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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

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What is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?

IBM Cloud bare metal servers are cloud servers configurable in hourly/monthly options, on-demand, from any location—with a selection of standard features and services for small businesses and enterprise demands. Users can customize RAM and SSDs with 11M+ configurations from which…

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December 16, 2022
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  • Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime (77)
    9.0
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  • Security controls (74)
    8.8
    88%
  • Operating system support (76)
    8.6
    86%
  • Monitoring tools (70)
    8.4
    84%

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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

IaaS provides the basic building blocks for an IT infrastructure like servers, storage, and networking, in an on-demand model over the Internet

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Product Details

What is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are single-tenant, dedicated servers that can be deployed and managed as cloud services. They are part of IBM Cloud and are available in either classic or VPC deployment models.


IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers on VPC Infrastructure are dedicated bare metal servers that provide enhanced networking and connectivity via virtual private cloud (VPC) capabilities. They’re available now as an integrated part of IBM Cloud.


IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers on IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure are presented as ideal for large, steady state, predictable operations that rely on traditional cloud networking. IBM Cloud Bare Metal Server can be customized with over 11 million different configuration combinations. IBM includes 20 TB of bandwidth. Pay-as-you-use with hourly, monthly, or reserved billing at prices set for cost management. CPU technology from Intel® Xeon® , and AMD EPYC™ , and add the latest NVIDIA Tesla GPUs are available.

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Features

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Features

  • Supported: Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
  • Supported: Dynamic scaling
  • Supported: Elastic load balancing
  • Supported: Pre-configured templates
  • Supported: Monitoring tools
  • Supported: Pre-defined machine images
  • Supported: Operating system support
  • Supported: Security controls

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Screenshots

Screenshot of ConfiguringScreenshot of Bandwidth ProvisioningScreenshot of Remote ManagementScreenshot of Firmware Management

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationMobile Web

Frequently Asked Questions

IBM Cloud bare metal servers are cloud servers configurable in hourly/monthly options, on-demand, from any location—with a selection of standard features and services for small businesses and enterprise demands. Users can customize RAM and SSDs with 11M+ configurations from which to choose.

Alibaba Cloud ECS Bare Metal Servers, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Rackspace Managed Hosting are common alternatives for IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers.

Reviewers rate Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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December 16, 2022

IBM Cloud VPC - Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In one of our projects where we had to create a setup of a virtual desktop infrastructure, which was to be created on VMWare, So, due to larger workload we migrated the existing workload on IBM Cloud and also wanted the help of the IPs, and Container services. The product has offered agility to our work, it is affordable and secure. Also the scope of our use case varies from project to project.
  • cost-effective
  • easy migration
  • highly secure
  • Limited versions of OS available
  • Less documentation available
  • Not all Databases are available
IBM VPC is well suitable for while migrating existing workload and while creating private cloud spaces
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Bare Metal Servers are currently being used in one of our deployments. We are in general delighted by the uptime and quality. IBM really needs to improve on its documentation. Other cloud platforms provide better documentation.
  • Overall Quality
  • Ease of Deployment
  • Performance
  • Documentation
  • Connectivity to other platforms
  • Pricing can be made more flexible
Industrial Automation deployments function well on Bare Metal Servers. We are able to utilize Bare Metal Servers for backup of Mission Critical Software.
We are hopeful that IBM will expand the marketplace and allow better features for OPC and BACNET connectivity.
In general the documentation needs to improve.
November 11, 2022

Transparent Review.

Sandeep Eti | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have been involved with the below use cases in my experience - 1) Migrate on-prem servers/applications to IBM DC Cloud to new bare metal servers and build the Application (Lift and Shift the Custom Applications). 2) Build New Custom Applications from Scratch on Brand new LINUX bare metal servers.
  • Compatible for custom Applications.
  • Allows to install needed packages.
  • Self install required software like oracle, tools, compliers.
  • C compiler wasn't available by default.
  • Sendmail feature/package wasn't available by default.
  • Dependant on admins to get issues resolved.
Well suited - 1) To Install required Products/Software in a middleware technology 2) Customize the file system and size of the storage 3) Install required monitoring tools like Tivoli, Splunk, etc. Less appropriate - 1) Maybe for SAAS products that do not require all of the installations.
October 28, 2022

