IBM dynamic scaling for small growing businesses
September 05, 2020

IBM dynamic scaling for small growing businesses

Reid TenKley, CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

We have utilized IBM Cloud Virtual and Bare Metal Servers to help our business scale and grow over the past 6 years. Service has been good, pricing has been fair, and we have peace of mind by working with a top-shelf vendor like IBM. I would recommend IBM Cloud to any small business looking to grow as we did.
  • Fair pricing
  • Latest technology
  • Real-time support
  • Certain support was lacking when we had a server drive failure. It would have been appropriate for IBM technicians to help us get a server set up since the failure was hardware related AND the back up we had been paying for wasn't properly archived.
  • I would say that the ROI for our server experience has been positive, as it has a low cost of ownership and it is nice to be able to migrate easily to the latest software and hardware.
  • IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
We utilize virtual servers for our web hosting and development environments but we use Bare Metal Servers for our production database server.
Great for a start-up looking to lease equipment that can scale as they grow.

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Feature Ratings

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
9
Dynamic scaling
9
Elastic load balancing
10
Pre-configured templates
Not Rated
Monitoring tools
Not Rated
Pre-defined machine images
Not Rated
Operating system support
6
Security controls
7