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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Azure IoT Edge

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AAzure IoT Edge is a fully managed service built on Azure IoT Hub. Users can deploy cloud workloads—artificial intelligence, Azure and third-party services, or business logic—to run on Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices via standard containers. The vendor states that by moving certain workloads to the edge of the network, devices spend less time communicating with the cloud, react more quickly to local changes, and operate reliably even in extended offline periods.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM Cloud PrivateAzure IoT Edge
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Cloud PrivateAzure IoT Edge
    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 PrivateAzure IoT Edge
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of IBM Cloud Private and Microsoft Azure IoT Edge
    Feature
    IBM Cloud Private
    9.7
    5 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Microsoft Azure IoT Edge
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internet of Things
    Comparison of Internet of Things features of IBM Cloud Private and Microsoft Azure IoT Edge
    Feature
    IBM Cloud Private
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Azure IoT Edge
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    5% above category average
    IoT Device Management00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Device Security00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    IoT Data Management00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    IoT Analytics00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    IoT Integration00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    IBM Cloud PrivateAzure IoT Edge
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    AWS IoT Core
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
    AWS IoT Core
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Cloud PrivateAzure IoT Edge
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Cloud PrivateAzure IoT Edge
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Microsoft
    Deployment of mission critical business support solutions particularly those that support virtual learning and video conferencing environments. This is because they help organisations such as the university to effectively transition to a digitally compliant organisation.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • 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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    Microsoft
    • It works even if there is no internet at client location. It will record all the generated data and only send them to cloud storage when there is internet connection.
    • It allows you to bring cloud functionality down to Edge location in the form of docker container.
    • It also supports two way communication from device to cloud and vice-versa.
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    Cons
    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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    Microsoft
    • For some reason, the containerized architecture was also making this very hard
    • Had some issues when debugging edge modules, needs a professional grade remote debugging
    • Industrial automation still requires attention. OPC-UA was good but Modbus or custom PLCs etc was painful to set up
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    Usability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Most of the time it works perfectly, does not require any attention, but when there is a problem, it's really hard to diagnose it. I think the documentation for the positive scenarios are good on the Microsoft side, but for negative scenarios, I don't think there is enough community help out there, in my opinion.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Microsoft
    The reason Behind this is the cost, as Microsoft provides solutions and integrations of services cheaper than AWS.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • IBM Cloud has helped us start using the cloud and migrating old services to the cloud.
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    Microsoft
    • Very valuable return on investment for IT capex committed to the deployment
    • Improvements in overall organisational efficiency and agility
    • Repositioning the organisation to become digitally transformed
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