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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 WebSphere Hybrid Edition

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AWebSphere Hybrid Edition from IBM is a collection of WebSphere application runtimes and modernization tools that provides support for on-premise and major public cloud deployments, in virtual machines, containers and Kubernetes. The user can choose any WebSphere edition and deploy Liberty and application modernization tools to help move to a cloud-native architecture, modernize existing applications and support an existing WebSphere estate.

    $88.50

    per month

    Pricing
    Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    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
    Application Server
    $88.50
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    Considered Both Products
    Google
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    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    23 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    20 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    Features
    Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    Feature
    Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    -
    Ratings
    IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    7.2
    31 Ratings
    10% below category average
    IDE support00 Ratings5.426 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings8.231 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings7.831 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings8.131 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings7.530 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings6.626 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    8.2
    (33 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    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
    IBM WebSphere Hybrid edition is well-suited for the development and deployment of large enterprise-level applications such as Electronic Health Records that are used in our organization. IBM WebSphere is appropriate for organizations that require strong security and compliance as it provides a high level of security and compliance features. This works well with organizations that are subject to strict regulatory requirements, such as hospitals.
    Incentivized
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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 WebSphere Hybrid Edition has done marvelous in building and deploying Java Enterprise applications.
    • It also does well in automating deployment and scaling. This has made it easier for our organization to deploy updates to our applications.
    • IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition does well in security by providing features that protect enterprise applications.
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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
    • Ease of use in terms of deployment, give simple interface to do simple stuff like Tomcat, JBoss or GlassFish.
    • Takes long time to start the server.
    • The Liferay wars need to be decorated and then deployed. Perhaps we could simplify that.
    • Some of the concepts are good for complexity that WAS can handle but could be simplified and better documented, like concepts of well and profile, context, etc.
    • A Liferay war file created using Liferay Developer studio runs fine in Tomcat, however that may not run in WAS 7.x because it needs to be decorated. I had one war for a Liferay portlet with a simple cron job, and had hard time running to WAS server. It was running on the latest free download done on my friends m/c. Other times I have seen that there are issues running a war file that runs on Tomcat but runs on WAS after lot of customization for WAS.
    • The corporations like this however, the product may need better vibrant community of users where issues can be discussed.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Mostly we will be renewing unless the strategic direction changes drastically or there are other complelling external circumstances. We've been on a multi year project to modernize our legacy applications and that effort will continue for the foreseeable future.
    Incentivized
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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
    WebSphere Application Server is used across our organization. Most projects use this for Java products and applications. Being robust and scalable makes it even more usable. We love using WebSphere Application Server due to its configuration management ability made simple and vast across all java related parameters. It is dependent on the features and upgrades and IBM releases some great upgrades to WebSphere Application Server.
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    Performance
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Deploys fairly quick enough and like the roll-out update feature decreasing the downtime and also plays well with other integration tools as well.
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    Support Rating
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    IBM was quick to respond when we had an issue with our specific infrastructure. We raised a PMR, which they picked up quickly and updated us about every step of the way. We had an appropriate fix for quite a business critical issue within a fortnight, which was impressive!
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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
    Cleo Integration Clould has many bells and whistles; however, when we added more maps and trading partners, it really slowed down. We found that the Cleo support was very slow to respond and there was a language barrier. IBM Websphere had better customer support and its processing was much faster than Cleo Integration Cloud
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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
    • Continuous uptime of the business applications we manage
    • It's now much simpler for me to build and deploy cloud-native applications.
    • Because it can offload for me management and maintenance of the application server to IBM I can focus on the development, deployment and testing of the applications which is more important
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