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Likelihood to Recommend
CloudFoundry
It's well suited if:
- The organization has large number of applications that needs to be deployed frequently.
- The organization is tied to the DevOps mindset.
- The organization has programs in different languages.
- The applications does not need EJB's support that servers like web logic provide.
- The applications needs security configuration within the same CloudFoundry instance.
- The organization, for whatever reason does not want developers to manage the instances.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
IBM Cloud Foundry
Well Suited:- Development of information architecture/library. It enables better classification/taxonomy, leading to more intuitive findability.- Dialog design and content retrieval for virtual agents. (e.g. a virtual agent whose content offerings are not hard-coded into the response fields, but instead require crawling/drawing from other pages/libraries)Not Well Suited:- Annotation/labeling/clustering of information that will be retrieved using a different search/query service.
Solution Analyst — Machine Assisted Service Enagagement
AutodeskComputer Software, 5001-10,000 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
Platform-as-a-Service
CloudFoundry
9.6
IBM Cloud Foundry
7.9
Ease of building user interfaces
CloudFoundry
10.0
IBM Cloud Foundry
7.8
Scalability
CloudFoundry
10.0
IBM Cloud Foundry
8.0
Platform management overhead
CloudFoundry
9.0
IBM Cloud Foundry
8.2
Platform access control
CloudFoundry
10.0
IBM Cloud Foundry
10.0
Services-enabled integration
CloudFoundry
10.0
IBM Cloud Foundry
7.5
Development environment creation
CloudFoundry
9.0
IBM Cloud Foundry
9.0
Development environment replication
CloudFoundry
10.0
IBM Cloud Foundry
7.0
Issue monitoring and notification
CloudFoundry
9.0
IBM Cloud Foundry
5.0
Issue recovery
CloudFoundry
10.0
IBM Cloud Foundry
8.0
Upgrades and platform fixes
CloudFoundry
9.0
IBM Cloud Foundry
8.8
Workflow engine capability
CloudFoundry
—
IBM Cloud Foundry
8.2
Pros
CloudFoundry
- Ease of use, up and running in no time.
- Well documented
- Supports most common languages such as Java, Node.js, etc.
- Open source with a big community contributing to it.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 1-10 employeesIBM Cloud Foundry
- Keeps things more standardized, ring fenced and thus easier for the end user to use
- Open source, allowing for a wide group for education, auto and support
- Developing at pace to keep up with the ever changing needs of the industry from on / off premise, public and private

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesCons
CloudFoundry
- Does not support stateful containers and that would be a nice to have.
- Supports showing logs, but does not persist the logs anywhere. This makes relying on Cloud Foundry's logs very unreliable. The logs have to be persisted using other third party tools like Elk and Kibana.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
IBM Cloud Foundry
- Sometimes the API Connect GUIs don't cleanly disengage after attaching models or updating schema and it is hard to know what has been written successfully and which (if any) models or tables were missed. I shouldn't have to manually check through a list of 377 models to find the ones in and out of a list on either models, folder or database tables. Printing a summary even in logs which did a "diff" sort of thing between 'task-set' and 'task-completed' (referring to attaching models or updating schema as tasks here as 'tasks').
- Provide access to Postgres Database in Sydney datacentre for Australia.
- Clearer documentation around setting up a secure (referring to SSL and certificate setup here) server on eg, chubby1.au-sydney.mybluemix.net.
- Allow a ramp in pricing onto the Blockchains. We will not be able to afford it until quite a few years into production, even if we launch successfully.
Director
IT Cloud Solutions AustraliaInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Alternatives Considered
CloudFoundry
CloudFoundry is more feature rich and has better support for different platforms and languages.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 1-10 employeesIBM Cloud Foundry
I like when the provider offers cloud deployment via standard orchestration mechanisms (like Docker, Kubernetes, DCOS) This is currently well covered by Azure. Amazon also has good flexibility (supports Kubernetes, DCOS). It's good that Bluemix added support for Docker and Kubernetes, but addition of DCOS would be great to complete the offering.
CTO
DataCompass LLCMaritime, 1-10 employees
Return on Investment
CloudFoundry
- Positive impact, since it simplifies the deployment time by a huge margin. Without cloud foundry, deploying a code needs coordination with infrastructure teams, while with cloud foundry, its a simple one line command. This reduces the deployment time from at least few hours to few minutes. Faster deployments promote faster dev cycle iterations.
- Code maintenance such as upgrading a Node or Java version is as simple as updating the build-pack. Without cloud foundry, using web logic, the specific version only supports a specific version of Java. So updating the version involves upgrading the version of web logic that needs to involve few teams. So without cloud foundry, it takes at least few days, with cloud foundry, its a matter of few mins.
- Overall, happier Developers and thats harder to quantify.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
IBM Cloud Foundry
- Bluemix has allowed me to effectively serve the App industry more recently, especially with the new visual design implemented recently.
- BlueMix offers a lot more customization of the Platform, rather than Infrastructure, giving me a big edge over other companies offering only AWS or Azure cloud services, and brings a lot more apparent value to my business.
- The additional features, especially the Watson service subset offers a HUGE range of new and innovative technologies, especially in the realm of AI, that encourages my clients to test out new potential features, which leads to more sales as they increase there platform size and capability.
Sr. Solutions Architect
FreeTheHustle.ComInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Pricing Details
CloudFoundry
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
CloudFoundry Editions & Modules
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Additional Pricing Details
—IBM Cloud Foundry
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
IBM Cloud Foundry Editions & Modules
Edition
Community Runtimes | $0.071 |
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- Per GBH