March 6th, 2019 | Updated on April 13th, 2021
Cloud management is a field which has totally expanded in the last decade. Basically, cloud management software combines all the essential tasks and streamlines the processes associated with them.
These software’s combine flexible tools to help businesses and firms manage their cloud computing strategies. This could include audits, compliance software, contingency planning, and disaster management.
It has been projected that cloud management software’s and their scope can increase by 70 % by the time this decade ends.
A normal business needs to take care of many processes at one time and generally the traditional modes of doing so only make the process burdensome. Hence arises the need to associate with cloud management software which can keep all these processes at one single place.
However, the choice of which cloud management software to trust still remains questionable. You cannot just hand over all your crucial details to software which is generally tough to understand and use.
Hence we bring to you a list of top 20 cloud management software’s which are integrating work timelines and making the usage of information easy and convenient.
All the software’s have been analyzed on the basis of their features, pricing, and scope of use. You can assess how useful each is as per the need that you have and then making a choice will not be as tough as it looks.
Plus you can modify them as per the framework you are looking for which is an added bonus that you get.
1. Wrike
Wrike helps you get your best work done faster. With Tasks and Projects built in Wrike, you can forget sluggish emails, multiple browser windows, dated tools, and clunky spreadsheets.
Set schedules, attach files, discuss work details, @mention and converse in real time, and track work progress all in one secure, accessible space. You’ll never lose track of anything ever again.
Review: Capterra
Pros: While working with a team that eventually outgrew email and another product we were using, the team decided to give Wrike a try. Overall, Wrike is great for managing project planning and scoping. While I primarily used it for task management, it made my collaboration with the company a lot easier since the company was able to gauge accurate and more realistic timelines so that the team wasn’t overburdened or given unrealistic or unmanageable deadlines.
Aside from task management and creating effective project pipelines and timelines, Wrike has the ability to create custom folders so that projects and clients stay organized from the get go and project managers can get an overview of a project’s progress in a very short amount of time.
Cons: This application offers a lot of features, almost too many in the project management realm, so I recommend that any team or organization that adopts Wrike into their workflow sign up for training. After training, you should be able to get some consulting from the vendor at how Wrike works best for your company and how it can help improve your current process.
Overall: I recommend Wrike for companies looking for a pure project management solution. If you or your company is looking for project management coupled with CRM and other business end functionalities, Wrike itself may not be the ideal solution.
2. Microsoft Cloud
Microsoft OneDrive (previously SkyDrive) is a cloud-based file hosting and synchronization service. With OneDrive, you can store a copy of your documents in the cloud and synchronize those files across your devices. OneDrive is tightly integrated into Windows 10, and there are OneDrive apps for every popular desktop and mobile operating system.
Microsoft was relatively late to join the cloud hosting market, but in this Microsoft OneDrive review, we demonstrate how it’s become an interesting contender for the best cloud storage service available today.
Review: Tomsguide
OneDrive works like most cloud-syncing solutions in that copies of the files that you store in a folder on your device are automatically uploaded to the cloud. If you install OneDrive on multiple devices, the files will remain in sync on all devices when you make changes.
Where OneDrive excels is in its integration with other Microsoft products. On Windows, the OneDrive folder acts just like any other folder on your system, so you can use it seamlessly with any other application. If you store your Office files on OneDrive, multiple people can edit them at the same time.
3. Apache CloudStack
Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premises (private) cloud offering, or as part of a hybrid cloud solution.
CloudStack is a turnkey solution that includes the entire “stack” of features most organizations want with an IaaS cloud: compute orchestration, Network-as-a-Service, user and account management, a full and open native API, resource accounting, and a first-class User Interface (UI).
Review: G2Crowd
What do you like best?
CloudStack has achieved do the cloud orchestration of making the complex become simple.
CloudStack is a turnkey solution that includes the entire “stack” of features most organizations want with an IaaS cloud: compute orchestration, Network-as-a-Service, user and account management, a full and open native API, resource accounting, and a first-class User Interface (UI).
What do you dislike?
Could have their own PAAS in the stack or better integration with PAAS third party
What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
The cloud orchestration, providing a wide range of features to use resources in the Data Center.
There are a lot of benefits but the best one for me is that become possible share the resources from data center with users by using friendly interface and a wide range of features.
4. IBM Cloud Orchestrator
Welcome to the IBM® Cloud Orchestrator documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use the IBM Cloud Orchestrator.
