IBM Cloud Internet Services vs. Juniper Contrail Networking

In terms of business challenges, it simplifies the job of my engineers and significantly increases the productivity of my teams when they collaborate with IBM teams all over the world. Now that we have completed a proof-of-concept using the services supplied by IBM, we expect it to assist us in managing them more efficiently; thus far, management has been straightforward.

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Best for: - Data Center Networking - NFVI Cloud Networking - Virtual Private Cloud for CSP

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• Integration with IBM Cloud applications
• Easy to manage web application firewall
• Ease of protecting CloudFoundry applications
• Good console UI
• Protection for rare managed service offerings such as CouchDB through IBM Cloudant

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• Contrail Networking automates network resource.
• Providing reliability and agility while extending visibility into your multi-cloud network.
• Advanced analytics capabilities.

• Request proxying is done by way of DNS name resolution, which is inflexible.
• Proxy services do not work on wildcard DNS entries.

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• Contrail should have inbuild management of underlay network as well
• lack of open resources to learn

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I have seen faster and more user friendly interfaces like Azure

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I have used Salesforce to explore it as an app but I have found them both able to solve my needs and requirements when it comes to security. While I choose IBM Cloud Internet Services for more accessibility, a better price was available with Saleforce. Although that is just my observation.

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The platforms are very similar in networking concepts, at the interface level I found it easier to use Juniper Contrail than Cisco ACI. And at the cost level, I think it is cheaper.

• It had a positive impact with a big improvement on the performance of web applications.
• Services are quite fast to implement and easy to maintain from an IT perspective.

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• Core of our NFV Cloud providing Multitenant Services
• Give Agility to our Cloud
• Wrokload any IP, anywhere

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