Azure NetApp Files vs IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

Likelihood to Recommend

In my opinion, I would say it is more suitable to huge workloads, where you really needs the reliability and performance that a Netapp storage provides to you, larger share sizes, etc. Use cases where you really needs to store large amounts of non-structured data.It is not a cheap solution, I mean, you can find other options to store your data on the Cloud at smaller prices. So, for small companies, or companies that depends mostly on web-applications, or don't have such a specific requirements, I would not go with Azure Netapp Files.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employees

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Heavier usage of processor and/or memory with higher network requirements. Such as a robust, vertical database cluster or a robust Redis cluster. Their bare metal offerings are very suited for these use-cases as well as data-science requirements for modeling servers. Basically, anything that requires a large hardware requirement, these servers can deliver.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Online Media Company, 201-500 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Azure NetApp Files

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

Dynamic scaling

Elastic load balancing

Pre-configured templates

Monitoring tools

Pre-defined machine images

Operating system support

Security controls

Pros

We have found that it scales very well. In some cases we had a large existing storage infrastructure and were able to migrate it while other times we started from scratch with low storage demands and Azure NetApp Files fit the bill each time.
We have been impressed with the replication capabailities.
The read and write speed when interacting with files is a major asset.

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Professional in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 51-200 employees

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Multiple locations for distributed computing allowing faster download speeds for our customers and staff alike
Full service of domain registrations, SSL purchases, server rental, DNS servers, etc. This allows us to keep all of our necessary related services within a single console and single billing system.
Good backup system with off-site backup servers and easy disaster recovery

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Eric Thomas

IT supervisor

Internet and Mail Order Co. Ltd.Consumer Goods, 11-50 employees

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Cons

It does not support file locking although its available as an add-on
Design is far from native and has a learning curve
We would like to have backup functionality built in so that we don't run into the issue where the replication process makes a copy of the corrupted data.

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HARDIK CHUDASAMA

Software Developer

Tata Consultancy ServicesPharmaceuticals, 1001-5000 employees

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Ability to switch OS/platform license to customer's own license without being re-deploy.
Procedure for easy hardware refresh (especially hard drive) to ease cloning content to new hard drive. We have a 6 years disk and we very concern about it.
Other than that, everything is OK.

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C-Level Executive in Corporate

Airlines/Aviation Company, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers 7.7

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The support is decent and in an emergency they will help you if you make enough noise. However the creation of "class of customers" within the IBM ecosystem I think is a step backwards as it can put emergencies on the back burner simply because we didn't pay enough in monthly fees

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Internet Company, 11-50 employees

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Implementation Rating

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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers 8.2

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I've used IBM professional services in a few cases (not for my company but for some of my clients), and the people in professional services are really helpful. You call them and set a meeting for the initial planning session, but they usually most of the work already done, they just ask some questions and they fill in the blanks. However, in some cases implementation can take longer than planned.

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Gerardo Fernandez Ruiz

Consumer Electronics, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Azure NetApp Files is very well integrated with Microsoft Azure, we use the same request methods that everyone knows from Azure. NetApp and Microsoft has built a very efficient solution that allows you to transfer virtually any service to the Microsoft public cloud. Azure NetApp Files also protects our data very well.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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We've also had good success with Mac colocation services like MacStadium, being cheaper with unlimited networking, quite dependable and also very flexible when used with VMware, but with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers we have a lot more options on data center locations, fantastic network routing between data centers and any server capacity I would need. With regards to Azure, AWS, etc., those models just don't work for our projects, too many restrictions on networking and other details. IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are just easier.

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Gustavo Villarreal

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

Telecomunicaciones VGInformation Technology & Services, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Positive impact includes getting high performance when working with huge volumes of data along with low latency.
Did not encounter any negative impact as such except that it is comparatively costly than similar other services, but then it is tradeoff price vs performance.

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Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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This service helps us to have a professional hosting service in less than a week.
We had to get quality hardware in a professional managed data center. The cost was higher than if we had had an in-house solution, but totally worth it.
The higher cost vs cloud was a factor to switch to another cloud provider.

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Entertainment Company, 51-200 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

Azure NetApp Files Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Editions & Modules

Edition

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers	starting at $0.51¹
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers	starting at $324.00²

per hour
per month

Additional Pricing Details

IBM Bare Metal Servers provide performance, flexibility, on-demand provisioning, and control. Choose between hourly or monthly pre-configured servers or customize with single to quad processing solutions that range from 4 to 72 cores. Bare metal servers are available worldwide and with no monthly contracts so you can build the best solution for your workloads. Order a monthly bare metal server built to spec, and we’ll have it to you in two to four hours—with 500 GB/month outbound bandwidth included. Order an hourly bare metal server, and we’ll have it ready for you in 20 to 30 minutes. Public outbound bandwidth is charged per gigabyte.

Rating Summary

Azure NetApp Files

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

Azure NetApp Files

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

Azure NetApp Files

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers