IBM Cloud Private vs. VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud Private

VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Cloud Private	Score 9.6 out of 10	N/A	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
VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud brings together VMware vSphere, vSAN, and NSX into a natively-integrated stack of virtual compute, virtual storage, and virtual networking built upon IBM Bluemix bare metal servers.	N/A

Pricing

IBM Cloud Private

VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud Private	VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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	IBM Cloud Private	VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud

Features

IBM Cloud Private

VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud

Platform-as-a-Service

Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
	IBM Cloud Private 9.7 5 Ratings 22% above category average	VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud - Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces	10.03 Ratings	00 Ratings
Scalability	10.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Platform management overhead	10.04 Ratings	00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability	10.04 Ratings	00 Ratings
Platform access control	9.04 Ratings	00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration	9.04 Ratings	00 Ratings
Development environment creation	10.04 Ratings	00 Ratings
Development environment replication	10.04 Ratings	00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification	9.04 Ratings	00 Ratings
Issue recovery	10.03 Ratings	00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes	10.03 Ratings	00 Ratings

Server Virtualization

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
	IBM Cloud Private - Ratings	VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud 9.0 1 Ratings 11% above category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Management console	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	IBM Cloud Private	VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
Small Businesses	AWS Lambda Score 8.3 out of 10	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.2 out of 10	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.2 out of 10	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	IBM Cloud Private	VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (5 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Cloud Private	VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
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. Incentivized Nosava Begum Human Resources Manager Read full review	IBM Multiple capabilities that VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud provides are excellent and very much involved in secure data migration and management, easy to monitor server performance and the virtual capability is on top and the data analytics using the platform are provided in real-time and the reports are the most useful, especially on the critical situations within the business development. Johnson Martins .NET Software Engineer Read full review
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. Incentivized Bhaskara Rudraraju Tech Consultant (ODM and BPM) Read full review	IBM Dashboard understanding is easy. The ability to handle big data. Data extraction tools are very active. Johnson Martins .NET Software Engineer Read full review
Cons	IBM Bluemix/IBM Cloud UI can be better Changing Brand name from Bluemix to IBM Cloud, as we are habituated to Bluemix more Incentivized Dinesh P Senior Infrastructure Engineer Read full review	IBM Only setting the advanced functionalities. The basic knowledge can not full manipulate the platform. To create reports for big data is sometime very turf. Johnson Martins .NET Software Engineer Read full review
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. Incentivized Nosava Begum Human Resources Manager Read full review	IBM No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	IBM IBM Cloud has helped us start using the cloud and migrating old services to the cloud. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM Live virtual capability are excellent. Great tool for the huge volume of data management and migration. Data accessibility is faster and the analytical capability is amazing. Johnson Martins .NET Software Engineer Read full review
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