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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AF5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect is a solution used to more easily and securely network across public clouds, hybrid clouds, and edge sites via an agile SaaS-based service. Users can rapidly connect instances deployed across multiple cloud regions and/or different cloud providers using Distributed Cloud Network Connect and its automated provisioning, integrated service stack, and end-to-end visibility. Cloud instances will be connected in minutes and always visible for rapid troubleshooting.N/A

    IBM Cloud Private

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AIBM 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 Network ConnectIBM Cloud Private
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    F5 Distributed Cloud Network ConnectIBM 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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    Community Pulse
    F5 Distributed Cloud Network ConnectIBM Cloud Private
    Considered Both Products
    F5
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    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    38 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    29 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    39 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    25 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    25 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    F5 Distributed Cloud Network ConnectIBM Cloud Private
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect and IBM Cloud Private
    Feature
    F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cloud Private
    9.7
    5 Ratings
    23% 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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    F5 Distributed Cloud Network ConnectIBM Cloud Private
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    IBM Cloud Foundry
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    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    F5 Distributed Cloud Network ConnectIBM Cloud Private
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (39 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.4
    (37 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.7
    (24 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    F5 Distributed Cloud Network ConnectIBM Cloud Private
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect provides Intent-Based Policies and Unified Operations which is equal for all customers . Complexity is eliminated and common services and rules are provided across clouds and on-premises settings with the help of an integrated service stack and automated deployment. There is nothing specific scenario where we found that it is not suitable for current environment.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    F5
    • Centralized Hybrid ingress for our cloud workloads
    • Centralized ingress for our existing on-prem BIG-IP devices
    • Application visibility to address end-to-end visibility into the end-user experience
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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
    • The support model needs a quite a bit of work. I personally have experienced an outage on the platform. due to mis-configureation Although the outage was due to engineer error it took over 2 hours before we were able to speak to an engineer
    • Proxy v2 protocol to allow our organization to capture and view the source IP address
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    Architectural change with a focus on multi-cloud
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    F5
    Overall, F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect is responsive and has many features. There is minor clunkiness in how certain scroll bars are layered. This may cause some adverse experience when trying to manage this product through a zoomed browser. Page loading and refresh timers were all very much responsive. There is a good amount of feedback from the interface as well.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    F5
    Comunidadesdade ativa, e suporte qualificado.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    F5
    Similar, very similar to both. The main difference has been existing relationships with F5 as a partner and future potential for layering on future advanced services on top later. Often a difficult sell initially as both competitors have larger networks, but often can outclass Akamai in terms of capabilities, when against Cloudflare it is most difficult when no existing relationship exists to not consider Cloudflare's larger footprint.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    F5
    • Remove VPN
    • Reduction of investment in operational support
    • Uptime availability
    • Access to specialized advice and support
    • Eliminar VPN
    • Reducción de inversión en soporte operativo
    • Disponibilidad uptime
    • Acceso a asesoría y soporte especializado
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • IBM Cloud has helped us start using the cloud and migrating old services to the cloud.
    Incentivized
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