IBM Cloud Managed Istio - It is for you!!!
October 12, 2021

IBM Cloud Managed Istio - It is for you!!!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Managed Istio

IBM Cloud Managed Istio is being used across our organization and not only in few particular departments. It's being used mainly for the management of different microservices which takes care of connecting them with each other across the network. It's also secure and provides flexibility irrespective of which vendor is providing the microservices.
  • It is cloud managed and very ease to use.
  • Implementation is simple and can be easily adopted.
  • It lessens the complexity and hence is very good for the new users.
  • Some more functionalities added could improve it better.
  • Better technical user guidance.
  • Management burden is reduced resulting in positive ROI.
  • Application is being seamlessly instrumented with good impact on business.
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
[IBM Cloud Managed] Istio is cost-effective compared overall with and provides better Kubernetes environments.

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

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Cloud Managed Istio's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Cloud Managed Istio live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM Cloud Managed Istio go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy IBM Cloud Managed Istio again?

Yes

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IBM Cloud Managed Istio is best suited for small to mid-scale enterprises especially the startups who have a requirement of cloud managed services from experts in the industry. However, it could be a little less appropriate for the bigger market players who have their own infrastructure and can easily manage on their own and are just looking for some traffic management services.

IBM Cloud Managed Istio Feature Ratings

Ease of building user interfaces
5
Scalability
8
Platform management overhead
6
Workflow engine capability
8
Platform access control
8
Services-enabled integration
7
Development environment creation
8
Development environment replication
8
Issue monitoring and notification
7
Issue recovery
8
Upgrades and platform fixes
8