Great flexibility, capacity and peace of mind for our instrastructure needs
August 26, 2020

Great flexibility, capacity and peace of mind for our instrastructure needs

Gustavo Villarreal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

We use our IBM Bare Metal Servers for most of our server infrastructure needs, either in-house services, or hosted services for customers, and also prototypes and demos. We develop services for contact centers, so it's important to be able to build a very specific feature and prototype it quickly, mirroring as closely as possible the customer's environment, whether they run Bare Metal, VMs or containers. With our IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers we have been able to provide a solution efficiently.

Pros

  • Strong reliability
  • Availability of servers and capacities.
  • Network capacity and pricing.

Cons

  • Better hardware options for longer terms.
  • Better pricing for longer terms.
  • Better upgrade incentives to move to newer hardware.
  • It's difficult to measure the positive sales impact of having a prototype ready quickly, available, and running strongly.
  • It's great to have a known fixed cost per month.
We've also had good success with Mac colocation services like MacStadium, being cheaper with unlimited networking, quite dependable and also very flexible when used with VMware, but with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers we have a lot more options on data center locations, fantastic network routing between data centers and any server capacity I would need. With regards to Azure, AWS, etc., those models just don't work for our projects, too many restrictions on networking and other details. IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are just easier.
Ubuntu Linux, Oracle SD-WAN (Talari), Avaya Aura Platform
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are well suited for scenarios where you need good flexibility, strong dependability, and sensible network bandwidth costs. Wouldn't be a great fit for a very elastic service.

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
9.0
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
10
Dynamic scaling
Not Rated
Elastic load balancing
Not Rated
Pre-configured templates
9
Monitoring tools
8
Pre-defined machine images
8
Operating system support
9
Security controls
10

Comments

  • Joe Cornejo | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Joe Cornejo
    (Vendor Representative) commented 5 years ago
    Gustavo, Thanks for the feedback! We appreciate the insight and will use this commentary to continually improve the offering going forward. Please do reach out if we can help with anything else at all with your IBM experience!

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