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BUFFALO MiniStation HD-PCF2.0U3BD - hard drive - 2 TB - USB 3.0 is rated 4.10 out of 5 by 13.
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Good monitoring, easy to deploy, and the technical support is helpful What is our primary use case? The primary use case of this solution is to deploy internal applications to the cloud. What is most valuable? The most valuable features are the monitoring and that the deployment is easier. What needs improvement? Having support for other integrated tools, such as Kubernetes, would be useful. The interface is okay, but it's not that advanced. It could be improved. The initial setup could be simplified. In the next release, I would like to see easy integration with external tools. For example, it should be easy to integrate with Kubernetes. It would also be helpful to have a notification for when you are using other applications that require specific hardware. For example, when you are running your application, to have it say that it should be running on this port for the node on the cloud. For how long have I used the solution? I have been using Pivotal Cloud Foundry for more than two years. We are using the latest version. What do I think about the stability of the solution? It's a stable product. What do I think about the scalability of the solution? Pivotal Cloud Foundry is scalable. We have approximately three users using this solution in our organization. How are customer service and technical support? The technical support was helpful. How was the initial setup? The initial setup was not easy, it was a bit complex. What about the implementation team? We did not use a vendor team. The implementation was completed in-house. What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing? Another department handles this. I don't have any knowledge of pricing and licenses. What other advice do I have? I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it. I would rate Pivotal Cloud Foundry an eight out of ten. Which deployment model are you using for this solution? On-premises Disclaimer: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Date published: 2020-10-22T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from High performance, reliable, and straightforward implementation What is our primary use case? Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a microservice architecture for enterprises. What is most valuable? Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very easy to use compared to other cloud technologies. It has a very good performance. For how long have I used the solution? I have been using Pivotal Cloud Foundry for five years. What do I think about the stability of the solution? The stability of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is good, I never had any issues. What do I think about the scalability of the solution? Pivotal Cloud Foundry is not scalable, infinitely, because when you install it on a set of virtual machines it is very hard to scale. It's easy to scale on an application level, but not it is not similar to if you were using Amazon. Amazon you can scale thousands of applications. We had one installation of Pivotal Cloud Foundry that had a team of approximately 1,000 using it. Pivotal Cloud Foundry runs hundreds of applications and hundreds of microservices and it is divided into organizations, and sub-organizations. How are customer service and support? I have not used technical support. Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch? Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a platform as a service. If you compare it to other cloud providers, such as Amazon, Google, or Microsoft, they're providing the full spectrum of infrastructure as a service, specifically focused on a platform as a service. It allows developers to concentrate on development and use only one command CF push and deploy the application on the cloud. How was the initial setup? Pivotal Cloud Foundry is easy to install. It is relatively easy to install in a data center. We use a BOSH software, which allows us to install the Pivotal Cloud Foundry on multiple systems and virtual machines. What about the implementation team? We have a few people who maintain Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Each developer can log in and look at the dashboard and see how many instances are running and they can kill any instance, redeploy, deploy, create organizations, and create spaces in organizations to create a hierarchical division. What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing? You're paying for the number of virtual machines you want to install in the installation. Which other solutions did I evaluate? I have evaluated Kubernetes and it is nice. It's a container orchestration tool. However, it is very hard to manage. What other advice do I have? What I saw recently was two big companies, trying to move from the PC to the cloud. They bought Pivotal Cloud Foundry and they are using it on a hybrid cloud. For example, they have two data centers and there are two installations of the Pivotal Cloud Foundry in each data center and they deploy microservices to each data center. They use external Amazon AWS to load balance. However, for some reason, the tendency right now for companies is to move to the Red Hat OpenShift, which is a commercial version of Kubernetes. I rate Pivotal Cloud Foundry a nine out of ten. Which deployment model are you using for this solution? Public Cloud Disclaimer: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Date published: 2022-05-16T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Allows us to host microservices on the cloud platform with valuable scalability features What is our primary use case? Our primary use case for this solution is hosting microservices on the cloud platform and connecting it to the UCD to perform deployments in the CMP portals. What is most valuable? We find its stability and scalability valuable. What needs improvement? An easier way to switch between data centres can be included in the next release. We have no active-active scenario, but at some endpoints, we have to shut down first and then only run the application on BCP. In that situation, we see a switch available, but it is a little tricky for new members. Additionally, there are no synthetic application monitoring and real-time monitoring features and they should be included. For how long have I used the solution? We have been using Pivotal Cloud Foundry for approximately two