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Views 365 Comparisons 192 Reviews 3 Average Words per Review 283 Rating 7.3 | Views 23,093 Comparisons 14,737 Reviews 3 Average Words per Review 637 Rating 8.3 |
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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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Sample Customers | |
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 Company15% Comms Service Provider11% Government9% Computer Software Company43% Comms Service Provider19% Government5% Financial Services Firm4% |
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No Data Available | Small Business11% Midsize Enterprise12% Large Enterprise77% |
IBM Spectrum Computing is ranked 23rd in Cloud Management with 3 reviews while VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) is ranked 2nd in Cloud Management with 3 reviews. IBM Spectrum Computing is rated 7.4, while VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Computing writes "Provides stable backup for our databases and has good technical support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) writes "Provides a single pane of glass for management; helping us to have a holistic view". IBM Spectrum Computing is most compared with Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, whereas VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) is most compared with vCloud Director, VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), SaltStack, Ansible and OpenShift. See our IBM Spectrum Computing vs. VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) report.
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