Review: Capterra
Comments: Quickly enables you to configure, provision, deploy development environments, integrate service management
Pros: One think I like is that we can manage and orchestrate our private cloud infrastructure as well as public cloud and offer services like overall visibility around usage and availability of resources, self-service catalogs, interfacing with multiple hypervisors via OpenStack.
5. CloudCheckr for AWS
Amazon Web Services is a powerful solution for organizations to innovate and grow their business faster. As organizations transform their business leveraging the power of AWS, they need total visibility, actionable intelligence, self-healing automation and business accountability to make the most of their cloud investments. With CloudCheckr, enterprises, service providers, and government agencies can manage a hyper-dynamic, ephemeral, and elastic cloud environment as usage and demand grows.
Review: G2
What do you like best?
CloudCheckr has a slick GUI to show information about your Amazon deployed resources. It also has the capabilities to scan Google and Azure. It is a simple way to see month over month billing differences, far easier than the Amazon-provided Cost Management dashboard.
What do you dislike?
The interface sometimes doesn’t load reliably, and it can be slow to load at times. Sometimes queries that you think should be simple to obtain require a call to support to find out which menu option it is hidden under.
Calculation of ReservedInstance usage has been historically very inaccurate, to the point of being misleading.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
CloudCheckr makes it easier to track down errant resources within Amazon. For a large company with many divisions consuming resources, this can be very useful. For a small company, where resources are controlled by a smaller team, it can be overkill.
6. ManageEngine Applications Manager
It is a single, integrated application performance monitoring for all your server and application monitoring needs. From server and infrastructure components that support your business to all business critical applications responsible for uninterrupted service delivery, Applications Manager offers proactive application monitoring services to measure the performance statistics in real time for comprehensive monitoring of your IT Operations.
Review: Software Advice
ManageEngine Application Manager is an application management solution that helps businesses to monitor their data centers and applications, databases and systems. It is suitable for small to midsize businesses and mid-large enterprises. It supports a variety of industries including IT services, finance, health care, education and government organization.
7. IBM Bluemix Cloud
IBM Cloud, with Red Hat, brings together market-leading security, enterprise scalability and open innovation for increased agility and continuity.
Review: Capterra
Overall: It has a data migration with high security, which increases the efficiency of the work
Pros: I can extend communications even with clients who are on other platforms, I can also share files and documents with excellent applications, has a data manager that works in a detailed and accurate way with excellent instant messaging that allows you to communicate immediately with anyone you need. It has solutions that offer great security since they help us reduce errors in a considerable way and a great advantage is its fast storage capacity, also has a practical, useful and easy to adapt interface quickly. With IBM we can customize our work and get the most out of our company
Cons: In some cases it can be slow and present problems of delay to synchronize and does not have much memory
8. Symantec Web And Cloud Security
Symantec Web and Cloud Security is a powerful software that provides essential protection to cloud, web, and mobile traffic. It is a reliable application that leverages advanced proxy architecture to protect users from malicious downloads and compromised websites.
The solution unifies information security, access governance, and threats protection to allow users to control, track, and implement Acceptable User Policies for business users whether in the office or on the go.
Review: G2Crowd
What do you like best?
The implementation is very simple and easy to run. Also, the configuration was also relatively intuitive and the User Interface is very good.
What do you dislike?
I would say the search is very slow. Limited searching may be.
What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Email Security
9. CloudBolt
CloudBolt is the cloud management platform for the enterprise. Deployed in minutes, CloudBolt’s software helps you unify orchestration and automate provisioning of your hybrid cloud resources—quickly, cost-effectively, and securely. At the same time, your developers gain anywhere, anytime access to those resources through a self-service catalog.
Its extensible plug-in architecture allows you to accelerate your hybrid cloud strategy by easily integrating with your existing technologies—DevOps tools, infrastructure-as-code tools, container orchestrators, and much more.
Review: G2
What do you like best?
Cloudbolt is a cloud management platform providing users with the option to build and deploy hybrid clouds. It gets implemented within a short period. The cloud resources are managed with much security and are cost-efficient.
What do you dislike?
One of the major drawbacks of any software can be the customer support provided by the company. In this case, there is a lack of quick response. They take much time to respond which makes it frustrating to handle.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
There are good workflows inside with effective built-in structures, it also gives the administration various customization options that are effectively used in building up the environments.
