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Microsoft Azure DevOps vs Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

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
7.2
Microsoft Azure DevOps boosts ROI through productivity, streamlined processes, and management ease, with integration improvements needed for non-Microsoft tools.
Sentiment score
7.6
Nutanix Cloud Manager boosts ROI by minimizing deployment time, costs, and maintenance, enhancing productivity and customer satisfaction.
On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the best, I would say ROI is an eight.
Anything that reduces bandwidth and reduces the brain work that our teams have to do to maintain systems across all environments is time-saving and cost-saving.
Playbooks and automation definitely freed up engineer time. This allows us to focus on other projects and not have to get hands-on, reducing operational costs.
We are definitely not going to add as much hardware as we originally thought, just because we were able to scale back some of the VMs and resources that we were using.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.0
Microsoft Azure DevOps support has mixed reviews, with praise for speed but criticism for complex issue handling.
Sentiment score
8.3
Nutanix Cloud Manager's support is praised for its responsiveness, efficiency, expertise, and proactive, world-class customer service.
Resolving issues took time since understanding our unique problems was not always straightforward for support teams.
There is a feature that allows you to escalate the call.
The handoff with support and the knowledge of the support engineer is significantly better than experience with other vendors.
I would rate their technical support a nine out of ten because I've never had an issue reaching out to support and getting any issues resolved very quickly.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Microsoft Azure DevOps efficiently scales to meet diverse organizational needs, supporting projects from small teams to extensive deployments.
Sentiment score
7.9
Nutanix Cloud Manager offers scalable resource management, seamless integration, and automation, though strategic planning is needed for larger clusters.
The scalability has left me pleased, not just for our teams in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, but as we expanded into North America, Africa, and even Australia.
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) scales well.
Scaling with Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is not as straightforward as they claim, largely due to the assumption that you have IPv6 enabled on your switches.
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) scales with our organization's growing needs, as we've expanded from three clusters to ten clusters in a matter of six years.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
Microsoft Azure DevOps is praised for stability and reliability, with minor issues quickly resolved, requiring a solid internet connection.
Sentiment score
8.0
Nutanix Cloud Manager is praised for its stability, high availability, seamless updates, and proactive support, overcoming external challenges.
The solution is stable, and we did not encounter any stability issues.
Everything works ninety-nine percent well.
We've never had any downtime related to the Nutanix product itself.
I would rate the stability a nine out of ten.
This behavior differs from VMware where VMs would not necessarily restart, and I am unsure if there is an option to configure the network to prevent this.
 

Room For Improvement

Azure DevOps users seek better integration, reporting, project management, customization, security, updates, and documentation enhancements.
Nutanix Cloud Manager users want better VM organization, integration, UI, features, pricing transparency, stability, and comprehensive support.
Those processes are a bit difficult for some customers who may not have technical knowledge and don't go through the entire documentation.
Out of the box, the solution is effective, yet with advancements in AI, it has the potential to be more intuitive.
Instead of customers having to try many options themselves, they benefit from practitioner recommendations.
Quick resolution of disconnection issues and errors in plugins is crucial.
If there are licensing errors, for example, being told I have 96 cores licensed but Nutanix Flow not licensed despite having assigned units, it complicates things unnecessarily.
We were an HPE shop, so it was good when they brought in HPE as an OEM.
 

Setup Cost

Microsoft Azure DevOps offers competitive pricing with flexible options, considered affordable compared to Jira and AWS, with a free tier.
Nutanix Cloud Manager offers competitive pricing, flexible licensing, and significant ROI despite perceived expense and complexity.
They don't even provide a POC where you can have a sandbox or stuff that you can go through and see how exactly it's costing.
I find it to be expensive.
It's not cheap, but there are savings and return on investment when coming from a non-Nutanix shop.
It is not cheap or expensive.
At the end of the day, the product justifies the cost, and it leads to a conversation with management over whether we actually need this feature and if there are any use cases for why we would want to keep it.
 

