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IBM Cloud Private

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What is IBM Cloud Private?

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.

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IBM Cloud Private is a Secure Open Source Platform

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 27, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
IBM Cloud Private is a secure, dedicated and managed cloud computing platform. It provides enterprises with flexibility to make the right choice for their business. With the p...
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Nosava Begum
Supervisor - Human Resources
Human Resources Manager
HCL Technologies
IBM Cloud Private3 years of experience

ODM on Cloud for Business Rules Management

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 21, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We migrated all our company business rules to IBM ODM on Cloud which runs ICP. It is being used across the company. This solution addresses the following problems: The Cloud F...
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Bhaskara Rudraraju
Professional - Information Technology
Tech Consultant (ODM and BPM)
Nationwide
IBM Cloud Private1 year of experience

Go Faster with IBM Cloud

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 14, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We host our AA applications (internal and external) on IBM Private Cloud.
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Dinesh P
Employee - Information Technology
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
American Airlines
IBM Cloud Private2 years of experience

IBM Cloud

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 14, 2019
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IBM Cloud is being used within my organization as the PaaS for micro services and new REST APIs. It is being used by different groups across the enterprise. We are using it bo...
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Engineer
IBM Cloud Private1 year of experience

Positive experience in the early stages

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 14, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Our company is currently exploring how to transition into a hybrid cloud environment. We are using IBM Cloud Private in an attempt to identify which applications we can feasib...
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Professional
IBM Cloud Private1 year of experience
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What is IBM Cloud Private?

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.

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Product Details

What is IBM Cloud Private?

IBM Cloud™ Private is a scalable cloud platform that runs on users’ infrastructure. It’s built on open source frameworks, like containers, Kubernetes, and Cloud Foundry. In addition, it offers common services for self-service deployment, monitoring, logging and security, and a portfolio of middleware, data and analytics.

Key Features and Benefits

Security
Helps ensure security for data in transit and data at rest across all platform services. All services expose network endpoints via TLS and encrypt data at rest.

Kubernetes container orchestration
Brings orchestration primitives to support, enabling users to run Kubernetes containers in production.

Private Docker image registry
Integrates with the Docker registry V2 API to provide a local registry service that functions similarly to the cloud-based registry service Docker Hub.

A unified installer
Uses an Ansible-based installer to rapidly set up a Kubernetes-based cluster that contains master, worker, proxy, and optional management and Vulnerability Advisor nodes.

Transformation advisor
Provides recommendations for users’ cloud journeys by turning information about their environments and applications into insights.

Monitoring and alerts
Configures Prometheus collectors for custom metrics. Custom metrics help provide insights and building blocks for customer alerts and dashboards.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Reviewers rate Ease of building user interfaces and Scalability and Platform management overhead highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of IBM Cloud Private are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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IBM Cloud Private is a Secure Open Source Platform

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 27, 2022
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Nosava Begum
Human Resources Manager
HCL Technologies (Human Resources, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloud Private
3 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
IBM Cloud Private is a secure, dedicated and Managed cloud computing platform. It provides enterprises with flexibility to make the right choice for their business. With the power of IBM Cloud, you can store and process data in the public cloud or local datacenter – allowing you to benefit from the agility and scale of the public cloud while protecting your data with enterprise-grade security.
Pros
  • Provides security.
  • Delivers control and reliability.
  • Provides flexibility to our enterprise.
Cons
  • UI could be improved.
  • Pricing is high.
  • Lacks in multi cloud management.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
Most Important Features
  • Provides security.
  • It provides businesses with a unified set of integrated services and infrastructure across public and private clouds.
  • It helps in reducing the cost of IT and operations while delivering a great customer experience.
IBM Cloud Private Feature Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service (11)
97.27272727272727%
9.7
Ease of building user interfaces
100%
10.0
Scalability
100%
10.0
Platform management overhead
100%
10.0
Workflow engine capability
100%
10.0
Platform access control
90%
9.0
Services-enabled integration
90%
9.0
Development environment creation
100%
10.0
Development environment replication
100%
10.0
Issue monitoring and notification
90%
9.0
Issue recovery
100%
10.0
Upgrades and platform fixes
100%
10.0
Return on Investment
  • Very reliable platform.
  • Protect and control access to your data in the cloud.
  • The platform has many built-in tools for DevOps automation, enabling you to more easily build, test, deploy, and manage your applications in the cloud.
Alternatives Considered
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.
Other Software Used
Cisco 5000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5000), Accenture Managed Security, AWS Backup

ODM on Cloud for Business Rules Management

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 21, 2019
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We migrated all our company business rules to IBM ODM on Cloud which runs ICP. It is being used across the company. This solution addresses the following problems: The Cloud First Strategy at our company is to enhance self-service capabilities to allow end-user autonomy, speed to market, and offer new opportunities for business users. Our department is one of the business solution areas pioneered to implement this initiative to solve our current application issues.

