Cisco UCS Director vs CloudAware comparison

Cisco and CloudAware are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Cisco is ranked #22 with an average rating of 8.0, while CloudAware is ranked #35 with an average rating of 9.0. Cisco holds a 1.9% mindshare in CM, compared to CloudAware’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 73% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of CloudAware users who would recommend it.

Cisco UCS Director

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73% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco UCS Director

Ranking in Cloud Management

22nd

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

CloudAware

Ranking in Cloud Management

35th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (28th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Cisco UCS Director is 1.9%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CloudAware is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cisco UCS Director	1.9%
CloudAware	0.4%
Other	97.7%

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ErnieRumfield

Senior Telecommunications Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Managing extensive VoIP services becomes efficient and seamless

We use Cisco UCS Director primarily for managing our VoIP service to maintain seamless service delivery. We operate in an enterprise government environment Cisco UCS Director is straightforward to use, which we greatly appreciate. It helps save time by making it quicker to roll out new call…

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Manmohan Rao

Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited

Cloud cost visibility has improved and workload assessments now support stronger business cases

I am looking forward to more workload observability. The second thing is mostly looking forward to know cost optimization and how we can be able to manage multiple hyperscaler workloads from a single platform. I am looking forward to a monitoring solution that can monitor all hyperscaler services because AWS does have their 250 plus managed services offering. We have workload running in Kubernetes, Docker, EC2, RDS. I need a single platform that will monitor all these services which are being running in the cloud platform. Customer support is good. Whenever I have interacted with them, I got the required response from them. That is pretty much good. The organizations that are looking forward and have enterprise grade workload running in their public cloud platform, I would definitely recommend them to start using CloudAware because that is going to bring in value addition for them which they might not be aware of while using by themselves.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"This is a user-friendly solution that is very good and easy to use."

"The product is flexible and compact. It has a lot of features."

"Better visibility and better control are the main benefits people receive from Cisco UCS Director; the automation and the orchestration part, these three to four points are the key factors to decide on Cisco UCS Director."

"UCS director enables us to be more productive and more agile, and also more self-sufficient because we don't have to depend on anybody else."

"The reason we went with Cisco is that it comes at a very negligible cost as part of the BOQ. Compared to the competition's products, which are incredibly expensive, UCS Director is low-cost."

"Cisco UCS Director is straightforward to use, which we greatly appreciate."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the fabric sharing."

"An easy and strong configuration, along with its low cost, are some of the features of the solution."

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"I utilized it in one of the use cases for workload assessment and definitely it has brought in the value as a return of investment to us, because that was the assessment I was doing for one of our end customers."

Cons

"We cannot depend on this solution to manage all of the data center's infrastructure."

"Normally, UCS Director is used primarily for orchestration, but when we look at non-Cisco data infrastructure components, the UCS Director needs a bit more improvement in terms of integration with third-party systems and with existing older systems."

"The areas where this product can be improved are the integrations and the UI. These features are not as friendly compared to VMware products."

"Simplifying the user interface would go a long way to making it more usable."

"There could be an improvement with the integration with the newest solutions from other vendors' technologies."

"The solution could be improved is including a feature where I could do things programmatically versus having to create workarounds to get what I want to get done."

"It is not easy to add or expand the product."

"I would like to see more integration with other solutions."

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"I am looking forward for a positive contribution because as per the research I did so far, it is going to benefit us if we start utilizing it, but I am a little concerned of whether it will fit in all our requirements."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing around five to six out of ten."

"I rate Cisco UCS Director's price a three out of ten. Cisco UCS Director is not an affordable product. With Cisco UCS Director, there is a need to pay an overall price, which consists of the product, software, and support."

"The cost of this solution is significant."

"I would rate the product's pricing an eight out of ten."

"Cisco UCS Director is expensive...I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."

"The budget doesn’t work for the state and local governments."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

18%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Marketing Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	11

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco UCS Director?

While the pricing might be seen as expensive, it provides value for money due to reliable service and excellent technical support.

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What needs improvement with Cisco UCS Director?

It should be more of a cloud-based architecture for Cisco UCS Director, and it should be affordable to small customers as well because the pricing is a major challenge when we talk about Cisco UCS ...

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What is your primary use case for Cisco UCS Director?

Mainly in my region and country, large data center customers are using Cisco UCS Director, not the SMB or mid-market customers. More of the on-premise customers are utilizing Cisco UCS Director. Th...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudAware?

That is pretty much good. I found it quite reasonable from the cost perspective.

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What needs improvement with CloudAware?

I am not exactly using CloudAware. I am looking forward to know about what CloudAware is doing. I need some cost optimization solution for a workload running in AWS. I want better dashboards and al...

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What is your primary use case for CloudAware?

We have almost 1 million of ARR workload running in AWS which includes 100 to 200 virtual machines as EC2 and RDS. We are struggling to map what exactly the cost optimization strategy we need to fo...

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Overview

Cisco UCS Director enables automated delivery of physical and virtual data center resources, empowering data centers to move at the speed of business.

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CloudAware offers robust cloud management solutions, enabling efficient infrastructure monitoring, cost optimization, and compliance adherence across various platforms. Users appreciate its CMDB for resource tracking, automated security protocols, and enhanced cost management features, which collectively enhance operational efficiency and foster better team collaboration.

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