IBM Cloud File Storage vs. Lumen Edge Private Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud File Storage
Score 9.0 out of 10
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IBM Cloud provides a File Storage service allows the user to deploy and customize flash-backed NFS-based file storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS.N/A
Lumen Edge Private Cloud
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Lumen® Edge Private Cloud helps manage digital workloads and cloud ecosystems at scale. It is used to increase workload performance while accelerating innovation by optimizing latency‑sensitive apps with scalable private cloud computing and storage.N/A
Pricing
IBM Cloud File StorageLumen Edge Private Cloud
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud File StorageLumen Edge Private Cloud
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
IBM Cloud File StorageLumen Edge Private Cloud
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud File Storage
8.5
39 Ratings
3% above category average
Lumen Edge Private Cloud
-
Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime9.737 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling8.836 Ratings00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing8.135 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates7.631 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring tools8.037 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images8.133 Ratings00 Ratings
Operating system support9.636 Ratings00 Ratings
Security controls9.437 Ratings00 Ratings
Automation7.030 Ratings00 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.4 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
SAP on IBM Cloud
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Score 9.0 out of 10

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Enterprises
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Score 9.0 out of 10

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User Ratings
IBM Cloud File StorageLumen Edge Private Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(40 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Cloud File StorageLumen Edge Private Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
well suited: Enterprise File Sharing and Collaboration: Scenario: our organization has teams working on projects across different geographical locations, and they need a centralized and easily accessible file storage solution. IBM Cloud File Storage can facilitate seamless file sharing and collaboration among team members. less appropriate Highly Transactional Databases: Scenario: Your organization has highly transactional and I/O-intensive database workloads that require low-latency access to data. In such cases, block storage or specialized database services might be more appropriate than file storage.
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Lumen Technologies
CenturyLink Private Cloud is well suited for companies that are smaller and wouldn't have to undergo scaling for a longer time. Apart from that, it does well in almost all categories. It wouldn't actually be useful for bigger companies since the UI is a bit laggy sometimes and usually, it's not advisable for big companies.
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Pros
IBM
  • Simple file system sharing
  • Lots of storage space (up to 12 TB)
  • Choice of performance (up to 10 IOPS/GB)
  • Simple interface to order more storage
  • Quick interface to allow more servers to share the file store
  • Security - only allows access from specified server(s)
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Lumen Technologies
  • robust framework
  • amazing customer support in case you're facing maintenance issues
  • collaborative ability is off the charts
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Cons
IBM
  • We have sometimes experienced some outages and hope IBM will fix this soon.
  • Initial trainings are required for the teams to work and do the setup.
  • Support documentation from IBM needs improvement with [the] inclusion of more detailed steps and video tutorials for [a] better understanding of the engineers.
  • The billing process is very complex and you may have to incur additional overhead. Need a simpler approach and clarity on this aspect.
  • Support response from the IBM team is very slow and lacks information.
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Lumen Technologies
  • UI can be really improved, since it sometimes lags a lot
  • Very few know about the product, so they should advertise a bit more
  • There maybe scaling issues since it's a relatively smaller company compared to its competitors
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
IBM Cloud File Storage is a valuable tool in the arsenal of any small business. It's flexibility combined with its ease of use ensure that there is low operational overhead, combined with a solid return on investment. It's role based access control features combined with sharing capabilities make it a significant win for any business.
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Lumen Technologies
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Support Rating
IBM
The IBM team provides effective support for all the cloud operations. They tracks operations and database functionalities closely to enhance reliable operations and remove inefficiencies that affect work processes. The support team has prepared video tutorials and manuals that guides our members on how to work with the database systems effectively.
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Lumen Technologies
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Implementation Rating
IBM
The IBM Professional services provided the re4quired infrastructure for getting the best out of this tool. It offered excellent guidelines that enhanced efficient integrations. The organization was pleased with the setup process that was completed quickly than expected. The application has been operation effectively after deployment. We have continued to get support from the IBM support team when there are challenges.
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Lumen Technologies
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
IBM Cloud File Storage, unlike other similar products, offers excellent Cloud data security and its overall data management quality on IBM Cloud File Storage is incredible and its data integration support is perfect because it allows big data migration across many Cloud platforms for effective data analytics generation and data visualization tools are great.
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Lumen Technologies
It doesn't stack up that well against them, since these are big companies and have huge infrastructures and they provide smooth scaling features. However CenturyLink Private Cloud is a little concise and not many people know about it, so I feel like they should advertise more and try to improve their customer outreach.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • Compared with company datacenter require less maintenance time with an incomparable high availability and business continuity features
  • The possibility to move snapshots on other data centers let this solution super scalable worldwide
  • The price for gb let us pay what we need without a pre commissioned storage buy
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Lumen Technologies
  • We reduced our cloud hosting costs a lot after switching to CenturyLink Private Cloud
  • Maintenance is very easy since there is documentation available for every part
  • It had some issues with the UI but we can neglect those considering the pricing options they provide.
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