Our current on-premise ODM environment has many defects, contains single points of failure, is a few versions behind, takes too long to upgrade, is too complicated (more customized code), and costly to maintain. We explored different cloud offering options and conducted many proofs-of-concept (POC) tests to find a solution so our team could have less involvement in managing or controlling the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual application capabilities, except for limited user-specific application configuration settings. Based on our analysis and POC test results, we decided to use IBM ODM on Cloud SaaS offering to support online applications.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • Logging function: Currently use Kibana Logging Service, but [we expected] this feature to be integrated to ODM on the Cloud Dashboard.
  • Rule Artifacts Metrics should be available from ODM on Cloud Dashboard
  • Performance Improvement: Sometimes we experience very slow response time when using the Decision Center
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Cloud Private is well suited for SaaS models.
IBM Cloud Private Feature Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service (11)
90%
9.0
Ease of building user interfaces
90%
9.0
Scalability
100%
10.0
Platform management overhead
100%
10.0
Workflow engine capability
80%
8.0
Platform access control
100%
10.0
Services-enabled integration
100%
10.0
Development environment creation
90%
9.0
Development environment replication
90%
9.0
Issue monitoring and notification
60%
6.0
Issue recovery
80%
8.0
Upgrades and platform fixes
100%
10.0
Return on Investment
  • ODM on Cloud SaaS has opened the door to our business applications benefits including improved currency, continuous builds, accelerated business rules development, improved performance, and better scalability.
  • The enhanced business console improved user ID management, project security and enables the business users to develop, test, and deploy rules rapidly to meet speed to market demands.
  • New simulation features in business console allowed business users to create what-if scenarios and to validate rules with real or representative data with minimum IT support. These long-awaited features provide great value to our company.
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Go Faster with IBM Cloud

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
February 14, 2019
DP
Dinesh P
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
American Airlines (Airlines/Aviation, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloud Private
2 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We host our AA applications (internal and external) on IBM Private Cloud.
Pros
  • On-Demand Capacity
  • Easy to use UI
  • Faster VM provisioning for rapid deployments
  • Support for newest technologies such as Kubernetes
Cons
  • Bluemix/IBM Cloud UI can be better
  • Changing Brand name from Bluemix to IBM Cloud, as we are habituated to Bluemix more
Likelihood to Recommend
Easy to use and no hassles to maintain datacenters. On-demand capacity to suit your needs.
IBM Cloud Private Feature Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service (11)
80%
8.0
Ease of building user interfaces
80%
8.0
Scalability
80%
8.0
Platform management overhead
80%
8.0
Workflow engine capability
80%
8.0
Platform access control
80%
8.0
Services-enabled integration
80%
8.0
Development environment creation
80%
8.0
Development environment replication
80%
8.0
Issue monitoring and notification
80%
8.0
Issue recovery
80%
8.0
Upgrades and platform fixes
80%
8.0
Return on Investment
  • N/A
  • N/A
  • N/A
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IBM Cloud

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
February 14, 2019
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloud Private
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
IBM Cloud is being used within my organization as the PaaS for micro services and new REST APIs. It is being used by different groups across the enterprise. We are using it both for POCs and for production services.
Pros
  • There is a large variety of services available on IBM Cloud.
  • This is my first experience with a PaaS and I haven’t had any major problems navigating around it.
  • It is easy to deploy applications and services on IBM Cloud.
Cons
  • The UI was a little confusing at first after the shift from BlueMix.
  • There could be better support and examples for deploying SOAP services.
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Cloud could be used both personally and for business. It is easy to set up a personal free account and play around with the lite account.
IBM Cloud Private Feature Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service (11)
57.27272727272727%
5.7
Ease of building user interfaces
N/A
N/A
Scalability
80%
8.0
Platform management overhead
80%
8.0
Workflow engine capability
80%
8.0
Platform access control
80%
8.0
Services-enabled integration
80%
8.0
Development environment creation
80%
8.0
Development environment replication
80%
8.0
Issue monitoring and notification
70%
7.0
Issue recovery
N/A
N/A
Upgrades and platform fixes
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • IBM Cloud has helped us start using the cloud and migrating old services to the cloud.

Positive experience in the early stages

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
February 14, 2019
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloud Private
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our company is currently exploring how to transition into a hybrid cloud environment. We are using IBM Cloud Private in an attempt to identify which applications we can feasibly transition into the cloud and build a long term cloud strategy.
Pros
  • IBM provides great customer support
  • Obtaining access was easy and went very smooth
  • IBM Cloud Private alleviates and meets the security requirements demanded in a regulated industry.
Cons
  • More hands on training outside of virtual classes would be helpful.
Likelihood to Recommend
While still in an exploratory phase with IBM Cloud Private, it has shown to be well suited for our web sphere environment. We look forward to using the Docker/Kubernetes options to build out containerized strategies.
IBM Cloud Private Feature Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service (1)
70%
7.0
Scalability
70%
7.0
Return on Investment
  • The IBM Cloud Private option will definitely provide a valuable ROI as we move forward with application modernization.
  • ICP will help move our company forward and enable the company transition into a hybrid cloud environment.
Other Software Used
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