Compare DigitalOcean vs. IBM SoftLayer
DigitalOcean is ranked 9th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 1 review while IBM SoftLayer is ranked 10th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 1 review. DigitalOcean is rated 7.0, while IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of DigitalOcean writes "Has a good system but it should have better security and customer support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM SoftLayer writes "Stable and highly scalable that's very good overall". DigitalOcean is most compared with Google Firebase, Microsoft Azure and Alibaba Cloud, whereas IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean and Google Firebase.
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The solution is very stable. | The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization. |
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I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support. | The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified. |
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The program is cheaper than others. | Information Not Available |
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Views 1,739 Comparisons 1,542 Reviews 1 Average Words per Review 698 Avg. Rating 7.0 | Views 952 Comparisons 875 Reviews 1 Average Words per Review 235 Avg. Rating 8.0 |
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| CloudLayer | |
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| DigitalOcean | IBM |
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| DigitalOcean has the fastest and most convenient cloud technology to help you easily and more efficiently manage your infrastructure so you can get back to coding. We provide all of our users with high-performance SSD Hard Drives, a flexible API, and the ability to select the nearest data center location. | SoftLayer provides cloud infrastructure as a service from a growing number of data centers and network points of presence around the world. Our customers range from Web startups to global enterprises. Products and services include bare metal and virtual servers, networking, turnkey big data solutions, private cloud solutions, and more. Our unique advantages include the industry's first Network-Within-a-Network topology for true out-of-band access, and an easy-to-use customer portal and robust API for full remote-access of all product and service management options. |
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Sample Customers | |
| jQuery Foundation, Pertino, TaskRabbit, Compose, InfluxDB, The Able Few | Whogohost Ltd., Skypicker, Infinity Computers and Communications Company, Grace Co. Ltd., Keyword, Uvionics Tech, Tennis Australia, immixGroup, Salesbox, Cxense ASA, Avnet Inc., Komsomolskaya Pravda, Seekr |
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