Item: IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to provide testing and production VMs for teams within our software organization. Our main use case is the need for easy to deploy servers that have good availability and that are also easy for our DevOps team to configure to suit various testing and automated testing needs.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Fairly easy to deploy.
Good availability.
Flexible and easy to configure.

Cons

Cost.
Usability sometimes is a bit more complicated than it needs to be.

Return on Investment

Positive ROI on time needed to set up the virtual server.
Easy to configure which has saved DevOps dept time.
Some time lost to onboard new users and usability can be optimized.

Alternatives Considered

Google Compute Engine and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Overall, IBM is more expensive, but provides a lot of support for these cloud virtual servers as well as makes it very easy to configure these servers to the desired needs. The usability of IBM is sometimes not as good as others, but the availability of these servers is fairly good and reliable.

Other Software Used

Microsoft Azure, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Access

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are well suited to cases where you need to be assured of availability and if there are various server configurations that are needed. We currently utilize these for some smaller software projects to provide test and some production environments, but not sure how well it would scale (cost-wise and usability-wise) if we were to move to it for the whole software organization.

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