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."The solution is fairly easy to deploy."
"The solution is scalable."
"My customers appreciate all the features that Google Cloud has to offer. They are looking for solutions for computing engines, storage, web hosting, and various other needs. The most useful feature depends on their specific requirements and how they plan to utilize Google Cloud. Each customer has their own unique set of needs and the Google Cloud provides a range of options to meet those needs."
"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 initial setup is very straightforward."
"We can increase the storage as we need."
"The stability of Google Cloud is currently good."
"It's available any time you need it."
"This product is very good because it is accessible in remote locations, and anyone can deploy from any place."
"An advantage of IBM Public Cloud is the bare metal server. We can take the bare metal server. It's not shared with anyone. We can deploy our applications without sharing them with anyone. That is an advantage of IBM Public Cloud."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Public Cloud is the AI integrations."
"One of the features that I really like about IBM Cloud is the flexibility where you can order your own hardware."
"It is easy to deploy what you need for the initial setup"
"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 availability is second to none. Customer support is very good."
"I would like to see Google Cloud become more competitive when it comes to price."
"The privacy could be improved so that it is more secure."
"The security of the solution can always be improved."
"Workload management could be better. Their pricing could also be more flexible."
"I would like to see Google Cloud become more competitive when it comes to price."
"Another issue is the applicability of local language data capturing mechanisms, which are more advanced on cloud service providers, but still there is room to grow. Also, their hybrid version isn't available in all markets worldwide, so I'm hoping that it will be released globally soon"
"We'd like the storage to be increased."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly deployment process in the next release of this solution."
"They could improve on customizing reporting capabilities."
"It could be more secure."
"Recently, we just faced some issues with the operating system due to the end of life of CentOS 6...So, then the client wanted to try it out under AWS instead of IBM. In short, it has some complexities."
"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."
"They do not have a very good virtual network implemented, and the VPC is the most important feature that needs to be improved."
"It will be challenging to implement if you do not have any experience."
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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