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We performed a comparison between Cisco Intersight and Cisco Piston Enterprise OS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"Provides an overall view using a single portal.""The tool helps to manage Cisco servers.""Scalable portfolio of services for remote device management, with good cloud integration. It's also easy to set up.""We enjoy having an inside view of all the data centers and all the EdgeX nodes within a single portal rather than going into the EdgeX connections one by one.""Our organization uses Cisco Intersight since it helps manage our physical infrastructure.""The product has good integration.""Intersight can validate our environment.""What I like most about Cisco Intersight is its manageability."

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"It offers enough support so that you don't need to have the need to get another device."

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Cons
"An area for improvement in Cisco Intersight is automation. It needs more automation capabilities. Apart from enhanced automation, I want Cisco Intersight to integrate with third-party monitoring tools in its next release.""It's a very complex solution.""The product could be easy to use.""The product's setup should be easier.""In the future, the solution needs to plan on an extension to cover a broader range of objects since, at present, there are some Cisco devices within the range of Intersight UCS that it can't manage.""When new features are added, the service becomes full of bugs.""The usability must be better.""The unique problem with Cisco Intersight is that it's not supporting some players."

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"The solution is just too expensive, so maybe the pricing could be better."

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  • "Cisco Intersight is not cheap, but it's not the most expensive product either."
  • "It's just the standard licensing cost. There are no additional fees."
  • "Cisco Intersight has competitive pricing. On a scale of one to five, my rating for its pricing is four."
  • "You can get a free license for monitoring but need to purchase a license if you need extra control."
  • "The product is cost-effective."
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    Top Answer:Intersight can validate our environment.
    Top Answer:We used the solution's automation capabilities, but it wasn’t easy. It was part of why we took some time to deploy the solution. It didn't give us much value. It wasn't that good. Intersight is a… more »
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    Cisco Intersight is Cisco’s systems management platform that delivers intuitive computing through cloud-powered intelligence. This platform offers a more intelligent level of management that enables IT organizations to analyze, simplify, and automate their environments in ways that were not possible with prior generations of tools. This capability empowers organizations to achieve significant savings in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and to deliver applications faster, so they can support new business initiates. The advantages of the model-based management of the Cisco UCS platform plus Cisco Intersight are extended to Cisco UCS servers and Cisco HyperFlex and Cisco HyperFlex Edge systems. Cisco HyperFlex Edge is optimized for remote sites, branch offices, and edge environments.

    Piston Enterprise OS (pentOS) is an enterprise grade cloud operating system meeting the security and governance needs of enterprises wanting to use OpenStack for their infrastructure services. pentOS is an OpenStack distro that builds on top of the OpenStack codebase adding some proprietary features to meet the security and governance needs of the enterprise customers.

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    Computer Software Company43%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Manufacturing Company5%
    Healthcare Company5%
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    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise50%
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    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise76%
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    Cisco Intersight is ranked 13th in Cloud Management with 10 reviews while Cisco Piston Enterprise OS is ranked 51st in Cloud Management. Cisco Intersight is rated 7.8, while Cisco Piston Enterprise OS is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Intersight writes "Scalable and easy to set up portfolio of services; good for remote device management and other functions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Piston Enterprise OS writes "A simple interface and helpful support for a solution that grows with us". Cisco Intersight is most compared with Cisco UCS Manager, HPE OneView, IBM Turbonomic, Cisco UCS Director and VMware Aria Automation, whereas Cisco Piston Enterprise OS is most compared with Abiquo.

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