--- description: Review of Runecast 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: Runecast | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice AU --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Data Centre Management Software](/directory/4179/data-center-management/software) > [Runecast](/software/321119/runecast-analyzer) # Runecast Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/321119/runecast-analyzer Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/321119/runecast-analyzer?page=2) > Runecast is a provider of one solution designed to help IT Security and Operations teams like yours effectively manage and mitigate risks. Our platform offers a range of valuable features to enhance your operational efficiency and ensure system stability. With Runecast and its agentless scanning capabilities, you gain access to comprehensive vulnerability management, security hardening guidelines, best practices, configuration management, container security, security compliance, and hardware compatibility validation. We aim to simplify the planning process for vSphere upgrades by offering a user-friendly method to validate hardware compatibility. Our platform automates vulnerability management and security standards compliance audits across various platforms, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, VMware, Windows, and Linux OS. Through automated processes, we aim to save you time and effort, providing you with fit-gap analysis and remediation scripts. We also offer support for Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM), and Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC). We strive to assist you in maintaining compliance with industry standards and frameworks that include BSI IT-Grundschutz, CIS, Cyber Essentials, DISA STIG, DORA, Essential 8, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, KVKK, NIST, PCI DSS, TISAX, VMware Security Hardening Guidelines, and the CISA KEVs catalog. Our AI knowledge parser, Runecast AI Knowledge Automation (RAIKA), provides your teams with regular updates and insights, helping them stay informed about potential risks. Designed with hybrid and multi-cloud environments in mind, Runecast aims to save you time and money while securing your workloads. We pride ourselves on providing actionable insights and customizable reporting capabilities. Our platform allows for tailored reporting based on specific needs, helping you analyze patterns and generate audit reports. Each finding is accompanied by remediation guidance to empower your team to take action. Your privacy and control over your data are important to us. Runecast operates fully on-premises, ensuring that your data remains under your control. We offer a customizable rules engine, allowing you to define your own security policies. Runecast holds certifications from VMware for VMware Cloud on AWS and CIS certifications for VMware, AWS, and Windows Server. In 2020, Gartner recognized us as a "Cool Vendor" in their Performance Analysis for Cloud-Native Architectures report. > > Verdict: Rated **4.9/5** by 34 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.9/5** | 34 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Runecast Solutions - **Location**: London, UK - **Founded**: 2014 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: USD 500.00 - **Pricing model**: (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: 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. - **Target Audience**: 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 209 more ## Features - AI/Machine Learning - Activity Tracking - Alerts/Notifications - Assessment Management - Audit Management - Audit Trail - Cloud Application Security - Compliance Tracking - Customizable Reports - Customizable Templates - Dashboard - Data Aggregation - Data Import/Export - Device Auto Discovery - Environmental Compliance - ISO Compliance - IT Monitoring - IT Reporting - IT Risk Management - Incident Management ## Integrations (2 total) - Jira - ServiceNow ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Chat ## Category - [Data Centre Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4179/data-center-management/software) ## Related Categories - [Data Centre Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4179/data-center-management/software) - [Vulnerability Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4286/vulnerability-management/software) - [Cloud Security Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4329/cloud-security/software) - [AIOps Platforms](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4432/aiops-platforms/software) - [Risk Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4423/risk-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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It helps us to quckly identify and mitigate issues. > > **Cons**: As 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. ----- ### "Runecast at 'de Volksbank'" — 4.0/5 > **Rob** | *26 June 2020* | Financial Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: Runecast Analyzer saves De Volksbank’s IT team 75% of time previously spent on troubleshooting and identifying root causes of issues. The tedious manual approach of crawling through VMware Knowledge Base articles has been replaced with proactive automated problem prevention. > > **Cons**: The upgrade process in the past between major versions. The move from one appliance to another keeping all settings and data. > > “Our main goal is to serve our customers with a high-end, feature rich and robust electronic banking environment. With Runecast we can now proactively prevent outages on the systems that provide that environment.” On average, we prevent at least one host crash (or not responding) a month. That means 20 to 30 VM’s are kept running each month instead of annoying a customer with a problem at a cash machine or doing their online of mobile banking. That alone makes it worthwhile for us\! We utilize Runecast to prioritise remediation of newly detected issues in each sprint according to their level of severity. We also use it to generate concise monthly reports on the state of our virtual environment. ----- ### "The best in its league" — 5.0/5 > **Basim** | *26 June 2020* | Aviation & Aerospace | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: 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. > > **Cons**: What 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 ----- ### "Review" — 5.0/5 > **Yogendra** | *8 July 2020* | Airlines/Aviation | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: While patching or upgrade to new version you can easily see the compatibility of firmware /drivers both hardware and software. Helps to prevent PSOD by giving the prior suggestions. > > **Cons**: A complete upgrade matrix for vSphere . by checking all the product company is using. > > It is great\!\! ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/321119/runecast-analyzer?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/321119/runecast-analyzer) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data