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AppFog (discontinued) vs. IBM Cloud Private

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AppFog (discontinued)
Score 6.6 out of 10
N/A
AppFog was a cloud-agnostic application and infrastructure management platform used to manage workloads across on-premises and third-party cloud environments. It has been discontinued.N/A
IBM Cloud Private
Score 9.6 out of 10
N/A
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.N/A
Pricing
AppFog (discontinued)IBM Cloud Private
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AppFog (discontinued)IBM Cloud Private
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
AppFog (discontinued)IBM Cloud Private
Considered Both Products
AppFog (discontinued)
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose AppFog (discontinued)
Appfog was one of the requirements of our project since it was the fastest growing PAAS provider. Also it was easy to deploy an application with multiple options to choose for the development environment for our application. It was "ALL in ONE."
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose AppFog (discontinued)
Primarily because it used to have a good free tier earlier, which it does not anymore. It's simple, and things are available to use. Compared to it's competitors, it does has less features, but that kind of acts in its favor. That adds to the simplicity, and ease of use for a …
IBM Cloud Private
Nosava Begum | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nosava Begum
Human Resources Manager
Chose IBM Cloud Private
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.
Features
AppFog (discontinued)IBM Cloud Private
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
AppFog (discontinued)
6.5
Ratings
21% below category average
IBM Cloud Private
9.7
Ratings
19% above category average
Ease of building user interfaces7.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Scalability5.30 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Platform management overhead6.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability6.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Platform access control6.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration6.60 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Development environment creation7.40 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Development environment replication8.40 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification6.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Issue recovery6.40 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes7.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
AppFog (discontinued)IBM Cloud Private
Small Businesses
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.7 out of 10
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
AppFog (discontinued)IBM Cloud Private
Likelihood to Recommend
6.6
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AppFog (discontinued)IBM Cloud Private
Likelihood to Recommend
AppFog is good for academic purposes. It comes in very handy for cloud deployments.
Verified User
Anonymous
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IBM Cloud Private is well suited for SaaS models.
Bhaskara Rudraraju | TrustRadius Reviewer
Bhaskara Rudraraju
Tech Consultant (ODM and BPM)
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Pros
  • Quick deployment of pre-built virtual machines
  • Some of the virtual machines also are readily available with a pack of softwares
  • Good Stability. Using it as a student, I have never experienced any downtime issues with the projects deployed on AppFog.
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • 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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Cons
  • Though it is good and easy for developers, it lacks operational activities and monitoring tools.
  • It is easy to deploy WAR on AppFog with its console but sometimes it can lack on the performance and feasibility.
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • More hands on training outside of virtual classes would be helpful.
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Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
Appfog was one of the requirements of our project since it was the fastest growing PAAS provider. Also it was easy to deploy an application with multiple options to choose for the development environment for our application. It was "ALL in ONE."
Verified User
Anonymous
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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.
Nosava Begum | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nosava Begum
Human Resources Manager
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Return on Investment
  • Our project was deployed with good efficiency and easily accessible.
  • The platform was much recommeded across the groups and peers.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Dinesh P | TrustRadius Reviewer
Dinesh P
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
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