IBM Cloud Private vs. Platform.sh

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud Private
Score 9.6 out of 10
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IBM 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
Platform.sh
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Platform.sh helps companies of all sizes, from SaaS entrepreneurs looking to build, run, and scale their websites and web applications.N/A
Pricing
IBM Cloud PrivatePlatform.sh
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IBM Cloud PrivatePlatform.sh
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
IBM Cloud PrivatePlatform.sh
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Private
9.7
5 Ratings
19% above category average
Platform.sh
9.3
1 Ratings
14% above category average
Ease of building user interfaces10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability10.05 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Platform management overhead10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform access control9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration9.04 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Development environment creation10.04 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Development environment replication10.04 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification9.04 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Issue recovery10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes10.03 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM Cloud PrivatePlatform.sh
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(5 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Cloud PrivatePlatform.sh
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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Platform.sh
In our organisation we are the only team that uses Platform.sh to host any site. This was a cost effective way for us as we were using Acquia Cloud earlier for these websites. We mostly use Platform.sh for those sites which are always in development as it is simpler and faster to handle these operations in Platform.sh. Then we do a lift and shift to Acquia as we move more towards the go live and post production maintenance side.
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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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Platform.sh
  • As this is a PaaS it mitigates the complexities of a Cloud infrastructure like Acquia
  • We are easily able to integrate our sites with different technologies like Python and Rest
  • Helps us in providing Continuous Development cloud deployment hosting solution
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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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Platform.sh
  • Platform.sh is not for beginners in my opinion. It has a good amount of learning curve in my opinion.
  • As this is a PaaS, teams habituated with cloud infrastructure may miss the server side support from their cloud teams. I believe you will have to work on server bugs more on your own.
  • During normal maintenance periods, integrations may fail if you are working on your sites in that time, in my experience.
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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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Platform.sh
In our team we use Platform.sh mostly while sites are in developmental phase. Then we do a lift and shift to either Acquia or AWS depending on the type of sites we have. Platform.sh is really cost effective and more fluid in terms of Continuous Development hence the usage. After said development is done, we generally lift and shift to Acquia for more content heavy sites and to AWS for more transaction oriented sites.
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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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Platform.sh
  • Continuous development for sites in build has been fluid
  • Platform.sh is really cost effective when comparing to AWS or Acquia Cloud
  • On the other side, lack of server side support demands a big learning curve from its users in my opinion.
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