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CloudBolt

Score6.2 out of 10

6 Reviews and Ratings

What is CloudBolt?

The CloudBolt Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Platform, from CloudBolt Software headquartered in Rockville, helps enterprise IT build, deploy, and manage access to multiple private and public clouds for effective hybrid cloud orchestration.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Automation and Orchestration

    Provision of automated services for application migration, VM images, and configuration management

    Category average: 8.2

  • Systems Integration

    Integration of internal and external systems to support multi-cloud management

    Category average: 8.3

  • Cost Management

    Provision of tools for cloud instance rightsizing and user chargeback and billing

    Category average: 8.4

Areas for Improvement

Good product, but not without hiccups and pain points

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use CloudBolt [Software] to make server deployment simpler for our everyday users, for almost everyone in our company. We use it to scale up and test for QA environments so they can test any new versions of our deployments. We also have a wide array of users who would use this in their specific departments for specific tasks. This ranges from scaling up one server for X task to scaling up multiple servers with different configurations - all done with a few clicks.

Pros

  • Reporting
  • Flexibility in OS
  • Support for different virtualization platforms

Cons

  • Support could be improved on a >tier 1 level
  • Logging could be more descriptive/specific
  • Stability of the actual server

Return on Investment

  • We have invested countless man hours to troubleshooting and being support's QA.
  • Most of our teams have saved an invaluable amount of time by being able to automate their deployments.
  • After the initial time you spend [understanding] all the nuances, the configuring of groups, permissions, etc., does make administering it easier.

Alternatives Considered

Morpheus

Other Software Used

The Okta Identity Cloud, Jira Service Management (Jira Service Desk), Jira Software

SovLabs Microsoft Active Directory: A great tool for automation

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SovLabs Microsoft Active Directory is a good automation solution that helped us to create flexible Active Directory configurations and register/clean computer accounts with Active Directory. The interface is user-friendly and easy to use. SovLabs provide good documentation to implement and maintain the solution. Ease to create groups with a custom property and customize. Also, the solution offers the possibility to create dynamic templated fields utilizing the SovLabs Template Engine.

Pros

  • Create configuration with Microsoft endpoints.
  • Support complex globally distributed multi-domains.
  • Create and remove dynamic OU.
  • Allows for static text in combination with dynamic content.

Cons

  • Adjust the price.
  • Improve the support in the implementation process.
  • Offer more days for the trial test.

Return on Investment

  • Improve the Active Directory administration process.
  • Automate a part of AD administration.
  • Mitigate failures in the process of AD administration.

Other Software Used

FortiClient, Fortinet FortiGate, FortiSIEM