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Cisco ACI vs IBM Cloud Internet Services

Cisco ACI
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52 Ratings
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Cisco ACI

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Score 9.1 out of 100

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Score 8.2 out of 100

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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.

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📎Mark Healey | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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.

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Pros

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.

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IBM 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

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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.

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IBM 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.

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Pricing Details

Cisco ACI

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

Starting Price

—

Cisco ACI Editions & Modules

—
Additional Pricing Details
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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 - EnterpriseCall
  1. per month, per domain
  2. none
Additional Pricing Details
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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.

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📎Mark Healey | TrustRadius Reviewer
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IBM Cloud Internet Services

No score
No answers yet
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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)

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IBM Cloud Internet Services

IBM Cloud Internet Services 6.0
Based on 1 answer
I have seen faster and more user friendly interfaces like Azure

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Reliability and Availability

Cisco ACI

Cisco ACI 9.1
Based on 2 answers
no outages

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IBM Cloud Internet Services

No score
No answers yet
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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.

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IBM Cloud Internet Services

No score
No answers yet
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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.

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IBM Cloud Internet Services

No score
No answers yet
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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.

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IBM Cloud Internet Services

No score
No answers yet
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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

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IBM Cloud Internet Services

No score
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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)

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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.

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Scalability

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.

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IBM Cloud Internet Services

No score
No answers yet
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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.

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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.

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