IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Review
June 03, 2020

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 2 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

Access to the IBM cloud virtual servers is available to all departments across the organization to deploy as needed.

Used for quickly deploying scalable servers at reasonable rates across development/devops and QA. This helps us to quickly deploy sand box servers where we need to test and validate some thing - Think docker scenarios to prove that something will work in production.

Pros

  • Nothing that stands out as compared to the competitors
  • Price is comparable

Cons

  • Pricing needs to be clearer, but this is a problem with most cloud providers
  • User guidance and help tutorials similar to DO
  • Customer support at the level of Linode will be splendid
  • Neutral. Neither positive or negative
  • Cheaper than having servers and IT in house but not so much of a difference between vendors
AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Been there done that. It's only because of our software affiliation that we chose to go with IBM Cloud. That's not a bad thing but just that there's really no major difference other than the lack of guidance and IBM cloud engineers as opposed to AWS engineers.
It really doesn't stand out if you're NOT using other IBM products in your software lifecycle.
Our stack uses some of IBM software--almost exclusively in some departments. As a result, it makes sense for us to consider and stick with IBM Cloud. Again, nothing wrong with it and it works, but if you're already using AWS or Google Cloud, no special reason to switch.

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC Feature Ratings

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
7
Dynamic scaling
3
Elastic load balancing
5
Pre-configured templates
6
Monitoring tools
2
Pre-defined machine images
6
Operating system support
10
Security controls
2

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