We performed a comparison between Google Cloud and IBM Public Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It eliminates capital expenditures and subsequent MNO that we would use to spend on on-prem architectures. That money is funneled towards security and connectivity provisioning."
"The product scales well."
"Technical support has been good."
"The solution is scalable."
"The stability is good with Google Cloud."
"We can increase the storage as we need."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Google Cloud is very user-friendly."
"One of the features that I really like about IBM Cloud is the flexibility where you can order your own hardware."
"The price of IBM Cloud is most valuable for us. The service is personable and gives us a good rapport. I can't say it's the best, but it was enough for our needs."
"It is a scalable product. You can scale it up and down."
"The beauty of cloud service providers, especially public cloud service providers, is that they are scalable every time when you need them because their payment model is pay-as-you-go."
"For non-complex applications, the IBM Cloud works fine and the price is much lower than the competitors."
"It's straightforward, has a good environment and is cost-effective."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Public Cloud is the AI integrations."
"This is a predictable and dependable service."
"Training in new advancements, technologies, or AI would help us understand how to best use the solution."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"The price of the license could be cheaper."
"Google Cloud lacks some tools for database migration. I've only used MySQL and AWS in my career, so those are the only ones I can compare. AWS has a database migration tool that you can integrate with a cloud backup, so can take that backup and restore it in the AWS public cloud, but it's not the same with Google Cloud."
"The ease-of-use could be improved for less technical users."
"Security features could be improved."
"The product should be more cost-effective."
"I would like to see Google Cloud become more competitive when it comes to price."
"The product should offer more computing, similar to Amazon."
"It will be challenging to implement if you do not have any experience."
"They do not have a very good virtual network implemented, and the VPC is the most important feature that needs to be improved."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly deployment process in the next release of this solution."
"Normally, for any cloud, we get a lot of information on the web, but that is missing in the case of IBM Public Cloud. We need some technical support documents. That is the only thing missing in IBM Public Cloud."
"The initial setup and the pricing are areas that need improvement."
"The deployment can be a bit of a pain. There are a lot of packages and a lot of options and it can require complex configuration to get it right."
"There is not a lot of support for this solution, which is something that needs to be improved."
Google Cloud is ranked 5th in PaaS Clouds with 66 reviews while IBM Public Cloud is ranked 9th in PaaS Clouds with 16 reviews. Google Cloud is rated 8.2, while IBM Public Cloud is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Google Cloud writes "Great for big data with off-the-charts scalability for storage and databases". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Public Cloud writes "Reliable, easy to set up, and has helpful support". Google Cloud is most compared with Alibaba Cloud, Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Heroku, whereas IBM Public Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Salesforce Platform and Heroku. See our Google Cloud vs. IBM Public Cloud report.
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