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    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AIBM 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.

    $0.51

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    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
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    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    starting at $0.51
    per hour
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    starting at $241.00
    per month
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    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
    Additional DetailsIBM Bare Metal Servers offer a choice between hourly or monthly pre-configured servers or can be customized with single to quad processing solutions. Bare metal servers are available worldwide and with no monthly contracts. Amonthly bare metal server built to spec can be ordered and made available in two to four hours—with 500 GB/month outbound bandwidth included. An hourly bare metal server can be ordered, and it is made ready for in 20 to 30 minutes. Public outbound bandwidth is charged per gigabyte.
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    IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud features are easy on customizing and the capability to manage all project data types is effective. Creating reliable reports and secure data transfer through Cloud service is amazing. The product Automation tools are stable, capacity planning …
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    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers is more effective and the capabilities for networking and servers performance management is more productive. Through IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers tools the multiple project data management and data transfer across entire Cloud service is more secure …
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    better performance and robustness
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    Well As we use other IBM Cloud services it is easier for us to implement the services from the same and easier and also implementing VPC, we have found it to be highly secure and cost-effective also.
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    Huawei was our first consideration. However, it had significant operational difficulties. Hence we had to move away from Huawei.
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    Configured file systems on bare metal servers and was able to increase the size whenever required. Can limit the costs initially to understand the application demand and need. Later, have the flexibility to increase the size of the file system as the application grows bigger …
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    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers meet our app requirement, and the support is good as well.
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    Came down to Price and the 20TB "free" egress made it a winner.
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    The Best part of this IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers is performance and a very highly usable part is Security stuff. everyone needs to secure their data and work with a smoothly running app. for this reason I select this server rather than another one. I will use it in feature …
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    I considered AWS EC2, but found the difference in operating costs compared to IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers to be too great. It is the data transfer fee.AWS EC2: 0 cost for upload, pay-as-you-go for download IBMCloud Bare Metarl Servers: no cost for both upload and downloadIn …
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    UI is very easy and simple to navigate and not confusing and cost effective when compared to IBM for few features.
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    In fact, we have the same functionality on both. Brazil Azure and AWS had started offering those options before IBM, so IBM was [at a] disadvantage, now both are tied.
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    IBM brings the full suite, and coupled with Bare Metal, developing within the IBM / Softlayer SDK's and keeping smtp mail delivery, CDN, data block/object storage all from one place is simple. We were also evaluating DNS via Cloudflare before we departed IBM Cloud services.
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    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers is in every case better compared to the next seller items that are accessible in the market. This item gives us quick execution with bunches of safety and different highlights. No vacation and incredible specialized help are benefits of this item.
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    We had considered AWS EC2. They offer similar functions we require. But we feel IBM is better due to the version changes that they implement and the security features.
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    I would say that they are comparable in alot of ways and work about the same. Most cloud vendors today don't have alot of differentiations for the tasks that I perform on a daily basis.
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    AWS and Google are also providing very similar solutions but when we take a closer look at our needs and the pricing model each of the providers have, it is quite obvious for us to choose IBM.
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    We vetted various competitors of IBM to gain better insight into our purchases. Again, this for most part depends on your organization, but IBM's advanced analytics platform is on par with most of the bigger platforms. They have developments that ease the speed of development …
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    I selected IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) because of 5 points that I thought and was proven correct based on my experience using the service. First is security which I strongly talked about all throughout my review. Secondly is agility. The third is Isolation. Fourth is …
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    IBM's documentation and support for IBM Cloud for IBM Cloud Pak for Automation was stronger than with Google Cloud.
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    The AWS Bare Metal is a non-starter. $5000 for a "weaker" server than IBM offers and way, way, more configuration. GCP is still on-boarding their bare-metal solutions. The other places, such as digital ocean or rackspace tend to be pricier and you get less power. The only other …
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    Offers a good price compared to Google Compute Engine, but we think deploying machines on Google to be a bit simpler due to the interface.
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    I would take Schematics over CFTs!

    We are deploying AWAF (F5 ASM) in VPC instances which are superior to AWS WAF in policy features.
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    Features
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Feature
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    8.3
    79 Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.877 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling8.661 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing8.551 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates8.057 Ratings
    Monitoring tools8.270 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images8.361 Ratings
    Operating system support8.476 Ratings
    Security controls8.574 Ratings
    Automation7.77 Ratings
    User Ratings
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (81 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (9 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (23 ratings)