Cisco Intersight vs IBM Rational ClearCase

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco Intersight is very well suited for doing firmware upgrades across all of your cisco hardware. So far we have had no problems pushing out new firmware. It's also well suited for hardware management. Cisco TAC has the ability to pull logs for the IMC for themselves, which saves you from having to pull the logs yourself and then uploading them to the case. It may or may not be appropriate for upgrading operating systems. I have not been able to test it.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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IBM Rational ClearCase might be better suited for a smaller / simpler code base. Larger code bases really slow it down... but then again there are better alternatives out there for source control

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Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pros

Accessible from anywhere online.
Cisco is always adding new functionality.
Easy to learn and use on a daily basis.

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Professional in Information Technology

Airlines/Aviation Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Rational ClearCase is excellent for handling versioning and branching. No other tool I've used has the depth that ClearCase has when it comes to handling complex branching scenarios and identifying where certain versions of particular files are within a particular configuration.
Rational ClearCase handles parallel development of many dependent applications really well.
The use of ClearCase Views to switch between projects and configurations is extremely convenient as opposed to the local workstation model of the competitors.

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Administrator in Information Technology

Pharmaceuticals Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Mobile app has some minor display issues.
Most exciting features are still being rolled out.

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Wouter Hindriks

Technical Team Lead Network & Security

Missing Piece BVInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Extremely buggy.
Sometimes the repository gets locked for no reason.
Slow.

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Engineer in Engineering

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Cisco Intersight 8.2

Based on 1 answer

Basic version is free, good functionality now and many interesting things on the roadmap.

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Wouter Hindriks

Technical Team Lead Network & Security

Missing Piece BVInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

Cisco Intersight 8.2

Based on 4 answers

Because Cisco is actively developing Cisco Intersight.
Because Cisco listens to users of Cisco Intersight and actively develops suggestions and fix issues found.

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Joacim Wicander

Senior Data Center Engineer

Conscia Sweden ABInformation Technology & Services, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We use the Dell OpenManage product previously when we were using Dell servers. Cisco Intersight has much more capabilities than Dell OpenManage had in the past. I haven't used any other product lately which would allow me to compare the features. We use What's up gold for up/down monitoring but It doesn't have the firmware update features.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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If development is centrallized to one location and your company releases hundreds of customized versions of your software per year, then ClearCase is the best tool for managing the complexity of multiple versions of customized software. If your company has globally distributed development, then I'd recommend Team Foundation Server over ClearCase. If your organization uses Agile Methodologies, then I'd recommend TFS with GIT.

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Return on Investment

Basic Intersight access is free to all Cisco customers.
You can decide what level of functionality fits your needs and budget.

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Airlines/Aviation Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Managed code versioning for many years.
Only one person can edit code at a time - slows processing down.
IBM is an expensive product to support.

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Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No