10. AppFormix
AppFormix provides end-to-end visibility into your multicloud environment to eliminate any potential issues, rendering your operations simpler and more effective. It enables you to visualize and analyze both physical and virtual environments. Through monitoring and intent-based analytics, AppFormix transforms raw data from a diverse set of resources into a format that you can use immediately.
Review: G2Crowd
What do you like best?
The product has a lot of features and it is easy to use.
What do you dislike?
There is a lot more growth potential since it is missing a lot of features that would make it more useful.
What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Needed something to help us monitor our cloud/public and private environments.
11. Cloudability
Cloudability ingests exabytes of data, including billing, usage, performance and custom vendor pricing. It’s virtually impossible to replicate this with homegrown tools or spreadsheets. The best approach is a data science and machine learning platform.
Review: G2
What do you like best?
It’s the new console era. It’s super fast. A great portal that you’ll want to have your hands on all the time! It made it possible for our organization to scale further in terms of optimal care offered to our very own customer base. A significant increase can be seen on the sat score since we started implementing this.
What do you dislike?
The FAQ articles seem to be old. Has a lot of bugs in the system. It can be challenging to make customizations and get them off the ground swiftly. Service contracts are weak when it comes to support contract management. Mass email marketing campaign is absent.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Great, indeed. Routing issues happen fast and accurate, due to the escalation rules and the automated assignment. Another thing you don’t find in similar software is an integrated database, allowing you to share knowledge and information.
12. ServiceNow Cloud Management
ServiceNow Cloud Management software is a solution that takes businesses to the cloud much faster using an extended service management approach. The technology allows users to deliver enterprise‑class services faster while eliminating runaway costs, user complexity or additional risks.
ServiceNow Cloud Management accelerates the delivery of cloud services. This is done via a centralized self-service user interface that streamlines cloud operations using a single system of action. Organizations can reduce public cloud risks and uphold the enterprise-class quality of services with stable policies and configuration processes. These govern the use of infrastructure resources and helps businesses live up to availability, compliance and security requirements.
Review: G2Crowd
What do you like best?
Being able to change ticket states from the main screen is super helpful. Additionally, the ability to add some users to the watch list allows people not directly involved in the ticket to get updates about the ticket.
What do you dislike?
Once every month or so there is a minor change to the UX/UI without warning and it’s tough to anticipate. Additionally, it’s tough to make changes to the layout of the UI etc. It would make sense to click the gear icon, but there are about 4 or 5 different gear icons which can get confusing!
13. Dell Cloud
Dell Technologies Cloud combines the power of VMware software and Dell Technologies infrastructure to provide a consistent operating model and simplified management across public cloud, private cloud and edge locations, eliminating silos through a single operational hub.
With many clouds comes challenges ranging from unpredictable costs to security vulnerabilities. Organizations must overcome multi-cloud complexity to find success – hybrid cloud delivers the consistency to make that possible.
Dell Technologies Cloud combines the power of VMware software and Dell Technologies infrastructure to provide a consistent operating model and simplified management across public cloud, private cloud and edge locations, eliminating silos through a single operational hub.
Review: G2
What do you like best?
The malware protection works perfectly also a good connection with our antivirus software is given. There are no issues regarding the functions if both software are installed and working together.
Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The configuration is complex and there are several options to configure before starting. The access is limited for normal user groups and a role admit is quite annoying – there are missing options to adjust that easily.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Global security control in our company – the system is installed on every client and the connection comes directly from the local server. The cloud function allows also to setup the software on new clients in minutes.
14. OpenStack
OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API. OpenStack works with popular enterprise and open source technologies making it ideal for heterogeneous infrastructure.
Hundreds of the world’s largest brands rely on OpenStack to run their businesses every day, reducing costs and helping them move faster. OpenStack has a strong ecosystem, and users seeking commercial support can choose from different OpenStack-powered products and services in the Marketplace.
Review: Capterra
Pros: Whatever could be done is being done by openstack foundation. A plenty of projects are being ran under the Openstack foundation, be it core services like Network, Compute, Storage or additional services Containerization, Microservices everything is here at openstack.
Cons: The Openstack being opensource has a lot of things to be done yet the contributors are put a lot of there efforts for a fully stable OpenStack.
15. Centrify Application Services
Centrify is a security services provider that helps enterprises stand against cyber attacks that threaten their IT environment of cloud, mobile and on premise applications. In particular, the platform provides greater protection for these applications against compromised credentials that causes data breach by securing the enterprise’s internal and external users as well as its privileged accounts.
