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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers vs. OpenStack

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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

    OpenStack

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AOpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed and provisioned through APIs with common authentication mechanisms. Beyond standard infrastructure-as-a-service functionality, additional components provide orchestration, fault management and service management amongst other services to ensure high availability of user applications.

    $0

    Pricing
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersOpenStack
    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 ServersOpenStack
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    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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    Features
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersOpenStack
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers and OpenStack
    Feature
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    8.3
    79 Ratings
    OpenStack
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.877 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling8.661 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing8.551 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates8.057 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools8.270 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images8.361 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support8.476 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls8.574 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation7.77 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersOpenStack
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (81 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (23 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)