Kalos by Stratus10 Verified Customer Reviews (2026)

The CloudZero Platform is uniquely positioned as the only cloud cost management tool that combines real-time engineering activities with financial data, helping users understand how their engineering decisions affect costs. Unlike typical cloud cost management solutions that focus solely on historical spending, CloudZero is specifically designed to help users recognize variations in costs and the underlying factors that contribute to them. Analyzing total spending can often obscure the identification of cost surges. To overcome this challenge, CloudZero utilizes machine learning technology to detect spikes in specific AWS accounts or services, facilitating proactive measures and informed planning. Aimed at engineers, CloudZero allows for meticulous examination of each line item, empowering users to respond to any questions, whether they stem from anomaly notifications or financial inquiries. This granular approach guarantees that teams retain a comprehensive insight into their cloud financials, ultimately supporting better decision-making and resource allocation. By fostering a deeper understanding of cost dynamics, CloudZero enables organizations to optimize their cloud spending effectively.

NetCrunch is commercial, self-hosted, agentless network and IT infrastructure monitoring software for Windows Server. It monitors network devices, servers, virtualization platforms, cloud services including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, applications, websites, logs, telemetry, and custom data using technologies such as SNMP, WMI, REST APIs, and scripts. NetCrunch supports 680+ monitoring targets and provides 270+ ready-to-use Monitoring Packs for devices, applications, and operating systems. Policy-based monitoring automatically applies monitoring settings, Monitoring Packs, thresholds, and alerts to matching devices and systems. Licensing is based on monitored nodes and network interfaces rather than individual sensors, checks, or metrics. Real-time dashboards and automatic Layer 2 and routing topology maps provide visibility into network status and performance. NetCrunch supports event correlation, dependency-aware alert suppression, predictive thresholds, escalation, and 40+ automated response actions, including script execution, notifications, webhooks, and integrations with external IT and collaboration tools. NetCrunch also provides hardware and software inventory, network device configuration backup and change tracking, bandwidth monitoring, and network traffic analysis using NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, and other flow technologies. Distributed Monitoring Probes extend monitoring to remote and isolated locations, while REST APIs support integration and automation with external systems. NetCrunch is self-hosted on Windows Server and can monitor on-premises, air-gapped, cloud, and hybrid IT environments.

Enable your IT teams to embrace a more dynamic and proactive methodology with VMware Cloud Foundation Operations, formerly recognized as VMware Aria Operations, which is designed as a self-driving IT Operations Management solution for private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, utilizing AI and predictive analytics. By streamlining and automating operations management tasks through VMware Cloud Foundation Operations, organizations can gain extensive visibility across their physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures—including Virtual Machines (VMs) and containers, as well as the applications they support. This platform not only facilitates ongoing performance improvements and intelligent remediation that takes application contexts into consideration but also ensures integrated compliance, making it an indispensable tool for contemporary IT landscapes. Trusted by many organizations for managing their most vital applications, this solution has been recognized as a market leader by IDC for four successive years. VMware Cloud Foundation Operations is versatile, allowing deployment either on-premises or in the cloud, and can be utilized as a standalone product or as a part of the Aria Suite, thereby providing flexibility that caters to varied operational requirements. Its adaptability and comprehensive features make it an invaluable resource for organizations striving to enhance their IT operations efficiently while staying ahead of the competition.