Review: TrustRadius
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use it to log into most programs and to access a dashboard of programs that are available to us. It’s steady and reliable. It allows us to not have to remember or store multiple passwords to log into our programs, and allows the organization to track logins.
Pros and Cons
- It’s clean, steady, reliable, and secure.
- It always works which is important.
- It’s easy to integrate with other programs, like Zoom.
Occasionally, I get logged out of Gmail, sometimes in the middle of an email. I’m not sure why it happens, but I think it has something to do with timing out. Which is strange because I’m on email all day. Not sure why.
Likelihood To Recommend
It’s great for large enterprises, and maybe unnecessary for smaller businesses with only a handful of users.
16. MultCloud
With MultCloud, you can easily sync two cloud services or two folders on different cloud accounts. You can also set up scheduled sync to sync your data between clouds at a certain interval automatically.
You can transfer files between cloud drives, FTP and WebDav. For instance, you can easily move all files from one Google Drive to another or use “copy and paste” to copy certain files from Dropbox to Google Drive. And as cloud transfer runs on Multicloud, transfer process continues even when your computer is powered off.
Review: Cloudwards
Multi-cloud management might be one of the next big things in cloud storage, although as it stands right now, the pickings are pretty slim. If moving files from one cloud drive to another is your main concern, MultCloud is one of the best options available right now, at least until a more sophisticated tool comes along.
17. Centilytics
Cloud Visibility acts as a single pane of glass for your multi-cloud infrastructure. It aggregates terabytes of your unstructured data into interactive graphical dashboards and customized reports that can be downloaded in various formats.
You can slice and dice the data using an advanced set of filters such as account ids, subscriptions, services, regions, resource tags, and much more.
Reduce your time and effort to analyze and charge back various business categories (such as cost-centers, applications or owners).
Review: Capterra
Pros: 1- End to end visibility of the consumption 2- Last cent calculations possible 3- Provides visibility to MS CSP customers also (Not available natively on MS CSP subscriptions) 4- Provides steady cost optimization and cost management recommendations (Outside the standard ‘move everything to RI’)
Cons: 1- The UI needs more maturity in terms of ease of use 2- Some sessions cookies are not working the way it is expected to
Overall: Well, to be honest I am happy with what I got; it is still a maturing tool (at the point of this review) and is certainly not flawless. However, it solves the user challenges of getting last cent visibility into there cloud consumption and thus meets its purpose.
18. Cloud Lifecycle Management
Cloud Lifecycle Management is a cloud management platform that accelerates innovation through automated provisioning, governance, and management of secure cloud services. It gives users self-service access to click and deploy simple VMs or full application stacks across multiple cloud environments.
Review: Capterra
Pros: FootPrints is the ITSM Solution Ferrari, as it may be adapted not only for IT processes but also for any other not IT process such as HR, Legal, Field Services, etc. configuring as many instances or workspace as you need in your organization for every of these processes. Its licensing is adaptable to the customer needs. It also has Mobile and web browser access, Graphical Workflow designer to configure your processes in an easy and fast way.
Cons: For asset management it is necessary the integration with BMC Client Management which means to pay for additional licensing in terms of number of assets and it increase the investment in comparison with other solutions that has asset management included.
19. Bitium
Bitium is a next-generation identity and access management company working with cloud-forward companies on the solution to unleash the full potential of cloud computing. Bitium provides a holistic approach to identity management for the midmarket and enterprise.
Identifying the most beneficial apps and services for the business, and enabling employees to use the apps they need without exposing them to risk.
Review: GetApp
As the admin of setting up various technologies, I hate giving raw passwords to the rest of the team. Bitium allows me to set up the account, and simply tell my co-workers to visit Bitium to access the program. If the employee leaves the company, I don’t have to change dozens of passwords either.
20. Scalr CMP
It has all the advantages of a Remote State and Operations Backend. Remote backends store state and execute operations, like plan and apply, on a system remote to the Terraform CLI and provide tons of advantages.
Review: Comparecamp
Scalr is a reliable cloud management solution built to help development teams and IT professionals to leverage autonomy, automation, flexibility, and self-service. It is a robust platform that allows businesses to implement multiple applications across different cloud environments, cost-effectively, while adhering to existing corporate policies, compliance, and best practices. The software provides a hybrid cloud management workspace where users can monitor costs and control the usage of cloud resources, comprehensively. Scalr allows users to generate financial reports that impart helpful insights and provides contextual information that can be used to pinpoint a machine component that is inflating operational costs. Besides, the platform comes with powerful self-service capabilities that enable users to generate easy-to-use service catalogs.
