MK

Michal K.

Websphere BPM Integration Architect

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/5/2015

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Great PaaS based on OpenSource Could Foundering mixed with IBM Stack products"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?

IBM Bluemix is based on Cloud Foundry, an open PaaS (platform as a service) to provide customers a choice of clouds. A PaaS model allows developers to focus on writing code since all infrastructure including the application servers are provided. This enables developers to build applications rapidly in local IDEs and push the applications to the cloud. This ease of use however comes at the expense of having less control over the infrastructure which is needed in certain scenarios or environments. IBM created a Marketplace where you can sell your app or make it available for free. Some of the most impressive IBM stack technologies are available for use like Websphere Liberty, DB2, MQ Light, SMS services and so on, you can pick and choose. To some extend the usage is for free. (Up to 2GB RAM for Liberty App Servers etc.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?

The connection config between some of the containers is better written than for others. Some do generate a complete config set, for some others you need to deep dive into the documentation to understand the connection mechanism. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloud Virtual Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?

This shift of technology will benefit mainly small and medium companies wanting to rapidly start development without investing a lot of money in to hardware, administration and man hours. From and Architecture perspective it's an evolution of SOA. Although I don't see this kind of technology in any Finance/Banking, Insurance or Government sector project. The privacy of the data is more important so a Cloud Solution is just not an option. I also don't see the use of BPM , ESB products to be integrated into cloud solutions because of the privacy constrains of the messages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CI

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/28/2015

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Bluemix Review"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?

Based on the open source architecture of Cloud Foundry, Bluemix provides the flexibility to integrate development frameworks, languages and services that suit our needs.

We can develop applications using Web IDE and Eclipse – while storing our code directly on Bluemix.

It supports several programming languages and services[ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?

The one thing I dislike about Cloud foundry is that I can’t test an app easily without constantly pushing it to the cloud if it uses a lot of services. I’d love to see a future where I could pull down all of these services in a micro cloud on my laptop and then push to the cloud and bind to scalable services there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloud Virtual Servers solving and how is that benefiting you?

In practical terms, we are building cloud applications thatl:

Reduce time for application/infrastructure provisioning

Allow for flexible capacity

Help to address any lack of internal tech resources

Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Accelerate exploration of new workloads – social, mobile, big data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UH

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/17/2015

"Great & Efficient"

3.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?

Easy to use. Great enterprise product that fits the needs of KPIT well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?

Unlike previous products, Bluemix is more difficult for adaptation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SK

Sarbjit K.

Information Technology Specialist

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/28/2015

"Collaborative life cycle management"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?

its very helpful to maintain test cases, defects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers?

User interface is not easy to use. its not easily find stuff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PR

Prasad R.

Proj Leader

Mining & Metals

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/14/2014

"IBM CLoud"

3/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.