IBM Bare Metal

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I used IBM Cloud Bare metal server to run my company’s website, web apps, database, etc.
  • Security
  • Performance
  • Availability
  • User Friendliness
  • Cost
IBM Cloud Bare Metal is great in scenarios where you need high availability and high performance, but of course this comes at a cost. If someone needs a simple static site obviously they are not going to use bare metal. But if you are running a web app where performance and availability is critical, it makes a lot of sense to go bare metal.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Being used as our primary production for our Web Apps, Internal Facing Apps, and our database warehouse.
  • Quick Deployment
  • Wide global footprint
  • Many auxiliary services beyond servers
  • Downtime!
  • Limited availability in certain markets
  • Some outdated documentation
Development, USA presence, and single source provider solutions are great for IBM Bluemix. You will need to establish DR locations as the uptime is not up to standards.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers in our organization to host our servers in the cloud. IBM Cloud provides us with a really cost-effective alternative for adding servers to our infrastructure. If we look to buy a physical server, the cost runs into thousands of dollars plus the cost to run and maintain it whereas the IBM cloud charges us on an hourly basis.
  • Ability to host resources quickly
  • Enhanced security
  • Easily Scalable reources
  • The user interface should be a bit more easier to use
  • The support resolution times should be reduced
  • VPN connectivity must be a basic feauture
IBM Cloud Bare Metal servers are best suited if you are looking for an alternative for adding computing resources to your organization's IT domain. The costs of owning and maintaining a physical resource in the organization are far more than renting computing resources on the cloud. The bare-metal servers allow you to utilize the entire server for your organization's requirements.
December 01, 2021

Very helpful tool

Saman Zubairr | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
These servers are fully dedicated servers. it's providing us the maximum performance and security-related stuff. When I use it I felt that it gives us very high performance and I am fully satisfied with it. IBM is unique as it has the ability to bind IP addresses that can float across any data center region to allow for fault-tolerant applications bound by a static IP regardless of geographic location. This system has been [used] by [the] global R&D division with [collaborative] working. Our main reason for using Bare Metal is the speed and security it provides over a cloud-based distributed database. As a bare metal IBM Cloud customer, you have complete access to one of the industry's largest selections of standard features and services for bare-metal workloads in both small business and enterprise settings. We deployed the Kubernetes cluster & [are] managing it with the best security practices. Also, it provides direct root access over the hardware. We are using it across all the departments. At times when we have a requirement to add new servers to our environment, we may not have the required computational resources to host the servers or the procurement of new servers is taking time due to paperwork. in such cases, we utilize the IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
  • The servers are very secure and IBM provides many tools to help [make] sure the servers stay that way.
  • I use IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers to support online gamers on some platforms (frontend and backend)
  • I use them for our production hosting.
  • Support is very expensive
  • Availability of data center in a particular location.
  • The UI is not user friendly
The streaming capability is extremely good. It is very fast and loads the website faster. Our backend server can hold multiple users simultaneously using the website and through multiple locations. We love it and want to keep going. We are fine with the Bare Metal Servers that we own. We get notifications every time we need to schedule the maintenance. Our clients are also happy the service is always up and running when needed. It has dedicated unlimited computational power. It has a good backup system with off-site backup servers and easy disaster recovery
Pooja Bhadja | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
These servers are fully dedicated servers. it's providing us the maximum performance and security-related stuff. When I use it I felt that it gives us very high performance and I am fully satisfied with it. I use it in big and complex business logic. My server is placed in the USA. I used a dedicated server. and I also recommended using it to everyone.
  • It's provide us wide range of management options[.]
  • It's provide us CPU configurations for maximum flexibility and scalability[.]
  • Right now nothing I have to improve.
I highly recommended using this IBM server. I am very satisfied to use this server. it reduces the time for getting data from this server. And the best part is [I] put minimal effort [into] this and it gives the best of best performance. It provides us with more bandwidth compared to their cost.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers to support online gamers on some platforms (frontend and backend) and provide a backend for the game hosted on other platforms. I've used IBM Cloud Server for 12 years starting from the time it was Softlayer. I hosted it in a couple of datacenters so far. I use Microsoft Windows and MSSQL Server software.
  • Good quality support
  • Good quality of hardware
  • Transparency about technical issues, security issues
  • The new IBM cloud customer site is not convenient
  • Relatively high prices of hardware and bandwidth
  • Relatively high prices for storage
  • Not flexible server storage configuration (SSD options related)
Scenarios where IBM Cloud Servers are well suited: 1. When you need a backend server with database to handle many simultaneous users online. 2. When you need robust solution with high quality support. 3. When you need server based in many different locations around the world Scenarios where IBM Cloud Servers are less appropriate: 1. When you need a corporate server with low number of users. 2. When you would not need high quality support. 3. Relatively small budget.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers in our IT infrastructure for the purpose of hosting our servers in the IBM Cloud. At times when we have a requirement to add new servers to our environment, we may not have the required computational resources to host the servers or the procurement of new servers is taking time due to paperwork. in such cases we utilize the IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
  • Excellent Network layer
  • Superior Tech Support
  • Reasonable Pricing
  • VPN Connectivity is a bit complicated
  • Documentation needs to be improved
  • Need to Improve resource availability in all regions
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are well suited when:
1. There is a requirement to host servers in a different geographical location
2. Require non virtualized computing power in the cloud
3. Quick workload deployment is a priority

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are less appropriate when:
1. Security requirements prevent hosting workloads in the cloud
Sienna Miller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This product is used by our department in collaboration with the IBM Cloud Virtual Server team to host our data securely. It has built a powerful infrastructure for all data that is hosted in our private cloud. We landed on this platform due to its performance and the total cost required for deployment. It gives us all tools required for a private virtual network.
  • Provision of VPC Subnets.
  • Network orchestration for our private cloud.
  • The functionality and reliability has been awesome.
  • I have not experienced any downtime from its capability.
I have liked the performance of this platform since we deployed it. It provides us with an additional network layer that eliminates any bottlenecks of our virtual servers. It has high functionality speed in data processing contributing to faster workflows. Security of our private cloud is guaranteed at an affordable and reliable cost.
November 03, 2021

IBM CLOUD VPC Review

Sai karthik Satyavarapu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for a few clients, not for all the clients for implementation of the cloud.
  • Domain name services. Public and private DNS and domain registration.
  • IBM Cloud Direct Link. Physical or virtual private connections to IBM Cloud.
  • High availability. Enhanced security.
  • UI has lot of confusion, new user gets lot confusion while navigation.
  • Most of IBM cloud has pre -configured Vm's, very less customization available.
  • Very limited varieties of flavors for windows and Linux OS available.
  • Compared to AWS very less features like SQL & Oracle DB's are also missing.
Migration of applications is easy. It can be used for smaller organizations for handling a big customer base. Companies might face challenges due to some missing features like site-site VPN and others, etc.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers to host our organization's internal systems and applications. Most of our internal tools used by our development team are deployed and running on the [IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers]. Due to various restrictions and limitations with Cloud alternatives, we have to host these applications in-house, and IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers fit our needs.
  • Performance - the servers perform really well, even under stress. We have some long build processes running concurrently, and the server [can] serve other applications without any problems.
  • Secure - for the most part, the servers are very secure and IBM provides many tools to help [make] sure the servers stay that way.
  • Highly Available - while we have experienced various downtimes and outages with other IBM Cloud offerings, so far, we have not experienced any with [IBM Cloud] Bare Metal Servers.
  • Pricing - can be a bit more expensive than some alternatives. Also, [in our experience,] we were offered a discount as part of a data center migration; [however,] when it came to billing time, the discount was not applied, and we had to spend time [providing] evidence of the offer.
Overall, a very good [offer] if you need a server, [especially for] the [deployment], run systems that would have [a] high amount of concurrent users, and/or if you have specific location needs around the world. However, if you do not have these [kinds] of high load/performance needs, perhaps it [would] be more cost-effective to look for other options, such as IBM Cloud Virtual Servers.
Jonathan Geller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers were being used at all levels of our infrastructure. The uniqueness of IBM's offering bridges hardware and global networks into a nice package. IBM is unique as it has the ability to bind IP addresses that can float across any data center region to allow for fault-tolerant applications bound by a static IP regardless of geographic location. IBM's [and formerly Softlayer's] global private network allows for data centers to interact and communicate between regions without requiring VPN or other networking tools. Allowing your application to scale globally while physically limiting intra-networking on a private VLAN prevents many other challenges of securing private data. [I feel] in the telecom space, port 5060 SIP is a widely known and 'attackable' port. While you want to allow your customers access wherever they may be, keeping 'bad actors' away can be a challenge at scale. Our platform was physically built for the IBM Cloud to scale within its private network, keeping the intra-workings between all components private while only allowing known customers access on an independent transport bound to an IP that could self-heal and migrate into any global region on the IBM Cloud autonomously.
  • Unique relationship with hardware manufacturer Lenovo
  • Global SoftLayer IP network very unique to IBM
  • Deployment of servers were quite fast (within 24 hours)
  • Support team was responsive, until [in my experience,] it wasn't.
  • Ongoing special pricing / sales on bare metal servers
  • Device cataloging including firmware revision dates.
  • [In my experience, the] Customer Service Agreement (CSA) has many gaps in terms of responsibility with Bare Metal Servers.
  • [I believe] IBM should be deploying servers and firmware updating all components before providing them to customers to prevent component failure.
