Item: IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
Rating: 10
Author: Mark Handcock

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it in IT for test and creating QA environments for our customers and clients. We solve issues relating to incomplete code, regression testing, blue/green deployments, unit testing. and other QA related tasks. It also helps us gather more details that we can provide our clients on what is tested and verified before shipping new releases.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Easy access
Great support for console access
Bandwidth costs are minimal compared to other cloud vendors

Cons

More apis
More stability
To many notifications about unrelated items

Return on Investment

Positive impact on ROI very fast and elastic
Fast and very flexible environment
Faster deployments give us faster turn around on clients onboarding process

Alternatives Considered

Azure Data Science Virtual Machines (DSVM) and AWS Auto Scaling

I would say that they are comparable in alot of ways and work about the same. Most cloud vendors today don't have alot of differentiations for the tasks that I perform on a daily basis.

Other Software Used

AWS Backup, AWS Auto Scaling, Azure App Service

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Cloud is suited for testing and verify software changes. It is good for network integrations. Sometimes it is difficult to set up custom integrations with the product. They also provide excellent tech support whenever I call into them for any issues or additional needs for our clients. It runs very well with complex algorithmic equations.

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Feature Ratings

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Prem D'Cruz
(Vendor Representative) commented 5 years ago
Thank you so much for your excellent review. Please let us know how we can assist you further or if you would like to join our reference program.

Bare metal glory!