Azure Spot Virtual Machines vs. IBM Power Virtual Server
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![]() Azure Spot Virtual Machines | N/A | N/A | Azure Spot Virtual Machines offer lower cost unused Azure compute capacity at scale. Spot Virtual Machines can be used to buy unused compute capacity at cost savings and deploy workloads that can handle interruptions and don't need to be completed within a specific period of time. Users can also run workloads for development, testing, quality assurance, advanced analytics, big data, machine learning and AI, batch jobs, rendering and transcoding of videos, graphics, and images at a lower cost. | N/A |
IBM Power Virtual Server | Score7.2 out of 10 | N/A | IBM presents their Power Systems Virtual Server as a scalable, cost-effective way to run IBM AIX, IBM i and Linux workloads. | N/A |
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No answers on this topic | 100% Delivers good value for the price 182 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 99% Happy with the feature set 187 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 99% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 161 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 97% Implementation went as expected 172 Answers | |
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| Small Businesses | DigitalOcean Droplets Score8.7 out of 10 | DigitalOcean Droplets Score8.7 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Score8.7 out of 10 | IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Score8.7 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | SAP on IBM Cloud Score9.5 out of 10 | SAP on IBM Cloud Score9.5 out of 10 |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | - | 8.0 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 9.9 |
| Usability | - | 7.2 |
| Availability | - | 7.0 |
| Performance | - | 8.0 |
| Support Rating | - | 8.1 |
| Implementation Rating | - | 7.0 |
| Configurability | - | 9.0 |
| Ease of integration | - | 8.0 |
| Product Scalability | - | 7.0 |
| Vendor post-sale | - | 8.0 |
| Vendor pre-sale | - | 8.0 |
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