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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

    Score7 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is designed to make cloud adoption easier, allowing the user to optimize the value of existing on-premises infrastructure, while leveraging the same tools, technologies and skills in the cloud. The solution provides rapid scalability, deployment in 35+ global data centers and access to disaster recovery, backup, security and compliance solutions from an array of ecosystem partners. To address varying workload needs, IBM Cloud…

    $0

    IBM Cloud Object Storage Cross-Regional Smart Tier 1 GB (hourly)

    OCI

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is Oracles's infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform which combines the utility of public cloud with the granular control, security, and predictability of on-premises infrastructure.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM Cloud for VMware SolutionsOCI
    Editions & Modules
    Add-on
    $0
    IBM Cloud Object Storage Cross-Regional Smart Tier 1 GB (hourly)
    On-demand
    $0
    0.25 IOPs 1 GB
    Reserved (monthly or 730 hours)
    $0
    0.25 IOPs 1 GB (Per gigabyte of storage (hourly))
    Add-on
    $0
    IBM Cloud Block Storage 1 GB (hourly)
    On-demand
    $0.01
    Per vCPU (hourly)
    On-demand
    $0.09
    Per gigabyte of network and bandwidth egress (monthly)
    Reserved (monthly or 730 hours)
    $0.09
    Per gigabyte of network and bandwidth egress (monthly)
    Reserved (monthly or 730 hours)
    $12.80
    Microsoft license (monthly) per 1 vCPU²
    Add-on
    $13
    Veeam backup license
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Cloud for VMware SolutionsOCI
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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    Community Pulse
    IBM Cloud for VMware SolutionsOCI
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
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    Oracle
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    IBM Cloud for VMware SolutionsOCI
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    Feature
    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    7.7
    24 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    -
    Ratings
    Virtual machine automated provisioning5.324 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management console8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup8.923 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration8.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    Feature
    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    6.8
    131 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings8.3127 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings7.5127 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings8.4118 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings4.7116 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings8.4126 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings6.6114 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings5.2125 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings5.3127 Ratings
    Automation00 Ratings6.991 Ratings
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    Score10 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Cloud for VMware SolutionsOCI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (24 ratings)
    8.6
    (131 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.1
    (13 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (21 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    7.0
    (18 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.2
    (9 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Cloud for VMware SolutionsOCI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    VMware Cloud Foundation for Disaster Recovery environment, when the client needs to deploy a pay-as-you-go service or if they need to migrate SAP workloads, you can use VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic and VPC. We are the unique SAP-Certified VMware cloud service provider.
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    Oracle
    As per our usage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for almost 6 years hosting 500 + customers I can say its well suited application for any small scale to larger scale application as it can handle that capacity and provide more reliable cloud service only if you need any messaging service like pub/sub or sqs better to consider other services.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Adaptable valuing relying upon size and scale.
    • The presentation is first rate. Our on-prem climate was continually experiencing slack and general languor. With IBM running everything, it's much smoother.
    • Start another group as little as one ESXi worker or scale a current bunch.
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    Oracle
    • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has a generous free tier, moreso than other hyperscalers, with an always-free tier that guarantees certain products are always free
    • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure allows you to size VMs with differing combinations of CPU and RAM, which is contrary to other hyperscalers that have specific pre-defined combinations only
    • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure regularly provides free certification exam offers
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Support is horrible and or non-existent
    • Documentation is out of date and incorrect for the most part
    • IBM employees and salespeople are not aware of features or offerings
    • Does not integrate the Zerto, only Veeam and has limited options for data migration
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    Oracle
    • Navigating the UI takes lots of getting used to. It reminds me of older GCP (just to get used to where everything is).
    • Permission for different things always seemed to be more difficult than it really needed to be. Once you got them set up you were good but updating anything or creating new permissions for just about anything took longer than I thought it should.
    • Based on how the buttons were laid out, it was pretty easy to delete all of your DNS records, and backing them up was not as intuitive as I'd like with the UI, but it was easy to do using a script.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    Reliability: Very dependable and stable OCI services have been for the business operations.Performance: The speed and efficiency of OCI in meeting their computing and storage needs.Scalability: The ease and effectiveness of scaling resources up or down to accommodate changing demands.Security: The robustness and effectiveness of OCI's security features in protecting their data and applications.
