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Spot by NetApp

Score7 out of 10

11 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Spot by NetApp?

Spot by NetApp, now including CloudCheckr, helps companies to run their cloud investments. The Spot product suite uses machine learning and analytics to automate and optimize cloud infrastructure, to ensure that workloads and applications always have the best possible infrastructure that is available, scalable and available at the lowest possible cost. Spot’s technology provides insights into cloud costs, recommendations for how to optimize utilization and costs, and automation to implement those recommendations in a few clicks. The solution is presented as ideal for autoscaling applications, containers, and Kubernetes.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Spot by NetApp has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 11 ratings of Spot by NetApp's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Cost Management

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

    Category average: 8.4

  • Resource Management

    Ability to manage and deliver cloud resources such as resource discovery and tagging, asset and license management and cloud-to-cloud migration

    Category average: 8.8

  • Cloud Management Security

    Provision of various security capabilities such as Identity Access Management, encryption, and endpoint security

    Category average: 8.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Governance and Compliance

    Risk assessment analysis, audits and resource governance capabilities

    Category average: 8.6

  • 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

Reviews

What users are saying about Spot by NetApp.
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CloudCheckr keeps you in check in the Cloud!

Incentivized
Matthew WhiteView profile
Cloud Security Architect/SQL Server DBA in Information Technology at BLUE MOTOR FINANCE LIMITED (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Monitor costs and provide alerts when they deviate from normal usage.
  • Provide security best practices and alert on misconfigurations.
  • Monitor utilisation and recommend more appropriate instance sizes and reserved instance purchases.
  • Provide a single pane of glass view for multiple accounts in AWS.

Cons

  • There are so many options that you can feel a little lost at the time, but training, documentation and a great support team are on hand.
  • Would like to be able to do detailed training and certification, but I understand this may be on the way.
  • Provide more real-time monitoring.

Return on Investment

  • Faster identification of configuration issues.
  • Alerting to unusual cost behavior.
  • Promoting better security configuration.
  • Cost savings.

Usability

Other Software Used

AlienVault USM, OpsGenie, Tenable.io

CloudCheckr will save you more than Geico

Incentivized
John GrosjeanView profile
DevOps Engineer in Engineering at Avizia (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Detailed Best Practices. It's important to align your cloud to industry best practices for security and cost—it just performs better if it's used the way it's meant to be used. AWS is very flexible, and that's great when you have special requirements, but you've got to at least know when you're using something in a non-standard way so you can think through the implications.
  • Cost Reduction. Some recommendations are almost impossible to make at least for our setup, but many, many others are easy. We only have to log into CloudCheckr every few months and make a few changes for it to more than pay for itself.
  • Right-Sizing. This is related to the other points, but for some reason is separate from their cost module. The metrics it's able to pull only tell half the story, so it's good to verify it's sizing recommendations before making changes. But it does show you what instances to focus on first, and even if you choose a slightly different size to move it to, it does clearly indicate it's current size isn't appropriate. And this works both ways, if the size is too big, you can save some cash by making it smaller, but if it's too small, you want to be sure to scale up before you run into performance problems.

Cons

  • UI can be difficult to navigate. Given the amount of data, it's not surprising, but I often launch the different reports in multiple tabs so I don't get lost.
  • Can be expensive. Not in our case, but you probably want to check and make sure you'll see significant cost savings that'll pay for the product as we did.

Return on Investment

  • Huge return. For us, the cost was the only real motivator, the other benefits of CloudCheckr were just side benefits. We didn't see a huge percentage of savings, but several thousand dollars per month is a huge help for anyone!
  • Security is hard to put a dollar amount on, unless you have a breach. We were pretty comfortable with what we had, but it's still good to have this double check. If we didn't have other tools, I would say this could be a good place to start.

Other Software Used

Alert Logic Network Threat Detection, New Relic, CircleCI, Ansible

CloudCheckr - great, when it works

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Professional Services (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • CloudCheckr best practice reports aggregate a decade of industry cloud computing lessons learned and apply them to a customer's environment so that they can secure and optimize their infrastructure.
  • CloudCheckr custom reports allow for custom invoicing capabilities for a reseller as well as tailored reporting for a customer. Being able to host both in the same platform means that customers can align their invoices with the billing information at their fingertips.
  • CloudCheckr alerts allow a customer to set up notifications for cost or security events without writing any code.

Cons

  • CloudCheckr features have a tendency to break without warning. Functionality in place for months could suddenly stop working.
  • CloudCheckr support often delays work on support tickets for fixing broken application functionality.
  • The CloudCheckr platform and documentation website often crash or experience performance degradation.
  • CloudCheckr cost reporting is often impacted by faulty code or broken report functionality. This can contribute to a low level of confidence in CloudCheckr's ability to deliver accurate cost reporting.

Return on Investment

  • CloudCheckr has allowed us to increase resell margins as an MSP.
  • CloudCheckr has made us aware of cost savings opportunities that exceed the price of the platform itself.
  • CloudCheckr has given us additional visibility that has allowed us to manage and understand cloud computing costs.

Alternatives Considered

Cloudability

Other Software Used

Slack, Amazon Web Services, Skype for Business, UberConference