"Cisco has a very wide network-based competency."
"Stable and easy to use solution."
"They have provided a new interface, which is great."
"Ubuntu Linux is developer-oriented."
"We use Ubuntu Linux because it is scalable, stable and developer-friendly."
"The most valuable features of Ubuntu Linux are it is user-friendly, has plenty of features that you can develop and builds your own code. Additionally, it is secure and easy to operate."
"It has a nice user interface and provides frequent updates."
"The most valuable features are stability and updates. We are not using the interface, the interface of the OS, we are using it as the server. We actually sync it through SSH and we deploy our application, so we don't have access to do it. The updates are very helpful and the way they update their OS is very helpful."
"The auto upgrade operating system feature."
"Cisco Piston OpenStack needs to be more closely integrated between different solutions to work seamlessly for the client and the deployment team."
"Could be even more light weight than it currently is."
"The support team is not good and needs to be improved. The user community is excellent and helpful, but some questions are unanswered. Also, stability and scalability could be improved."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say management and storage. Mostly, the storage mechanism."
"It would be nice to see more compatibility with certain Microsoft solutions, such as OneDrive."
"I think Ubuntu is not that secure."
"There are some drivers that are not there encoded, however, I thought that was pretty normal. They could be more comprehensive."
"The user interface must be more user-friendly for non-technicians."
"I would recommend they improve the network security, because it can be very difficult. I mentioned that when you upgrade Ubuntu, the network cut is always deactivated, so you have to restart the service to reactivate the network. It is important to improve this ability."
Cisco Piston OpenStack is ranked 6th in OpenStack with 1 review while Ubuntu Linux is ranked 1st in OpenStack with 133 reviews. Cisco Piston OpenStack is rated 7.0, while Ubuntu Linux is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Piston OpenStack writes "The solution can be used for network services virtualization, but it needs to be more closely integrated between different solutions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ubuntu Linux writes "Open-source with a great support community and seamless updating". Cisco Piston OpenStack is most compared with , whereas Ubuntu Linux is most compared with Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
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