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Cloud Management (CM) Platforms

Cloud Management

What is Cloud Management Platforms?

Cloud Systems Management platforms integrate multiple enterprise-level cloud computing services into one hybrid cloud. Features include cloud analytics and reporting, cloud integration and migration, and capacity management.

Common Features

  • Application Release Automation
  • Performance Monitoring Management
  • Cloud Analytics and Reporting
  • Capacity Management
  • Orchestration and Workflow Management
  • Cloud Integration
  • Cloud Migration
  • Automatic Resource Scaling Elasticity
  • Cloud SLA Management Governance
  • Self Service Cloud Services
  • Configuration Validation

Top Cloud Management (CM) Platforms

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Next Award: Mar 2025

Top Cloud Management Platforms 2024

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Composite Score
9.1 /10
CX Score
9.4 /10

AWS Systems Manager is a secure end-to-end management solution for hybrid cloud environments.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Efficient Service
  • Saves Time
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Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Azure Arc

Composite Score
8.8 /10
CX Score
9.1 /10

Manage your applications and services in multi-cloud environments. Azure Arc helps you make the most of the cloud by providing tools to develop and operate cloud-native apps on any platform.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Helps Innovate
  • Respectful
  • Security Protects
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Composite Score
8.4 /10
CX Score
8.8 /10

VMware Aria is a cloud management portfolio for managing the cost, performance, configuration, and delivery of infrastructure and cloud native applications across any cloud. It unifies VMware vRealize, CloudHealth by VMware Suite, and VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront into one family brand.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
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Composite Score
8.4 /10
CX Score
8.8 /10

Red Hat® OpenShift® is a unified platform to build, modernize, and deploy applications at scale. Work smarter and faster with a complete set of services for bringing apps to market on your choice of infrastructure.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Respectful
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Helps Innovate
Composite Score
8.4 /10
CX Score
8.7 /10

Oracle Hybrid Cloud is a suite of autonomous management services that eliminate the human effort associated with traditional solutions for monitoring, managing and securing applications and infrastructure. Provide customers with the flexibility to choose their infrastructure based on their workload needs with Oracle Hybrid Cloud.

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Pros

  • Trustworthy
  • Fair
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Over Delivered
Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10

Speed cloud adoption with workflows that automate everyday cloud service delivery and continuous governance.

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Pros

  • Transparent
  • Fair
  • Altruistic
  • Acts with Integrity
Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10

Amazon Kinesis makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data so you can get timely insights and react quickly to new information. Amazon Kinesis offers key capabilities to cost-effectively process streaming data at any scale, along with the flexibility to choose the tools that best suit the requirements of your application. Amazon Kinesis enables you to process and analyze data as it arrives and respond instantly instead of having to wait until all your data is collected before the processing can begin.

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Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Unique Features
  • Saves Time
  • Appreciates Incumbent Status
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Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

Xebia Cloud Infrastructures has the knowledge and experience to help you develop a cloud strategy that best fits your organizational needs. With the support of the AWS, Google or Microsoft Azure Cloud capabilities, we help you make the first steps and get you on your way.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
BMC Software

BMC Multi-Cloud

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

IT and business owners are often surprised and unprepared for the large monthly or annual expenses from cloud providers. With buyers of public cloud services throughout the organization, it is challenging for IT to keep costs under control.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
Cloudyn

Cloudyn

Composite Score
7.9 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

Cloudyn provides a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of cloud usage and cost across multiple accounts and vendors, with actionable recommendations to improve efficiency, cut costs and enhance performance. With segmented or aggregated views, IT and Finance may see a high-level snapshot of their deployment, as well as individual accounts and critical areas.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing