IBM Bluemix Review
Updated May 14, 2021

IBM Bluemix Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Foundry

We are currently evaluating the Bluemix stack to get more insights and to be able to identify relevant business cases. We are not yet using it as a production system, but only for test purposes. There are a lot of interesting services included, and we are also interested in offering our own services.
  • Bluemix provides a rich bundle of services you can use.
  • Bluemix is now integrated with some infrastructure components.
  • Fast ongoing development for services/offers.
  • Support sometimes does not respond to tickets in an appropriate timeframe (currently waiting over 7 days for a reply). Sales does not respond to emails.
  • The user interface and the integration of SoftLayer is weird, and it's easy to get lost there.
  • Evaluating a product is always time consuming
  • Increased the speed for PoCs by using simple tools like NodeRed in a dramatic way.
  • No need to order hardware anymore for smaller tests. It is very compact.
Using existing cognitive services is very easy. Getting things started for a PoC is also easy. More complex scenarios (like offering our own service in the catalog) is hard to achieve. I currently find it difficult to imagine operating a real production system in the cloud.

IBM Cloud Foundry Feature Ratings

Scalability
5
Workflow engine capability
Not Rated
Services-enabled integration
6
Development environment creation
7
Development environment replication
Not Rated
Issue monitoring and notification
6
Issue recovery
Not Rated
Upgrades and platform fixes
Not Rated