Cloudimage vs. IBM Cloud Internet Services

IBM Cloud Internet Services

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cloudimage	Score 6.0 out of 10	N/A	Cloudimage offers a way to optimize and accelerate images for the web. Cloudimage automates the transformation and optimization of images on the fly and accelerates their distribution via the Content Delivery Network (CDN). Cloudimage helps web pages to become faster and lighter, to improve both SEO and the user experience of the web or mobile application. Built by Scaleflex, the Cloudimage plugin helps users to: Optimize images on the fly; image URLs will be…	$59 per month
IBM Cloud Internet Services	Score 9.8 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	IBM Cloud Internet Services is a set of edge network services for securing internet-facing applications from DDoS attacks, data theft, and bot attacks, as well as optimizing their web apps or ensuring global responsiveness and the ongoing availability of their internet-facing applications.	$275 per month, per domain

Pricing

Cloudimage

IBM Cloud Internet Services

Editions & Modules

Essential: $59
per month
Grow: $119
per month
Scale: $329
per month
Enterprise: Custom Quote

IBM Cloud Internet Services - Standard: $275.00
per month, per domain
IBM Cloud Internet Services - Enterprise: Call

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Cloudimage	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Essential: 100 GB of CDN traffic, 25 GB of cloud storage, 10K Visual operations credits, 99.90% SLA, 1 Custom CNAME with SSL certificate Grow: 250 GB of CDN traffic, 100 GB of cloud storage, 50K Visual operations credits, 99.90% SLA, 2 Custom CNAMEs with SSL certificate Scale: 1000 GB of CDN traffic, 250 GB of cloud storage, 100K Visual operations credits, 99.95% SLA, 4 Custom CNAMEs with SSL certificate Enterprise: Custom volumes for CDN traffic, CloudStorage and Visual operations (credits system), Tailored support, Dedicated Account Manager, Multi-CDN, SAML SSO

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Community Pulse
	Cloudimage	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Considered Both Products	Cloudimage CM Chris Mou Technical Director Chose Cloudimage We chose Cloudimage for the value for money, and the ability to link with our own hosting. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cloudimage We don't like the new pricing scheme for imgix at all. We could have gone from 100 USD / month to 500 USD / month because they price based on source image (we had 50, 000). With Cloudimage, the pricing is based on source image cache (gigabytes) and CDN bandwidth (gigabytes). Incentivized Helpful? Nick Hutchins Senior eCommerce Developer Chose Cloudimage So apparently I can't select the options. I have tried, but the only other one we seriously looked at was Piio. A couple of others we evaluated (for such a brief time) were similar to Piio, and didn't really cover what we needed. Piio (and others) don't tick all the boxes we … Incentivized Helpful?	IBM Cloud Internet Services Alexandre Carvalho Senior Technical Support Engineer Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services IBM Cloud difference is the ability to use PPC hardware and to use IBM I operating system. Other cloud providers have a better interface and features for regular unix/windows vms. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Ramindu Deshapriya Lead Consultant - Technology Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services IBM Cloud Internet Services is the best service to use to ensure security, performance and reliability of applications deployed to IBM Cloud, as it is a service that provides in-built solutions for IBM Cloud Foundry applications. It also provides a great deal of pre-configured … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services Another option we looked into was Cloudflare, but we ended up with IBM Cloud Internet services mostly because of the intuitive interface and reliable customer support center. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services 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. Incentivized Helpful? TS Telmo Salazar Gerente Tecnologías de la Información Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services Barracuda Web Filter is used to limit internet access to certain websites. This is a great tool with an easy to use interface that you can log into to monitor web browsing activities from your end user. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services They are IBM products that my engineers ramp up on in terms of skills Incentivized Helpful? Christophe MEUNIER-JACOB CEO & Co Founder Chose IBM Cloud Internet Services We prototyped a new feature based on it Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Cloudimage	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Small Businesses	Cloudflare Score 8.9 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Cloudflare Score 8.9 out of 10	Cisco ACI Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprises	Amazon CloudFront Score 8.0 out of 10	Cisco ACI Score 8.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Cloudimage	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Likelihood to Recommend	8.4 (0 ratings)	7.5 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	6.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cloudimage	IBM Cloud Internet Services
Likelihood to Recommend	Use it if you have a ton of source images and need many transformations. Don't use it if you only want to serve a few image[s] to a very very large number of users (CDN bandwidth costs) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Image manipulation Connecting to self hosted servers Delivers images to the browser CM Chris Mou Technical Director Read full review	build servers in Power PC architecture (ppc) take advantage of IBM datacenters infrastructure around the world continue to use your apps running on AIX Incentivized Alexandre Carvalho Senior Technical Support Engineer Read full review
Cons	Having tiers based either more on source cache / CDN bandwidth (for some persons) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Request proxying is done by way of DNS name resolution, which is inflexible. Proxy services do not work on wildcard DNS entries. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	I have seen faster and more user friendly interfaces like Azure Incentivized Alexandre Carvalho Senior Technical Support Engineer Read full review
Support Rating	We have a single contact point, but CI has been immaculate with their support offering. Instantaneous and comprehensive. Nick Hutchins Senior eCommerce Developer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	We chose Cloudimage for the value for money, and the ability to link with our own hosting. CM Chris Mou Technical Director Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Primary been a time saver! Saves us rolling our own solution. Increases conversion of the end user on average. Nick Hutchins Senior eCommerce Developer Read full review	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% Incentivized Ramindu Deshapriya Lead Consultant - Technology Read full review
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