Densify Reviews

Tthe shoftware worked fantasticyl but the support that we recieveed was the highlight of it all!

The issues that we had with this project have been internal stakeholder managment issues,

Cost overruns

bringing our overall costs down.

A positive tool that provides a good level of detail and enables better utilisation of resources and easily managed reporting functionlity

I am happy that Densify works as promised

Better utilisation of resource and reporting enabling accurate identification of issues.

The reporting capabilities of Densify are easily my favorite features. Single-pane-of-glass view of all of your infrastructure, on-prem and in the cloud, across multiple vCenters, and cloud accounts (or multiple clouds). This is the easiest way to get rich reporting for apps that span these different platforms.

The UI can be a bit sluggish sometimes. Developers are always improving performance, but we have a very large environment and it can bog down even the most robust reporting tools.

Besides only considering the capacity management capabilities, look at the reporting capabilities. The ability to pull data from multiple cloud accounts, and multiple vCenters and aggregating that data is a huge benefit, which gets largely forgotten.

We needed a solution to help right-size infrastructure on-prem and in the cloud. Densify has also allowed us to contain software licenses in our VMWare platform to reduce Windows and RedHat licenses.

Responsive, knowledgeable, willing to listen and work through requests/problems to meet customer requirements. Go over and above to exceed expectations

Policies are complex and difficult to understand at times within the product

Use Route and Reserve and Action Automation functions

Rightsizing and decommissioning of VMs. SLCO has brought financial benefits to the client

Densify uses actual historical data of workloads to establish a model for each workload and works out the optimum resources needed to run that workload. Using the Densify models, you can right-size the workloads and get more efficient placement.

Much of the data generated is presented in the GUI and not really available outside the GUI. It is also not easy to look at views of data at specific points in time because Densify is focused on what the current position is and how that will trend in the future.

Rightsizing virtual machines so that they have the appropriate resources for their workload. Identifying powered down machines that have been unused for some time and can be considered for removal.

Comprehensive, single pane of glass user interface across cloud providers. Backend API integration to automate instance recommendations. Focus on Microservices cost inefficiencies.

Sometimes service is redundant to existing solutions. Support for spot instance pool selection.

FinOps tools are often commoditized in nature and underutilized by teams managing cloud infrastructure. Densify makes better recommendations with a smarter backend platform to deliver better data, faster. This plus the ability to automate instance recommendations via policy and API integration, make Densify the CMP of choice to transform cloud infrastructure into a technology asset rather than simple cost center.

Better understanding the entirety of cloud deployments to help identify where I can optimize infrastructure for capacity and cost. Having a tool to help tangibly measure the FinOps/SRE contribution to hitting company cost reduction targets. Creating a long term plan to improve efficiency with cloud infrastructure.

I like the fact that Densify gathers CloudWatch metrics and then uses their engine to analyze CPU/Memory usage and ensures that we are using the appropriate instance type based on those needs. Densify has also worked with me for customization of our account to allow for some business specific needs. They also took some of my input and inserted it in to the main product for all their customers.

There are some features that would be beneficial, especially the ability to "snooze" recommendations based on a period of time. This would help our environment because we have a pretty predictable busy season and sometimes recommendations are made that would be considered invalid to us

Spend 15 minutes with one of their Sales Engineers, as this was all it took to jump aboard

We had many instances that were over-sized based on usage, which saved us a lot of money. It also allowed us to optimize over-utilized instances with proper sizing recommendations, which allowed us to keep our customers happy

The most underrated and most useful feature is the reporting capabilities. We haven't found any other tools that can give us the level of granularity in reporting that can aggregate multiple vCenters, multiple AWS accounts, multiple Azure subscriptions all in one place. Also the ability to slice and dice filters and views based on any attribute (OS, utilization, custom tags, cluster, owner, etc) makes this a go-to for questions regarding inventory, utilization, or cost.

The UI can be a bit sluggish. It's improved over time, but I still find myself waiting for several seconds (or longer if it's a large report) for a screen to come up. To be fair, we do have an extremely large number of nodes.

A one-stop solution for all your performance and capacity needs. I find it future-ready and there is no need to worry about upgrading and managing the environment if you look at Densify's cloud-based solution.

This tool was primarily brought into the customer environment to look at capacity constraints and view recommendations. Reducing manual work was also a primary reason to move to Densify.

Tool flexibility to accommodate complex integration

Nothing that I have come across so far na

Optimisation and capacity reporting benefit

The most important part of densify is the reports and its mechanism to identify risks and opportunities to business.

There is not much to dislike.Few more reports will be add on to this tool.

Densify is definitely a very good tool.Only recommendation is , try to get more and more reports , risks and opportunities from this tool.

We are using this tool for Capacity Management, also it helps a lot in identify risks and opportunities to business.