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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud bare metal servers are cloud servers configurable in hourly/monthly options, on-demand, from any location—with a selection of standard features and services for small businesses and enterprise demands. Users can customize RAM and SSDs with 11M+ configurations from which to choose.

    $0.51

    per hour

    OVHcloud Public Cloud

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AOVHcloud Public Cloud offers users a large number of cloud solutions that are billed on a pay-as-you-go basis. OVH states their infrastructure is set up in a simple way to enable businesses to harness the flexibility of on-demand resources to scale up from small projects to large-scale deployments.

    $0.05

    per hour

    Pricing
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersOVHcloud Public Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    starting at $0.51
    per hour
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    starting at $241.00
    per month
    Discovery
    $0.01
    Hour
    General Purpose
    $0.08
    Hour
    Compute Optimized
    $0.12
    Hour
    Memory Optimized
    $0.12
    Hour
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersOVHcloud Public Cloud
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsIBM Bare Metal Servers offer a choice between hourly or monthly pre-configured servers or can be customized with single to quad processing solutions. Bare metal servers are available worldwide and with no monthly contracts. Amonthly bare metal server built to spec can be ordered and made available in two to four hours—with 500 GB/month outbound bandwidth included. An hourly bare metal server can be ordered, and it is made ready for in 20 to 30 minutes. Public outbound bandwidth is charged per gigabyte.Exact pricing depends on operating system (Windows/Linux), memory and storage size and network speed.
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    Community Pulse
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersOVHcloud Public Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
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    OVHcloud
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    31 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    31 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    32 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    26 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    33 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersOVHcloud Public Cloud
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers and OVHcloud Public Cloud
    Feature
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    8.3
    79 Ratings
    1% above category average
    OVHcloud Public Cloud
    8.8
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.877 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling8.661 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing8.551 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates8.057 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Monitoring tools8.270 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images8.361 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Operating system support8.476 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Security controls8.574 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Automation7.77 Ratings9.02 Ratings
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    IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersOVHcloud Public Cloud
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
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    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Google Cloud Platform
    Score9 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersOVHcloud Public Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (81 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (23 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersOVHcloud Public Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    Well suited - 1) To Install required Products/Software in a middleware technology 2) Customize the file system and size of the storage 3) Install required monitoring tools like Tivoli, Splunk, etc. Less appropriate - 1) Maybe for SAAS products that do not require all of the installations.
    Incentivized
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    OVHcloud
    For demo uploads or for production uploads of companies from different sectors looking for a "general computing" cloud solution, I think that OVH can be a good provider. However, for more delicate or advanced loads or for specific solutions of, for example, AI, OVH has a wide margin for improvement.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Performance - the servers perform really well, even under stress. We have some long build processes running concurrently, and the server [can] serve other applications without any problems.
    • Secure - for the most part, the servers are very secure and IBM provides many tools to help [make] sure the servers stay that way.
    • Highly Available - while we have experienced various downtimes and outages with other IBM Cloud offerings, so far, we have not experienced any with [IBM Cloud] Bare Metal Servers.
    Incentivized
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    OVHcloud
    • Price
    • Quality hardware
    • Quality network
    • Administrative tools
    • Range of products
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    IBM
    • [In my experience, the] Customer Service Agreement (CSA) has many gaps in terms of responsibility with Bare Metal Servers.
    • [I believe] IBM should be deploying servers and firmware updating all components before providing them to customers to prevent component failure.
    • [I feel] IBM needs lots of improvement with their legacy VPN to access IMPI management tools. The level of security of it is unparalleled when it works. Having access to KVM / IPMI is critical for any business, and when their VPN service is not working.
    • [From my experiences,] IBM deployed faulty hardware, or failed to update firmware per Lenovo notices, only to pass off blame.
    • [In my opinion,] IBM's General Counsel and Paralegal held our data/company hostage when components failed, [in my experience] to IBM "gross negligence" (in their words), only to release it if we were to limit damages to $1,000.
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    OVHcloud
    • Technical support
    • Account support
    • Billing support
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    Due to cloud computing taking over the market, I have moved to cloud computing. It is so much easier upgrading or downsizing a virtual server on the cloud vs bare metal. I find it way more convenient on cloud computing. The provisioning takes way too long for bare metal servers.
    Incentivized
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    OVHcloud
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    IBM
    Great responsiveness and detailed know-how from the team. Self Explanatory and good resources on the Web to resolve issues. Good communication on issues via email. Good response times on issues which arise and where we have received support from the IBM support team. We believe that IBM is a great Partner to base our IT applications and we believe that a critical infrastructure like a cloud backend will be well served if we continue to base it on IBM.
    Incentivized
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    OVHcloud
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    IBM
    The implementation of this software took place as we planned. The performance time taken for full functionality was very reliable with positive results. The customer support team was the best team I have ever met in my career experience. They are always with timely responses when reached to offer any help.
    Incentivized
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    OVHcloud
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    The Best part of this IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers is performance and a very highly usable part is Security stuff. everyone needs to secure their data and work with a smoothly running app. for this reason I select this server rather than another one. I will use it in feature [definitely].
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    OVHcloud
    Most notably OVHcloud [Public Cloud] has dedicated servers which are a different breed of product than Linode's flagship VPS servers, the unfortunate fact of the matter is that OVHcloud [Public Cloud] can provide a fully-dedicated server at a lower price point than Linode's virtual server. Even worse than that is that with a dedicated server from [OVHcloud Public Cloud] there is zero chance of "cpu theft" (aka, noisy neighbor) which is a very real problem at Linode (we would require multiple migrations every year for servers hosted at Linode that were experiencing cpu theft). In addition to the improvement in quality for network/hardware at OVHcloud [Public Cloud] with their dedicated server offering, their VPS servers are also highly competitive against Linode's VPS servers - in the 2 years we've used OVHcloud [Public Cloud] VPS's we've had zero downtime associated with OVH actions such as host-node reboots or cpu theft or host node upgrades, a stark difference compared to Linode which regularly experiences those types of downtimes and many more on a very regular basis.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • Future readiness--we have the ability to quickly respond and build custom demos for customers in a short timeframe.
    • Savings on hardware--we have the ability to spin up large workloads to demonstrate to customers the performance of our tools and IBM Cloud.
    Incentivized
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    OVHcloud
    • Cost of virtual servers was reduced by 20% versus other VPS/Cloud providers.
    • Cost of dedicated servers was reduced by 50% versus other dedicated server providers.
    • Network speeds decreased considerably versus other providers.
    • Network quotas improved considerably versus other providers (unlimited at OVH).
    • Uptime has improved considerably which has improved client reputation.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Screenshots

    Screenshot of ConfiguringScreenshot of Bandwidth ProvisioningScreenshot of Remote ManagementScreenshot of Firmware Management

    OVHcloud Public Cloud Screenshots

    Screenshot of the public cloud management interfaceScreenshot of job logsScreenshot of building a land zoneScreenshot of instance creation