adobe team helps with that.
Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy Services
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
5.6
Firefly efficiently scales across platforms and supports rapid asset uploads, maintaining performance in large-scale and sandbox environments.
Sentiment score
7.4
Sangfor HCI is praised for scalability and adaptability, though faces challenges with power consumption and component mismatches during updates.
Firefly's scalability is impressive; as we add new AWS accounts and requirements, it has handled the growth well without any challenges.
Senior Cloud Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
In Figma, Photoshop, or Adobe InDesign, Firefly picks the images very quickly and does not take much time.
Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy Services
Whatever is available from the product gets deployed or available in our sandbox easily.
Senior Software Consultant at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
Firefly's stability significantly improved, with users adapting to optimal usage, leading to minimal downtime and high reliability.
Sentiment score
7.5
Sangfor HCI is highly stable with minimal downtime, though some report compatibility issues and occasional crashes, depending on implementation.
Firefly is stable and I have not experienced any downtime or reliability issues.
Senior Cloud Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Firefly's stability improved significantly over the past seven to eight months, allowing us to achieve our needs efficiently.
Senior Data Consultant at Simple MDG
 

Room For Improvement

Firefly needs improved onboarding, AI accuracy, pricing, integrations, customization, and hosting options for better user experience and automation.
Sangfor HCI needs improvements in performance, compatibility, security, interface, third-party integration, ERP compatibility, and support services.
This feature would significantly ease tasks related to video editing and adapting to green screen processes.
Senior Data Consultant at Simple MDG
As I'm living here in Brazil and all of Latin America uses a lot of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, it would be good if Firefly could provide their solutions for Oracle Cloud.
Premium Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The model should be trained much more because sometimes I feel some visual effects or some realism is missing from the videos.
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
 

Setup Cost

Firefly offers straightforward pricing, enhancing productivity for enterprises by streamlining design workflows without significant challenges.
Sangfor HCI offers cost-effective pricing and comprehensive features compared to VMware and Nutanix, with straightforward licensing.
It saved me around 12 to 15 hours of time because I do not want to search, download, and edit images and verify that they are legal and free to use.
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
Regarding pricing, I feel there should be some free options available for new users, but overall, I find the pricing acceptable.
Senior Cloud Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
But after all the solutions that Firefly could provide to us, they don't care about the price now.
Premium Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

Firefly enhances cloud management with features like misconfiguration detection, infrastructure codification, cost visibility, integration, and efficient media generation.
Sangfor HCI offers scalability, data protection, and user-friendliness with robust features, enhancing security and simplifying management through its GUI.
Our go-to-market becomes easy. Within two hours or three hours, we can complete this whole process: generation, review, and all, and go to the market instantly.
Senior Software Consultant at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
We have legal confidence that we do not get copyrights or get sued for using images or videos because these are AI-generated.
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
Firefly scans the environment and generates the Terraform code for those resources automatically.
SDE-2 at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Firefly
Ranking in Cloud Management
18th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.6
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converg...
Ranking in Cloud Management
25th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
31
Ranking in other categories
HCI (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Firefly is 0.6%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure is 1.4%, down from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Firefly0.6%
Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure1.4%
Other98.0%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

RasanpreetSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Automation has streamlined cloud cost control and governance yet onboarding still needs improvement
The best features Firefly offers include cost saving and drift detection, which native infrastructure as code solutions do not provide. Drift detection and governance are great features for Firefly that help me identify unutilized resources that can save costs. Firefly's drift detection and governance help me day-to-day by notifying me of any configuration drifts, such as when developers change configurations that I cannot control. For example, if I have a number of VMs running and their configurations are changed, Firefly alerts me to these changes, allowing me to identify gaps in configurations that can be corrected. Firefly's accuracy and reliability in output are impressive, with approximately 80% accuracy in building the required code for various services from the foundation services like EKS and VPC. Firefly has positively impacted my organization mainly through cost savings and governance. It allows me to have a centralized dashboard for a complete view of my AWS accounts to find problems easily. Additionally, it has saved me time because I no longer need to write every Terraform from scratch, as Firefly provides best industry practices code. For example, I monitored my database instances and found that someone had expanded the ACU size from the required number to ten times more, which began costing me $10,000 monthly extra for one AWS account. Firefly detected this and saved me the $10,000 extra expenditure.
KashifAli - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Head, Director of Sales and Operations at Core ISP Router
User-friendly GUI, capable technical support team but complicated license mechanism
Sangfor HCI's license mechanism is too complicated. The license agreement is a distributed license. Within the HCI platform, Sangfor HCI has multiple licenses in terms of services. Sangfor HCI has a separate license for the security services, a separate license for the Doctor services, and application services. They have multiple SKUs in separate forms. As per local market requirements, I think they need to couple up these or bundle up the license model.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
19%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Firefly?
The only negative aspect of Firefly I see is the pricing, which is expensive. I would like to see Firefly include animated styles, such as moving objects or GIF functionality. This feature would si...
What is your primary use case for Firefly?
I currently work with multiple products, including Firefly, which I have used, and a couple of other Cloud AI tools for graphic designing. I have been utilizing Firefly for approximately one and a ...
What advice do you have for others considering Firefly?
I have not faced issues with customization in Firefly for our editing or perspective changes, which do not require additional features. Removing objects works well, and currently, we have not encou...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sangfor HCI?
I rate the pricing of Sangfor HCI at a five, as it is thirty to thirty-five percent more efficient than other solutions in terms of total cost of ownership.
What needs improvement with Sangfor HCI?
I would like Sangfor to have a presence on some public cloud offerings, such as Azure or AWS, to build disaster recovery sites. This functionality is currently missing in the Pakistani market.
What is your primary use case for Sangfor HCI?
The primary use case for Sangfor HCI involves running all workloads that were not for SAP on conventional servers using Hyper-V. We migrated all of these instances from Hyper-V to Sangfor HCI. We a...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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TOSHIBA TEC Singapore, J&T Express Indonesia, Crowne Plaza Vietnam, Hermina Hospital Indonesia
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