Cormant-CS vs Hyperview

Cormant-CS is a data center infrastructure management platform for IT teams, data center operators, and facilities managers. It tracks infrastructure, assets, and connectivity, including copper, fiber, power, and high-capacity MPO fiber paths. Teams can define unlimited attributes for infrastructure hardware, plan changes, reserve equipment and rack units, and manage asset provisioning and connections. Monitoring features let users set alert thresholds and email subscriptions for critical statuses. A scripting engine includes SNMP and XML libraries and scripts for smart PDUs, environmental sensors, UPSs, and rack security systems; SOAP and REST APIs support data exchange with enterprise systems. Native Windows and Android offline apps handle barcode and RFID scans and work orders without Wi-Fi or cellular service. Mobile platforms provide authentication and data encryption. Starter packs include installation support, training, and implementation consulting. Subscription plans are $7,200 a year for approximately 25–30 racks and 500 assets, $10,020 a year for 45–55 racks and 1000 assets, or $12,840 a year for 65–80 racks and 1500 assets. Perpetual options cost $13,999 as a one-time purchase, $18,999, paid once, and $23,999, paid once for those respective capacities. A 7-day trial is available; there is no free plan.

Hyperview is a cloud-based data center infrastructure management platform for tracking connected assets and conditions. Its agentless discovery gathers information about servers, storage, PDUs, network devices, sensors, virtual machines and cloud instances. Monitoring covers power, energy, capacity, temperature and humidity, with alerts and heat maps. Visualization includes 2D and 3D views, custom dashboards, room layouts and drag-and-drop. Hyperview offers a versioned REST API, with pages for ServiceNow CMDB synchronization and bringing Equinix Smart View data into the platform. It runs on Microsoft Azure and offers region selection across the US, Canada, Europe, UAE and APAC SEA. Pricing is $3 a year, billed per asset per year, with a 500-asset minimum; taxes are excluded and add-ons cost extra. A 30-day trial includes all features and requires no credit card. Included limits specify 10 sensors per asset, 30 days of full-resolution sensor retention, three years of daily summaries and 5 MB of document storage per asset.