IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

Score8.7 out of 10

181 Reviews and Ratings

What is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?

IBM 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.

Categories & Use Cases

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

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Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
The service uptime as a percentage defined in the SLA
Category average: 8.6
Dynamic scaling
Ease of scaling up or down in response to customer needs
Category average: 8.2
Elastic load balancing
Automatic balancing and distribution of resources across multiple virtual computers
Category average: 8.5

Monitoring tools
Monitoring tools provide alerts when problems are detected
Category average: 7.9
Pre-configured templates
Pre-defined templates for virtual machines
Category average: 7.6
Automation
Automation of administrative tasks
Category average: 7.7

Feras Diab, PMP View profile

Founder / CEO in Information Technology at Connection of Things (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using it to develop products in our R&D department.

Pros

Easy to build
Reliable

Cons

Price
Deleting and updating

Return on Investment

Accelerated the R&D
Quick option to test

Alternatives Considered

Azure Virtual Network, Azure Virtual Machines and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Other Software Used

Azure Virtual Machines, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Google Compute Engine

Jeffrey Lange View profile

Web Developer in Information Technology at Fanbuild (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used it throughout everything I do for hosting. It addresses all my hosting problems for personal hosting and client hosting.

Pros

Adding on memory
Support
Potential of greater processing power

Cons

I have switched to virtual servers because of their quickness of resources
Reloading OS takes a long time
Pricing
Everything seems slower than a virtual server

Other Software Used

IBM Watson Assistant, IBM Cloud Virtual Servers, IBM Watson Speech to Text

Return on Investment

At the beginning bare metal servers were very expensive cost
Not enough support to handle questions like load balancing to figure out alone so this prevented me from making more profit because servers would be down

Alternatives Considered

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

Sandeep Eti View profile

InfraStructure Lead Architect in Information Technology at IBM (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have been involved with the below use cases in my experience - 1) Migrate on-prem servers/applications to IBM DC Cloud to new bare metal servers and build the Application (Lift and Shift the Custom Applications). 2) Build New Custom Applications from Scratch on Brand new LINUX bare metal servers.

Pros

Compatible for custom Applications.
Allows to install needed packages.
Self install required software like oracle, tools, compliers.

Cons

C compiler wasn't available by default.
Sendmail feature/package wasn't available by default.
Dependant on admins to get issues resolved.

Return on Investment

Able to reduce on-prem costs for client and host Applications in IBM Cloud Datacenter.
New Applications are being built in IBM Cloud Datacenter.
Build only needed hardware to limit the costs for Client.

Alternatives Considered

IBM Cloud File Storage

Other Software Used

IBM AIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), IBM MQ

Nobuyuki Suzuki

CAA (Chief Applications Architect) in Research & Development at F-TECH INC. (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using Teamcenter constructed on IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers. We have been collaborating using data online systems so far, but we have had to rework due to data selection mistakes, and we needed to change to working in a common platform environment. This system has been [used] by [the] global R&D division with [collaborative] working.

Pros

Excellent robustness
Excellent maintainability
Excellent flexibility in system changes

Cons

Response time for network troubles
The process of isolating the problem
Setting priorities according to importance

Other Software Used

Teamcenter, Oracle Access Management

Return on Investment

System installation cost reduced by 75%
60% reduction in system operating costs
90% reduction in WAN communication costs

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Madhurani Sahani View profile

Project Controller in Engineering at Veidekke Norge (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Easy IBM Cloud product and its virtualization ability and easy Cloud data protection and management is excellent. IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud effectively helps on generating real time data reports and data visualizing this product is good and also its Cloud services Automation functions are excellent and the migration of data is very secure.

Pros

Creating real time data results.
Automation of Cloud services.
Networking.
Access permission management.

Cons

Only to set its Cloud tools.
Handling big data across Cloud service.
Creating reports from complex project data.

Return on Investment

This system offers the most effective virtualization tools and big data management is simple.
Reliable real time reporting on various operations changes.
Sharing data across Cloud service is secure and quick and its networking functions are perfect.

Alternatives Considered

Avanan, Paylocity and Pantheon

Rackspace Managed Hosting

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Alibaba Cloud ECS Bare Metal Servers

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

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Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

Dynamic scaling

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Automation

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