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IBM Cloud Private

Score9.6 out of 10

73 Reviews and Ratings

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What is IBM Cloud Private?

IBM 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.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

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

  • Ease of building user interfaces

    Ability to build flexible user interfaces using drag-and-drop tools

    Category average: 7.9

  • Scalability

    Ease of scaling up or down to meet demand

    Category average: 8.2

  • Platform management overhead

    Resources required to keep platform up and running

    Category average: 7.4

Areas for Improvement

  • Platform access control

    Rules controlling what data different user categories can access

    Category average: 7.8

  • Services-enabled integration

    Ability to integrate with cloud applications and data via APIs and pre-built connectors

    Category average: 8

  • Issue monitoring and notification

    Integrated monitoring and notification of issues and problems

    Category average: 7.3

Reviews

What users are saying about IBM Cloud Private.
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IBM Cloud Private is a Secure Open Source Platform

Incentivized
Nosava BegumView profile
Human Resources Manager in Human Resources at HCL Technologies (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Cloud Private is a secure, dedicated and managed cloud computing platform. It provides enterprises with flexibility to make the right choice for their business. With the power of IBM Cloud, you can store and process data in the public cloud or local datacenter – allowing you to benefit from the agility and scale of the public cloud while protecting your data with enterprise-grade security.

Pros

  • Provides security.
  • Delivers control and reliability.
  • Provides flexibility to our enterprise.

Cons

  • UI could be improved.
  • Pricing is high.
  • Lacks in multi cloud management.

Most Important Features

  • Provides security.
  • It provides businesses with a unified set of integrated services and infrastructure across public and private clouds.
  • It helps in reducing the cost of IT and operations while delivering a great customer experience.

Return on Investment

  • Very reliable platform.
  • Protect and control access to your data in the cloud.
  • The platform has many built-in tools for DevOps automation, enabling you to more easily build, test, deploy, and manage your applications in the cloud.

Alternatives Considered

VMware Cloud on AWS

Other Software Used

Cisco 5000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5000), Accenture Managed Security, AWS Backup

ODM on Cloud for Business Rules Management

Incentivized
Bhaskara RudrarajuView profile
Tech Consultant (ODM and BPM) in Information Technology at Nationwide (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • Logging function: Currently use Kibana Logging Service, but [we expected] this feature to be integrated to ODM on the Cloud Dashboard.
  • Rule Artifacts Metrics should be available from ODM on Cloud Dashboard
  • Performance Improvement: Sometimes we experience very slow response time when using the Decision Center

Return on Investment

  • ODM on Cloud SaaS has opened the door to our business applications benefits including improved currency, continuous builds, accelerated business rules development, improved performance, and better scalability.
  • The enhanced business console improved user ID management, project security and enables the business users to develop, test, and deploy rules rapidly to meet speed to market demands.
  • New simulation features in business console allowed business users to create what-if scenarios and to validate rules with real or representative data with minimum IT support. These long-awaited features provide great value to our company.

Alternatives Considered

IBM Cloud Functions

Other Software Used

WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere DataPower Gateway

Go Faster with IBM Cloud

Incentivized
Dinesh PView profile
Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Information Technology at American Airlines (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • On-Demand Capacity
  • Easy to use UI
  • Faster VM provisioning for rapid deployments
  • Support for newest technologies such as Kubernetes

Cons

  • Bluemix/IBM Cloud UI can be better
  • Changing Brand name from Bluemix to IBM Cloud, as we are habituated to Bluemix more

Return on Investment

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Other Software Used

WebSphere Application Server, IBM UrbanCode Deploy

IBM Cloud

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • There is a large variety of services available on IBM Cloud.
  • This is my first experience with a PaaS and I haven’t had any major problems navigating around it.
  • It is easy to deploy applications and services on IBM Cloud.

Cons

  • The UI was a little confusing at first after the shift from BlueMix.
  • There could be better support and examples for deploying SOAP services.

Return on Investment

  • IBM Cloud has helped us start using the cloud and migrating old services to the cloud.

Positive experience in the early stages

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • IBM provides great customer support
  • Obtaining access was easy and went very smooth
  • IBM Cloud Private alleviates and meets the security requirements demanded in a regulated industry.

Cons

  • More hands on training outside of virtual classes would be helpful.

Return on Investment

  • The IBM Cloud Private option will definitely provide a valuable ROI as we move forward with application modernization.
  • ICP will help move our company forward and enable the company transition into a hybrid cloud environment.

Other Software Used

WebSphere Application Server, IBM MQ