years. What do I think about the stability of the solution? The solution is stable. We have not experienced any infrastructure issues, so it is very good and captures a few metrics, onboarding to App Dynamics. From App Dynamics, we were able to create some meaningful dashboards. What do I think about the scalability of the solution? The solution is scalable, but we have challenges switching between data centres. Currently, over 500 users are utilizing the solution. How are customer service and support? We do not have experience with customer service and support. How was the initial setup? The initial setup is straightforward, and it provided a good integration with Venafi. I rate it eight out of ten. Disclaimer: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Date published: 2022-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Reliable and supports CI/CD but migrations are difficult What is our primary use case? We used the solution to deploy the microservice that we developed that is built on Spring Boot. How has it helped my organization? Previously, everything was monolithic, sometime around 2014 to 2016. After that, the organization slowly moved to microservice-based architecture. Cloud Foundry is the brand or container that offers a private cloud mode and can host within the enterprise data center. It helps to push all the new microservices or the migrated monolith to microservice-based design microservices, and the micro front end will be pushed to this PCF-based container. Also, it can code gateways too. By that, I mean the security gateways. Cloud Foundry supports the config server and the Discovery server, then the router also on the microservice, which is nothing but the API hosting. These are all the use cases in which we mainly use PCF. What is most valuable? It supports CI/CD, and is integrated with the CI/CD very well. The developer doesn't have to know the internal mechanism or the commands to be executed to push the apps into PCF. If they click on the CI/CD tool, that gets deployed to Cloud Foundry. Therefore, it's very well integrated with the CI/CD platforms. It has consoles where users can log in and see that memory utilization, the current status of microservices, and the log space. They can see when it was last started and how many instances are available for this particular microservices. It gives details about who accessed it last. The console is user-friendly and self-driven. There is self-help, which helps to interpret the technical details, and it is easy to push through the release management tools. It works seamlessly for all Spring Boot-based and Microsoft products. Whatever library you have, it works seamlessly. Let's say you have a local environment and you have dependencies that get added to Spring Boot; the same can be working in Cloud Foundry as well. There is not much difference between your dev and your container environment. What needs improvement? Now the organization is thinking about moving everything to a public cloud. The private cloud microservice components are not able to move directly to public clouds, including Amazon or Google. It is not fully containerized. Therefore, you have to make more changes in order to move it to a public cloud. That is something that is not straightforward. We'd like it if they made it easier to move to a public cloud in future releases. I'd like to see a larger service offering. For example, Amazon offers authentication, contained management, and storage-based services. I still need to explore this solution more, however, if they do not offer as many services, they should work to broaden their offering. If you want to use Kafka or anything that's a Q-based mechanism, which should be out of the box, from the PCF itself, it should be so that we don't have to communicate with a different server altogether. I'm not sure if that is feasible with PCF itself. We've had some challenges with graphic libraries. For how long have I used the solution? I've been using the solution for four years. What do I think about the stability of the solution? The stability is good. I'd rate it eight out of ten. The stability is good, and we don't see any downtime, and we don't see performance issues, or memory leaks. What do I think about the scalability of the solution? We can scale horizontally and can easily increase the number of instances. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. We have more than 1,000 users on the product currently. Any technical team who deploys apps on the cloud would use it pretty much. At this time, we have no plans to increase usage as our goal is to move to a public cloud. How are customer service and support? Technical support is good. They have a dedicated team and a call center that's always available. I've never had issues reaching people. We're mostly satisfied with the level of support. How would you rate customer service and support? Positive Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch? I have previous experience with an in-house private cloud. How was the initial setup? The initial setup isn't too bad. I'd rate the product seven out of ten. We found difficulties migrating from PCF1 to PCF2. However, the initial enhancement should be seamless, and it is easy to move the code seamlessly without much effort. The deployment takes some time. It took three to six months to move everything to a new server. The initial setup was not that challenging. It is a console-based interface where you can push the apps to deploy and see everything. However, when there is a migration, there is a challenge to move from one version to the upgraded version. We had a big team involved as it was an effort to keep the data centers up and install the solution. There would be maintenance involved since you need to upgrade the latest JDK along with the containers. You do that when the earlier JDK becomes vulnerable to the dependencies. We have an infra team that takes care of maintenance. What about the implementation team? Our organization had to bring in some experts to help with the initial setup. Our team engaged the PCF team and they engaged Dell who managed to take care of the entire data center to bring up the whole operations. What was our ROI? ROI seems to be good. It is helping to be on par with the standards and trends and it is easy to scale, deploy, and quickly roll out. There is also less downtime. So I see so many advantages, What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing? I'm not sure of the cost or how it works. That said, my