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    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is designed to make cloud adoption easier, allowing the user to optimize the value of existing on-premises infrastructure, while leveraging the same tools, technologies and skills in the cloud. The solution provides rapid scalability, deployment in 35+ global data centers and access to disaster recovery, backup, security and compliance solutions from an array of ecosystem partners. To address varying workload needs, IBM Cloud…

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    IBM Cloud Object Storage Cross-Regional Smart Tier 1 GB (hourly)

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    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    Editions & Modules
    Add-on
    $0
    IBM Cloud Object Storage Cross-Regional Smart Tier 1 GB (hourly)
    On-demand
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    0.25 IOPs 1 GB
    Reserved (monthly or 730 hours)
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    0.25 IOPs 1 GB (Per gigabyte of storage (hourly))
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    IBM Cloud Block Storage 1 GB (hourly)
    On-demand
    $0.01
    Per vCPU (hourly)
    On-demand
    $0.09
    Per gigabyte of network and bandwidth egress (monthly)
    Reserved (monthly or 730 hours)
    $0.09
    Per gigabyte of network and bandwidth egress (monthly)
    Reserved (monthly or 730 hours)
    $12.80
    Microsoft license (monthly) per 1 vCPU²
    Add-on
    $13
    Veeam backup license
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
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    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    When you want to manage the hypervisor and have root access to control the entire environment.
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    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    Trust in the IBM brand and their Industry experience into delivering Value to the customers and the management relationship with the sales and delivery teams proceeded to the selection of IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions for delivering VMware Horizon cloud.
    IBM Cloud for VMware …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    Compared to AWS, I found the IBM Cloud for VMware solutions service very easy to use since the administration interface is intuitive, well distributed and easy to use, also in the way of performing configurations and deployments it has fewer steps than on AWS, the security …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    We have previously used Veeam and while they offer a very good solution for the purposes of backups and virtualization, IBM's is superiors by far. I would imagine the years of experience IBM has in the industry has helped them come up with a more efficient version of the …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    Both are good, but IBM Cloud much better with IBM sw
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions stacks up against them, we fully agree there are so many features in IBM cloud for VMware Solutions that make it unique and different. The system provides us hypervisor security level and the system even has live backup and storage capacity of …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    They are both comparable services and we had done some research into both.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    IBM Cloud for VMware [Solutions] stacks up against the rest, if nothing else, based on support. Their support is great once you engage them and that is the main reason for going with them.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    IBM Cloud for VMware was a cheaper alternative to AWS and provided best-in-class tools such as security, backup, recovery/DR. The interface was easy to navigate and the support skillset is high.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    We chose VMware over Azure App Service because of the way that it was at that point natural and still offered similar cloud capacities that Azure would have acquired us. This permitted us to continue to utilize a similar interface and not need to relearn everything beginning to …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    We ended up choosing iland instead of IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions primarily because of support and performance. IBM's cloud is not on par with others. It's slower and out of date on some aspects, and the support is just not responsive or available.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    We believe IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions really stood out from Nutanix and Oracle VM VirtualBox. We really liked that the solution was a one-stop shop where IBM could provide all the required elements. We also trust IBM to provide the best-in-class solution to our problems …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    We looked at Citrix but the model was not what ideal in considering all our business needs.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is better for clients on a dollar to dollar basis compared to AWS Backup. It allows customers to easily see how much resources they are using in the cloud (a feature not fully available with AWS). This helps save them money and be smarter with …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    IBM Cloud for VMware solutions has been great and we haven't seen a need to look into competitors.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    I haven't used other products, but I am happy with VMware VSphere on IBM Cloud. Our team enjoys using it as well, and the support that we have gotten from IBM keeps us satisfied as customers.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    IBM Cloud for VMware solutions is much easier to use and makes migration simple. This is huge for a diverse team that needs to learn software quick and be able to utilize it fast to respond to a data issue. We have also saved money by switching.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    We selected VMware over Azure due to the fact that it was already familiar and still offered the same cloud capabilities that Azure would have gained us. This allowed us to keep using the same interface and not have to relearn everything from start to finish with a new product.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    From what I've seen so far, IBM cloud has the same features as any other cloud provider.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    Feature
    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    8.5
    25 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Virtual machine automated provisioning7.625 Ratings
    Management console8.725 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup9.024 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration8.723 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security8.725 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (25 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    VMware Cloud Foundation for Disaster Recovery environment, when the client needs to deploy a pay-as-you-go service or if they need to migrate SAP workloads, you can use VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic and VPC. We are the unique SAP-Certified VMware cloud service provider.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Adaptable valuing relying upon size and scale.
    • The presentation is first rate. Our on-prem climate was continually experiencing slack and general languor. With IBM running everything, it's much smoother.
    • Start another group as little as one ESXi worker or scale a current bunch.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Support is horrible and or non-existent
    • Documentation is out of date and incorrect for the most part
    • IBM employees and salespeople are not aware of features or offerings
    • Does not integrate the Zerto, only Veeam and has limited options for data migration
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    Usability
    IBM
    It is easy to use and setting it up is simple. The only con is that the pricing is a little bit high as well as documentation is a little low; so we had to do some personal learning to be able to fully utilize the product, or hop on the phone with someone.
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    Overall, just a great experience here. No one in my opinion gets a perfect 10/10 rating (no one is ever perfect), so 9/10 is probably as good as it gets! From initial planning to post implementation support, the IBM Cloud and professional services has been there for my group as much as we have needed them. Great job!
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    Implementation Rating
    IBM
    IBM professional services helped us plan and implement the project with great success. They guided the project from planning, scoping, pre-implementation, testing, roll-out, then production and post-production support. We were very impressed with their knowledge of VMware and really appreciated their desire to make our project a success. I would highly recommend them!
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions stacks up against them, we fully agree there are so many features in IBM cloud for VMware Solutions that make it unique and different. The system provides us hypervisor security level and the system even has live backup and storage capacity of data. This system provides us with accuracy that helps us to reduce errors and vulnerability.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • It has a positive impact on the cost required to maintain our vSphere environment by allowing us to get rid of our vsphere hardware and not worry about maintenance either.
    • There have been very few negatives, but one would definitely be the open-ended cost associated with cloud products in general.
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