IBM Cloud Virtual Servers vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Likelihood to Recommend

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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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is well suited for the projects which need to reduce the time, improve process efficiency and mainly to reduce the cost of the project, which give higher return on investment. Project[s] where there is not much Infrastructure, they can also prefer. It is less appropriate if the company already has on premises Infrastructure.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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 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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Block Volume provides durability and stability to data. IOPS can be changed on the fly. Always stay true to the promised performance.
Block Volume can be encrypted with ease to meet compliance. Can also be easily integrated with OCI vault service for extra security.
Object Storage and File Storage are other forms of storage that are secure and extremely easy to configure. FSS is one of the best in the industry when it comes to reliability and performance.
SSD block volumes are persistent in OCI unlike many other clouds.

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Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Cons

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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Team Lead in Information Technology

Research Company, 10,001+ employees

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) is a fully managed service that makes it a little hard sometimes to fine tune HPC workloads, for example AI/Deep learning training where a lot of data transfer and compute is needed.
The initial setup can certainly be improved with less steps to make it faster and easier to deploy compared to the competition, for example Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
Documentation and best practice documentation for OKE can be improved especially since there are not a lot of customer references available for large scale deployments that need fine tuned performance.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Airlines/Aviation Company, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 10.0

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Very likely. Our business solely relies on OCI

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Professional in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Usability

No score

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 9.0

Based on 2 answers

doesn't have a mobile version

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Adriana Grama

Junior Assistant Developer

Technology Network ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 9.0

Based on 1 answer

highly available.

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Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Performance

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 8.0

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good performance . good integration.

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Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers 7.5

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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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Engineer in Information Technology

Utilities Company, 11-50 employees

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 8.0

Based on 1 answer

Good rating. Always advancing.

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Professional in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Online Training

No score

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 6.0

Based on 1 answer

detailed and easy to understand.

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Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 7.0

Based on 1 answer

Easy to implement.Easy to navigate

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Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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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We use Azure for most of company deployments, since we use Microsoft stack, but since we also use Oracle databases we were able to test OCI and compare the usage. I use OCI to test new features and solutions.

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Lisandro Fernigrini

Database Practice Leader

Kapsch TrafficcomInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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Scalability

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 7.0

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useful product.

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Return on Investment

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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Very useful since using Oracle applications on-premises; moving to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure heavily reduced administrative and other costs
Useful with scale-up and scale-down feature to reduce the cost immediately after the initial use
Easy on patching, security, and backups
For integration with other services or for applications other than Oracle, it's challenging and time consuming

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Krishan Mohil

Manager Tech Architect

AccentureBanking, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

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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per month
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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.

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is built for enterprises looking for higher performance, consistently lower costs, and easier cloud migration for their existing on-premises applications. OCI is consistently less expensive than AWS for a wide range of popular cloud workloads for several reasons: (1) in the area of networking, charges for outbound bandwidth are 74% less expensive than AWS, (2) for compute, Oracle delivers > 2X better price/performance over AWS for general purpose and memory-optimized instances. (3) for HPC workloads, AWS provides similar performance to Oracle, but is 44% more expensive and provides no local SSDs, half the RAM, no RDMS networking, and no performance SLA, and (4) for block storage, OCI offers as much as 20X the IOPS performance of AWS for less than half the cost. Check out these links to learn more: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/economics/ https://www.oracle.com/webfolder/workload-estimator/index.html

Rating Summary

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