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IBM Cloud Private vs. SUSE OpenStack Cloud (discontinued)

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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

    SUSE OpenStack Cloud (discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASUSE OpenStack Cloud (currently EOL) was used deploy and manage heterogeneous cloud infrastructure for provisioning development, test and production workloads. The service has been discontinued and unsupported since 2020.N/A
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    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Cloud PrivateSUSE OpenStack Cloud (discontinued)
    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
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    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of IBM Cloud Private and SUSE OpenStack Cloud (discontinued)
    Feature
    IBM Cloud Private
    9.7
    5 Ratings
    23% above category average
    SUSE OpenStack Cloud (discontinued)
    -
    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
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    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Cloud PrivateSUSE OpenStack Cloud (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
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    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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    SUSE
    We host many VMs on our data centers for various customers using SUSE OpenStack Cloud. It makes it easier to host them on their own private servers for creating on premises private cloud servers. It does this job very well.
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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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    SUSE
    • It is opensource and hence pocket friendly.
    • Was the first enterprise OpenStack cloud distribution.
    • Makes hosting lot of VMs on cloud easier.
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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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    SUSE
    • Maintenance.
    • Customer support can be improved.
    • Updates can be made faster.
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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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    SUSE
    Both of these have equal capabilities in creating and spawning VMs. Both are opensource and very well suited for customers who are in need of building and maintaining their own private clouds on their own on premises network infrastructures. In comparison, SUSE OpenStack Cloud is little behind in terms of providing faster updates. It also has room for improvement in terms of providing support.
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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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    SUSE
    • Being opensource, it is pocket friendly.
    • Few customers are happy with its performance.
    • Private clouds with SUSE OpenStack makes secure private clouds.
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