Item: IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
Rating: 2
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are supplementing our on-prem servers, with subscription, cloud based infrastructure. It provides opex, variable costing to help with dynamic server utilization.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Easy to provision
Stable
Reasonable performance

Cons

Too expensive
Lack high-end compute
Very Intel centric. Need to expand POWER systems offerings.
Need PaaS offerings, i.e DB2, websphere, etc.

Return on Investment

We did not use it enough to impact bottom line
If it were more cost effective, it could have provided ROI through more granular infrastructure

Alternatives Considered

We also use Azure. It is more cost effective, and provides a wide selection of PaaS. It lacks POWER systems infrastructure.

Other Software Used

DB2, WebSphere Application Server

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for lightweight, Intel-based compute, where on-prem solution is not available.

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Feature Ratings

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Shannon Cardwell
(Vendor Representative) commented 5 years ago
Hello, This is Shannon from IBM Cloud, thanking you for your feedback and sharing your experience with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers. We are glad you found the provisioning easy and the performance stable. We just expanded our POWER systems offerings, please visit https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/announcements/power-virtual-servers-on-ibm-cloud for details. As we continue to improve our product roadmap, your comments about cost structure and compute options are extremely valuable.

IBM Cloud Bare Metal has some maturing to do