IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) vs IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

Likelihood to Recommend

We used it to deploy a version of our data science environment, particularly in tight integrations. Some software needs both administrative and technical support to handle it, and with the VPC sitting outside our company's infrastructure, we could readily build without burden. This allowed us to grab ROI faster and within the deadlines required by the business areas.

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Verified User

Supervisor in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 1001-5000 employees

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If you're already a customer of IBM, or using an IBM product through an ASP or reseller, or you need access to the hundreds of services IBM provides, it's a great place to build out your infrastructure.

If you're an established company slowly adding VMs, a smaller provider in the vast digital ocean of choices may be better.

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Scott Galvin

Co-founder

CenturyLinkFinancial Services, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

Dynamic scaling

Elastic load balancing

Pre-configured templates

Monitoring tools

Pre-defined machine images

Operating system support

Security controls

Pros

The IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) architecture allows scripted preparation and management of the virtual environment, which we use to link the IBM VPC API with an Ultimus CPS solution, allowing our colleagues to manage the IBM environment directly from our own management solution.
IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) uses a "pay what you use" pricing model. By integrating the IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) API into Ultimus management processes, the machines can be started and stopped automatically specifically for the needed times. This saves us a lot of money.
The performance of the IBM VPM machines is excellent and gives us great performance for developing and presenting our Ultimus products and solutions.

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Verified User

Project Manager in Product Management

Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees

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The pricing options for services is awesome, offering bare-metal and other high-demand services at hourly rates.
Softlayer offers a huge assortment of high-powered services, such as Nvidia Tesla GPU computing, high-bandwidth connection options, and highly customizable bare-metal servers
All of Softlayers' plans and services are fully adaptable to to fit your needs, with a huge amount of options for both the services they offer and the management options available for those services.

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Craig Nash

Sr. Network Engineer

GodAmongGeeks.ComInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Cons

The documentation and integration between OpenShift and IBMCloud was not clear. It took some time to figure out which interface to use to setup certain items.
Better communication between departments could be improved. Had a billing question and had two departments saying it was the other team's issue. Took three days of back and forth to resolve.
The documentation for loading containers into IBM Cloud OpenShift container registry was not clear. The correct commands were not documented.

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Ralph Rebacz

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

ArtisanECM LLCComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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The IBM Cloud Web UI is very slow and not responsive
It would be nice to provide a direct way to choose a template image when creating a VSI
It would be nice if transient VSIs can be resized (CPU and Mem)

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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Research Company, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers 8.2

Based on 1 answer

It's hard to imagine not renewing having spent so much time setting up our infrastructure to utilise the CVS

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Strategist in Finance and Accounting

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 8.6

Based on 9 answers

Great responsiveness and detailed know-how from the team. Self Explanatory and good resources on the Web to resolve issues. Good communication on issues via email. Good response times on issues which arise and where we have received support from the IBM support team. We believe that IBM is a great Partner to base our IT applications and we believe that a critical infrastructure like a cloud backend will be well served if we continue to base it on IBM.

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Orlando Remédios

CEO

SensefinityComputer Hardware, 11-50 employees

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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers 7.5

Based on 2 answers

It is adequate, but you need to be ready to argue your point - which is fair enough, I suppose, but being given the opposite of the benefit of the doubt every time does not necessarily result in an enjoyable user experience.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Utilities Company, 11-50 employees

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Implementation Rating

IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 7.4

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It's fairly easy to use once you use it a couple of times, but I wouldn't like to rely on IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) completely because I don't want to be locked into a particular cloud provider. In terms of support, the docs are pretty good, but sometimes you wish that information was easier to access like with other providers.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Human Resources Company, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We chose IBM Cloud [Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)] because of its tight integration with the Lithops library, which allows us to quickly scale our compute resources by provisioning VPC instances or calling Cloud Functions, handling all the deployment, data moving, etc. without us needing to know the details or learn another language, all from Python code.

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Verified User

Engineer in Research & Development

Biotechnology Company, 1001-5000 employees

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I have had a dedicated server for 20 years. The last company, Softlayer, got bought out by IBM, and the transition has been a very good one. When I started using IBM for all my hosting solutions, I became a really big fan. Everything has been a user-friendly experience. The products have been really easy to work with.

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Jeffrey Lange

Owner / Creative Director / Developer / Digital Marketing

FanbuildInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

Future readiness--we have the ability to quickly respond and build custom demos for customers in a short timeframe.
Savings on hardware--we have the ability to spin up large workloads to demonstrate to customers the performance of our tools and IBM Cloud.

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Ralph Rebacz

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

ArtisanECM LLCComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Freed up our team to focus on working on our own products and not having to worry about maintaining and patching servers.
On-demand procurement allowed our team to quickly spin up servers as needed and shut them down when work is done.

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Qing Miao

Program Manager

AppFusionsComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Editions & Modules

Edition

IBM Cloud Public Virtual Servers	starting at $0.038¹
IBM Cloud Dedicated Virtual Servers	starting at $0.22¹
IBM Cloud Public Virtual Servers	starting at $25.21²
IBM Cloud Dedicated Virtual Servers	starting at $149.00²
IBM Cloud Transient Virtual Servers	starting at $0.01³
IBM Cloud Reserved Virtual Servers	starting at $0.02³
IBM Cloud Reserved Virtual Servers	starting at $13.27⁴

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Additional Pricing Details

IBM Cloud virtual servers include 250 GB of outbound public bandwidth, unmetered inbound public bandwidth, and unmetered private and management network bandwidth.

Rating Summary

IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

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