Red Hat CloudForms vs. Cycloid

Create a strong and flexible cloud infrastructure that allows for effective governance and clear organizational hierarchies within your cloud environment. This can be achieved by forming separate organizations and defining the connections among users, tenants, and projects, all while efficiently controlling quotas and services. Leverage cloud and virtualization solutions like Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure for resource provisioning, set timelines for resource decommissioning, and adjust your setup based on your unique requirements. By examining your existing operational landscape and conducting various hypothetical analyses, you can strategically plan resource allocation and gain continuous insights into usage trends, which will aid in the development of detailed chargeback systems, quota management, and policy frameworks. Additionally, enhance your grasp of performance metrics, capacity planning, and workload management through SmartState's historical data and trend analyses that yield vital information about various aspects of your cloud setup. Formulate an effective policy framework for your infrastructure and incorporate automated alerts and responses to quickly adjust to shifts in your cloud ecosystem, ensuring sustained optimization and responsiveness. This thorough strategy not only enhances resource oversight but also cultivates a proactive environment of continuous monitoring and adaptability within your organization, ultimately driving efficiency and innovation. By fostering a culture that embraces change and technology, your organization can stay ahead in the rapidly evolving cloud landscape.

Cycloid is an Internal Developer Portal and Platform with modules around self-service and platform orchestration, project lifecycle and resource management, FinOps and GreenOps and plugins. It can be consumed through the console, in CLI or in API. Cycloid focuses on platform engineering done right. We optimize the developer experience and operational efficiency by accelerating the delivery of a portal and platform, alleviating the cognitive load on IT teams and advocating for FinOps & Green IT practices. With our Internal Developer Portal and Platform, you don’t need to start from scratch to get a fully customized solution. Platform teams design, build and run the platform enabling end-users to visualize, deploy and manage existing and new projects, interact with cutting-edge DevOps and Cloud automation without the need to become an expert, while keeping best practices in place, cloud expenses under control with a minimum carbon footprint. We are also the editor of Open Source projects such as TerraCognita, reverse Terraform, InfraMap, infra diagram and Terracost, cost estimation. We work with Global organizations, US and EU public institutions, scale ups across America, Europe and Asia. 6 of the top 10 System Integrator and Managed Services Providers are working with us as a customer and/or as a partner.