Azure NetApp Files vs IBM Cloud Internet Services

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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IBM Cloud Internet Services is the best solution to provide security for your applications if you plan to integrate your applications with IBM Watson Services such as the Natural Language Classifier, Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text, Watson Assistant etc. These services are very easy to integrate and manage through IBM Cloud, and in turn, have out-of-the-box configurations for security provided by IBM Cloud Internet Services. It is not the best security solution to use if your applications are running on other cloud infrastructure providers' platforms

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Ramindu Deshapriya

Lead Consultant - Technology

VirtusaComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Azure NetApp Files

IBM Cloud Internet Services

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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Protection against online threats.
Domain management through IBM's intuitive interface.
Prevents interruptions caused by harmful traffic, while allowing good traffic, keeping websites, applications and APIs highly available and high performance.

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Telmo Salazar

Gerente Tecnologías de la Información

Tiendas Industriales AsociadasRetail, 5001-10,000 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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Request proxying is done by way of DNS name resolution, which is inflexible.
Proxy services do not work on wildcard DNS entries.

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Manager in Professional Services

Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 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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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.

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Project Manager in Information Technology

Automotive Company, 10,001+ 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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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%

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Ramindu Deshapriya

Lead Consultant - Technology

VirtusaComputer Software, 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

Azure NetApp Files Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

IBM Cloud Internet Services Editions & Modules

Edition

IBM Cloud Internet Services - Standard	$275.00¹
IBM Cloud Internet Services - Enterprise	Call

per month, per domain

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Rating Summary

Azure NetApp Files

IBM Cloud Internet Services

Azure NetApp Files vs IBM Cloud Internet Services