Runecast
About Runecast
Runecast Pricing
For VMware technologies, the licensing model is based on the number of CPU sockets in the licensed ESXi hosts (neither number of cores nor VMs matter). Licensing/Pricing is available with 1-year and 3-year subscription options. For operating systems, a BA is a Windows or Linux asset/agent. For Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud (formerly Google Cloud Platform or GCP) technologies, licensing/pricing is based per BAs, per month, with a 1-year license. For Kubernetes technologies, licensing is based on BAs, with Nodes (containing at least one pod) considered BAs. Contact Runecast Solutions for custom quote.
Starting price:
$500.00 per year
Free trial:
Available
Free version:
Not Available
Most Helpful Reviews for Runecast
1 - 5 of 34 Reviews
Paolo
Verified reviewer
Cosmetics, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed May 2018
System Engineer, I design and manage IT services. Author of Nolabnoparty.com tech blog.
I can have the situation of my virtual environment always under control from a centralized console knowing if anything bad is occurring to the infrastructure. It allows me to save time and plan appropriate maintenance windows avoiding services disruption.
PROSAn easy to use solution, very useful to prevent potential issues on your virtual infrastructure. The well designed Dashboard allows you to have the overall status of your infrastructure from a single pane of glass. Being constantly under development, Runecast releases updates as soon as new issues or new KB are released by VMware saving the administrators from potential services disruption. Despite daily checks of the virtual infrastructure, not all issues can be detected on time. If the system has a problem, the users will have a problem. Runecast gives you the information you need to prevent potential and dangerous issues saving lot of time and keeping the environment healthy. Just think about Meltdown and Spectre issue... in large environments to identify hosts affected by this problem takes ages. With Runecast you can have the exact overview of hosts that need to be patched in a matter of seconds.
CONSNo much to say about cons... for SMBs the application price perhaps can influence the purchase decision but the provided benefits are valuable. Anyway preventing issues surely cost less than fixing.
Vendor Response
Thank you, Paolo! We love your blog and your kind reviews!
Replied June 2018
Basim
Aviation & Aerospace, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2020
The best in its league
RuneCast made our life so easy. It look a job of days and turned it into minutes. Not only that, we had to ready each and every best practice document for each release and product (vSphere, vCenter, Horizon), RuneCase made it all in one. It also helped us to verify the compliance of our drivers with the release we use of ESXi as this use to be a manual process too. so easy to deploy... its OVF, assign IP and you are ready to go... so so so simple What I also love about it is that they keep on adding features without asking the customers to pay more or bring up a new license... The best value for money you will ever see in todays products.
CONSWhat I would like to see in RuneCast is that... Customers should be able to define their own baselines and it should compare your installation against it... currently it has built-in (vmware best practices, CIS, etc...), where what I see it should allow us to customize and run the analysis against our settings and then print it in a report format ... this will help us to showcase our compliance to audit team
Reason for choosing Runecast
I researched a lot those days (2 years back) and came to a conclusion that RuneCast is unmatchable in its field. I haven't researched recently asI'm really happy with the product and not planning to switchover to any new product.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your review and ideas!
Replied June 2020
Antonin
Computer Networking, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed July 2020
Tried last year
Easy integration and installation, everything OK.
CONSWell hard to say, its almost 2 years, but maybe price?
Reasons for switching to Runecast
Veeam Cloud service provider program
Vendor Response
Thanks for your review of an older version of Runecast Analyzer. Try our latest release, as we've introduced way more capabilities in the last two years!
Replied July 2020
Georgi
Pharmaceuticals, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2023
Runesact usage in pharma company
It is easy to implement and use by all IT teams. what is impressive is how deep and detailed the information RuneCast provides. It helps us to quckly identify and mitigate issues.
CONSAs we're working in a heavily regulated industry, compliance is critical to us Keeping our systems compliant with the regulatory standards is crucial for our IT department. It also helps us to quickly identify and fix any configuration or security parameters of our virtual infrastructures before they become a major problem. Integration of the product into our business was very easy.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your review of Runecast, Georgi!
Replied October 2023
Chad
Verified reviewer
Construction, 501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2022
Runecast simplifies IT Security/Vulnerability Management
Runecast took me less than 15 minutes to deploy on my own and needs little to no maintenance. It just works every single time. I never have any problems with it and support is always friendly and prompt when I do need help with a license issue or something. I cannot rate this product highly enough.
PROSThe thing I like most about this software is its ease of use. I simply pull up the dashboard and I can visually see based on colors how severe a vulnerability is. I can then very easily drill into any of the vulnerabilities Runecast detected and get valuable information on how to mitigate the vulnerability in question.
CONSThe only thing I would improve about this software is creating more "push button" compliance assessments (NIST, CMMC, etc.).
Vendor Response
Chad, thank you for your feedback, we really appreciate it!
Replied September 2022