understanding is it is not too expensive. It would be affordable for an enterprise. Which other solutions did I evaluate? I do not personally evaluate other options. That is handled by the CTO. What other advice do I have? It's up-to-date, and it is a private cloud within the enterprise. It is hosted internally. I'd rate the solution seven out of ten based on the challenges we had surrounding migration. If a potential new user is new to the cloud and if they want to do an internal private cloud setup that is easy to deploy and push, I would recommend the new PCF. Which deployment model are you using for this solution? Private Cloud If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use? Other Disclaimer: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Date published: 2022-12-30T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Easy to use UI, reliable, but implementation could be easier What is our primary use case? I use the Pivotal Cloud Foundry mainly in the financial services space and the solution is used for shifting your on-premise work to the cloud. What is most valuable? The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is the UI, it is easy to use. For how long have I used the solution? I have been using Pivotal Cloud Foundry for approximately one year. What do I think about the stability of the solution? Pivotal Cloud Foundry is stable. What do I think about the scalability of the solution? The scalability of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is good for our usage. Our workloads were not very intense and were average. We did have multiple applications being used but the transaction volume was not very high. We have administrator, and development users using the solution. We have 50 to 100 users using it. How was the initial setup? The Pivotal Cloud Foundry's initial setup has a learning curve for my team, but it was easy to use. What about the implementation team? We outsourced the maintenance of Pivotal Cloud Foundry to a partner. What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing? The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is based on the customer's requirements. However, the price is comparable to other similar solutions. The price for cloud providers can be a big difference when picking the best provider for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. What other advice do I have? My advice to others is they should evaluate Pivotal Cloud Foundry to see if it fits their needs. It's comparable to some of the better-known names. From an acceptance point of view, I think it has lower adoption, but people should explore this further. I rate Pivotal Cloud Foundry seven out of ten. Disclaimer: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer:Partner
Date published: 2022-07-31T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Useful auto-scaling, plenty of features, and responsive support What is our primary use case? We are using Pivotal Cloud Foundry for a banking solution. What is most valuable? The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is auto-healing and the plenty of other features that are provided. What needs improvement? Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve on the technology it is a bit complex. For how long have I used the solution? I have been using Pivotal Cloud Foundry for approximately two years. What do I think about the stability of the solution? The stability of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is good. What do I think about the scalability of the solution? Our entire team is using Pivotal Cloud Foundry which is part of EMC. Pivotal Cloud Foundry is scalable. How are customer service and support? The support from Pivotal Cloud Foundry is good, they are responsive. How was the initial setup? The initial setup of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is complicated. However, we made it easy by automating it. It took us approximately one week to complete. What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing? The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve. However, in this category of solutions, they are all expensive. What other advice do I have? Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a good solution and if their budget allows it, they should use it. I rate Pivotal Cloud Foundry an eight out of ten. Which deployment model are you using for this solution? Public Cloud Disclaimer: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer:Partner
Date published: 2022-08-09T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Easy to use, simple to sign-in, but lacking graphical interface What is our primary use case? Pivotal Cloud Foundry is used as a cloud platform. How has it helped my organization? Pivotal Cloud Foundry has helped our organization by the way we've set it up, it's easy to sign in, bind services, push services, and create YAML files. What is most valuable? The most valuable features of Pivotal Cloud Foundry are its ease of use and the command line interface has the ability to push instances to the cloud easily. What needs improvement? Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve the documentation. They are good, but they could improve more. Additionally, it would be beneficial if there were more use case examples. In a future release, it could be helpful to have a graphical interface rather than only the command line interface. For how long have I used the solution? I have been using Pivotal Cloud Foundry for approximately three years. What do I think about the stability of the solution? Pivotal Cloud Foundry is stable. What do I think about the scalability of the solution? The scalability of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is good. We have two people using the solution in my company. How are customer service and support? I have not used the support from Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch? I have previously used Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Heroku. I would prefer to use Amazon AWS or Google Cloud Platform rather than Pivotal Cloud Foundry. How was the initial setup? The initial setup of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is straightforward. What about the implementation team? We had an in-house deployment of Pivotal Cloud Foundry. What was our ROI? This ROI from using Pivotal Cloud Foundry would depend on the organization using it. Which other solutions did I evaluate? There were solutions that were evaluated but the choice of solution to use was the governments