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    IBM Cloud File Storage

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud provides a File Storage service allows the user to deploy and customize flash-backed NFS-based file storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS.N/A

    IBM Cloud Internet Services

    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    IBM Cloud Internet Services is a set of edge network services for securing internet-facing applications from DDoS attacks, data theft, and bot attacks, as well as optimizing their web apps or ensuring global responsiveness and the ongoing availability of their internet-facing applications.

    $275

    per month, per domain

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    IBM Cloud File StorageIBM Cloud Internet Services
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    IBM Cloud Internet Services - Standard
    $275.00
    per month, per domain
    IBM Cloud Internet Services - Enterprise
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    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Cloud File StorageIBM Cloud Internet Services
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IBM Cloud File StorageIBM Cloud Internet Services
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    IBM
    Chose IBM Cloud File Storage
    High speed to connection when using this platform is incredible with effective data encryption process and volume duplication and replication, always confident that your data is stored safely. Reaching for international dimensions to cater [to] our client's compliance …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    90%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IBM Cloud File StorageIBM Cloud Internet Services
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of IBM Cloud File Storage and IBM Cloud Internet Services
    Feature
    IBM Cloud File Storage
    8.5
    39 Ratings
    6% above category average
    IBM Cloud Internet Services
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    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime9.737 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling8.836 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing8.135 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates7.631 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools8.037 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images8.133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support9.636 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls9.437 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation7.030 Ratings00 Ratings
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    IBM Cloud File StorageIBM Cloud Internet Services
    Small Businesses
    DigitalOcean Droplets
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Cisco ACI
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Cisco ACI
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Cloud File StorageIBM Cloud Internet Services
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (40 ratings)
    7.5
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    Usability
    -
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    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    IBM Cloud File StorageIBM Cloud Internet Services
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    well suited: Enterprise File Sharing and Collaboration: Scenario: our organization has teams working on projects across different geographical locations, and they need a centralized and easily accessible file storage solution. IBM Cloud File Storage can facilitate seamless file sharing and collaboration among team members. less appropriate Highly Transactional Databases: Scenario: Your organization has highly transactional and I/O-intensive database workloads that require low-latency access to data. In such cases, block storage or specialized database services might be more appropriate than file storage.
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    In terms of business challenges, it simplifies the job of my engineers and significantly increases the productivity of my teams when they collaborate with IBM teams all over the world. Now that we have completed a proof-of-concept using the services supplied by IBM, we expect it to assist us in managing them more efficiently; thus far, management has been straightforward.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Simple file system sharing
    • Lots of storage space (up to 12 TB)
    • Choice of performance (up to 10 IOPS/GB)
    • Simple interface to order more storage
    • Quick interface to allow more servers to share the file store
    • Security - only allows access from specified server(s)
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    • Integration with IBM Cloud applications
    • Easy to manage web application firewall
    • Ease of protecting CloudFoundry applications
    • Good console UI
    • Protection for rare managed service offerings such as CouchDB through IBM Cloudant
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    Cons
    IBM
    • We have sometimes experienced some outages and hope IBM will fix this soon.
    • Initial trainings are required for the teams to work and do the setup.
    • Support documentation from IBM needs improvement with [the] inclusion of more detailed steps and video tutorials for [a] better understanding of the engineers.
    • The billing process is very complex and you may have to incur additional overhead. Need a simpler approach and clarity on this aspect.
    • Support response from the IBM team is very slow and lacks information.
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    • Request proxying is done by way of DNS name resolution, which is inflexible.
    • Proxy services do not work on wildcard DNS entries.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    IBM Cloud File Storage is a valuable tool in the arsenal of any small business. It's flexibility combined with its ease of use ensure that there is low operational overhead, combined with a solid return on investment. It's role based access control features combined with sharing capabilities make it a significant win for any business.
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    Usability
    IBM
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    IBM
    I have seen faster and more user friendly interfaces like Azure
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    The IBM team provides effective support for all the cloud operations. They tracks operations and database functionalities closely to enhance reliable operations and remove inefficiencies that affect work processes. The support team has prepared video tutorials and manuals that guides our members on how to work with the database systems effectively.
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    Implementation Rating
    IBM
    The IBM Professional services provided the re4quired infrastructure for getting the best out of this tool. It offered excellent guidelines that enhanced efficient integrations. The organization was pleased with the setup process that was completed quickly than expected. The application has been operation effectively after deployment. We have continued to get support from the IBM support team when there are challenges.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    IBM Cloud File Storage, unlike other similar products, offers excellent Cloud data security and its overall data management quality on IBM Cloud File Storage is incredible and its data integration support is perfect because it allows big data migration across many Cloud platforms for effective data analytics generation and data visualization tools are great.
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    IBM
    I have used Salesforce to explore it as an app but I have found them both able to solve my needs and requirements when it comes to security. While I choose IBM Cloud Internet Services for more accessibility, a better price was available with Saleforce. Although that is just my observation.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • Compared with company datacenter require less maintenance time with an incomparable high availability and business continuity features
    • The possibility to move snapshots on other data centers let this solution super scalable worldwide
    • The price for gb let us pay what we need without a pre commissioned storage buy
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    IBM
    • It had a positive impact with a big improvement on the performance of web applications.
    • Services are quite fast to implement and easy to maintain from an IT perspective.
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