  • [I feel] IBM needs lots of improvement with their legacy VPN to access IMPI management tools. The level of security of it is unparalleled when it works. Having access to KVM / IPMI is critical for any business, and when their VPN service is not working.
  • [From my experiences,] IBM deployed faulty hardware, or failed to update firmware per Lenovo notices, only to pass off blame.
  • [In my opinion,] IBM's General Counsel and Paralegal held our data/company hostage when components failed, [in my experience] to IBM "gross negligence" (in their words), only to release it if we were to limit damages to $1,000.
IBM Cloud [Bare Metal Servers] (formerly Softlayer) is positioned to gain compute when graduating from virtual environments such as the other clouds. No other provider can offer what IBM has today. Global secure & roaming IP's are not found anywhere else at this level. [I feel] IBM has a big responsibility to ensure they maintain their hardware/components given the types of customers who chose IBM and who [in my experience] are willing to pay 5x - 10x the price of Bare Metal Servers compared to other offerings.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are very high-performance cloud servers. Your Bare Metal Servers is an hourly or month-to-month, a single-inhabitant worker that is committed to you; it's anything but partook in any part, including worker assets, with different clients. As a bare metal IBM Cloud customer, you have complete access to one of the industry's largest selections of standard features and services for bare-metal workloads in both small business and enterprise settings
  • secure
  • good and High performance
  • good technical support
  • can Supports VPC
  • Monitoring issue
  • Pricing issue
  • expensive Support
BM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers are completely devoted workers giving the greatest execution and secure, single tenure. No hypervisor implies you get immediate root admittance to 100% of your worker assets. Alter everything with more than 11 million setups to browse. Overall, by 17% in all cases — and included 20 TB of data transmission, without cost. Browse hourly, month to month, or held charging, and that's only the tip of the iceberg, at costs set for brilliant expense the board.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers provides a full dedicated customizable servers infrastructure. IBM has done a good job in simplifying the provision and setup of the Bare Metal Servers
  • High level of security.
  • Good performance.
  • The user interface and the speed of deploying are fantastic.
  • No option to define maintenance times.
  • The offering from IBM is a bit expensive.
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers is well suited when single-tenant and dedicated cloud servers are needed. Less appropriate for small organization with no enough skills to manage the infrastructure.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company uses Cloud Bare Metal Servers in multiple cases. It helps in improving our data security and is easier to manage when compared to other vendors. The customization is also amazing where we can choose custom cores and based on it, pricing is done. Also, it has the latest VMWare software whereas other vendors use outdated or lower version software.
  • High Security
  • Good Performance
  • High Scalability
  • Monitoring
  • The pricing is a bit costlier
  • The UI is not user friendly
Our company uses Cloud Metal Servers by IBM to host client websites. It can stream lengthy videos. Also, it is extremely secure and is cross-platform.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently using IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers in a few specific departments where our data is critical and at the same time, we need the flexibility of scaling, security, and management. This is our second time getting in contract, and we never experienced any kind of latency. All the departments that are running on IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are blazing fast and are doing extremely well in terms of efficiency and also the performance. We first tried this out when we needed a fully custom machine type and yet needed someone to help us manage the infrastructure. We accidentally came across it and decided that this would be the best choice.
  • Security
  • Scalability
  • Customization
  • High performance
  • Supports GPU
  • Supports VPC
  • Slower support (rarely, but yes)
  • Availability of data center in a particular location.
  • Pricing
  • Monitoring
  • Lot of notifications
Well suited for users having a sustained load for a long period or for users having very customized machine types with all the flexibility that cloud computing can provide.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) as an experimental environment and to give us accessible computer resources without endangering our internal infrastructure. The VPC allows us to leverage several newer technologies without the typical hurdles of approvals from various IT departments. Specifically, our data science work is developed on virtual cloud. Again, this allows for free use of the toolsets in the data science platforms for easy and fast implementations for our business use cases.
  • Integrations with open-source software
  • Reduced administrative burden
  • Easy to implement and deploy
  • Prepackaged deployments for common use cases, with embedded software and archectitures
  • Cost estimation can be difficult to understand
  • Expensive
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.
December 28, 2020

