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Carlos Bittrich
Quick to deploy but being deprecated by IBM and should be merged with Kubernetes
The administration of the runtime environment is almost zero, as most of it is being managed by Cloud Foundry itself. Very easy to auto-scale... Read more →
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  • "IBM has a free tier and payment option depending on the products selected."
  • "You are allocated a minimum amount of resources in the free tier. This seems fair and highly scalable, as you pay per usage as per cloud pricing schemes."
  • "The pricing models should be reworked to the needs of a wider range of companies. Some customers will not be able to afford it until quite a few years into production, even after good PoC results and a successful launch."

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    What do you like most about Cloud Foundry?
    Top Answer:Cloud Foundry builds the runtime environment directly without requiring dependency management from the user.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloud Foundry?
    Top Answer:Use autoscaling to define the right number of instances. Usually, the cloud providers define a default size for memory or the number of instances. Try to see if you can decrease these numbers so that… more »
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    What needs improvement with Cloud Foundry?
    Top Answer:In IBM Cloud, the product has been deprecated in favor of Kubernetes, which is a more complicated infrastructure to manage. CF should be merged with the Kubernetes project. This could benefit both… more »
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    CenturyLink Cloud
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    Overview

    Cloud Foundry, home of the open source application development technologies CF Application Runtime and CF Container Runtime, is more than a platform. It’s a flexible way of embracing digital transformation that helps businesses evolve in the face of constant change. To put it another way, with Cloud Foundry, companies can rest assured they will have the right tool for the right job.

    Businesses like yours are moving their apps to CenturyLink Cloud. All signs point to continued cloud adoption in the years ahead. Much of this adoption will occur within large enterprises - complex organizations with complex needs. These businesses are increasingly looking for cloud services natively equipped to handle advanced enterprise requirements. That’s where CenturyLink Cloud fits in.

    Whether you’re looking to offload a few virtual machines, create new applications, or migrate legacy workloads, CenturyLink Cloud’s infrastructure and management tools offer you a more enterprise-ready path to the cloud. We also have a portfolio of managed services available on-demand, with hourly billing.

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    Financial Services Firm18%
    Manufacturing Company12%
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    Cloud Foundry is ranked 21st in PaaS Clouds with 2 reviews while Lumen Cloud is ranked 25th in PaaS Clouds. Cloud Foundry is rated 5.0, while Lumen Cloud is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Cloud Foundry writes "Quick to deploy but being deprecated by IBM and should be merged with Kubernetes ". On the other hand, Cloud Foundry is most compared with Pivotal Cloud Foundry, VMware Tanzu Application Service, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS and OpenShift, whereas Lumen Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure and Salesforce Platform.

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