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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AA solution to deploy and orchestrate applications on a managed Kubernetes platform with centralized, SaaS-based management of distributed applications with a single pane of glass and rich observability. Simplified by managing deployments as one across on-prem, cloud, and edge locations.N/A

    IBM Cloud Private

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud Private is a Kubernetes-based container platform allowing users to build cloud-native applications on their own infrastructure. In addition, it offers common services for self-service deployment, monitoring, logging and security, as well as middleware, data and analytics.N/A
    Pricing
    F5 Distributed Cloud App StackIBM Cloud Private
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
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    F5 Distributed Cloud App StackIBM Cloud Private
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    F5 Distributed Cloud App StackIBM Cloud Private
    Considered Both Products
    F5
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    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    F5 Distributed Cloud App StackIBM Cloud Private
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack and IBM Cloud Private
    Feature
    F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
    6.0
    4 Ratings
    25% below category average
    IBM Cloud Private
    -
    Ratings
    Security and Isolation6.64 Ratings00 Ratings
    Container Orchestration5.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cluster Management5.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization5.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discovery Tools4.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks6.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery6.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging6.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack and IBM Cloud Private
    Feature
    F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cloud Private
    9.7
    5 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    F5 Distributed Cloud App StackIBM Cloud Private
    Small Businesses
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score9.4 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.5 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Score7.4 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    F5 Distributed Cloud App StackIBM Cloud Private
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.7
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    F5 Distributed Cloud App StackIBM Cloud Private
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack is quite straightforward with the UI and you can expose the features you want. This simplifies the experience for non-admins
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    IBM Cloud Private is an ideal platform for companies to accelerate their business growth. It helps in reducing the cost of IT and operations while delivering a great customer experience. With IBM Cloud Private, you can gain agility and security with a flexible hybrid model that fits your needs. It's highly recommended to my colleagues from me.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    F5
    • Kubernetes
    • Cloud
    • Ease of use
    • Value
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    IBM
    • Capacity On Demand to scale up and down environments
    • SaaS model allows our team to have less involvement in managing or controlling the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual application capabilities.
    • SaaS model allows our team to worry less about upgrades, fix packs, environment support etc.
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    Cons
    F5
    • It's still a little early so the app feels foreign to our ops teams
    • I would like to customize the UI so I can visually see if I'm in Prod or Dev based on background colors
    • Templates are a little awkward to create
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    IBM
    • Bluemix/IBM Cloud UI can be better
    • Changing Brand name from Bluemix to IBM Cloud, as we are habituated to Bluemix more
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    F5
    Wowza, keep going this direction.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    F5
    generally support is fast
    Incentivized
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    IBM
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    Implementation Rating
    F5
    F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack's partner provided services are excellent
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    IBM
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    Alternatives Considered
    F5
    F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack is much more robust and feature rich than Agile Fleet
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    IBM
    With VMware cloud, each VMware Cloud customer must have an SDDC account(VMC) as well as a general AWS account. The two accounts must be linked for the service to work which is a tiresome thing to do for some clients but with IBM Cloud Private all these issues are solved.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    F5
    • We are able to consolidate with F5, eliminating Cloudflare.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • IBM Cloud has helped us start using the cloud and migrating old services to the cloud.
    Incentivized
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