Secured

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPN) is being used in our organization in a way to keep and ensure the safety of our data storage and indeed it is very reliable and accessible anytime and anywhere within our organization and I am very grateful for this program. Yes, it is being used by our whole organization, and no problems to address so far.
IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is well suited in terms of assurance in terms of the safety of our data storage that is very reliable and accessible anytime and anywhere. I could not find any reason that it is less appropriate for my whole organization as it is well used.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers] is currently being used across the whole organization for delivery of all of our products across a standard platform both within the continental United States and Europe and Asia. It allows for performances to be met at a generally cost-effective price point so we can deliver our products consistently, continuously, and stably.
  • Multiple processor options close to the latest offerings from Intel.
  • Many options of RAM for different memory requirements.
  • Multiple RAID arrays and disk options for the customers to configure.
  • Firmware upgrades are not always easy to perform and can be required at unusual time intervals at different datacenters.
  • No networking monitoring is available.
  • Changes on the IBM side can cause an outage, so you MUST plan for redundancy when building out.
Heavier usage of processor and/or memory with higher network requirements. Such as a robust, vertical database cluster or a robust Redis cluster. Their bare metal offerings are very suited for these use-cases as well as data-science requirements for modeling servers. Basically, anything that requires a large hardware requirement, these servers can deliver.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are utilizing IBM [Cloud Virtual Private Cloud] (VPC) to run our application software and deployment orchestration for our customers
  • Terraform integration with Schematics
  • VPC Custom Image Support
  • KVM based
  • Direct Link Routing to Corporate Networking
  • Just add VPC Custom Routes, still needs a ton of work
  • L2 broadcast support in the SDN for cluster based synchonization and failover
  • API documentation has WAY too many versions still available (and Googlable)
  • EIP Internet options are poor (don't exist except through an unscalable LBaaS)
IBM has the ability to specifically target heavy enterprise. They need to cater to that crowd.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Cloud [Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)] in our team for dynamically scaling our compute capacity as the application needs it. As our application's demands change significantly on a minute-to-minute basis, we've found it much simpler and cheaper to use IBM Cloud to dynamically provision resources than to reserve the application's maximum needed capacity in our internal IT infrastructure.
  • Easy and fast provisioning of resources through UI, API and CLI
  • Huge scalability
  • Great customer service
  • Viewing online invoices and billing data is awful - there are several separate systems that require multiple layers of accounts
  • Not all features are available in all regions, such as single-site resiliency in COS
  • VPC instance disk drives are awkwardly slow. The boot drive is limited to 50MiBs read/write, even though network is 2GiBs.
To be honest, the [IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)] experience is pretty similar to AWS. The main advantage with IBM VPC is that it has a very substantial promotional offer of free compute time for first-time customers. The main times you wouldn't want to use IBM VPC are when you have very specific instance requirements (GPUs, etc.), or are able to take advantage of AWS's spot instances.
December 09, 2020

IBM VPC Review by Vertex

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Cloud [Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)] as a vehicle to get Virtualized Power System Access, and direct services like cognitive watson, and surge virtual computing for application development. We use this as a way to develop incubative initiatives in a separate cloud.
  • PowerSystems Virtualization
  • VPC Based Computing - Windows & Linux Infrastructure
  • IBM Watson Cognitive Services
  • Availability - several outages in the past year, need to increase reliability
  • New product offerings - continually add innovative
  • License portability with microsoft.. getting MVLP agreements onboard
[IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)] is suited toward incubative development where you have a cross between traditional infrastructure & native services that benefit with blending. There is an easy ramp up for deploying services vs aws
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers to run custom Ubuntu servers. The entire company's dashboard application, which supports both clients and our own operations, is run through these servers. We needed IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers to run our custom stack back in 2014, and we have been utilizing them ever since.
  • Extremely high reliability
  • Monitoring was easy to setup
  • Internal networking is fast
  • Maintenance takes Bare Metal offline at unusual times
  • Support is not always reachable
  • IBM Cloud Dashboard is not the fastest
I think as a commodity provider, IBM's offering is just fine, nothing too great or bad about it. It's ideal for scenarios where a company doesn't want to offload specific services to IaaS because of the upgrade or support issues. It is low maintenance if you have solid devOps to set up the machines. I don't think it's appropriate for businesses that want to utilize IaaS as a Management solution.
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