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Based on 52 reviews and ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI) is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Usability
Likelihood to Recommend

9.1
Cisco ACI
91%
25 Ratings
7.7
IBM Cloud Internet Services
77%
10 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew

9.1
Cisco ACI
91%
3 Ratings
IBM Cloud Internet Services
N/A
0 Ratings
Usability

7.8
Cisco ACI
78%
4 Ratings
6.0
IBM Cloud Internet Services
60%
1 Rating
Availability

9.1
Cisco ACI
91%
2 Ratings
IBM Cloud Internet Services
N/A
0 Ratings
Performance

9.3
Cisco ACI
93%
9 Ratings
IBM Cloud Internet Services
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating

8.1
Cisco ACI
81%
9 Ratings
IBM Cloud Internet Services
N/A
0 Ratings
In-Person Training

8.2
Cisco ACI
82%
1 Rating
IBM Cloud Internet Services
N/A
0 Ratings
Implementation Rating

9.1
Cisco ACI
91%
3 Ratings
IBM Cloud Internet Services
N/A
0 Ratings
Product Scalability

8.7
Cisco ACI
87%
9 Ratings
IBM Cloud Internet Services
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco ACI
Implementation of a new application into Cisco ACI, with all of the relevant groups of servers and storage, is very easy to carry out, as long as all of the communications between the servers are known. Migrating an existing application into the platform was found to be extremely difficult, as legacy applications are often built on a flat network, where this kind of information wasn't documented in the required depth.
Senior Cyber Security Engineer
South Yorkshire PoliceLaw Enforcement, 10,001+ employees
IBM Cloud Internet Services
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.

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employeesPros
Cisco ACI
- The REST API allows your to programmatically interact with the network and make massive changes very quickly when needed.
- The API allows you to tie together Server Provisioning tools, storage provisioning tools, into an orchestration platform such as Ansible to streamline new deployments and builds.
- New Deployments are extremely simple once you've worked out your programatic deployment process. We can deploy new clients/tenants in seconds rather than days or weeks like it used to take.
- Replacing failed switches/apics/etc is also extremely easy.
- Tightly couple the underlying Network Infrastructure to VMWare Deployments to allow VMs to move anywhere in the datacenter at the drop of a hat.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesIBM Cloud Internet Services
- Integration with IBM Cloud applications
- Easy to manage web application firewall
- Ease of protecting CloudFoundry applications
- Good console UI
- Protection for rare managed service offerings such as CouchDB through IBM Cloudant
Lead Consultant - Technology
VirtusaComputer Software, 10,001+ employees
Cons
Cisco ACI
- Cost is always a challenge and ACI is no different.
- The linkage between ACI and Tetration has been rebranded since the initial marketeering of it and this has caused confusion and in some cases diminished the business case as a result.
- The fact that Cisco has developed multiple Orchestrators of their differing network stacks causes issues when trying to pull together a singular approach to orchestration across a Cisco e-2-e network in an Enterprise.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employeesIBM Cloud Internet Services
- Request proxying is done by way of DNS name resolution, which is inflexible.
- Proxy services do not work on wildcard DNS entries.

Verified User
Manager in Professional Services
Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employeesPricing Details
Cisco ACI
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Cisco ACI Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—IBM Cloud Internet Services
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0
IBM Cloud Internet Services Editions & Modules
Edition
IBM Cloud Internet Services - Standard | $275.001 |
---|---|
IBM Cloud Internet Services - Enterprise | Call |
- per month, per domain
- none
Additional Pricing Details
—Likelihood to Renew
Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI 9.1
Based on 3 answers
Cisco ACI is doing exactly what was intended for it to do, that is support our next generation data centre, improve security, and increase resiliency. Migrating to another platform would be a waste of time, resource and energy, which could be better spent migrating more legacy applications into the Cisco ACI fabric.
Senior Cyber Security Engineer
South Yorkshire PoliceLaw Enforcement, 10,001+ employees
IBM Cloud Internet Services
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Usability
Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI 7.8
Based on 4 answers
Cisco ACI has changed the traditional data center model into a new era of automation and agility. The product was considerably easy to deploy met all the expectations. In terms of usability, ACI provides a unified interface for managing the whole infrastructure in one place which is the main benefit for users (admins)

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 5001-10,000 employeesIBM Cloud Internet Services
IBM Cloud Internet Services 6.0
Based on 1 answer
I have seen faster and more user friendly interfaces like Azure
Senior Technical Support Engineer
FalconStor SoftwareComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Reliability and Availability
Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI 9.1
Based on 2 answers
no outages

Verified User
Professional in Sales
Telecommunications Company, 1001-5000 employeesIBM Cloud Internet Services
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Performance
Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI 9.3
Based on 9 answers
I do not give it 10 because the platform evolves more and more every day in the data traffic of the datacenter.But the implementations that they carry out for different clients of the platform are very happy with the result of the same over time.Another point that you notice about the platform, despite its good performance, is the low use of energy used by this 24x7 on, it is a good fact to take into account for our environment.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Telecommunications Company, 1001-5000 employeesIBM Cloud Internet Services
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI 8.1
Based on 9 answers
Application and service support, in times where we needed consulation, were superb. Issues were mainly due to familiarity of our Senior Engineers with this new tool or application, and the uncertainties were clearly explained by the Support Team. All the while, an "unofficial" training, so to speak, was also provided during the implementation phase - but it's most likely due to the technical person that was assigned to us and how his approach was in terms of assisting.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employeesIBM Cloud Internet Services
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
In-Person Training
Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI 8.2
Based on 1 answer
The Cisco ACI training provided by Cisco was in depth, covered all of our requirements, and allowed us to implement and maintain the platform without issues.
Senior Cyber Security Engineer
South Yorkshire PoliceLaw Enforcement, 10,001+ employees
IBM Cloud Internet Services
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI 9.1
Based on 3 answers
The following are extremely important when implementing Cisco ACI:
- Design phase
- Naming scheme
- Documentation
Sr. DataCenter Engineer
Conscia NetsafeInformation Services, 51-200 employees
IBM Cloud Internet Services
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Cisco ACI
ACI and DNA are all very tightly integrated as it stands today. So using one with another only increases the overall benefits, when you are using the overall Cisco Stack of NGFW, ISE, ACI, Assurance engine, and Tetration (which is another product, we plan to evaluate)
IT
TrafiguraOil & Energy, 5001-10,000 employees
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 observation.

Verified User
Analyst in Engineering
Education Management Company, 10,001+ employeesScalability
Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI 8.7
Based on 9 answers
Cisco ACI scales well and is suited in scenarios such as multi-cloud or large data centre implementations. It is not suited to smaller deployments as the efficiencies that it provides are not fully realised. It is well suited in large environments that contain both virtual and bare-metal machines allowing a great deal of flexibility. It is also perfect to support multi-tenancy platforms.
National Manager Architecture services
NEC AustraliaComputer Networking, 1001-5000 employees
IBM Cloud Internet Services
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Cisco ACI
- We typically don't have to touch ACI. It does what we need it to do without having to "baby" it.
- It's constantly running so the amount of downtime we have (if any) is very minimal.
- It was pricey in the beginning but with is reliability it was well worth it.
Network Administrator II
Central Electric Power CooperativeUtilities, 51-200 employees
IBM Cloud Internet Services
- It had a positive impact with a big improvement on the performance of web applications.
- Services are quite fast to implement and easy to maintain from an IT perspective.

Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology
Automotive Company, 10,001+ employees