Google Compute Engine vs IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers | TrustRadius

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Score 8 out of 10

Based on 124 reviews and ratings

Score 9.1 out of 10

Based on 119 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Google Compute Engine

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

Dynamic scaling

Elastic load balancing

Pre-configured templates

Monitoring tools

Pre-defined machine images

Operating system support

Security controls

Automation

Pros

A simple web-based interface that is a breeze to train new engineers to use. Our experienced engineers never have trouble finding or doing anything on GCE.
Sustained use and Committed use discounts mean we get top-tier VMs for an incredibly competitive price.
Wonderful identity and access management that gives us peace-of-mind when granting access to machines to contractors and other 3rd parties.
Fast VMs, lastest in hardware, and enough RAM to power even the hungriest of our services.

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Senior Software Architect

Beneath The InkComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Multiple locations for distributed computing allowing faster download speeds for our customers and staff alike
Full service of domain registrations, SSL purchases, server rental, DNS servers, etc. This allows us to keep all of our necessary related services within a single console and single billing system.
Good backup system with off-site backup servers and easy disaster recovery

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IT supervisor

Internet and Mail Order Co. Ltd.Consumer Goods, 11-50 employees

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Cons

The L7 load balancer can be difficult to get set up. It's limited in its functionality, especially with the container engine.
It's hard to find certain objects on the web console. Often times the things I need to get to are buried in advanced menus.
Google's decision to only support MySQL on their relational DB service means that I have to manage Postgres instances in Compute on my own, managing everything from storage to backups.

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David Long, SPA

Director of Development

Cage DataComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Ability to switch OS/platform license to customer's own license without being re-deploy.
Procedure for easy hardware refresh (especially hard drive) to ease cloning content to new hard drive. We have a 6 years disk and we very concern about it.
Other than that, everything is OK.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate

Airlines/Aviation Company, 1-10 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Google Compute Engine 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Overall services are good to go. Received good feedback from users. Have regional server locations. It has free extra service included.

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Sazzad Hossain Sharkar

Chief Operating Officer (C.O.O.)

Akhaura Info FoundationEducation Management, 11-50 employees

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No score

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Usability

Google Compute Engine 9.1

Based on 9 answers

Having interacted with several cloud services, GCE stands out to me as more usable than most. The naming and locating of features is a little more intuitive than most I've interacted with, and hinting is also quite helpful. Getting staff up to speed has proven to be overall less painful than others.

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Business IT, Web Development, eCommerce and Digital Marketing

Island City MediaRetail, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

Google Compute Engine 8.8

Based on 21 answers

The documentation needs to be better for intermediate users - There are first steps that one can easily follow, but after that, the documentation is often spotty or not in a form where one can follow the steps and accomplish the task. Also, the documentation and the product often go out of sync, where the commands from the documentation do not work with the current version of the product.
Google support was great and their presence on site was very helpful in dealing with various issues.

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Director in Information Technology

Internet Company, 10,001+ employees

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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers 7.7

Based on 2 answers

The support is decent and in an emergency they will help you if you make enough noise. However the creation of "class of customers" within the IBM ecosystem I think is a step backwards as it can put emergencies on the back burner simply because we didn't pay enough in monthly fees

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C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Internet Company, 11-50 employees

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Implementation Rating

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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers 8.2

Based on 2 answers

I've used IBM professional services in a few cases (not for my company but for some of my clients), and the people in professional services are really helpful. You call them and set a meeting for the initial planning session, but they usually most of the work already done, they just ask some questions and they fill in the blanks. However, in some cases implementation can take longer than planned.

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Gerardo Fernandez Ruiz

Consumer Electronics, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

App Engine is somewhat similar, but we use it together with Compute Engine. App Engine is good for serving end requests to users -- it can scale automatically to any number of requests, but has it's own limitations. Compute Engine does not have any limitations. but you have to manage it by yourself and scale it manually as needed. I tried using Amazon's EC2 before the Compute Engine was released, but at that time their UI wasn't friendly, in the end Compute Engine provider much better integration with App Engine since their VMs can be really close to each other to reduce network delay. Google Cloud's UI is really good, you don't always want to manage your stuff using API.

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Dmitry Sadovnychyi

Software Engineer

LawInsider.comLegal Services, 1-10 employees

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We've also had good success with Mac colocation services like MacStadium, being cheaper with unlimited networking, quite dependable and also very flexible when used with VMware, but with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers we have a lot more options on data center locations, fantastic network routing between data centers and any server capacity I would need. With regards to Azure, AWS, etc., those models just don't work for our projects, too many restrictions on networking and other details. IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are just easier.

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Gustavo Villarreal

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

Telecomunicaciones VGInformation Technology & Services, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Positive impact on the OpEx with reduction in CapEx resulting from reducing the time to move a workload from on-prem to the cloud
Incased RoI by reducing need for on-prem compute
Improved agility by providing the option to take on new AI workloads for test and dev without the need for upfront investment in

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Manager

Skive itAirlines/Aviation, 51-200 employees

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This service helps us to have a professional hosting service in less than a week.
We had to get quality hardware in a professional managed data center. The cost was higher than if we had had an in-house solution, but totally worth it.
The higher cost vs cloud was a factor to switch to another cloud provider.

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Project Manager in Social Media

Entertainment Company, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Google Compute Engine Editions & Modules

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Editions & Modules

Edition

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers	starting at $0.51¹
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers	starting at $241.00²

per hour
per month

Additional Pricing Details

IBM Bare Metal Servers provide performance, flexibility, on-demand provisioning, and control. Choose between hourly or monthly pre-configured servers or customize with single to quad processing solutions that range from 4 to 72 cores. Bare metal servers are available worldwide and with no monthly contracts so you can build the best solution for your workloads. Order a monthly bare metal server built to spec, and we’ll have it to you in two to four hours—with 500 GB/month outbound bandwidth included. Order an hourly bare metal server, and we’ll have it ready for you in 20 to 30 minutes. Public outbound bandwidth is charged per gigabyte.

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