that I worked for. What other advice do I have? My advice to others is to make sure Pivotal Cloud Foundry is the right solution for them. It could be the case where Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS would be better. Pivotal Cloud Foundry Which deployment model are you using for this solution? Private Cloud If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use? Other Disclaimer: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Date published: 2022-09-20T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Applications run really smoothly and with little downtime What is our primary use case? We have 1,000 people using Pivotal across the organization. We are a bank, and therefore a customer of the product. What is most valuable? PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime. What needs improvement? It is not straightforward to setup. For how long have I used the solution? We have been using Pivotal Cloud Foundry for six months. I am a Senior Technology Specialist. What do I think about the scalability of the solution? Scalability is terrible. So far we have not been able to scale it up. How are customer service and technical support? I have had no direct contact with technical support, and therefore I can't comment on this. How was the initial setup? The setup is not straightforward in PCF, there's a lot of configuration. It takes a lot of time to connect to third-party applications and it is a complex process. What about the implementation team? We implemented the product in-house. What other advice do I have? I would recommend the product to other users, and I would rate it 8 out of 10. Which deployment model are you using for this solution? On-premises Disclaimer: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Date published: 2020-11-24T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from An exceptionally stable and resilient tool that lacks to offer its users advanced features What is our primary use case? Pivotal Cloud Foundry serves as a cloud hosting platform for our company, where all microservices and cloud-related components in our application are deployed. Essentially, it's a hosting cloud platform for us. What is most valuable? Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a private cloud platform for internal bank transactions, whereas AWS is for external transactions. The bank has set up a private cloud for more security, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry provides a secure option for hosting internal transactions. Unlike other cloud platforms such as Amazon, GCP, or Azure, Pivotal Cloud Foundry is more secure as it is a private cloud platform. What needs improvement? Pivotal Cloud Foundry doesn't have certain advanced features. So, the solution should consider adding more advanced features within the tool. For how long have I used the solution? I have been using Pivotal Cloud Foundry for three years. I am not sure if it is the latest version we use in our company. What do I think about the stability of the solution? The solution is stable and resilient. In our company, we do not even see any challenges with the solution. What do I think about the scalability of the solution? The solution is scalable, similar to distributed applications which we are actually moving to the cloud. It is a hosting platform. After deploying the solution, if we design it properly, the solution can be made scalable. How are customer service and support? We contact the technical support team whenever we need to host a new application or perform maintenance work. If we need to increase our storage capacity or encounter any technical issues related to the infrastructure, we contact the tech support team for assistance. How was the initial setup? I won't be able to comment on the setup process since I am not a member of the infrastructure team. In our organization, we have deployed Pivotal Cloud Foundry on a private cloud. What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing? We do pay for the licensing cost because we have opted for a private cloud setup. So, it is a cloud setup, and we have to make payments based on the cloud size. I do not consider it very costly when comparing it to the market. Which other solutions did I evaluate? From the evaluation conducted by my company, we found that OpenShift has more features and may consider shifting to it from Pivotal Cloud Foundry. I am not sure about the specific features that OpenShift possesses. Pivotal Cloud Foundry is something that, as a bank, we have been dealing with for five years now. What other advice do I have? Our organization has been analyzing OpenShift and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Regarding the comparison, there have been certain use cases, and I may not be the best person to tell you about them right now because my team is actually coming up with those use cases. So they were comparing Pivotal Cloud Foundry against what we are using and what is available in the market in OpenShift. We have considered Pivotal Cloud Foundry when moving our solutions to the cloud. We also follow the solution's design operational principles. As a private cloud, I recommend the solution to those planning to use it. We have been using it for quite a long time now, and I can say that it has no such stability-related issues. I rate the overall product a seven out of ten. Which deployment model are you using for this solution? Private Cloud Disclaimer: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Date published: 2023-05-03T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Seamlessly scalable since applications written in Java and .NET do not create issues for its users What is most valuable? Since we have just started using the solution, I won't be able to comment on its features. In my current company, we need access to and understand the solution. So, it takes a lot of time. What needs improvement? Improvement-wise, the tool needs to have the capability for more configurations. Pivotal Cloud Foundry does not support the migration process. So, it is also an area for improvement in the solution. For how long have I used the solution? I have been using Pivotal Cloud Foundry for two and a half months. Currently, we are using a legacy application. So, while half of the coding is Spring, the other half is shell scripting. So I am in the process of getting the space in the cloud, along with the access. Also, I am a customer and user of the solution. What do I think about the stability of the solution? Until now, I haven't done many things in the solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a three out of ten. What do I think about the scalability of the solution? It is a scalable product. I think more than 60 users are using it in my company. We are not facing any particular issues since most of the applications in our company are written in Java and .NET. How are customer service and support? We do have architects and experts in our company. So, whenever we face problems, we communicate with them, and they provide suggestions. Also, I return to them if I face issues with the solution. Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch? Presently, we are using AUTOsist. How was the initial setup? Regarding the setup phase, every step is a hurdle. With Pivotal Cloud Foundry, I won't get any proper resources for that. Even if I Google it, there is no proper solution for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. However, if we go for Azure or some other cloud, we can get a lot of information. I believe there is not much information for Pivotal Cloud Foundry since it may be some license issue. If you go for Azure, the migration process is straightforward. Since we have been given 10 GB of space in the public cloud, we are utilizing it in our company. So, we are trying to deploy our application on the cloud, and for us, it is like a trial process for now. From our total application rate, I can say that only two to three percent is on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Currently, half of the code is in the shell script, which is causing issues. Also, most people in my organization have worked on Java-related code. For most of the applications, they are using the same, that is, shell script and AUTOsist, and so we haven't migrated yet. So that is the reason that we are planning to opt for a hybrid model so that we don't have to migrate completely to Pivotal Cloud Foundry. What other advice do I have? Our company is facing problems when migrating from shell script to Pivotal Cloud Foundry. So, I am stuck with the aforementioned issue. There is new learning in any area where I put my efforts in relation to the solution. However, the exposure till now has been good even though I have faced a lot of challenges. I suggest others go for Azure or Google Cloud instead of Pivotal Cloud Foundry. If you are working with a deadline, it is very difficult to work with the solution since you won't get access to proper resources. For Azure and Google Cloud, plenty of different information is available. Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten. Which deployment model are you using for this solution? Public Cloud Disclaimer: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Date published: 2023-05-10T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Technical support is not good, is stable, and scalable What is our primary use case? Essentially, the solution provides cloud diagnostic capabilities, making it easier to port applications from one cloud provider to another. Some companies do not wish to build technology that is linked to AWS, Azure, or Google, and instead opt for platforms such as OpenShift. Most cloud services can deploy the solution, but countries such as Switzerland and Singapore have strict data residency rules. They must ensure that the data they store in the cloud remains within their geographical boundaries. If they cannot get this assurance from the cloud providers, they usually do not move their applications. Therefore, these customers prefer to keep their applications running on their own data centers. Other customers who do not have these constraints can move to any cloud provider of their choice. What is most valuable? Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very robust, especially for building Java. The solution is especially strong in Java because later it began to support other technologies, but Java remains its forte and it leverages many frameworks from the Spring Cloud, which is a very robust capability. It is very easy to build applications and they take care of many cross-cutting concerns that any application or platform has. Therefore, developers only need to focus on writing the business services, without worrying about the cross-cutting technical challenges that need to be solved in application development. The solution also has a very robust deployment capability, making deployment quite easy. We can build a service and then push it through with ease. Setting up the Pivotal platform is complex and takes a while, but once it is set up, it becomes much simpler. What needs improvement? There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the future of Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Constantly being adopted by new organizations makes it a risky investment for companies, as there is no guarantee that the solution will still exist in a few years. The technical support has room for improvement. For how long have I used the solution? I have been using the solution for three years. What do I think about the stability of the solution? I give the stability a nine out of ten. What do I think about the scalability of the solution? I give the scalability a nine out of ten. How are customer service and support? The technical support is not great because of the platform's capability. How would you rate customer service and support? Neutral How was the initial setup? Typically, the deployment takes less than 30 minutes, especially for the Pivotal platform foundation, as the setup of the platform is quite complex. It is done by the central platform team, who are experts. If there are any issues, they can also quickly resolve them. What was our ROI? The return on investment is greater than the core platform offers because Pivotal has been a key part of the transformation strategy that customers should use when adopting Pivotal Cloud Foundry. In addition to the platform capabilities, the transformation strategy, how to scale teams, how to enable them, and the engineering and transformation approach, Pivotal Cloud Foundry has a strong opinion on these matters. This has helped many customers make big transformations, such as moving from traditional application servers and monolithic architectures to domain development and microservices, as well as DevOps engineering. This has enabled Pivotal Cloud Foundry to offer a meaningful ROI to its customers. What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing? The pricing is on the higher side and there are cheaper options available. I give the price a five out of ten. What other advice do I have? I give the solution a five out of ten. Some of our customers have moved away from Pivotal Cloud Foundry due to the risk of their apps not existing in a few years' time. Several of our larger customers in the US and Asia Pacific region have shifted to Red Hat OpenShift. I do not recommend Pivotal Cloud Foundry due to the uncertain nature of its future. Which deployment model are you using for this solution? Public Cloud If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use? Amazon Web Services (AWS) Disclaimer: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer:
