F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack vs. IBM Cloud Private

F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack

IBM Cloud Private

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting 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

F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack

IBM Cloud Private

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack	IBM Cloud Private
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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	F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack	IBM Cloud Private

Features

F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack

IBM Cloud Private

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 Isolation	7.66 Ratings	00 Ratings
Container Orchestration	7.35 Ratings	00 Ratings
Cluster Management	7.35 Ratings	00 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization	7.35 Ratings	00 Ratings
Discovery Tools	7.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks	7.65 Ratings	00 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery	7.65 Ratings	00 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging	7.45 Ratings	00 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 interfaces	00 Ratings	10.03 Ratings
Scalability	00 Ratings	10.05 Ratings
Platform management overhead	00 Ratings	10.04 Ratings
Workflow engine capability	00 Ratings	10.04 Ratings
Platform access control	00 Ratings	9.04 Ratings
Services-enabled integration	00 Ratings	9.04 Ratings
Development environment creation	00 Ratings	10.04 Ratings
Development environment replication	00 Ratings	10.04 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification	00 Ratings	9.04 Ratings
Issue recovery	00 Ratings	10.03 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes	00 Ratings	10.03 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack	IBM Cloud Private
Small Businesses	Portainer Score 9.1 out of 10	AWS Lambda Score 8.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.2 out of 10	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.2 out of 10	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
	F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack	IBM 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 Stack	IBM 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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Nosava Begum Human Resources Manager Read full review
Pros	F5 Kubernetes Cloud Ease of use Value Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Bhaskara Rudraraju Tech Consultant (ODM and BPM) Read full review
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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM Bluemix/IBM Cloud UI can be better Changing Brand name from Bluemix to IBM Cloud, as we are habituated to Bluemix more Incentivized Dinesh P Senior Infrastructure Engineer Read full review
Usability	F5 Wowza, keep going this direction. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM No answers on this topic
Support Rating	F5 generally support is fast Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	F5 F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack's partner provided services are excellent Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	F5 F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack is much more robust and feature rich than Agile Fleet Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Nosava Begum Human Resources Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	F5 We are able to consolidate with F5, eliminating Cloudflare. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM IBM Cloud has helped us start using the cloud and migrating old services to the cloud. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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