IBM Cloud Direct Link vs. Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

IBM Cloud Direct Link

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Cloud Direct Link	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	IBM Cloud Direct Link is a suite of four offerings from the IBM Cloud Network, with availability in locations around the globe. Each one enables customers to create direct, private connections between their remote network environments and their IBM Cloud deployments--without touching the public internet.	N/A
Red Hat JBoss EAP	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	N/A	N/A

Pricing

IBM Cloud Direct Link

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud Direct Link	Red Hat JBoss EAP
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	IBM Cloud Direct Link	Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Considered Both Products	IBM Cloud Direct Link No answer on this topic	Red Hat JBoss EAP JA Joe Albano Senior Configuration Management Advisor Chose Red Hat JBoss EAP Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is lighterweight, easier to manage, and easier to configure than others. Incentivized Helpful? Holman Cárdenas, M.Eng, TOGAF®, ITIL® CIO (Chief Information Officer) Chose Red Hat JBoss EAP We did not evaluate other products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Red Hat JBoss EAP We selected JBoss because of compatibility with EJB's. We currently are trying to reduce our footprint and will highly consider using Tomcat. Incentivized Helpful? Amanda Decker Development Coordinator, Advancement Services Chose Red Hat JBoss EAP WebSphere Application Server is propriety and increases project cost. It is slightly complicated to learn when compared to Jboss EAP. These were the two main reasons why we chose Red Hat JBoss EAP over Websphere Application Server. Also, JBoss EAP is light weight and requires … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Red Hat JBoss EAP We decided to use Red Hat JBoss EAP as it lowers our overall cost, supports all the features that we are looking for including clustering, distributed caching and web services. JBoss EAP is modular and has cloud-ready architecture. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Red Hat JBoss EAP JBoss does practically everything Apache Tomcat and Weblogic does in terms of our requirements, but JBoss is more suited for larger enterprise J2EE apps compared to Tomcat. Boot time is not as quick as Tomcat, but still relatively fast for our deployments. The system can also … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Red Hat JBoss EAP Pricing is great and very easy to use Incentivized Helpful? Josh Araya, PMP Project Manager Chose Red Hat JBoss EAP none that i know of for exactly what redhat jboss EAP does. Incentivized Helpful? sameer vaidya Software Developer IV Chose Red Hat JBoss EAP Jboss supports JEE standards and provides features like high availability, clustering, hot deployments, configurable features. you can quickly add or remove needed features and cut jboss footprint and reduce boot time. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

IBM Cloud Direct Link

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Application Servers

Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
	IBM Cloud Direct Link - Ratings	Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.8 Ratings 16% below category average
IDE support	00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Security management	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Administration and management	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Application server performance	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Installation	00 Ratings	5.00 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings

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	IBM Cloud Direct Link	Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Small Businesses	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 9.6 out of 10	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
	IBM Cloud Direct Link	Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	8.1 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	5.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	8.7 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	5.2 (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Cloud Direct Link	Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	It's well-suited for being less bulky and is more manageable than other IBM products for Java applications. It's more scalable and provides broader features than others, and is able to load balance with better visibility. The "containers" within are lighter weight and thus don't consume as many resources as Websphere did. Incentivized JA Joe Albano Senior Configuration Management Advisor Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	JBoss deployment and configuration is easy and fast. This leads to lower cost and faster deliveries. Jboss gives you lot of flexibility around performance tuning options to better suite your application needs. It is modular and cloud ready. This can be installed on-premise and cloud with equal ease. I specifically love it's integration with mod_cluster. It is a smart httpd based load balancing component that listens to incoming requests on web server using httpd and then intelligently routes the request to Jboss hosts. Incentivized Amanda Decker Development Coordinator, Advancement Services Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	Difficult to replicate configuration outside of a container environment Still requires quite a bit of knowledge of the CLI Integration with deployment tools requires CLI knowledge Incentivized JA Joe Albano Senior Configuration Management Advisor Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	We are planning to migrate away from Jboss to Tomcat as Jboss has shown not interest in supporting OSGi which is heavily used at our shop Incentivized sameer vaidya Software Developer IV Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	It's quite easy to learn and use. We have transitioned our Red Hat JBoss EAP set up to client team. They had no technical background of managing it but were quick to learn the product. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Performance	No answers on this topic	We run a high traffic B2B application on JBoss and it is very stable. Boot time when restarting services is also fast Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Fast response. Incentivized Holman Cárdenas, M.Eng, TOGAF®, ITIL® CIO (Chief Information Officer) Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	WebSphere Application Server is propriety and increases project cost. It is slightly complicated to learn when compared to Jboss EAP. These were the two main reasons why we chose Red Hat JBoss EAP over WebSphere Application Server. Also, JBoss EAP is light weight and requires less server resource Incentivized Amanda Decker Development Coordinator, Advancement Services Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	Improved delivery timelines due to easy out of the box setup. It is a cheap subscription-based/open-source Java EE-based application server. This reduces the overall cost of delivery. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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