Item: IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is being used widely throughout our organization for [the] migration of applications and databases to the cloud environment for increasing the accessibility to our application at comparatively lower cost with significantly improved performance. The performance over cloud infrastructure needs some initial optimization. The server hardware cost and relevant technical maintenance cost are almost eliminated.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Faster migration of application and database
Significantly increased application accessibility
Lower cost in comparison with its mee-too
Improved performance
Server hardware cost completely eliminated
Technical maintenance cost almost eliminated

Cons

Complex pricing structure
Limited varieties of windows and Linux versions

Return on Investment

Significant increase performance after initial optimization
Elimination of server hardware cost completely
Reduction of technical maintenance cost
Accessibility to applications is significantly increase

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Azure, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Google Cloud Storage and Oracle Database Cloud Service

IBM Cloud Portfolio

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
IBM Cloud Auto Scaling
IBM Cloud Server Software
IBM Cloud Databases

Key Insights

Do you think IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

I definitely recommend [using] IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for migration and implementation of applications and databases over cloud environment. It will surely increase the accessibility to the applications at [a] cheaper cost with significant improvement in performance. However, some initial optimization is required for stable performance. The server hardware cost will be completely eliminated. The technical maintenance cost will be almost eliminated.

IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is cheaper among its mee-too

Software Version