Cloud Management Platform (CMP) provides the potential to manage usage in multiple clouds that meet our use case requirements and provides scriptable interfaces that we can leverage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A lot of our researchers leverage credit programs from the suppliers. That means billing is at best unconventional, and so while it's possible to get accounts hooked up in CMP, usage is fuzzier, and management policies based on usage are harder to implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a lot of hype around CMP and Rightscale from Flexera. We evaluated a few products online and based on recommendations, went ahead with Flexera rightscale. The good part about Rightscale is the support model and the quick response we get from Rightscale support. There are a tutorials and learning mateirial also available for us to get onboarded. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The learning curve seems huge. The Rightscale language is different and for onboarding Java developers, we need more examples, scenarios, boards where devs can talk and ask questions etc. The custom action creation seems a challenge initially. Plus Rightscale response to custom actions is slow and takes a few more seconds than the underlying action would. Also debugging is a challenge coming from Java bakground. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of learning, ease of deployment, support and a well defined robust process of CAT (cloud access template) management and custom actions for each deployment. Custom actions are a heart of any deployment and give the ease to run specific operations on any server on cloud. These can be as simple as stopping a server to as complex as changing a configuration on a server and then restarting it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The speed at which the CMP triggers a custom action is slower than if we were to use the underlying commands. FOr example if we use a google cloud command to create a server it is faster than a cat with a custom action to do so. This limits the seed at which deployments can be made on cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ServerTemplates, deployments & monitoring. We have more confidence that our development will act same on production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

High costs of the product. We also suffered from instability of the API when we automated multiple tasks from sysadmins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Biggest strength is the ease to manage multi cloud environment which is very handy for nay SaaS business.So far so good experience with the tools and organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometime issue resolution takes much longer than it should be, so bit faster resolution of issues is always desired as it sometimes is a blocker issue for the complete organization which takes few hours to resolve so it really hampers the image because our productivity goes down with it, so do take care folks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of Cloud visibility and management. Workflows to cut down time challenges. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be ideal to have more intersection with technopedia like capabilities. Although this may be on the way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Quick deployment of the CATs and great support on issues. This includes documentation, FAQs and on call or email support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

i have to learn almost a new language for deployment. Debugging is not easy as it was on any IDE like Eclipse. Plus searching for issues online is very difficult. Onboarding a new member of the team needs easier way. There should be portals for new bees to learn , practice, view videos and see how easily can they be onboarded. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The platform is a powerful tool that allows automated deployment and scaling on a whole host of cloud platforms allowing you to take advantage of every vendor's strengths. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The analytics they provide could be better. Particularly with Google. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This product has allowed us to expand on who can build out new environments and significantly shorted the time from request to successful completion. This product has allow administrators to make better use of their time and developers more time to work on their projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool has reset expectations of many users so when configuring in our private cloud environment we sometimes run low on resources. This is simply a byproduct of increased productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

They way rightscale is implemented, it really helps managing services at cloud in a really organised and simple way. I think Flexara's solution to approach the problem is neat. I really like some of their features like server-arrays, Alerts etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CATs in itself is a very useful concept but lack of documentation and community support, sometimes make it difficult to debug the issues. I love the feature of CWF console but it does not always help.

Also, I feel the quality of support has degraded from past few months. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.