IBM Cloud Private vs. VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting 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 PrivateVMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud PrivateVMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
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 PrivateVMware 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 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
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 provisioning00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Management console00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Best Alternatives
IBM Cloud PrivateVMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
Small Businesses
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.3 out of 10
DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets
Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
VMware vSOM (discontinued)
VMware vSOM (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
VMware vSOM (discontinued)
VMware vSOM (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM Cloud PrivateVMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(5 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Cloud PrivateVMware 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.
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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.
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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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IBM
  • Dashboard understanding is easy.
  • The ability to handle big data.
  • Data extraction tools are very active.
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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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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.
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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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IBM
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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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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.
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