F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack vs. IBM Cloud Private

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
A solution to deploy and orchestrate applications on a managed Kubernetes platform with centralized, SaaS-based management of distributed applications with a single pane of glass and rich observability. Simplified by managing deployments as one across on-prem, cloud, and edge locations.N/A
IBM Cloud Private
Score 9.6 out of 10
N/A
IBM Cloud Private is a Kubernetes-based container platform allowing users to build cloud-native applications on their own infrastructure. In addition, it offers common services for self-service deployment, monitoring, logging and security, as well as middleware, data and analytics.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
F5 Distributed Cloud App StackIBM Cloud Private
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Container Management
Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
7.4
6 Ratings
8% below category average
IBM Cloud Private
-
Ratings
Security and Isolation7.66 Ratings00 Ratings
Container Orchestration7.35 Ratings00 Ratings
Cluster Management7.35 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization7.35 Ratings00 Ratings
Discovery Tools7.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks7.65 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery7.65 Ratings00 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging7.45 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
-
Ratings
IBM Cloud Private
9.7
5 Ratings
21% above category average
Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Platform management overhead00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Workflow engine capability00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Platform access control00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Services-enabled integration00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Development environment creation00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Development environment replication00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Issue recovery00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
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User Ratings
F5 Distributed Cloud App StackIBM Cloud Private
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(6 ratings)
10.0
(5 ratings)
Usability
8.1
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
F5 Distributed Cloud App StackIBM Cloud Private
Likelihood to Recommend
F5
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack is quite straightforward with the UI and you can expose the features you want. This simplifies the experience for non-admins
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IBM
IBM Cloud Private is an ideal platform for companies to accelerate their business growth. It helps in reducing the cost of IT and operations while delivering a great customer experience. With IBM Cloud Private, you can gain agility and security with a flexible hybrid model that fits your needs. It's highly recommended to my colleagues from me.
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Pros
F5
  • Kubernetes
  • Cloud
  • Ease of use
  • Value
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IBM
  • Capacity On Demand to scale up and down environments
  • SaaS model allows our team to have less involvement in managing or controlling the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual application capabilities.
  • SaaS model allows our team to worry less about upgrades, fix packs, environment support etc.
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Cons
F5
  • It's still a little early so the app feels foreign to our ops teams
  • I would like to customize the UI so I can visually see if I'm in Prod or Dev based on background colors
  • Templates are a little awkward to create
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IBM
  • Bluemix/IBM Cloud UI can be better
  • Changing Brand name from Bluemix to IBM Cloud, as we are habituated to Bluemix more
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Usability
F5
Wowza, keep going this direction.
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IBM
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
F5
generally support is fast
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IBM
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
F5
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack's partner provided services are excellent
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IBM
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Alternatives Considered
F5
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack is much more robust and feature rich than Agile Fleet
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IBM
With VMware cloud, each VMware Cloud customer must have an SDDC account(VMC) as well as a general AWS account. The two accounts must be linked for the service to work which is a tiresome thing to do for some clients but with IBM Cloud Private all these issues are solved.
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Return on Investment
F5
  • We are able to consolidate with F5, eliminating Cloudflare.
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IBM
  • IBM Cloud has helped us start using the cloud and migrating old services to the cloud.
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