Cloudability vs Flexera

October 19, 2024 | Author: Michael Stromann
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Cloudability
Cloudability lets you monitor, manage and communicate your cloud costs with one easy tool. Give your finance, engineering and management teams the visibility they need into all of your cloud costs and usage. Eliminate surprises in your cloud cost and usage with daily updates and advanced alerts that show you when things change and when you need to dig deeper.
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Flexera
Flexera Cloud Portfolio Management accelerates application delivery, gives you control over cloud usage and spend, and ensures application SLAs. Cloud computing presents a new set of challenges as well as cloud solutions for IT. RightScale helps you best manage, govern, and optimize your cloud infrastructure and application portfolio.

Cloudability and Flexera are like two highly specialized, overly polite droids sent to assist you in the bewildering chaos of cloud cost management, each with its own unique set of quirks. Cloudability, for instance, is the sort of droid that spends its days happily obsessing over every detail of cloud spending, ensuring that no single credit gets frivolously lost to the vast expanse of server farms. It takes pride in giving businesses an omniscient view of their cloud expenses, waving charts and graphs like an excitable protocol droid insisting it’s found a more efficient hyperspace route.

Flexera, meanwhile, has a broader mandate. It doesn’t just stop at cloud costs; no, that would be far too narrow a focus for Flexera’s tastes. This one strides in with an air of superiority, ready to tackle your entire IT empire — from software licenses to asset management and governance thrown in for good measure. Where Cloudability chirps excitedly about saving money on cloud resources, Flexera quietly reminds you that it’s keeping an eye on everything else, lest your software licenses suddenly revolt.

Both, of course, are dedicated to preventing your IT budget from spiraling into a black hole. Cloudability with its laser-focused cloud optimization and Flexera with its grand, imperial approach to managing every IT asset you own. In the end, you’re left wondering whether they’ll shake hands or just passive-aggressively optimize your infrastructure into eternity.

See also: Top 10 Cloud Management platforms
Author: Michael Stromann
Michael is an expert in IT Service Management, IT Security and software development. With his extensive experience as a software developer and active involvement in multiple ERP implementation projects, Michael brings a wealth of practical knowledge to his writings. Having previously worked at SAP, he has honed his expertise and gained a deep understanding of software development and implementation processes. Currently, as a freelance developer, Michael continues to contribute to the IT community by sharing his insights through guest articles published on several IT portals. You can contact Michael by email stromann@liventerprise.com