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AppFog (discontinued) vs. IBM Cloud Managed Istio

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AppFog (discontinued)
Score 6.6 out of 10
N/A
AppFog was a cloud-agnostic application and infrastructure management platform used to manage workloads across on-premises and third-party cloud environments. It has been discontinued.N/A
IBM Cloud Managed Istio
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
The IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides the Managed Istio installation add on, designed to provide additonal control over clusters and the microservices they comprise via automatic updates and lifecycle management of control plane components, and integration with platform logging and monitoring tools.N/A
Pricing
AppFog (discontinued)IBM Cloud Managed Istio
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AppFog (discontinued)IBM Cloud Managed Istio
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
AppFog (discontinued)IBM Cloud Managed Istio
Features
AppFog (discontinued)IBM Cloud Managed Istio
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
AppFog (discontinued)
6.5
Ratings
21% below category average
IBM Cloud Managed Istio
8.0
Ratings
0% above category average
Ease of building user interfaces7.00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Scalability5.30 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Platform management overhead6.00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Workflow engine capability6.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Platform access control6.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Services-enabled integration6.60 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Development environment creation7.40 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Development environment replication8.40 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification6.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Issue recovery6.40 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes7.00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Best Alternatives
AppFog (discontinued)IBM Cloud Managed Istio
Small Businesses
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.6 out of 10
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
AppFog (discontinued)IBM Cloud Managed Istio
Likelihood to Recommend
6.6
(0 ratings)
8.7
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AppFog (discontinued)IBM Cloud Managed Istio
Likelihood to Recommend
AppFog is good for academic purposes. It comes in very handy for cloud deployments.
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Anonymous
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It is a perfect application when you have multiple users and/or developers and you want to create rules and standards for access and the ability to change access levels. The reporting of usage is good, but adding more granularity into the metrics that have been used to measure are not specific enough. They provide detail but drilling into the detail would be more appropriate i.e. access to the baseline data.
Michael French | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michael French
Senior Manager Workforce Planning - Project Managment
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Pros
  • Quick deployment of pre-built virtual machines
  • Some of the virtual machines also are readily available with a pack of softwares
  • Good Stability. Using it as a student, I have never experienced any downtime issues with the projects deployed on AppFog.
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  • Debug issues
  • Monitoring
  • allows many services form many different sources
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Cons
  • Though it is good and easy for developers, it lacks operational activities and monitoring tools.
  • It is easy to deploy WAR on AppFog with its console but sometimes it can lack on the performance and feasibility.
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  • Still missing functionalities for a full usage as traffic director.
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
Training and usage support available
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Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
Appfog was one of the requirements of our project since it was the fastest growing PAAS provider. Also it was easy to deploy an application with multiple options to choose for the development environment for our application. It was "ALL in ONE."
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1) One-stop solution for all the complex network connectivity managed by [IBM Cloud Managed Istio]. 2) Nice dashboard to understand the flow. 3) Easy to troubleshoot the service if any one of the APIs is not responding. 4) We can integrate it with Azure Kubernetes service and other cloud provider Kubernetes services. 5) Monitoring the health of the pods can be easily configured and alerts can be triggered very accurately with this tool.
Sachin Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sachin Kumar
Infrastructure Engineer
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Return on Investment
  • Our project was deployed with good efficiency and easily accessible.
  • The platform was much recommeded across the groups and peers.
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Anonymous
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  • Management burden is reduced resulting in positive ROI.
  • Application is being seamlessly instrumented with good impact on business.
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