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    IBM Cloudability

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloudability is a cloud cost management and optimization tool that enables IT, finance, and business teams to optimize their costs and communicate the business value of the cloud.N/A

    IBM Kubecost

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AIBM Kubecost is a Kubernetes cost monitoring and optimization platform that delivers real-time, in-cluster cost intelligence with actionable insights to reduce waste and improve efficiency.

    $449

    per month 100 nodes

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    IBM CloudabilityIBM Kubecost
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    Community Pulse
    IBM CloudabilityIBM Kubecost
    Considered Both Products
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Chose IBM Cloudability
    Recently, I got an opportunity to review this tool in the India Apptio User Conference. Currently, I'm going through the use cases of this tool and checking if this helps us in any of the use cases. also, I've heard from the speaker that IBM Kubecost will be integrated in the …
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    Chose IBM Cloudability
    I believe that one complements the other, and it was great that Apptio brought them together on the same front.
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    Kubecost was great for a Kubernetes platform team. Our individual teams only care about there resources and uses to determine their rightzing which Kubecost had a great rightsizing option. In my experience, I have not seen that with Apptio Cloudability product at AA yet.
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    Chose IBM Cloudability
    the organization chose to use cloudability due to usability, costs, management and cost-benefit issues
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Chose IBM Kubecost
    Namespace cost, usage and efficiency data and ability to optimize for k8 containers
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    User Ratings
    IBM CloudabilityIBM Kubecost
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (110 ratings)
    7.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
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    8.0
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    Availability
    6.4
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    Performance
    5.5
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    8.2
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    In-Person Training
    1.0
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    Online Training
    7.3
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    9.0
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    Configurability
    6.4
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    6.4
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    Ease of integration
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    User Testimonials
    IBM CloudabilityIBM Kubecost
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Good tool to start FinOps journey in a medium sized (or above) company. Currently missing AI capabilities that are now available with a lot of FinOps vendors in the market. Also, apptio currently does not have FOCUS dataset nomenclature, that can be worked upon.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Well suited for a k8 platform and the clients on the platform however doesn’t help as much for a total enterprise cloud cost that is not running on k8
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    Pros
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • It shows the visibility into the cost and a single pane of glass for all of our cloud providers, multiple products in those multi-cloud. So it shows us our spending across the cloud by vendor, by product, and by all the tags that we have in the cloud. So it gives us visibility into many different directions in our cost.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    • Show namespace level cost and usage
    • Allow rightisizibg At namespace level
    • Show effectiveness of current resources allocation
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    Cons
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • There is currently no ability to apply global filters over the data in cloudability. Rather users must go through a difficult process to create custom views which they are later able to apply over top of their datasets.
    • Drill functionality does not really exists but appears to be more of an after though add-on. Yes you are able to "drill" but the visuals disappear and even the ability to export the more detailed information.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    • Agents installation and the ping fed integration
    • The amount of CPU Kubecost agents use
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apptio an IBM Company
    We decided to build our own home-grown FinOps tool, but the results of the proof of concept were very promising.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
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    Usability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    I gave the IBM Cloudability a 7/10 because it is good, but it could improve in some places. It is easy to get data uploaded and ready to view, but it is only up to a certain point in time, and not live data. As for how it looks, the interface is good for viewing, however navigation could be a little better, maybe supported with a roadmap.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
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    Reliability and Availability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Only been 1 or 2 occaisions when not available, in 3 years
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    Apptio an IBM Company
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    Performance
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Afternoons tend to be a little slower, due to US traffic I assume
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    Apptio an IBM Company
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    Support Rating
    Apptio an IBM Company
    While there have been few support cases where the experience was good. But in multiple support cases it's firstly delayed and even after weeks or months of time, team is not able to provide us with the RCA of the issue. All they are claiming is the issue is now fixed which I still see coming back after few days or weeks as we've never identified and addressed the root cause.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
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    Online Training
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Training was adequate, but the real learning begins when you start using the product, like most things. All major functions were covered so as an entry point, was a good introduction to the product. The training pace was good as well, the areas were covered in decent depth, without being too much of an information overload.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Within months
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    Alternatives Considered
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Before Apptio we extensively used the cloud native and in house automated and developed cost optimization tool using python , powershell and leveraging the various cloud native services like AWS systems manager , Azure Functions and Azure automation run books.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Namespace cost, usage and efficiency data and ability to optimize for k8 containers
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Apptio an IBM Company
    I wasn't personally involved, but all dealings with Apptio have been easy
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    Apptio an IBM Company
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    Scalability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Works as designed
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    Return on Investment
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • Positive - as our utilization of Cloud platforms has increased, getting better reporting has been a key objective and Cloudability has allowed us to achieve this.
    • Positive - has allowed us to find opportunities for Cloud savings and improve our utilization of Cloud resources.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    • Allowed individual teams to better their cloud architecture for cost efficiency
    • Save on cloud investment
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