IBM Cloud Managed Istio vs. IBM Cloud Private

It is a perfect application when you have multiple users and/or developers and you want to create rules and standards for access and the ability to change access levels. The reporting of usage is good, but adding more granularity into the metrics that have been used to measure are not specific enough. They provide detail but drilling into the detail would be more appropriate i.e. access to the baseline data.

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IBM Cloud Private is well suited for SaaS models.

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• Debug issues
• Monitoring
• allows many services form many different sources

• 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.

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• Still missing functionalities for a full usage as traffic director.

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

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Training and usage support available

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1) One-stop solution for all the complex network connectivity managed by [IBM Cloud Managed Istio]. 2) Nice dashboard to understand the flow. 3) Easy to troubleshoot the service if any one of the APIs is not responding. 4) We can integrate it with Azure Kubernetes service and other cloud provider Kubernetes services. 5) Monitoring the health of the pods can be easily configured and alerts can be triggered very accurately with this tool.

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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.

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• Management burden is reduced resulting in positive ROI.
• Application is being seamlessly instrumented with good impact on business.

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