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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    HashiCorp Nomad

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ANomad, from HashiCorp, is presented as a simple, flexible, and production-grade workload orchestrator that enables organizations to deploy, manage, and scale any application, containerized, legacy or batch jobs, across multiple regions, on private and public clouds. Nomad's workload support enables an organization to run containerized, non containerized, and batch applications through a single workflow. Nomad is available open source, or via a supported enterprise plan.N/A

    Red Hat OpenShift

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AOpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.

    $0.08

    per hour

    ServiceNow IT Operations Management

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ABuilt on the Now Platform, the ServiceNow IT Operations Management bundle is designed to help users gain visibility across infrastructure and apps, maintain service health, and optimize cloud delivery and spend.N/A
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    HashiCorp NomadRed Hat OpenShiftServiceNow IT Operations Management
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of HashiCorp Nomad and Red Hat OpenShift and ServiceNow IT Operations Management
    Feature
    HashiCorp Nomad
    -
    Ratings
    Red Hat OpenShift
    8.4
    324 Ratings
    8% above category average
    ServiceNow IT Operations Management
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    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings8.6275 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings9.3309 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings8.3290 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings8.6262 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings8.3291 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.5273 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings8.6283 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings8.3270 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.9284 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings8.1279 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings8.5285 Ratings00 Ratings
    AIOps Features
    Comparison of AIOps Features features of HashiCorp Nomad and Red Hat OpenShift and ServiceNow IT Operations Management
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    ServiceNow IT Operations Management
    7.8
    5 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Monitoring and Alerting00 Ratings00 Ratings7.84 Ratings
    Performance Analytics00 Ratings00 Ratings7.95 Ratings
    Incident Management00 Ratings00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
    Service Desk Integration00 Ratings00 Ratings8.55 Ratings
    Root Cause Analysis00 Ratings00 Ratings8.15 Ratings
    Capacity Planning Tool00 Ratings00 Ratings6.64 Ratings
    Configuration and Change Management00 Ratings00 Ratings8.85 Ratings
    Automated Remediation00 Ratings00 Ratings7.84 Ratings
    Collaboration and Communication00 Ratings00 Ratings6.94 Ratings
    Threat Intelligence00 Ratings00 Ratings6.93 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score9.6 out of 10
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    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HashiCorp NomadRed Hat OpenShiftServiceNow IT Operations Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (339 ratings)
    8.6
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    9.3
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    Usability
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    8.4
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    8.2
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    9.0
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    7.0
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    In-Person Training
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    7.0
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    Nomad is well suited for organizations who wish to tackle the problem of cloud computing with as little opinion as possible. Where competing tools like Kubernetes limit the concept of "batteries included," Nomad relies on engineers understanding the missing components and filling them in as necessary. The benefit of Nomad is the ability to build a system out of small pieces with the cost of having more complexity at a system level compared to alternatives.
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    Red Hat
    Red Hat OpenShift, despite its complexity and overhead, remains the most complete and enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform available. It excels in research projects like ours, where we need robust CI/CD, GPU scheduling, and tight integration with tools like Jupyter, OpenDataHub, and Quiskit. Its security, scalability, and operator ecosystem make it ideal for experimental and production-grade AI workloads. However, for simpler general hosting tasks—such as serving static websites or lightweight backend services—we find traditional VMs, Docker, or LXD more practical and resource-efficient. Red Hat OpenShift shines in complex, container-native workflows, but can be overkill for basic infrastructure needs.
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    ServiceNow
    If you’re integrating with a CCaaS platform, don't just stop at "Ticket Sync." Focus on the Service Mapping. Knowing which technical components support which "Customer Journeys" is the biggest value-add you can provide to your customers' businesses. Trust me, they will know the value added.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Nomad is incredibly simple by nature, following the Linux philosophy of doing one thing great. That one thing for Nomad is job scheduling.
    • Nomad is a modern tool, written in Go with a large community and maintained by HashiCorp.
    • Implementation of Nomad is very simple since it is a single binary.
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    Red Hat
    • We had a few microservices that dealt with notifications and alerts. We used OpenShift to deploy these microservices, which handle and deliver notifications using publish-subscribe models.
    • We had to expose an API to consumers via MTLS, which was implemented using Server secret integration in OpenShift. We were then able to deploy the APIs on OpenShift with API security.
    • We integrated Splunk with OpenShift to view the logs of our applications and gain real-time insights into usage, as well as provide high availability.
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    ServiceNow
    • Linking multipe records (Knowledge Items, Problem, change,. CI) to a single incident
    • A customers 'super" user has access to all cases that are filled by them.
    • When a change is filed and you link to the CI involved. You get an overview of all CI that depends on the involved CI.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Nomad only handles one part of a full platform. Expertise and vision are required in implementing an entire system that is functional enough for an organization to rely on. This includes other tools to handle things like secrets, service discovery, network routing, etc.
    • Nomad is delayed in some modern functionality, like features for service-mesh and open tracing. These features are on the tool's roadmap, but there's currently no native support. These paradigms can be established still, but require more expertise outside of Nomad itself.
    • Nomad is not the leading tool for this space, and as such risks being left behind by tools with much greater support, such as Kubernetes.
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    Red Hat
    • I wouldn't necessarily say there is look everyday technology transform. I can see a trend wherein Red Hat OpenShift is adopting all the new technology trends and helping their customers align with their priorities and the emerging technology trends. I wouldn't call out various scope for development every day. There is scope for development. It is all how the organizations adopt it and how they deliver it to their customers. I don't want to call out there is scope for development. It's happening. It is a never ending process.
    • At the moment, I don't have anything to call out. We are experiencing Red Hat OpenShift and we can see every day they're coming up with new features as and when they come up with new features, we want to experience it more and more. We are looking for opportunities wherein this can be leveraged to help our users and partners.
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    ServiceNow
    • A lot of flexibility in the licensing options which can get overwhelming.
