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    IBM Cloud Foundry

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud Foundry is an IBM version of the open-source platform designed for building, testing, deploying, and scaling applications. Enterprises can run Cloud Foundry in a public isolated environment, while natively integrating with other IBM Cloud services, such as AI, Blockchain, and IoT.

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    IBM Cloud Private

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud Private is a Kubernetes-based container platform allowing users to build cloud-native applications on their own infrastructure. In addition, it offers common services for self-service deployment, monitoring, logging and security, as well as middleware, data and analytics.N/A
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    IBM Cloud FoundryIBM Cloud Private
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    IBM Cloud FoundryIBM Cloud Private
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    IBM Cloud FoundryIBM Cloud Private
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    Chose IBM Cloud Foundry
    It is a cloud-based solution and for all my customers that want to migrate to cloud, this is the solution that we are proposing to customers, as it provides a lot of benefits over private cloud. Scalability and resiliency are not a major challenge and it can be used with other …
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    Chose IBM Cloud Foundry
    CF is what we initially went with to establish a development pipeline and start our cloud journey, now we are expanding this and although we are now pulling in many other tools and functions around CF, it is not being replaced. It stands out as having a key place working ‘with’ …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Features
    IBM Cloud FoundryIBM Cloud Private
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of IBM Cloud Foundry and IBM Cloud Private
    Feature
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    7.6
    24 Ratings
    2% below category average
    IBM Cloud Private
    9.7
    5 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Ease of building user interfaces7.010 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Scalability8.524 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Platform management overhead8.512 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability8.020 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Platform access control10.01 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration7.523 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Development environment creation7.722 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Development environment replication6.49 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification4.711 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Issue recovery7.520 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes7.522 Ratings10.03 Ratings
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    Score9.6 out of 10
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Cloud FoundryIBM Cloud Private
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (32 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    IBM Cloud FoundryIBM Cloud Private
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    As it is an open-source platform as a service, it is very easy to operate, scale, and deploy regardless of what programming language and framework it's written in. However, it could be improved in terms of scalability. There should be proper documentation for easier and clearer understanding to make the process smooth.
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    IBM
    IBM Cloud Private is an ideal platform for companies to accelerate their business growth. It helps in reducing the cost of IT and operations while delivering a great customer experience. With IBM Cloud Private, you can gain agility and security with a flexible hybrid model that fits your needs. It's highly recommended to my colleagues from me.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Simplicity - the command line tool provided can get you up and running within minutes.
    • Resourceful - IBM Cloud Foundry is built on top of the open source Cloud Foundry technology, so any resources you find online about Cloud Foundry generally can be applied.
    • Feature rich - provides all the necessary features for a cloud based platform, such as auto-scaling, 0 downtime deployment.
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    • Capacity On Demand to scale up and down environments
    • SaaS model allows our team to have less involvement in managing or controlling the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual application capabilities.
    • SaaS model allows our team to worry less about upgrades, fix packs, environment support etc.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Need: VISUALIZATION CAPABILITIES! Particularly with the Conversation Service.
    • Need: Annotation capabilities for dialog nodes in Conversation Service.
    • Need: Search/querying capabilities in Conversation Service
    • Need: Clearer documentation of the S2T service. I had to use a third party website for an understanding of how to use this.
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    IBM
    • Bluemix/IBM Cloud UI can be better
    • Changing Brand name from Bluemix to IBM Cloud, as we are habituated to Bluemix more
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    CF is what we initially went with to establish a development pipeline and start our cloud journey, now we are expanding this and although we are now pulling in many other tools and functions around CF, it is not being replaced. It stands out as having a key place working ‘with’ git, Kubernetes, IBM cloud etc, not against or segregated from it.
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    IBM
    With VMware cloud, each VMware Cloud customer must have an SDDC account(VMC) as well as a general AWS account. The two accounts must be linked for the service to work which is a tiresome thing to do for some clients but with IBM Cloud Private all these issues are solved.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • IBM Bluemix is mainly a foundation enabler at this stage, although our business plan does look promising.
    • The low cost of development on Bluemix for a start-up like us is so helpful......we had no spare cash for this project besides what we could save or borrow at first, and that wasn't much. We are still trying to attract venture capital to cover the main Cordova Coding effort plus the launch "Cash Burn".
    • Features like push notifications, mobile-back end, and world-beating security help us to sell our SaaS products/services.
    • The pure (usually!) functionality of IBM products and services is very rewarding to work with.They are so insightful and thoughtful, to say naught of clever!
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    IBM
    • IBM Cloud has helped us start using the cloud and migrating old services to the cloud.
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