Valuable Features

Microsoft Azure DevOps enhances productivity with seamless Microsoft integration, CI/CD pipelines, automation, robust security, and agile support.
Nutanix Cloud Manager simplifies management with centralized upgrades, intuitive interface, automation, and seamless cloud integration for optimized performance.
I can't approve my own request and move the code around without a review.
Our company organized a training session with a certified Azure expert, which was extremely beneficial for adopting best practices during the initial three months.
No organization would use just one vendor, and the goal is about what works well, is scalable, performs well, and offers a reasonable total cost of ownership.
It's easy to control resources and govern the resources, and it frees up support to focus on other things without having to help developers.
I would approximate the cost savings to be in the 20% to 25% range since we can optimize our resources and avoid the need to purchase more hardware or reuse resources in the infrastructure from one implementation.
The file server is the best feature because it supports different vendors such as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware without locking with a specific vendor.
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Azure DevOps
Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
133
Ranking in other categories
Release Automation (1st), Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (1st)
Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM)
Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
3rd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
93
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (2nd), Virtualization Management Tools (2nd), Cloud Cost Management (4th), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category, the mindshare of Microsoft Azure DevOps is 16.7%, down from 24.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
 

Featured Reviews

Ivan Angelov - PeerSpot reviewer
Facilitates agile transformation with potential for enhanced intuitiveness
What I liked about the solution is that it offers numerous features that are not available by default unless you are agile. Transitioning from the traditional Waterfall model to an agile methodology was challenging for us. Until 2020, our team predominantly worked with the Waterfall approach, using local tools like ServiceNow. We had a few team members who were familiar with Agile ISO, but none had experience with Azure. Therefore, we pursued Azure certification at the AZ-900 level. Our company organized a training session with a certified Azure expert, which was extremely beneficial for adopting best practices during the initial three months. This preparation helped us get accustomed to the new tool, as transitioning to a new system invariably requires time. Managing a pipeline of deliverables became significantly easier with this solution. We utilized it for stories and integrated change management with Azure DevOps. Eventually, everything related to the environment was organized there, enabling us to follow up and track progress with our technical engineers on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis. Reports were automatically generated and sent to management, offering them insights into our progress concerning the predefined roadmap.
Kyle Naidoo - PeerSpot reviewer
Nutanix gave us three and a half hours back
Recently, I have had quite a few issues with Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT). When you do a full update from LCM, your NGT doesn't automatically install on your VMs. You need to go back to Prism Central and select a list of VMs, then install NGT. You need to go to each of those VMs, then restart them to get the NGT installed. Also, there are some VMs that we have on our system that we used to run on an old environment, which was Hyper-V. Previously, we had VMware, so some of our VMs are Windows 7 32-bit and Windows 7 64-bit. However, the NGT no longer allows for installations on those. We constantly get packet drops. We are actually looking at upgrading them in the future. While Windows 7 is not supported anymore from a Microsoft perspective, Nutanix could allow NGT to still be installed since people still use Windows 7. I have five VMs currently running on Windows 7. This is not a major issue. The VMs still work, but you get an alert in the mornings, saying, "Hey, NGT is not installed." When we go there, we try to install NGT, but it won't allow us since Windows 7 is not allowed anymore.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
13%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
9%
Computer Software Company
37%
Educational Organization
15%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
4%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Which is better - Jira or Microsoft Azure DevOps?
Jira is a great centralized tool for just about everything, from local team management to keeping track of products and work logs. It is easy to implement and navigate, and it is stable and scalabl...
Which is better - TFS or Azure DevOps?
TFS and Azure DevOps are different in many ways. TFS was designed for admins, and only offers incremental improvements. In addition, TFS seems complicated to use and I don’t think it has a very fri...
What do you like most about Microsoft Azure DevOps?
Valuable features for project management and tracking in Azure DevOps include a portal displaying test results, check-in/check-out activity, and developer/tester productivity.
Which set of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) features do you find to be the most useful?
For me, the features related to cost savings are the best part of NCM. Of course, the whole product is worth using and when it comes to cloud management, there is a reason why it is favored by so m...
Are the setup process and further maintenance of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) difficult?
When I came into my current organization, NCM was already set up. According to the team that dealt with it, the product was fairly easy to set up. Compared to other products, our IT rates are set u...
Is Nutanix Cloud Manager’s Intelligent Operations feature effective?
Yes, this is a highly effective feature and the rebranding only made things better as they introduced more improvements. You can benefit from Zero coding task automation Automated optimization Tic...
 

Also Known As

Azure DevOps, VSTS, Visual Studio Team Services, MS Azure DevOps
Nutanix Cloud Manager Intelligent Operations, Nutanix Cloud Manager Self-Service, Nutanix Cloud Management Cost Governance, Nutanix Cloud Manager Security Central
 

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