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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers vs. IBM Cloud File Storage

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    per hour

    IBM Cloud File Storage

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud provides a File Storage service allows the user to deploy and customize flash-backed NFS-based file storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersIBM Cloud File Storage
    Editions & Modules
    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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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersIBM Cloud File Storage
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    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 Bare Metal ServersIBM Cloud File Storage
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    Chose IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    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
    Chose IBM Cloud File Storage
    In my opinion, IBM has produced excellent products that have been instrumental in the development of our business. We rely heavily on data to power the programs in our organization. Because our systems can be accessed from various apps without experiencing any downtime, …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud File Storage
    High speed to connection when using this platform is incredible with effective data encryption process and volume duplication and replication, always confident that your data is stored safely. Reaching for international dimensions to cater [to] our client's compliance …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud File Storage
    We selected in mainly because we are already in IBM's ecosystem. Our entire business infrastructure is hosted with IBM.
    Incentivized
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersIBM Cloud File Storage
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers and IBM Cloud File Storage
    Feature
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    8.3
    79 Ratings
    IBM Cloud File Storage
    8.5
    39 Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.877 Ratings9.737 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling8.661 Ratings8.836 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing8.551 Ratings8.135 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates8.057 Ratings7.631 Ratings
    Monitoring tools8.270 Ratings8.037 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images8.361 Ratings8.133 Ratings
    Operating system support8.476 Ratings9.636 Ratings
    Security controls8.574 Ratings9.437 Ratings
    Automation7.77 Ratings7.030 Ratings
    User Ratings
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersIBM Cloud File Storage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (81 ratings)
    8.8
    (40 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (23 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)