F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect vs. IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect
Score 7.8 out of 10
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Securely connects distributed apps and services across public cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. Utilizing Infrastructure as Code, App Connect provisions resources and maintain uniform policies across multiple sites.N/A
IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
A multicloud networking solution SaaS product, designed to allow organizations to establish simple and secured application-centric connectivity across a wide variety of public and private clouds, edge and on-premises. It bridges operational silos, giving granular network control to CloudOps as well as interfaces to DevOps teams to enhance collaboration through a single portal.N/A
Pricing
F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectIBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectIBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
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NGINX
Score 9.2 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
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NGINX
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
NGINX
NGINX
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectIBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh
Likelihood to Recommend
7.8
(4 ratings)
7.5
(2 ratings)
Performance
7.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
F5 Distributed Cloud App ConnectIBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh
Likelihood to Recommend
F5
My advice is if your firm build multi-cloud, high availability SaaS products or you just run polyglot workloads across kubernetes and VMs, then F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect is your guy. Coming from an expert, just start with a few core services or else you will be overwhelmed.
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IBM
It is only a necessity if teams are planning to migrate between clouds and need a transitional setup. A single cloud/all on-prem setup won't need the IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh.
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Pros
F5
  • Ease of use - standing up a new site took very little time, less then an hour.
  • Connecting the dots - the ease at standing up a load balancer and advertising it on CEs was simple and straight forward. Once you get familiar with the field layout it's very comparable to BIG-IP
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IBM
  • zero trust / end to end solution
  • multi cloud management\
  • strengthen resiliency
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Cons
F5
  • User access roles should be more granular what we currently have
  • user interface should be user friendly
  • Setup process and guided workflows could add a user friendly process for first time users
  • log export from SIEM tool still require a manual intervention
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IBM
  • It requires a steep learning curve for IT teams
  • Allow for customizable dashboards or to build custom workflows
  • Continue to invest in AI capabilities to enhance security, optimization and compliance.
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Likelihood to Renew
F5
At this point it has become too focal to our operations. An entire department could collapse if we dropped it now or in the near future. My experiences as mentioned in the previous questions tell of its gravity
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IBM
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Performance
F5
From what we have been able to test load/responsiveness is quick and when we've tested out reporting and troubleshooting modules they have pulled the correct information in quick timeframes. We haven't been able to test out any software integration with Splunk of other software on our system since we are still in early POC stages but from what we've been told we should be able to implement that in our environment
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IBM
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Alternatives Considered
F5
-F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect provides more granular security policies with features like DOS, WAF etc and others lack -F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect provides high performance global network and other rely on public internet and impact is latency and it gives F5 Distributed Cloud App Connect a better user experience
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IBM
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Return on Investment
F5
  • Inconsistent policies and procedures and now its all seem to be sorted and now requires less support
  • Deployment cycle time was reduced and achieves a faster adoption of newly added contents
  • Saved migration cost and more gave durability to the existing setup
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IBM
  • Thanks to IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh, application downtime during migration of our applications has been minimized, leading to hundreds of thousands of dollars of daily cost savings
  • A great deal of manpower is saved because no cloud support is needed to support the different cloud structures
  • The team also sees performance improvement due to the application centric approach of the product
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