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    DigitalOcean

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ADigitalOcean is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform from the company of the same name headquartered in New York. It is known for its support of managed Kubernetes clusters and “droplets” feature.

    $5

    Starting Price Per Month

    IBM Cloud File Storage

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud provides a File Storage service allows the user to deploy and customize flash-backed NFS-based file storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS.N/A
    Pricing
    DigitalOceanIBM Cloud File Storage
    Editions & Modules
    1GB-16GB
    $5.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    8GB-160GB
    $60.00
    Starting Price Per Month
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    DigitalOceanIBM Cloud File Storage
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    DigitalOceanIBM Cloud File Storage
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of DigitalOcean and IBM Cloud File Storage
    Feature
    DigitalOcean
    9.2
    36 Ratings
    11% above category average
    IBM Cloud File Storage
    8.5
    39 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime9.931 Ratings9.737 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.932 Ratings8.836 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.723 Ratings8.135 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates10.029 Ratings7.631 Ratings
    Monitoring tools9.035 Ratings8.037 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images9.833 Ratings8.133 Ratings
    Operating system support9.133 Ratings9.636 Ratings
    Security controls8.632 Ratings9.437 Ratings
    Automation6.55 Ratings7.030 Ratings
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    DigitalOceanIBM Cloud File Storage
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DigitalOceanIBM Cloud File Storage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (36 ratings)
    8.8
    (40 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.9
    (10 ratings)
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    Availability
    10.0
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    Performance
    9.0
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    Support Rating
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
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    Implementation Rating
    -
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    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    DigitalOceanIBM Cloud File Storage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean is perfect for hosting client websites, running marketing tools, and managing media storage with Spaces and CDN. The use of Droplets to quickly launch landing pages or WordPress sites for campaigns is a Godsend. It’s great for fast, cheap, and scalable solutions. But for complex microservices or projects needing strict compliance (like HIPAA), DigitalOcean may not always be the best fit, but that depends heavily on your project.
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    IBM
    well suited: Enterprise File Sharing and Collaboration: Scenario: our organization has teams working on projects across different geographical locations, and they need a centralized and easily accessible file storage solution. IBM Cloud File Storage can facilitate seamless file sharing and collaboration among team members. less appropriate Highly Transactional Databases: Scenario: Your organization has highly transactional and I/O-intensive database workloads that require low-latency access to data. In such cases, block storage or specialized database services might be more appropriate than file storage.
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    Pros
    DigitalOcean
    • DigitalOcean provides some of the best cost-to-value services available
    • The DigitalOcean cloud console is very intuitive and easy to navigate
    • DigitalOcean has great support for Docker and other dev ops tools like Terraform.
    • DigitalOcean iterates quickly and provides cutting edge features for organizations that want to keep up with the latest and greatest dev ops tooling
    • DigitalOcean has a great developer community and numerous support docs/tutorials
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    IBM
    • Simple file system sharing
    • Lots of storage space (up to 12 TB)
    • Choice of performance (up to 10 IOPS/GB)
    • Simple interface to order more storage
    • Quick interface to allow more servers to share the file store
    • Security - only allows access from specified server(s)
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    Cons
    DigitalOcean
    • Some products/services available on other Cloud providers aren't available, but they seem to be catching up as they add new products like Managed SQL DBs.
    • While they have FreeBSD droplets (VMs), support for *BSD OSs is limited. I.e. the new monitoring agent only works on Linux.
    • There are no regions available on South America.
    • They don't seem to offer enterprise-level products, even basic ones as Windows Server, MS SQL Server, Oracle products, etc.
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    IBM
    • We have sometimes experienced some outages and hope IBM will fix this soon.
    • Initial trainings are required for the teams to work and do the setup.
    • Support documentation from IBM needs improvement with [the] inclusion of more detailed steps and video tutorials for [a] better understanding of the engineers.
    • The billing process is very complex and you may have to incur additional overhead. Need a simpler approach and clarity on this aspect.
    • Support response from the IBM team is very slow and lacks information.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    DigitalOcean
    I've been very happy with it for my purposes and I plan to continue to use DigitalOcean for the foreseeable future!
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    IBM
    IBM Cloud File Storage is a valuable tool in the arsenal of any small business. It's flexibility combined with its ease of use ensure that there is low operational overhead, combined with a solid return on investment. It's role based access control features combined with sharing capabilities make it a significant win for any business.
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    Usability
    DigitalOcean
    I honestly can't think of an easier way to set up and maintain your own server. Being able to set up a server in minutes and have fully control is awesome. The UX is incredibly intuitive for first-time users as well so there's no reason to be intimidated when it comes to giving DigitalOcean a shot.
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    IBM
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    Reliability and Availability
    DigitalOcean
    Have not found a single second of down time myself. Superior availability.
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    IBM
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    Performance
    DigitalOcean
    Very quick response and high performance, you have to fine tune configurations on your machines though.
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    IBM
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    Support Rating
    DigitalOcean
    They have always been fast, and the process has been straight-forward. I haven't had to use it enough to be frustrated with it, to be honest, and when I have an issue they fix it. As with all support, I wish it felt more human, but they are doing aces.
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    IBM
    The IBM team provides effective support for all the cloud operations. They tracks operations and database functionalities closely to enhance reliable operations and remove inefficiencies that affect work processes. The support team has prepared video tutorials and manuals that guides our members on how to work with the database systems effectively.
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    Implementation Rating
    DigitalOcean
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    IBM
    The IBM Professional services provided the re4quired infrastructure for getting the best out of this tool. It offered excellent guidelines that enhanced efficient integrations. The organization was pleased with the setup process that was completed quickly than expected. The application has been operation effectively after deployment. We have continued to get support from the IBM support team when there are challenges.
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    Alternatives Considered
    DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean is an inexpensive product as compared to other products available in the market. The UI is easy and the beginner can also understand the UI with the step by step guide. It provides a lot of custom features and the user needs to pay only for what they are using. Amazon has a complex UI and is on the expensive side. DigitalOcean is simple to use and is easily manageable and the servers can easily be set up without additional cost and such.
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    IBM
    IBM Cloud File Storage, unlike other similar products, offers excellent Cloud data security and its overall data management quality on IBM Cloud File Storage is incredible and its data integration support is perfect because it allows big data migration across many Cloud platforms for effective data analytics generation and data visualization tools are great.
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    Scalability
    DigitalOcean
    Great scalability, you can start with small plans and move up to premium features at a very good price.
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    IBM
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    Return on Investment
    DigitalOcean
    • Positive - Elastic computer instances make it possible to pay for only for what you need.
    • Positive - Competitive pricing - some of the products that DigitalOcean offers are much cheaper than those offered by competitors.
    • Negative - Having to go to other cloud computing platforms for more specific, advanced services like Computer Vision optimized services, GPU cloud compute instances, etc...
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    IBM
    • Compared with company datacenter require less maintenance time with an incomparable high availability and business continuity features
    • The possibility to move snapshots on other data centers let this solution super scalable worldwide
    • The price for gb let us pay what we need without a pre commissioned storage buy
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