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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Cloud Virtual Private Cloud has a network of 27 regions and 200+ countries and territories, boasting little to no downtime for its users. It is automatically configured or can be done by the user and allows you to bring your own IP addresses to reduce downtime caused by migration.

    $0

    per ingress traffic

    IBM Cloud Object Storage

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud Object Storage is an IBM Cloud product in the endpoint backup and IaaS categories. It is commonly used for data archiving and backup, for web and mobile applications, and as scalable, persistent storage for analytics.

    $0

    per month

    Pricing
    Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Editions & Modules
    egress traffic
    $0 - 0.15
    per GB
    ingress traffic
    $0
    based on services that process ingress traffic: Load Balancers, Cloud NAT, Protocol forwarding.
    Premium Tier (egress rates)
    $0- $0.23
    per month per GB of data delivered
    Standard Tier (egress rates)
    $0.045, $0.065, $0.085
    per month per GB of data delivered: 150-500TB, 10-150TB, 0-10TB
    One-Rate Plan
    As low as USD $12/TB a month
    per month
    Standard Plan
    Free up to 5GB—no minimum fee, pay only for what you use
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—The One-Rate and Standard service plans for Cloud Object Storage include resiliency options, flexible data classes and built-in security. Pricing is based on the choice of location, storage class and resiliency choice.
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    Community Pulse
    Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)IBM Cloud Object Storage
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    Google
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    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    62 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    61 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    62 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    47 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    51 Answers
    Features
    Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Feature
    Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    8.5
    156 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings6.8144 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings8.9144 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings9.0141 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings8.4145 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings9.4150 Ratings
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    Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)IBM Cloud Object Storage
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    DigitalOcean Droplets
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    8.9
    (159 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.8
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    An effective pricing strategy is in place. Google Cloud VPC is the most secure since it runs on a private network and never contacts the public network. Google is well-known for its AI/ML and Kubernetes engines, both of which have a leg up on the competition. Google Cloud VPC's database services are yet to be improved.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    In my experience, IBM Cloud Object Storage is well suited for projects like the one I am working on. This includes the use of natural language classification and the uploading of data to train a machine learning model for tag suggestions based on a body of text. Using IBM Cloud Object Storage has helped with this greatly. IBM Cloud Object Storage has also been great for Big Data Analytics thanks to its scalablilty and ease of use for large datasets. Alongside IBM Watson and our team's internal big data tools we've managed to process and analyze data more efficiently, leading to key insights that have driven business value for our clients.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Serverless connector helps Cloud Run services to communicate privately.
    • Serverless connector supports auto scaling.
    • Being serverless, the cost is based on usage for serverless connector.
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    IBM
    • IBM Cloud Object Storage is an excellent choice for disaster recovery and backup solutions. Its high durability and geographic redundancy ensure that our backup data is safe and can be quickly restored in case of a disaster. This capability is crucial for maintaining our business continuity and minimizing downtime. We have deployed our loads in an IKS cluster distributed in 3 different AZs with stateful data allocated in COS.
    • We have a video streaming application and need to store and deliver a vast library of video content to millions of users worldwide, so we store our data in COS, which is cheap and reliable.
    • We have a bunch of data that must be analyzed and stored in datasets for fraud detection, risk management, and customer insights. In these cases, this data is moved from Onprem to IBM Cloud so we can use cheap storage like COS.
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    Cons
    Google
    • Sometimes the group settings tab lags a little
    • Although overall it's easy to use, some of the sections lack documentation
    • Routes section is very poorly implemented, requires a lot of digging to learn how to use
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    IBM
    • Searching and retrieving—full-text search or metadata search—is one of the significant areas of improvement. It isn't easy to search for data with this.
    • Integration with other IBM cloud services is trickier. For example, integrating this with API Connect to access the data from API will be difficult for users.
    • Support - I think you should have more support community.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    because it is a robust, safe and flexible product
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    Usability
    Google
    VPC is a difficult concept to grasp and recommendations for configuring it would be helpful in educating the users to make the right choice while using the product in configuring networking for their cloud deployments. Also, the user interface can be intuitively designed so as to suggest templates to perform common configurations with regard to VPC.
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    IBM
    For my use cases, it has been a very smooth experience. Even my new colleagues have been able to get on top of things very quickly. This shows how easy it is to work with
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    We rarely face downtime or access issues with IBM Cloud Object Storage. It’s mostly available when we need it, even during peak hours or heavy data loads.
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    Performance
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    I would give it a 9 because it works smooth with our AI and analytics tools, no major slowdown. Pages and dashboards load fine most of the time, and reports finish in decent time even when data is heavy.
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    Support Rating
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    I have been working in IT sector for more than 15 years. I have worked with various vendors. IBM's sales team, support team have been really helpful. After we start to use their product, their UX design team also contacted us to get feedback from us. They are really interested about our experience.
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    Online Training
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    I just researching and applying the tools on their platforms to ensure a good learning path, based on my needs. Reading the documentation related with resources, tools. Is too big, but I am trying to know more about it every day. It is a good way to know more about their resources. A new way to attract new customers. At the end of the day, we are all involved in improvement and automation of our tasks and resources for customers and end-users.
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Yes Our organization used IBM professional services to implement IBM object storage because of its data consistency and multiple way to upload and download data and its encryption security features. Also that its brand matter for the any organization to secure the layer and storage. It sis also verify that application and system are compatibale for this product
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Google VPC and networking infrastructure is very matured and is built later after Amazon VPC. It made sure to address all the limitations faced by amazon VPC. Google Virtual private cloud is across regions while amazon VPC covers only one region but multiple zones. Google VPC is a global resource while AWS is a regional resource.
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    IBM
    Amazon S3 is a great service to safely back up your data where redundancy is guaranteed, and the cost is fair. In the past I have used Amazon S3 for data that we backup and hope we never need to access, but in the case of a catastrophic or even small slip of the finger with the delete command, we know our data and our client's data is safely backed up by Amazon S3. Amazon S3 service is a good option, but based on the features it provides compared with IBM Cloud Object Storage, it is less suitable. IBM Cloud Object Storage is also integrated with more services, like IBM Cloud SQL and IBM Aspera, which AWS does not provide to transfer files at maximum speed in the world.
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    Scalability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Scaling up the number of users can lead to significant increases in licensing costs, which, while not a technical limitation, can be a practical constraint for some organizations
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Using Google Cloud VPC cloud storage has saved us on infra budget and per TB storage cost
    • Using MySQL databases on Google Cloud VPC has improved the performance and cost of operation and maintenance
    • Better pricing model has improvement on operational cost and increased revenue
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    IBM
    • This allows us to recommend a platform to our clients that will quickly help them create new, efficient business processes with very little development.
    • This saves clients hours and days of manual analysis of images, allowing the system to do the work when attaching Object Storage to models.
    • There is a learning curve in utilizing the storage and the modeling, but once up and running, it works well during deployment.
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    ScreenShots

    Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Screenshots

    Screenshot of Google flow logs

    IBM Cloud Object Storage Screenshots

    Screenshot of Cloud Object Storage set upScreenshot of storage bucket creationScreenshot of the Access Management interfaceScreenshot of the interface to create, add and management of Storage BucketsScreenshot of data uploadingScreenshot of usage details