"Cisco has a very wide network-based competency."
"The integration with other solutions like Apache is valuable."
"Some of the main features of this solution are it is less prone to viruses since most viruses are written for Microsoft software, and it is easy to use."
"It is scalable. I can customize it based on what I want to do."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that Linux has cost-effective licenses."
"You can do everything you need to do with a browser."
"The solution has high fantastic performance."
"The solution has proven to be scalable. It can scale quite well."
"The most valuable features are the pseudo-terminal and it is the most open-sourced operating system that can be used."
"Cisco Piston OpenStack needs to be more closely integrated between different solutions to work seamlessly for the client and the deployment team."
"The user interface must be more user-friendly for non-technicians."
"The solution's initial setup is complex, and its technical support is not very good."
"Ubuntu might work for a bigger company, but I don't think so. Again, you would have to get the right people to do it. You need somebody technical. If you have a bunch of people who aren't technical, then it is just going to be a headache trying to get a feel for it or teach them."
"Ubuntu could be improved with more container integration and orchestration of those containers. We are looking to have more cloud-based solutions, like Docker, and container-based solutions, or Kubernetes-based solutions integrated with Ubuntu. Instead of going for VMs, we would like to have more container-based solutions on top of Ubuntu."
"On the gaming side, things are happening but there are some games that should be ported to Ubuntu."
"It could be better for working with software at a high resolution."
"It can be improved in terms of user-friendliness for inexperienced users. It also has a lot of scope for improvement in terms of deployment. It is kind of hard for inexperienced users, and the learning curve is very steep. There is not really good documentation for new professionals. Even we are using network servers to install it."
"I am really very satisfied with this solution. However, one thing that I would like to see improve, is to have better support for multiple screens with multiple resolutions. For me, that is the most important feature."
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 "A stable and free solution that is easy to deploy and has a user-friendly GUI". 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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