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    Usability
    IBM
    It is easy to use and setting it up is simple. The only con is that the pricing is a little bit high as well as documentation is a little low; so we had to do some personal learning to be able to fully utilize the product, or hop on the phone with someone.
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    Oracle
    The services & products in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure needs more improvement to beat other Cloud service providers. The price is good & Security processes are good. We are requiring to put more effort in supporting this Oracle Cloud Infrastructure than other Cloud service providers. Probably better ways are there but is not super easy to find or not super available
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    Reliability and Availability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    Yeah sometimes we had to face unplanned outages due to underlying infrastructure issues, so not every time,e but once in a while we face issues with availability. But the good thing is we have redundancy with DR setup and multi region so we can manage.
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    Performance
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    From the start, I was surprised by response times and image quality accessing windows VMs with RDP. GCP, Azure and -many offerings in AWS- don't perform this speed. Also, that's evident in the quality of Infrastructure Management Team, because I just received one warning regarding a region failure, what confirms that's a mature platform.
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    Overall, just a great experience here. No one in my opinion gets a perfect 10/10 rating (no one is ever perfect), so 9/10 is probably as good as it gets! From initial planning to post implementation support, the IBM Cloud and professional services has been there for my group as much as we have needed them. Great job!
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    Oracle
    Overall it is amazing, there is always room for improvement. We have weekly updates that tend to slow the program used more and more. We had to change some reports within Oracle because the others wouldn’t load. This is tied to our payroll and the delays are causing many time constraint issues and panic. We have to create a new report when one breaks. Otherwise awesome!
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    In-Person Training
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    Effective training provided, much data productivity while doing training
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    Online Training
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    detailed and easy to understand.
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    Implementation Rating
    IBM
    IBM professional services helped us plan and implement the project with great success. They guided the project from planning, scoping, pre-implementation, testing, roll-out, then production and post-production support. We were very impressed with their knowledge of VMware and really appreciated their desire to make our project a success. I would highly recommend them!
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    Oracle
    Easier way to implement, vary much supportive way doing the implementation
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions stacks up against them, we fully agree there are so many features in IBM cloud for VMware Solutions that make it unique and different. The system provides us hypervisor security level and the system even has live backup and storage capacity of data. This system provides us with accuracy that helps us to reduce errors and vulnerability.
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    Oracle
    We used Microsoft Azure and Docker earlier and faced some difficulties like Microsoft Azure and Docker. Occasionally, the generation of large images can delay deployment. It is also necessary for me to admit that Microsoft Azure and Docker have a somewhat steep learning curve. Proper paperwork needs to be there. Docker has issues with performance on a number of platforms. On the other hand, OCI is easy to deploy and easy to understand.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    was not part of initial purchase team. Anyways, i think unit pricing and billing frequency is good compared to other Cloud service providers, when it comes to Cloud Capital expenditure & Operational expenditure. Would be more interested in exploring more options where customers can get more cost relaxations on trying out new cloud services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for example a new App or a feature
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    Scalability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    We have hosted around 500 + customers on this cloud so till day not faced any major issues, so we can use it for any kind of products and it can hold the load and easily scale based on need.
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    Professional Services
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    Services & Infra wise is ok to use & host applications & services. Security wise also good for a Cloud service provider. It is a interesting area to explore & using it for day to day needs can be further improvised in future probably. Modern day Services like AI and Machine learning could be improved
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • It has a positive impact on the cost required to maintain our vSphere environment by allowing us to get rid of our vsphere hardware and not worry about maintenance either.
    • There have been very few negatives, but one would definitely be the open-ended cost associated with cloud products in general.
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    Oracle
    • Oracle Cloud helps us build and deploy apps quickly, getting our products out the door faster.
    • With real-time insights from Oracle Cloud, we can give customers personalized experiences that boost satisfaction.
    • Migrating to Oracle saves us cash on hardware and maintenance, which we can use for innovation and growth.
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    ScreenShots

    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Screenshots

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    OCI Screenshots

    Screenshot of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Global FootprintScreenshot of 2-5x Faster Performance vs On-premises and Other Clouds (Storage Review)Screenshot of One Cloud for the Most Intensive Enterprise and Infra-heavy WorkloadsScreenshot of Gen 1 vs Gen 2 Cloud AdvantageScreenshot of Always Free Services