How IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers help us
October 19, 2020

How IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers help us

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

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

IBM Cloud Bare Metal help us in R&D department. We use it for Machine Learning and Deep Learning. We have access to high quality servers with very good performances. We run very intensive tasks and the servers are always powerful. We save a lot of time running this task on big servers in Cloud.

Pros

  • Performance.
  • Large offers choice.
  • Prices.

Cons

  • 100 Mbps default uplink.
  • Limited bandwidth.
  • Price for better network connectivity.
  • Few weeks saved to our ML deadline.
  • Good ROI.
  • Saved time to our teams.
We choose IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers for the large hardware choices. When you select a base hardware that respond to your needs, you can custom it a lot to be perfectly what you really need. That’s a very good point to customize hardware for each customer with a great provisioning time.
If you need performances and hourly billing for Bare Metal Servers, you are at the right place. If you need a lot of bandwidth and an uplink bigger than 100 Mbps, it’s an investment per server. Prices are balanced between very good hardware performances and limited network default offer. Taking all in consideration, it’s a good provider for intensive tasks like ML and AI.

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Feature Ratings

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
10
Dynamic scaling
10
Elastic load balancing
10
Pre-configured templates
8
Monitoring tools
8
Pre-defined machine images
8
Operating system support
7
Security controls
10

Comments

  • Joe Cornejo | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Hello, Thanks for the review and feedback! I'm from the Client Experience team here at IBM, and if there is anything at all we can do for you in regards to your account or any further concerns we can possibly assist with, please do let us know. Thanks again!

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