Rackspace Cloud [EOL] vs Red Hat OpenShift comparison

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Rackspace Cloud [EOL]

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Red Hat OpenShift

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

PaaS Clouds (3rd), Server Virtualization Software (3rd), Container Management (5th), Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms (2nd), Agile and DevOps Services (1st)

Featured Reviews

Rajbir Singh

Director - DevOps and Infrastructure at INTIGRAL

There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services

It is very stable. It works 99.9 percent of the time. We are quite happy with it. This product is used to help broadcast football games' live streams, video matches and fantasy games, and it is used extensively. We have almost two million plus downloads, and during peak seasons, we could have 100,000 concurrent users watching 11 different matches.

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Ayman Abuqutriyah

Operation Director at Zaintech

Platform has transformed our cloud into a secure, unified home for diverse modern applications

One of the best features of Red Hat OpenShift is that it has the catalog, the application catalog, and the operator hub, which allows us to deploy things easily and straightforward without going into a lot of hassles. This is one of the main things, in addition to having integration with ACM and ACS, where we can have the ability to manage multiple clusters and to secure them, deploy them, manage them, run GitOps and day-two operations, as well as upgrades and other functionality which is made easy using these tools. Red Hat OpenShift also provides virtualization capabilities, and I am currently working with Zain to make a project where we will convert F5 appliances to virtual machines and to manage them through Red Hat virtualization, OVE. Red Hat OpenShift is a unique platform because it provides the features for both worlds, containerization, and VMs at the same time, requiring you to learn one skillset in order to manage all of this at the same time. In the beginning, our cloud depended only on virtual machines, so I introduced this to our management to start to work with microservices and with containerization. This was adapted in our cloud, providing us the capability to sell more of these features and to reduce the hardware requirement by about thirty percent, following the trends of using containerization for all modern applications. In addition, it reduced the time to develop and to deploy a new application; all we need is using Jenkins for CI/CD. Once we commit any code, it gets triggered, and it will implement the new container in a very flexible and easy way, within seconds. This decreased the time to market and increased agility, allowing us to capture new opportunities very fast.

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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

"The most valuable feature for us is the support, which is really efficient."

"There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services."

"The new generation of Rackspace Cloud servers are a strong improvement over the first generation."

"Image backup is a valuable feature, and even though this is a common feature, it is very helpful for us."

"Ability to quickly create reliable virtual servers."

"It is very stable; it works 99.9 percent of the time, and we are quite happy with it."

"The tourism business is seasonally based, therefore our infrastructure needs are variable, and this service works perfectly for us."

"It's cloud agnostic and the containerization and security features are outstanding."

"The solution is easy to scale."

"What I appreciate from Red Hat OpenShift is the capacity to provide an integrated and secure environment that is more or less better than creating the environment from scratch or based on standard Kubernetes."

"Red Hat OpenShift has positively impacted my organization primarily through observability, as for us, application uptime matters a lot when providing public-facing products consumed by customers, and hence, we're using that to keep refining our application and products through observability metrics and keeping pace with market trends, as we promised 99.99% uptime to our customers, and the observability in Red Hat OpenShift is really helping us a lot with that."

"OpenShift offers robust tools for monitoring application traffic, allowing us to analyze client requests and other business-related metrics."

"We have found the solution to be very scalable during our time using it, and we now have a large number of transactions passing through the product."

"OpenShift offers an easy-to-use graphical user interface for cluster management, making it more accessible for administrators."

"The most valuable aspect of this solution is the great customer service and the ability for our team to get assistance when we need it."

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Cons

"It would be nice to have more built-in suites compared to others. It would enable easier integration."

"Comparatively, this solution is a bit expensive."

"It's often difficult to get timely support with a ticket, they seem to live by phone calls there."

"It doesn't offer Elastic IP like AWS. And also we can't configure our server based on region."

"I had a few instances where techs on off hours made extremely bad decisions, resulting in extended site outages lasting hours."

