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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

Score8.7 out of 10

181 Reviews and Ratings

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What is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?

IBM Cloud bare metal servers are cloud servers configurable in hourly/monthly options, on-demand, from any location—with a selection of standard features and services for small businesses and enterprise demands. Users can customize RAM and SSDs with 11M+ configurations from which to choose.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

    The service uptime as a percentage defined in the SLA

    Category average: 8.6

  • Dynamic scaling

    Ease of scaling up or down in response to customer needs

    Category average: 8.2

  • Elastic load balancing

    Automatic balancing and distribution of resources across multiple virtual computers

    Category average: 8.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Monitoring tools

    Monitoring tools provide alerts when problems are detected

    Category average: 7.9

  • Pre-configured templates

    Pre-defined templates for virtual machines

    Category average: 7.6

  • Automation

    Automation of administrative tasks

    Category average: 7.7

Reviews

What users are saying about IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers.
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Good experience with IBM VPC

Incentivized
Feras Diab, PMPView profile
Founder / CEO in Information Technology at Connection of Things (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using it to develop products in our R&D department.

Pros

  • Easy to build
  • Reliable

Cons

  • Price
  • Deleting and updating

Return on Investment

  • Accelerated the R&D
  • Quick option to test

Alternatives Considered

Azure Virtual Network, Azure Virtual Machines and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Other Software Used

Azure Virtual Machines, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Google Compute Engine

From my personal experience I chose virtual servers over bare metal servers

Incentivized
Jeffrey LangeView profile
Web Developer in Information Technology at Fanbuild (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used it throughout everything I do for hosting. It addresses all my hosting problems for personal hosting and client hosting.

Pros

  • Adding on memory
  • Support
  • Potential of greater processing power

Cons

  • I have switched to virtual servers because of their quickness of resources
  • Reloading OS takes a long time
  • Pricing
  • Everything seems slower than a virtual server

Other Software Used

IBM Watson Assistant, IBM Cloud Virtual Servers, IBM Watson Speech to Text

Return on Investment

  • At the beginning bare metal servers were very expensive cost
  • Not enough support to handle questions like load balancing to figure out alone so this prevented me from making more profit because servers would be down

Alternatives Considered

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

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Incentivized
Sandeep EtiView profile
InfraStructure Lead Architect in Information Technology at IBM (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have been involved with the below use cases in my experience - 1) Migrate on-prem servers/applications to IBM DC Cloud to new bare metal servers and build the Application (Lift and Shift the Custom Applications). 2) Build New Custom Applications from Scratch on Brand new LINUX bare metal servers.

Pros

  • Compatible for custom Applications.
  • Allows to install needed packages.
  • Self install required software like oracle, tools, compliers.

Cons

  • C compiler wasn't available by default.
  • Sendmail feature/package wasn't available by default.
  • Dependant on admins to get issues resolved.

Return on Investment

  • Able to reduce on-prem costs for client and host Applications in IBM Cloud Datacenter.
  • New Applications are being built in IBM Cloud Datacenter.
  • Build only needed hardware to limit the costs for Client.

Alternatives Considered

IBM Cloud File Storage

Other Software Used

IBM AIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), IBM MQ

If you are dissatisfied with the cloud server service you are currently using, please try it.

Incentivized
Nobuyuki Suzuki
CAA (Chief Applications Architect) in Research & Development at F-TECH INC. (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using Teamcenter constructed on IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers. We have been collaborating using data online systems so far, but we have had to rework due to data selection mistakes, and we needed to change to working in a common platform environment. This system has been [used] by [the] global R&D division with [collaborative] working.

Pros

  • Excellent robustness
  • Excellent maintainability
  • Excellent flexibility in system changes

Cons

  • Response time for network troubles
  • The process of isolating the problem
  • Setting priorities according to importance

Other Software Used

Teamcenter, Oracle Access Management

Return on Investment

  • System installation cost reduced by 75%
  • 60% reduction in system operating costs
  • 90% reduction in WAN communication costs

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

This IBM System is an Effective Cloud Virtualization Solution with easy tools to manipulate.

Incentivized
Madhurani SahaniView profile
Project Controller in Engineering at Veidekke Norge (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Easy IBM Cloud product and its virtualization ability and easy Cloud data protection and management is excellent. IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud effectively helps on generating real time data reports and data visualizing this product is good and also its Cloud services Automation functions are excellent and the migration of data is very secure.

Pros

  • Creating real time data results.
  • Automation of Cloud services.
  • Networking.
  • Access permission management.

Cons

  • Only to set its Cloud tools.
  • Handling big data across Cloud service.
  • Creating reports from complex project data.

Return on Investment

  • This system offers the most effective virtualization tools and big data management is simple.
  • Reliable real time reporting on various operations changes.
  • Sharing data across Cloud service is secure and quick and its networking functions are perfect.

Alternatives Considered

Avanan, Paylocity and Pantheon

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