Item: IBM Cloud Foundry
Rating: 8
Author: Amir Yaqoob

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Cloud Foundry is one of the most powerful, highly scalable, and widely used platforms that not only offers IaaS and PaaS cloud services, but also helps us in building new apps or migrating old ones. It helps us in on-prem and off-prem deployments as well as bringing all of these elements together in the cloud for our ease and to help us solve real-world, difficult business challenges on this single platform effectively. IBM Cloud Foundry ensures that the build and deploy elements of coding are meticulously coordinated with any attached services, [ensuring] application iteration is swift, consistent, and dependable.

Pros and Cons

IBM Cloud Foundry is an easy, efficient, and multi-cloud platform to support users in the management, development, and continuous delivery of other applications.
Linking a custom domain to an IBM Cloud Foundry-hosted PaaS application is simple.
IBM Cloud Foundry offers well-explained and clear picture log errors to help users to figure out what's truly wrong and why the application isn't being pushed to the cloud or isn't working.

Its online UI can become unresponsive or hang due to heavy usage, but we always have the CLI as a backup.
When attempting to deploy larger Meteor-based applications, it frequently fails.

Return on Investment

IBM Cloud Foundry is a powerful deployment model that is easy to manage and use, its simplicity of usage has eliminated the need for IT experts and cut our costs down.
The multi-cloud IBM Cloud Foundry has allowed us to eliminate an entire class of financial risks and protect us from losses in the development of applications by providing us with the right information.

Key Insights

Do you think IBM Cloud Foundry delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Cloud Foundry's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Cloud Foundry live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of IBM Cloud Foundry go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Cloud Foundry again?

Yes

Alternatives Considered

Cloudways

IBM Cloud Foundry is our first choice industry-standard platform as a service (PaaS) which has always provided us with quicker, simpler, and more consistent ways for the deployment of the cloud-native applications which in result saved us lots of time and money.

Other Software Used

Skype for Business (formerly Lync), now part of Microsoft Teams, Trello, Slack

Likelihood to Recommend

As it is an open-source platform as a service, it is very easy to operate, scale, and deploy regardless of what programming language and framework it's written in. However, it could be improved in terms of scalability. There should be proper documentation for easier and clearer understanding to make the process smooth.

A multi-cloud and industry-standard Platform-as-a-Service Solution

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Foundry