Item: IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
Rating: 10
Author: Saleem Beeravu

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it on a regular basis whenever we have the need to open up our servers to the public for yearly registrations / enrollments which happen on a yearly basis for a couple of months.

Pros and Cons

High Availability.
Ease of moving apps to cloud and back.
Easy provisioning based on load.
Repositioning is very fast and sometimes you don’t have to restart either

We need some facility to restore from a previous years backup.
India based support.
Billing with Indian local condition and Tax structure.
Should be provided with some preconfigured images for common use cases

Return on Investment

ROI is very high as our needs are met with out any addition of resources.
Meets short time requirements of bandwidth and Compute power.
Easy set up and provisioning and scaling from dashboard itself.

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Transient Pricing

This is the main reason we go for Virtual Cloud servers whenever we need it.
But nowadays there are other options with much better pricing providing the same functionality, so it is high time IBM reviews their pricing also to align with the market trend

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Reserved Servers

Not used till date.

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Dedicated Hosts

Not yet used, but may be we try in sometime later.

IBM Cloud Portfolio

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

No we have not used any other IBM offering with the Virtual Cloud Servers.

Alternatives Considered

Reliability and Quick setup and scaling.

Key Insights

Do you think IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC's feature set?

Did IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC again?

Other Software Used

ASP.NET, Microsoft SQL Server, Dropbox, AWS Lambda

Likelihood to Recommend

Always suited for our Web Servers, where moving to Cloud to meet demands and get back to our standard in house servers when demand is reduced.
At times we feel this VPC setup is the most cost effective for us for upscaling our processes, on the other hand we find that if we down scale then the cost is somewhat higher when compared to the prevailing market rates

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Review

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC