IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions vs. IBM File Transfer Service

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

IBM File Transfer Service

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions	Score 8.1 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…	$0 IBM Cloud Object Storage Cross-Regional Smart Tier 1 GB (hourly)
IBM File Transfer Service	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	IBM® File Transfer Service is a cloud-based managed file transfer solution for business-to-business (B2B) interactions. It is used to manage a single, security-rich, highly reliable connection between a business and its partners. File Transfer Service offers an alternative to more expensive on-premises software while helping to reduce the operational impact on technology staff.	N/A

Pricing

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

IBM File Transfer Service

Editions & Modules

Add-on: $0
IBM Cloud Object Storage Cross-Regional Smart Tier 1 GB (hourly)
On-demand: $0
0.25 IOPs 1 GB
Reserved (monthly or 730 hours): $0
0.25 IOPs 1 GB (Per gigabyte of storage (hourly))
Add-on: $0
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

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions	IBM File Transfer Service
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions	IBM File Transfer Service
Considered Both Products	IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions GH Gabriel Hernandez IBM Cloud Technical Specialist Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions When you want to manage the hypervisor and have root access to control the entire environment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Jesus Mora Luna System Administrator 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 Helpful? Amir Shokoohi IT director 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 Helpful? AE Amr Elsaid IT Consultant Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Both are good, but IBM Cloud much better with IBM sw Incentivized Helpful? MK Mushtaqu Khan Regional Business Manager 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions They are both comparable services and we had done some research into both. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? RG Radhamohan Garg GM Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions A Cloud Guru (Linux Academy) Incentivized Helpful? Rajesh Singh CEO & MD 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 Helpful? David Fertig VP 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Steve Redman IT Manager Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions We looked at Citrix but the model was not what ideal in considering all our business needs. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Trevor Hernandez Lead Infrastructure Architect Chose IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions From what I've seen so far, IBM cloud has the same features as any other cloud provider. 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Features

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

IBM File Transfer Service

Server Virtualization

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
	IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions 8.3 Ratings 3% above category average	IBM File Transfer Service - Ratings
Virtual machine automated provisioning	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Management console	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions	IBM File Transfer Service
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions	IBM File Transfer Service
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized GH Gabriel Hernandez IBM Cloud Technical Specialist Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	Ease of use - we don't want to spend extra hours trying to figure out a problem. Easy Setup - onboarding was simple and quick. Great documentation - Most of the answers to our questions are very easily accessible without additional help. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	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 Incentivized David Fertig VP Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	Everything is very clearly laid out. Being familiar with vSphere already, it was a quick transition over to the IBM environment. This allowed us to spend less time on the implementation phase and move quickly to actually utilizing the system on a day to day basis. Also, the performance is very good. No lagginess to the website like our previous on-prem environment. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	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! Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	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! Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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 end with another item. Incentivized Rajesh Singh CEO & MD Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	One of our business objectives was to ensure as close to 100% uptime of our servers and applications. This solution has helped us achieve that goal. Another goal was to try and minimize our datacenter footprint. This was achieved by using the product. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
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