21. Site24x7
Monitor the performance of internet services like HTTPS, DNS Server, FTP Server, SSL/TLS Certificate, SMTP Server, POP Server, URLs, REST APIs, SOAP Web Service, and more from 90+ global locations (or via wireless carriers) and those within a private network.
Record and simulate multi-step user interactions in a real browser and optimize login forms, shopping carts and other applications.
Identify application servers and app components that are generating errors. Monitoring for Java, .NET, Ruby, PHP, AWS, Azure and mobile platforms.
Review: Capterra
Pros: Well what can I say about Site24x7. The product is: Easy to use Monitors almost any environment Fantastic support Very reasonably priced! I would recommend this platform to any company looking to in-depth monitor both their on-premise and cloud-based platforms. All in all a great product.
Cons: Whilst the majority of the product looks very slick, especially when you drill into problem monitors, there are some Dashboards that could look nicer! However if aesthetics is not your issue then there is no better product out there!
22. Torii
Torii is the leading SaaS Cloud Management platform in the market. Trusted by customers like Payoneer, Pipedrive and SimilarWeb to discover, optimize, and control their implemented SaaS solutions. Our software is able to map all SaaS products used in your organization, track their spend, and manage user access to software. Visit toriihq.com to learn more.
Review: Capterra
Pros: Works as promised, discovered all my team’s SaaS application without any user intervention. Excellent support from the team. Clean user experience.
Cons: Some features were missing when we started using Torii. Yet all my request were already on Torii’s roadmap, some have already been implemented.
Overall: You are probably using more SaaS application than you think, the sooner you start using Torii, the easier it will be for you to manage the SaaS applications you are using.
23. Rackspace Managed Cloud Services
It is recognized as a Magic Quadrant Leader. For the fourth year in a row, Gartner has named it a Magic Quadrant Leader for Public Cloud Infrastructure Professional and Managed Services, Worldwide.
Its Customizable service blocks helps you pay only for the services you need with the flexibility to adjust as you scale.
Skilled consulting can give you experience expert guidance and help you adopt advanced technologies so you can maximize the benefits of modern cloud.
Review: Trustradius
Rackspace Managed Hosting is cloud computing company Rackspace’s infrastructure-as-a-service offering. Its infrastructure options include bare metal servers, virtual single-shared servers, and cloud multi-tenant environments. Their options support general computing, databases, networking, storage, connectivity uses, and virtualized servers.
Bare Metal
A single dedicated server with a specific function, like a web server or database server. Storage, networking, and database options can be customized.
Virtualization
A single shared server that allows multiple users of the OS to each control their own network resources with the shared environment.
24. Cloudways
Provides managed hosting platform for deploying popular PHP based applications on infrastructure hosting in just a few clicks.
Review: techradar
Cloudways is an unusual cloud website hosting platform for experienced users who demand the maximum power for their projects.
Create a cloud server on Cloudways and it’s hosted on your choice of six top cloud providers: Amazon (AWS), DigitalOcean, linode, Vultr, Google Cloud Platform or Kyup. There’s no need to have an account with any of these, as Cloudways sets up everything itself.
25. CloudHealth
CloudHealth began as a fast-growing startup dedicated to simplifying cloud complexity. Today, we form a core part of VMware’s multicloud management portfolio.
Together, CloudHealth and VMware Secure State simplify financial management, streamline operations, and strengthen security and compliance for the world’s largest cloud customers, MSPs, and global systems integrators.
Review: Capterra
Overall: Overall experience is good, Just stall small agents on the VMs which just take a few seconds to install the agent. The best part is we do not do this manually we have configured this using Automation accounts and then schedule the install of agents on the VMs.
Pros: We use this tool for several clients by installing a light weight software on the instance that we want to include in cloud health. This tool is very easy to use and provided the overall health of the VMs on which this agent is installed. Best part is you have a Cloud health portal from where you can not only check the health but also you can check the status of your VMs like Disk space or disk Usage. Also provides you the necessary security incidents. This is the best tool for cost optimization and Creating the reports on your infrastructure.
Cons: I think this tool still needs to be enhanced on other resources like Web apps, services Bus or Traffic managers. I will be waiting for Cloud Health team to start working on PaaS part of loud.
