--- title: IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Reviews meta_title: 'IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 55 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how IBM Cloud Virtual Servers works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.8 review_count: 55 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Reviews **Vendor:** IBM **Category:** [Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/infrastructure-as-a-service-iaas) **Average Rating:** 3.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 55 ## About IBM Cloud Virtual Servers IBM Cloud virtual server environments deliver cloud-native solutions that work across public, private and hybrid deployments. Boasting cost-savings, control, and visibility that is needed with a variety of flexible provisioning and pricing options, including single and multi-tenant environments, hourly and monthly pricing, reserved capacity terms and spot billing. Its elastic infrastructure, globally distributed data centers and premium services aim to bring data to life no matter where it resides. ## IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Reviews ### 1. Cloud storage device: IBM **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vivek B. | Customer Support Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?** the technical features which is good and the brand itself which is reliable also and for organization most o the company need a trusted brand which provide virtual storage or cloud storage and it does support on all OS such as windows , Linux etc and good part is easy to setup the cloud at your office if you can;t then you can read the instructions which is given with the product doesn;t matter you are a IT person or not **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?** I think the price would be the issue because most of the company offering the same **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Virtual Servers:** if you need a reliable cloud storage and branded device then you can buy it once make sure use the instruction carefully so you can setup the product and use it privately and can save your data so good luck and try it once. **What problems is IBM Cloud Virtual Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** my company often using it as a private data storage ### 2. A platform in search of a probloem to solve **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?** It integrates legacy products software engineers are comfortable with, with cutting edge open source technologies. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?** It was next to impossible to deploy on OpenStack; an ostensibly supported platform. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Virtual Servers:** Understand the outcomes you're looking for. ICP is a strong player if your desire is to do "cloudy" things, while remaining firmly in the IBM ecosystem. Otherwise, I'd look elsewhere. **What problems is IBM Cloud Virtual Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** None at the moment; we halted the evaluation due to the above issues. ### 3. ICP **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?** Cross-platform approach capability that allows it to be deployed and used across multiple cloud environments **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?** Lack of features that are otherwise present in the cloud offering of competitors **What problems is IBM Cloud Virtual Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evaluating it for implementing PaaS on-prem ### 4. Client Care Systems Technician **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?** Very helpful with providing performance needs **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?** It is hard to differnatie from other products. **What problems is IBM Cloud Virtual Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Giving our clients the best options out there. Maximizing performance needs. ### 5. I don't really care for it. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luis G. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?** I enjoy that it will store everything that I choose to save. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?** I would like to choose what gets added onto the cloud. **What problems is IBM Cloud Virtual Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving all information. ### 6. It's good **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sashikanth v. | Principal Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?** catalog services, compose services (some of them are not replicated) **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?** no k8s yet, message-hub is not mature yet **What problems is IBM Cloud Virtual Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** agility, time to market ### 7. Review for IMB Cloud bluemix **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?** IBM Cloud has easy to use interface and very nice support when needed. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?** Sometime connection is inconsistent and it can be unreliable compare to aws. **What problems is IBM Cloud Virtual Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use IBM Cloud to serve our analytic platform. ### 8. They cancel your account without much warning. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?** The product is new. Cloud Foundry is a brilliant new solution to new things, IBM of course, doesn't make these things. It just implements them. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?** IBM cancelled my account without telling me why. Their service sucks. It has all the same reasons why people hate IBM. If I can't get good service on my free account, that doesn't bode well for the paid account being better. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Virtual Servers:** Use something else. Bluemix is, at best, unreliable and at worst actively tries to cause downtime. It deactivated my account, without explanation or warning, and took down a good number of apps that we were using with it. This is actively causing harm. It's not bad support, it's actively causing harm. If you use bluemix, you shouldn't use it for anything you need to ensure works. Unless IBM is basically running it all for you, don't use it. **What problems is IBM Cloud Virtual Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for non mission critical applications. I do not think the service and support is reliable enough to use it long term. The frontend also takes forever to load. Heroku is much better, faster and easier. Also they did not delete my personal account from Heroku, which bluemix did because... I am not entirely certain why. They also deactivated my business account, even though I was using it for business applications. When I realized that happened, it became clear that this is not a service anyone should use for anything that you need to ensure works. ### 9. IBM CLoud **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prasad R. | Proj Leader, Mining & Metals, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2014 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?** Anywhere, anytime, we use it for our lotus notes email system which is also an IBM product but in spite of that there has been multiple downtime and that has caused lost productivitiy, both internally and external communications with our key cusotmers / vendors etc. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?** 99% uptime.. still not good, if imy business is on the cloud 99% is not good. I would want a 100% especially for emails **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Virtual Servers:** Look at all the options befor you choose IBM cloud ## IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Discussions - [What is IBM Cloud Virtual Servers used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ibm-cloud-virtual-servers-used-for) - [What are virtual machines in cloud computing?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-virtual-machines-in-cloud-computing) - [What is IBM cloud VSI?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ibm-cloud-vsi) - [What kind of virtual server type is in single tenant environment?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-kind-of-virtual-server-type-is-in-single-tenant-environment) - [How do I create a virtual machine in IBM cloud?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-create-a-virtual-machine-in-ibm-cloud) - [View IBM Cloud Virtual Servers pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-cloud-virtual-servers/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-12+20%3A35%3A27+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=ae72e0a3-4ea0-489b-a18f-301727020a52&secure%5Btoken%5D=de905f6a57e98ed320fa580d4b85c80e25ac1675678ef00a828ce4e8804100e8&format=llm_user) ## IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Features **Customization** - Custom VMs - Console Configuration - Operating Systems **Infrastructure Provision** - Public Cloud - Private Cloud - Hybrid Cloud - Bare Metal - High-Performance Computing (HPC) - Virtual Machines (VMs) - Edge Computing - Virtual Networks - Cloud Computing **Infrastructure** - Network Management - Virtual Machines - Security - Maintenance - Scalability **Management** - Pay by Usage - Usage Tracking - Performance Tracking - Activity Tracking **Management** - Cloud Migration - Storage Management - Analytics - Database Management - Logging **Functionality** - Resource Auto-Scaling **Additional Functionality** - Version Control - Database Support - Real-Time Monitoring - Monitoring - Activity Dashboard - SSL Security - Configurable Workflow - Performance Metrics - Performance Management - Server Monitoring - Data Security - Reporting/Analytics - API - Compliance Management - Access Controls/Permissions - Authentication - Real-Time Analytics - Audit Management - Single Sign On - Generative AI - Third-Party Integrations - Alerts/Escalation - Data Storage Management - AI Copilot - Resource Management - Activity Management - Scheduling - Load Balancing - Backup and Recovery - User Management - Role-Based Permissions - Secure Login - Reporting & Statistics - Network Monitoring - Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management - Task Scheduling - Application Management - Resource Allocation & Planning - Real-Time Notifications - Data Migration - Configuration Management - Log Access - Data Visualization - Real-Time Data - Audit Trail - Secure Data Storage - Data Capture and Transfer - Workflow Management - Performance Monitoring - Search/Filter ## Top IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Alternatives - [Amazon EC2](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-ec2/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,144 reviews) - [DigitalOcean](https://www.g2.com/products/digitalocean/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (744 reviews) - [Google Compute Engine](https://www.g2.com/products/google-compute-engine/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (876 reviews)