Date published: 2023-03-11T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from PCF allows for fine-grained configuration, especially regarding scaling but routing limitations What is our primary use case? We use it primarily to build microservices. What is most valuable? I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities. What needs improvement? Something that can be done better is canary deployment. So, right now, we're using blue-green deployment. The support for canary deployment would be nice. A few things, such as what OpenShift does better are cluster management. Like, you can manage the entire thing together. Currently, it's possible to manage all the clusters, especially when it comes to cluster management using straightforward configuration. As of now, we have to handle each application instance individually, which means servicing them one by one. It would be better if we could perform these actions as a group or in a more streamlined manner. One more downside is actually the cost of this environment. So, major downside of Pivotal, it's the cost. So, the runtime running costs are very high. Extremely high. For how long have I used the solution? I have been using Pivotal Cloud Foundry for about five years. What do I think about the stability of the solution? The stability is pretty good. The only other issue that we foresee is with the GTM router. It is not configured based on application instances but rather on application groups. This means that if I define a group of application instances, such as A and B, and I want to route traffic to A and B based on some specific code, such as 50% of traffic going to group A and the other 50% going to group B, the GTM router will not be able to do that. Instead, it will route traffic to the two groups in a 50/50 split, regardless of the number of application instances in each group. For example, if one project has 100 application instances and the other project has 10 application instances, the GTM router will still route traffic to the two groups in a 50/50 split. This means that we are not able to fine-tune the routing to specific application groups. What do I think about the scalability of the solution? This solution is very scalable. We have been able to scale our applications up and down without any problems. However, there are some organization-enabled restrictions on scale. It can not infinitely scale; there are some limits defined, but that is not the pivotal issue. It's more often our configuration because we are using a shared space. So, we don't want to blindly use our scale out. I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. How are customer service and support? Support is actually provided by Tanzu themselves; VMware. We use the enterprise suite, so VMware provides the support for the enterprise level. So, the support has been fantastic. How would you rate customer service and support? Positive How was the initial setup? For the initial setup, we have to follow certain processes, so it's not just the Pivotal issue. The actual cloud's computer probably takes five minutes to maybe ten minutes. But we need to do lots of checks and stuff, so deployment will probably take around four hours. What about the implementation team? We did not install the platform ourselves. The infrastructure management is handled by a team within our organization. We are currently using the on-premises version, but we are planning to move to the cloud in the future. What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing? I would say it is around a nine out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. Just short of Oracle. It's sort of Oracle cloud. What other advice do I have? One has to understand the scaling requirements for the application before you go to Pivotal. Then, YOU need to look at whether it's going to be on-premise or on AWS. We are PCF on AWS. Ideally, one should go through all the development and everything on AWS because you no longer have to have a set of infrastructure in your data center for it. You just delegate it to AWS PCF. Maybe right up to the user acceptance testing portion. Only production load; maybe you can just put it on-prem stuff. If there are some regulatory reasons and all that. But if you don't have any regulatory requirements, just go for PCF AWS. It would make your infrastructure management much easier. Overall, I would probably give it; comparing my OpenShift and AWS and all of that, I would probably give Pivotal Cloud Foundry a seven out of ten. Which deployment model are you using for this solution? On-premises Disclaimer: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Date published: 2023-09-02T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Enhanced application deployment across various environments What is our primary use case? The main use case of the solution is to deploy and manage applications across different environments. What is most valuable? It provides a set of developer-friendly tools that simplify application deployment. What needs improvement? It should offer more security features. For how long have I used the solution? I have been using it for the last three years. What do I think about the stability of the solution? It provides great stability. What do I think about the scalability of the solution? It is a scalable solution. How was the initial setup? The initial setup was straightforward. What about the implementation team? The deployment process was done fast. It took about forty minutes to have it finalized. What other advice do I have? Overall, I would rate it eight out of ten. Which deployment model are you using for this solution? Public Cloud If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use? Other Disclaimer: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Date published: 2023-09-10T00:00:00-04:00

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