Virtual Servers Review
November 11, 2019

Virtual Servers Review

Marcus Streips | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

It is being used by the Berkeley MIDS program (Masters of Information and Data Science) as part of the deep learning on the cloud and on the edge curriculum.

Pros

  • Nice offering of different compute capabilities.
  • Good CLI.
  • Easy to understand UI.

Cons

  • Can't suspend billing when not using VMs.
  • Configuration can be difficult for storage and network.
  • I was able to benefit from a generous startup credit program (Catalyst Program). I would not have been able to afford the VM platforms otherwise.
All are similar in many ways. Azure does a very nice job focusing on change management and CICD and data pipelines. GCP is easy to use, as is AWS. IBM seems more customizable and perhaps can fit some real niche requirements.
Fortify on Demand (formerly HP Fortify on Demand), Octopus Deploy, GitHub
I believe it has a lot of customization and flexibility and should be explored when compared to GCP, Azure, and AWS.

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
8.0
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
8
Dynamic scaling
Not Rated
Elastic load balancing
Not Rated
Pre-configured templates
Not Rated
Monitoring tools
8
Pre-defined machine images
Not Rated
Operating system support
8
Security controls
Not Rated

Comments

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Could use a better UI and customer service
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Integration with external services and tooling would make it much better
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