IBM Public Cloud Initial Setup

Carlos Bittrich - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Advisor at Fabrik

The initial setup is easy. 

If you do everything on a panel, in a dashboard, they have also a command-line interface, however, you don't need it, to begin with. The documentation is in different languages, so other people should understand it. Everything is on the cloud. Basically, you install a command-line interface. It's the only thing you need to install on your machine. There's no problem with the rest.

My project is small. I can say it's one or two administrators that I need for deployment and maintenance. The people that deploy the solution are checking that it's running. A lot of the administration can be automated. 

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Shivakumar Kuppannan - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & CEO at Star Systems India Private Limited

It was very easy. We've been using this IBM Public Cloud for eight months, and we didn't see any difficulties in setting it up the box or deploying applications.

The deployment process is very straightforward. We are a software solution company, and if we need to provision one box in the bare metal or classic environment or VPC, we can straightforwardly go and get that one. It's very simple to add storage and attach the disk. Everything is pretty straightforward.

We have our public cloud. We have implemented IBM Satellite to have all the IBM features available in-house. We have tried hybrid, in-house, and public cloud setup. 

In terms of maintenance, because of a strong technical and infra background, maintenance is almost nil if you develop or deploy something. There is no need for maintenance.

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Murtaza Anwar - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solution Engineer at Wanclouds

The initial setup process is easy.

Mostly, we are just on the migration side when we open a vendor with the client. On the migration side, we just first process that, and we just give them RTO and RPO if there is a loss in case though we give all the precautions along with the first call. Then, if they agree to migrate their data and resize, we take access to IBM support alongside the account at an administrator-level privilege. After that, we start the migration window, and we ask them for the downtime while also mentioning that the downtime would be needed in the meanwhile. So, this is the process.

We need people for deployment, especially since our company is in the WAN cloud. So, we created a VPC+ product, which is mostly multi-cloud migration in a DDoS product. VPC+ is our own product on which we mostly do the migration.

The solution requires maintenance. We can't say it is difficult to maintain it. But there are a lot of complications in the process. So every time we do the process, we face the complications. So then we resolve it as a team.

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HT
CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Setting up IBM Public Cloud is pretty easy, as long as you get up-to-date documentation on how to set it up.

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AshutoshMalik - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Architect at Kyndryl

The initial setup was straightforward and not complex. I rate the complexity a four out of ten.

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AM
Subject Matter Expert - Data Network at Mphasis

The initial setup is straightforward and not very complex. The fact that you can make your own infrastructure is the best part.

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DC
Consultant at a educational organization with 11-50 employees

The solution is purely cloud-based, and, therefore, you don't need to worry about doing any manual or on-site installation process.

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FM
Corporate IT Applications Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup needs improvement.

It is easy to deploy what you need for the initial setup. The initial setup takes time.

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KK
Lead Consultant at a political organization with 51-200 employees

The time it takes to deploy will depend on how complex the situation is. The smaller configurations can take around a day or two.

The integration is always the complex piece. 

The deployment packages should be made easier. The configuration should be easier. When you start looking at patterns in architecture, the patterns are very similar. Every client likes to feel that they're unique. If there was an easier way of deploying according to a particular architecture pattern that would be great so that you didn't have to go and configure everything from scratch every time. 

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MA
Senior Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup was somewhat complicated. We did the setup considering that we needed to have a tool to migrate to the cloud. 

We used IBM tools for some of the communications. It was not straightforward. The deployment took a couple of days.

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CD
CEO & Co-founder at NEXTBKL SP z o o DBA Gloscad

The initial setup was very easy. It's quite straightforward. Deployment took about 15 minutes. Everything is well organized. It does depend on the experience level of the person using it, but even if you're not professionally trained to deal with cloud you'll find it's not too complex.

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SS
Director - Automation Solutions at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

The solution's initial setup is pretty straightforward.

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