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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    F5 on IBM Cloud

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AF5 on IBM Cloud lets you see and control all traffic passing through your network. F5’s highly scalable, resilient and reusable services dynamically adapt to ensure application availability, performance and security.N/A

    NGINX Plus

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ANGINX Plus is presented as a cloud‑native, easy-to-use reverse proxy, load balancer, and API gateway, from F5.

    $849

    per month billed annually

    Pricing
    F5 on IBM CloudNGINX Plus
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Team
    $849
    per month billed annually
    Advanced
    $2,099
    per month billed annually
    Enterprise
    Tiered Pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    F5 on IBM CloudNGINX Plus
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    F5 on IBM CloudNGINX Plus
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
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    F5
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    F5 on IBM CloudNGINX Plus
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of F5 on IBM Cloud and NGINX Plus
    Feature
    F5 on IBM Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    NGINX Plus
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    2% above category average
    IDE support00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    F5 on IBM CloudNGINX Plus
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure Application Gateway
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    NetScaler
    Score8 out of 10
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    F5 on IBM CloudNGINX Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.3
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    F5 on IBM CloudNGINX Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    F5 on IBM Cloud has efficient ways to manage traffic, both local and that from the international sources. Besides, the firewall evaluations and management is handled by the program. F5 on IBM Cloud has a well designed virtual machine configuration, following both small and the largest templates for efficiency. The network configuration and monitoring is also deployed in the program.
    Incentivized
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    F5
    Makes our life easy as application admins in securing our applications and making them accessible. We can easily add an application within a few minutes and define the backend servers right away.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • F5 on IBM Cloud has application security features.
    • Besides, the extensive local traffic management from the application is efficient.
    • Lastly, the program acts as an advanced firewall managing tool.
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    F5
    • APIGW
    • Policy Enforcement
    • Centrally Manage API Traffic
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    Cons
    IBM
    • F5 on IBM Cloud is a virtual edition, which is technical.
    • The subscription fee is extensive and expensive.
    • F5 on IBM Cloud configuration process requires an expertise.
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    F5
    • An AI bot would be cool to help build config files
    • More webinars for advanced NGINX Plus would be great
    • GUI tool... might already be one available
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it.
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    Usability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    Very easy to use
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    We had an issue after upgrading from RHEL 7 to 8, and there were some issues that the security team imposed upon the platform with a scanning tool. We also had a VXLAN environment that was not properly sending a gratuitous arp to the network. NGINX support was instrumental to speedily resolving our issue.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    F5 on IBM Cloud is substantially competent in managing traffic, through network configuration and monitoring. The presence of a software security manager also suits the program for stability and confidence. Besides, F5 on IBM Cloud has an infrastructure management feature, which deals with storage, network, and the general hardware that supports systems.
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    F5
    The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • F5 on IBM Cloud offers a traffic report that is critical for decisions.
    • Firewall management eliminates chances of threats and destruction.
    • Network monitoring and configurations keeps us safe and monitored.
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    F5
    • We are planning by using NGINX it can greatly reduce our OPEX by 50% "just our own running APIGW" the cascading effects in the long run will be much more.
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