"Vertical scalability is very limited compared with Amazon EC2, which offers many sorts of instances."

"Not a ten because it's not a standard solution and the endpoint protection user has to prepare with documentation or have training from other people. It's not easy to start because it's not like other solutions."

"My team contacts OpenShift support whenever there's an issue, and it was a very bad experience."

"We experienced issues around desktop security, which stopped us from implementing a new feature that had been developed."

"Possibly, the most complicated part is the configuration for an application."

"There is no orchestration platform in OpenShift, but we do in Kubernetes."

"One area for improvement is the documentation. They need to make it a little bit more user-friendly. Also, if you compare certain features and the installation process with Rancher, Rancher is simpler."

"Red Hat OpenShift is very expensive."

"The software-defined networking part of it caused us quite a bit of heartburn. We ran into a lot of problems with the difference between on-prem and cloud, where we had to make quite a number of modifications... They've since resolved it, so it's not really an issue anymore."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Comparatively, this solution is a bit expensive."

"The service includes licenses (for operating systems, databases, etc.). Asset management is easier with services like that."

"It's important to start small because the solution is scalable. We can build our cluster and look at the bundle option, not the external subscriptions. Talking to the people at Red Hat can save us money."

"Depending on the extent of the product use, licenses are available for a range of time periods, and are renewable at the end of the period."

"The product has reasonable pricing."

"The product's support is expensive. I would rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten."

"The solution is cost-effective."

"The price depends on the type and the nature of the organizations, along with the types of projects that are of considerable range."

"My company makes payments towards the licensing costs attached to OpenShift."

"I don't deal with the cost part, but I know that the cost is very high when compared to other products. They charge for CPU and memory, but we don't worry about it."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

16%

Outsourcing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Healthcare Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	2

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	19
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	58

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Overview

Rackspace is a listed company that specializes in hybrid cloud environments to support your applications and sites. The environments are based on its open-source operating system OpenStack.Rackspace Cloud caters for the private cloud, public cloud, dedicated servers, or a hybrid of platforms.

Your Rackspace Cloud environment is customizable according to your cloud requirements, and all products work together seamlessly from one portal.

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Red Hat OpenShift is a comprehensive platform offering versatile container orchestration capabilities, suitable for businesses seeking robust, scalable, and secure solutions for application modernization efforts and microservices deployment.

Red Hat OpenShift combines a user-friendly interface with powerful CLI tools, ensuring rapid deployment and process automation. It seamlessly integrates with Docker and Kubernetes, providing cloud-native stacks for flexibility and compliance. Enhancing development efficiency, OpenShift includes built-in CI/CD tools and dynamic scaling features. It supports multi-cloud environments, avoiding vendor lock-in. However, documentation gaps, interface complexity, and infrastructure demands present challenges, alongside improving integration with third-party tools and monitoring capabilities. Licensing complexities and resource consumption remain areas for improvement, with user experience varying due to support response times.

What are Red Hat OpenShift's key features?

User-Friendly GUI: Offers an intuitive interface for managing containers and applications.
CLI Tools: Robust command line tools for efficient development workflows.
Scalability: Supports dynamic scaling to meet changing demands.
Integration: Seamless integration with Docker and Kubernetes.
Security: Features like role-based access control enhance security.
CI/CD Tools: Built-in tools like Jenkins streamline the development lifecycle.
Multi-Cloud Support: Enables use across different cloud providers.

What benefits should users consider in reviews?

Deployment Speed: Faster application rollouts and updates.
Automation: Reduces manual tasks, increasing operational efficiency.
Security: High-security standards for protecting applications.
Adaptability: Flexible framework suited for diverse environments.
Resource Management: Efficient allocation of resources for cost savings.

In industries embracing cloud-native architectures, Red Hat OpenShift is adept for hosting containerized applications and transitioning legacy systems. It excels in managing DevOps processes, supporting production and development in sectors such as finance, healthcare, and technology, ensuring robust hybrid on-premise and cloud operations.

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