Runecast Analyzer Review

Runecast adds value, security & stability to AWS, Azure, Kubernetes & VMware Runecast Analyzer is a predictive and actionable support intelligence solution for AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and VMware admins. It mitigates lost time and other costs incurred from troubleshooting often-complex issues only in a limited and reactive capacity by proactively scanning VMware and AWS environments in real-time to discover potential risks and provide admins with remediation solutions before any issues can develop into a major outage. Runecast News! - Runecast Analyzer (version 4.7.5.0) adds proactive audits and reporting for Cyber Essentials compliance in vSphere environments, plus new ServiceNow integration. - Runecast Analyzer 4.5 introduces Kubernetes best practices & security checks and adds Custom Profiles. NAVIGATING YOUR AWS JOURNEY Runecast helps teams with a simpler transition to AWS, enabling admins to fully understand their hybrid environments. Running securely on-prem, it provides insights into what is happening both in the cloud and on-site. IMMEDIATE VALUE FOR TEAMS As Runecast Analyzer helps teams to stabilize availability and ensure security compliance, its ROI contributes also to greater ROI for both existing and future AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and VMware investments. ISSUE PREVENTION Continuously checks your environment for configuration issues against known issues, security standards, Hardware Compatibility Lists, best practices, forums, etc. to provide you insights to stabilize and secure your VMware + AWS infrastructure. Runecast gives administrators a detailed one-stop look at the past, present, and future of their VMware systems with log analysis to help track past situations, real-time issue recognition for the present, and automated VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) and ESXi upgradability checks for a predictive look at the future – all while providing a direct path to remediation. SECURITY COMPLIANCE Runecast Analyzer is a tool for automated alignment with VMware security best practices (from the VMware Security Configuration Guide – previously VMware Hardening Guide) and common standards like CIS Benchmarks, NIST 800-53, PCI DSS, HIPAA, DISA STIG 6, GDPR, ISO 27001, BSI IT-Grundschutz, Essential 8 and Cyber Essentials Security Standard. FULLY ON-PREM SECURE Operates fully on-prem to analyze your hybrid-cloud environment, so that your data remains safely on-site. To provide additional security, Runecast Analyzer features a customizable, transparent rules engine. HOW IT WORKS Connect all your vCenters and AWS API to a single, lightweight Runecast Analyzer virtual appliance and take control from a single dashboard. Runecast Analyzer engine has full offline capabilities and can even be upgraded in offline mode. Its patent-pending rules engine uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to automatically discover misconfigurations in your environment that can cause failed security audits and/or trigger outages. By continuously monitoring more than 30K sources of industry information, as well as any updates made to them over time, Runecast Analyzer is able to proactively detect any latent issues, best practice deviations, and security non-compliances before problems can occur, ensuring that IT admins remain ‘audit ready’ at all times and are able to invest more time into other projects. With a fully comprehensive API and plugins for vSphere Web Client (Flex & H5) and vRealize Orchestrator, Runecast Analyzer deploys as a virtual appliance in just 5 minutes, with no learning curve or internet required. With two clicks, admins can see the results of multiple HCL upgrade simulation scenarios within seconds, and the findings are presented in a comprehensive way with details about any non-compatibility and how to resolve it. SUPPORTED SERVICES SUPPORTED SERVICES: VMware - vSphere 5.x+ (fully supported on vSphere 7), vSAN, NSX-T, NSX-V 6.2+, Horizon 6.x+; AWS - AWS Config, AWS Health, Cloudfront, Cloudtrail, Cloudwatch, EC2, IAM, RDS, Redshift, S3, VPC, ServiceNow.