--- description: Review of OpenStack Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: OpenStack | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice GB --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [IaaS Software](/directory/4603/iaas-solutions/software) > [OpenStack](/software/283557/openstack) # OpenStack Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/283557/openstack Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/283557/openstack?page=2) > OpenStack is a cloud operating system solution that helps users manage large amounts of networking resources, compute and storage through the use of a data center and APIs. It offers an intuitive platform with a user-friendly dashboard and additionally also provides orchestration, service management and fault management to name a few. > > Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 13 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 13 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Rackspace - **Founded**: 1998 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Per Feature - **Pricing Details**: Contact Rackspace for pricing details. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200 - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English, German, Portuguese, Spanish - **Available Countries**: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Hong Kong SAR China, India, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela ## Features - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Authentication - Capacity Analytics - Cloud Computing - Cost Management - File Sharing - Multi-Cloud Management - Performance Analysis ## Support Options - Phone Support - Chat ## Category - [IaaS Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4603/iaas-solutions/software) ## Related Categories - [IaaS Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4603/iaas-solutions/software) - [Cloud Integration Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4676/cloud-management/software) - [Cloud Storage Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4231/cloud-storage/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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It also provides SDK for some programming languages to automatize entities management. > > **Cons**: The web interface for management is a bit more complex and difficult to understand. In compare with another commercial solutions it lacks some extended features. The popularity of OpenStack dropped in-time. > > We use OpenStack to provide automatized solution for our clients. It was popular and contains open-source solution for cloud virtualization. Nowadays the popularity dropped down so we slowly dropping support. ----- ### "OpenStack - A open-source software platform for cloud computing." — 5.0/5 > **Gurleen** | *18 February 2019* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: OpenStack is a open-source software platform used for cloud computing. Rackspace Hosting and NASA mutually launched it in 2010. OpenStack architecture is simple and easy to understand and implement. The Heat orchestration provide an ample amount of template to implement the main service pipeline. It simplifies the control for managing the large amount of computing, storage and networking. Dashboard gives the complete infrastructural view and gives the platform to administrate the things in the single web interface. Managing the virtualization of storage, CPU, memory and other resource is easy with using IaaS. > > **Cons**: Public, Private cloud distribution work more efficiently but it needs huge time to setup according to your infrastructures requirement and same time we need for the upgrade of service or product. The other thing I least like in it is management of containers should be more simple as it is one of the most useful feature of OpenStack. > > I am working with the OpenStack IaaS from past many years and it surely increases the software delivery speed. The unified management helps in tracking the CloudForm cost. We can also control our resource accounting to the compliance of the product. ----- ### "OpenStack User Review" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *12 August 2022* | Telecommunications | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Very easy to tack the usage and resources using dashboard. Easy to create/delete/modify VM's. Lot of saving in term of actual hardware usage > > **Cons**: Deployment is bit tedious. Some GUI forms can be improved. Example templates can be given. > > Very great product . Saves a lot of user/company cost due to maximizing the hardware usage using VM's. Easy to use and operate by end user . Few simple clicks will lead to a great world of cloud ----- ### "The revolution in the Cloud" — 4.0/5 > **Prasuk** | *27 February 2019* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: Whatever could be done is being done by openstack foundation. A plenty of projects are being ran under the Openstack foundation, be it core services like Network, Compute, Storage or additional services Containerization, Microservices everything is here at openstack. > > **Cons**: The Openstack being opensource has a lot of things to be done yet the contributors are put a lot of there efforts for a fully stable Openstack. ----- ### "OpenStack Review" — 5.0/5 > **Abid** | *15 May 2020* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: OpenStack Software is Unified Cloud Computing software that can manage very large pools of resources including compute , storage and networking in the data center environment to cop businesses requirement,its also have nice api to automate and program the cloud network as you want to be.it can also be integrated with VMware Sphere as per need or requirements > > **Cons**: third party integration plugins and packages can be difficult to integrate sometimes,it needs specific domain knowledge and expertise. > > we are using open stack as first line of cloud deployment in the data center with all required features and services with single platform to meet business needs. ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/283557/openstack?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/283557/openstack) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data