IBM Spectrum Computing vs. VMware vRealize Automation (vRA)
As of February 2019, IBM Spectrum Computing is ranked 28th in Cloud Management vs VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) which is ranked 3rd in Cloud Management with 109 reviews. The top reviewer of VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) writes "Enables us to flex up or flex down the environment quickly; makes our DevOps processes more consistent". IBM Spectrum Computing is most compared with Red Hat CloudForms and Amazon EMR. VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) is most compared with vCloud Director, Red Hat CloudForms and vCenter Orchestrator.
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Information Not Available | It made the provisioning of the virtual machines easier and faster. We can react more quickly to customers' demands. A simplified version for small businesses would be good. We do plan to see ROI with any new implementation of new technologies being implemented within our environment. As far as value is concerned, it has been essential to our environment. We have been able to deploy VMs quickly and the developers have their own sandbox, so they can spin up and destroy VMs at their own will. There is confusion between licensing levels. There are three different licensed versions of vRealize Automation, and there are different things which can happen in each of them. vRealize automation really should be a front door to the whole VMware suite of products. The solution has helped to increase infrastructure, agility, speed, and provisioning in the time to market. We have seen significant ROI. We used to have physical servers, it took 90 days to get a server, order it, buy it, and get it in. We have it down to 10 minutes, building a server with virtualization, and now that's too slow. So, we let the customer do it at their speed. Therefore, it is pretty much up in a couple of minutes and they have a server. |
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Views 939 Comparisons 300 Reviews 0 Followers 217 Avg. Rating N/A | Views 9,304 Comparisons 5,000 Reviews 108 Followers 521 Avg. Rating 8.0 |
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| IBM Platform Computing | VMware vRealize Automation, vRA, VMware DynamicOps Cloud Suite |
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IBM Spectrum Computing uses intelligent workload and policy-driven resource management to optimize resources across the data center, on premises and in the cloud. Now up to 150X faster and scalable to over 160,000 cores, IBM provides you with the latest advances in software-defined infrastructure to help you unleash the power of your distributed mission-critical high performance computing (HPC), analytics and big data applications as well as a new generation open source frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark. | VMware vRealize Automation automates the delivery of personalized infrastructure, applications and custom IT services. This cloud automation software lets you deploy across a multi-vendor hybrid cloud infrastructure, giving you both flexibility and investment protection for current and future technology choices. Agility Through Automation Automate the end-to-end delivery and management of infrastructure, and accelerate application deployment and releases. Choice Through Flexibility Provision and manage multivendor, multicloud infrastructure and applications by leveraging existing infrastructure, tools and processes. Personalization Through Governance Policies Ensure that users receive the right size resource or application at the appropriate service level for the jobs they need to perform. Efficiency Through Cost Containment Provide consistent, automated delivery and management of IT services and reduce time-consuming, manual processes. Reclaim inactive resources for reuse with automated reclamation, providing cost savings. |
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| London South Bank University, Transvalor, Infiniti Red Bull Racing, Genomic | Rent-a-Center, Amway, Vistra Energy, Liberty Mutual |
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No Data Available | Financial Services Firm20% Healthcare Company16% Retailer10% Comms Service Provider10% Pharma/Biotech Company35% Comms Service Provider22% Financial Services Firm16% Marketing Services Firm8% |
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