    • They are just starting to get into helping with DevOps so I don't have as much experience there but it's a challenge for us.
    • Pricing negotiations - although that can be pretty much every vendor.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    This is the current strategy for the company, most of the products in the organisation are aligning to Openshift and various use cases it support. Also lot of applications are being developed for AI use case, openshift.AI provides opportunity to host and leverage the AI capabilities for these applications
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    ServiceNow
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    Usability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    As I said before, the obserability is one of the weakest point of OpenShift and that has a lot to do with usability. The Kibana console is not fully integrated with OpenShift console and you have to switch from tab to tab to use it. Same with Prometheus, Jaeger and Grafan, it's a "simple" integration but if you want to do complex queries or dashboards you have to go to the specific console
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    ServiceNow
    ServiceNow IT Operations Management assists your organization in actualizing proactive operations by anticipating issues before they affect users or the business, averting problems, streamlining workflows, and revolutionizing how your teams work together. ServiceNow IT Operations Management solutions offer actionable insights for your infrastructure, enabling you to utilize pre-built capabilities to accelerate value delivery and maintain 24/7 digital service operations across your entire IT environment.
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    Reliability and Availability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    Redhat openshift is generally reliable and available platform, it ensures high availability for most the situations. in fact the product where we put openshift in a box, we ensure that the availability is also happening at node and network level and also at storage level, so some of the factors that are outside of Openshift realm are also working in HA manner.
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    ServiceNow
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    Performance
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    Overall, this platform is beneficial. The only downsides we have encountered have been with pods that occasionally hang. This results in resources being dedicated to dead or zombie pods. Over time, these wasted resources occasionally cause us issues, and we have had difficulty monitoring these pods. However, this issue does not overshadow the benefits we get from Openshift.
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    ServiceNow
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    Their customer support team is good and quick to respond. On a couple of occassions, they have helped us in solving some issues which we were finding a tad difficult to comprehend. On a rare occasion, the response was a bit slow but maybe it was because of the festival season. Overall a good experience on this front.
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    ServiceNow
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    In-Person Training
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    I was not involved in the in person training, so i
    can not answer this question, but the team in my org worked directly
    with Openshift and able to get the in person training done easily, i did not
    hear problem or complain in this space, so i hope things happen
    seamlessly without any issue.
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    ServiceNow
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    Online Training
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    We went thru the training material on RH webesite, i think its very descriptive and the handson lab sesssions are very useful. It would be good to create more short duration videos covering one single aspect of openshift, this wll keep the interest and also it breaks down the complexity to reasonable chunks.
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    ServiceNow
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    Nomad's primary competitor is Kubernetes, specifically its scheduling component. Kubernetes is a much more complete system that will handle more things than job scheduling, including service discovery, secrets management, and service routing. There also exists a much larger community support for Kubernetes vs Nomad. One might say Kubernetes is the safer choice between the two. Kubernetes is the complete "operating system" for cloud computing, but with it includes complexities that are "Kubernetes" specific. The decision really comes down to a mindset of monolith vs components. With Kubernetes, I would argue you choose the entire system as a whole. With Nomad, you design your system piece by piece. There is no wrong answer.
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    Red Hat
    The Tanzu Platform seemed overly complicated, and the frequent changes to the portfolio as well as the messaging made us uneasy. We also decided it would not be wise to tie our application platform to a specific infrastructure provider, as Tanzu cannot be deployed on anything other than vSphere. SUSE Rancher seemed good overall, but ultimately felt closer to a DIY approach versus the comprehensive package that Red Hat OpenShift provides.
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    ServiceNow
    ServiceNow IT Operations Management is more flexible and easier to customize without altering core code. ServiceNow IT Operations Management enables more robust third-party integrations (e.g., Jira, Slack, ScienceLogic). ServiceNow IT Operations Management is easier to use and to implement. It is cloud-based and doesn't require "on-premise" infrastructure or solution.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    It's easy to understand what are being billed and what's included in each type of subscription. Same with the support (Std or Premium) you know exactly what to expect when you need to use it. The "core" unit approach on the subscription made really simple to scale and carry the workloads from one site to another.
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    ServiceNow
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    Scalability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    This is a great platform to deployment container applications designed for multiple use cases. Its reasonably scalable platform, that can host multiple instances of applications, which can seamlessly handle the node and pod failure, if they are configured properly. There should be some scalability best practices guide would be very useful
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    ServiceNow
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • Nomad has allowed our organization to deploy quicker and more frequently with a lower failure rate.
    • Nomad has brought in consistency from an operations perspective.
    • Nomad's performance allows us to scale infinitely while providing functionality that reduces mean time to repair (canary deploys, versioning, rollbacks, etc).
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    Red Hat
    • That is a complicated question and one that's not easy for me to answer. There's a lot of factors that go into all of the stuff that we just don't have an easy way of measuring. And we realize that while we're implementing Red Hat OpenShift, we've tried to start measuring some of that stuff, but we don't have a baseline to go on. So it's hard to say. What I can tell you is general experience with the platform has been extremely positive from the development aspect. Teams have been very, very happy with the speed at which they're able to do stuff. They've been happy with that. The way it works in one environment is exactly the way it works in the next environment because we don't have configuration drift, that type of thing, and has had very positive impacts. But we didn't have a baseline to start with. So I can't talk about getting there faster or anything like that.
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    ServiceNow
    • With the regular use of ServiceNow IT Operations Management platform, our incident resolution time has gone down by over 90% over the past year
    • Our access and role granting process has been streamlined leading to increased developer hours by around ~90 PM
    • With the enablement of AIOps driven impact prediction, we expect an improvement of user communication time by over 90%
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