Akamai Prolexic vs. IBM Cloud Internet Services

Akamai Prolexic

Akamai Prolexic

1 Reviews and Ratings

IBM Cloud Internet Services

IBM Cloud Internet Services

51 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Akamai Prolexic	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Akamai Prolexic offers DDoS protection always-on or on-demand for every environment, including cloud, on-prem (powered by Corero), and hybrid.	N/A
IBM Cloud Internet Services	Score 9.8 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	IBM Cloud Internet Services is a set of edge network services for securing internet-facing applications from DDoS attacks, data theft, and bot attacks, as well as optimizing their web apps or ensuring global responsiveness and the ongoing availability of their internet-facing applications.	$275 per month, per domain

Pricing

Akamai Prolexic

IBM Cloud Internet Services

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

IBM Cloud Internet Services - Standard: $275.00
per month, per domain
IBM Cloud Internet Services - Enterprise: Call

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Akamai Prolexic	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Akamai Prolexic	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Considered Both Products	Akamai Prolexic PP Pushpak Parmar BD Chose Akamai Prolexic As I mentioned earlier, the kind of security providing is to the best in market you could get. It is one of the major factor to select it. Along with that they are providing global presence and dedicated network with larger capacity. That pretty much sums up why we went for … Incentivized Helpful?	IBM Cloud Internet Services Alexandre Carvalho Senior Technical Support Engineer Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services IBM Cloud difference is the ability to use PPC hardware and to use IBM I operating system. Other cloud providers have a better interface and features for regular unix/windows vms. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services I have used Salesforce to explore it as an app but I have found them both able to solve my needs and requirements when it comes to security. While I choose IBM Cloud Internet Services for more accessibility, a better price was available with Saleforce. Although that is just my … Incentivized Helpful? Ramindu Deshapriya Lead Consultant - Technology Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services IBM Cloud Internet Services is the best service to use to ensure security, performance and reliability of applications deployed to IBM Cloud, as it is a service that provides in-built solutions for IBM Cloud Foundry applications. It also provides a great deal of pre-configured … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services Another option we looked into was Cloudflare, but we ended up with IBM Cloud Internet services mostly because of the intuitive interface and reliable customer support center. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services IBM Cloud Internet Services edged out Cisco solutions in terms of quality of user experience and need to have flexibility in parameterizing the solution in global organization. Amazon cloud solutions are comparable to IBM solutions. Incentivized Helpful? TS Telmo Salazar Gerente Tecnologías de la Información Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services Barracuda Web Filter is used to limit internet access to certain websites. This is a great tool with an easy to use interface that you can log into to monitor web browsing activities from your end user. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services They are IBM products that my engineers ramp up on in terms of skills Incentivized Helpful? Christophe MEUNIER-JACOB CEO & Co Founder Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services We prototyped a new feature based on it Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Akamai Prolexic	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Small Businesses	Cloudflare Score 8.9 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Cloudflare Score 8.9 out of 10	Cisco ACI Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprises	Akamai App & API Protector Score 8.5 out of 10	Cisco ACI Score 8.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Akamai Prolexic	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	7.5 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	6.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Akamai Prolexic	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Likelihood to Recommend	It is highly recommended to organisations with global presence. It is highly recommended to organisation focuses more on security and bandwidth. Super secured network. Best customer support you could get. The UI design seems to be something which is lacking better user experience, but this can be developed going further. Cost is also one thing to keep a check on. Incentivized PP Pushpak P BD Read full review	In terms of business challenges, it simplifies the job of my engineers and significantly increases the productivity of my teams when they collaborate with IBM teams all over the world. Now that we have completed a proof-of-concept using the services supplied by IBM, we expect it to assist us in managing them more efficiently; thus far, management has been straightforward. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	build servers in Power PC architecture (ppc) take advantage of IBM datacenters infrastructure around the world continue to use your apps running on AIX Incentivized Alexandre Carvalho Senior Technical Support Engineer Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	Request proxying is done by way of DNS name resolution, which is inflexible. Proxy services do not work on wildcard DNS entries. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	I have seen faster and more user friendly interfaces like Azure Incentivized Alexandre Carvalho Senior Technical Support Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	As I mentioned earlier, the kind of security providing is to the best in market you could get. It is one of the major factor to select it. Along with that they are providing global presence and dedicated network with larger capacity. That pretty much sums up why we went for this product. Incentivized PP Pushpak P BD Read full review	I have used Salesforce to explore it as an app but I have found them both able to solve my needs and requirements when it comes to security. While I choose IBM Cloud Internet Services for more accessibility, a better price was available with Saleforce. Although that is just my observation. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	Reduced security configuration time for Internet of Things applications by more than 50% Provided better security incident SLA for CouchDB databases via IBM Cloudant Reduced security verification time for CloudFoundry applications by ~15% Incentivized Ramindu Deshapriya Lead Consultant - Technology Read full review
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