IBM Public Cloud vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry comparison

IBM and VMware are both solutions in the PaaS Clouds category. IBM is ranked #13 with an average rating of 7.3, while VMware is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.4. IBM holds a 3.4% mindshare in PSP, compared to VMware’s 11.2% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of VMware users who would recommend it.

IBM Public Cloud

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86% willing to recommend

Pivotal Cloud Foundry

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93% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between IBM Public Cloud and Pivotal Cloud Foundry 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.

To learn more, read our detailed IBM Public Cloud vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry Report (Updated: October 2024).

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IBM Public Cloud vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Public Cloud

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

13th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

5.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IoT Platforms (6th)

Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

8th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of IBM Public Cloud is 3.4%, down from 5.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is 11.2%, up from 9.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Adnan_Ali

Junior Cloud Engineer at Wanclouds

Provides robust analytics and management tools but lacks support

It offers services designed to meet a wide range of customer needs. It provides robust analytics and management tools to give customers complete visibility into their environment and infrastructure. With its diverse features, IBM Public Cloud aims to address various requirements and ensure a high level of service for its users.

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Stephen Hack

Web App developer at FDIC

Easy to use, simple to sign-in, but lacking graphical interface

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is used as a cloud platform Pivotal Cloud Foundry has helped our organization by the way we've set it up, it's easy to sign in, bind services, push services, and create YAML files. The most valuable features of Pivotal Cloud Foundry are its ease of use and the command line…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"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."

"The availability is second to none. Customer support is very good."

"One of the features that I really like about IBM Cloud is the flexibility where you can order your own hardware."

"It's straightforward, has a good environment and is cost-effective."

"For non-complex applications, the IBM Cloud works fine and the price is much lower than the competitors."

"This is a predictable and dependable service."

"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."

"I've found the stability to be excellent. The performance is good."

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"We find its stability and scalability valuable."

"Stability is not a concern with this product."

"The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is auto-healing and the plenty of other features that are provided."

"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very robust, especially for building Java."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to scale. The services that connect to the database are also very good."

"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very easy to use compared to other cloud technologies. It has a very good performance."

"It is a scalable product...We are not facing any particular issues since most of the applications in our company are written in Java and .NET."

"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the deployment is easier."

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Cons

"Maybe performance enhancers and reports could be better improved. If they do so, it would be better. Of all the drawbacks I saw, this would be the biggest enhancement."

"The product should offer more computing, similar to Amazon."

"It will be challenging to implement if you do not have any experience."

"The solution’s pricing could be improved."

"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."

"There is not a lot of support for this solution, which is something that needs to be improved."

"The solution needs to be more autonomous. It should let the DL go to allow for more jobs on the cloud. It could have a better interface as well."

"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."

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"The Pivotal Cloud Foundry's initial setup has a learning curve for my team, but it was easy to use."

"There are no synthetic application monitoring and real-time monitoring features."

"Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve the documentation. They are good, but they could improve more. Additionally, it would be beneficial if there were more use case examples."

"Pivotal Cloud Foundry doesn't have certain advanced features."

"There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the future of Pivotal Cloud Foundry."

"In the next release, I would like to see easy integration with external tools."

"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is not scalable, infinitely, because when you install it on a set of virtual machines it is very hard to scale. It's easy to scale on an application level, but not it is not similar to if you were using Amazon. Amazon you can scale thousands of applications."

"Something that can be done better is canary deployment. So, right now, we're using blue-green deployment. The support for canary deployment would be nice."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of IBM Cloud is very cheap compared to competitors AWS and Azure."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten."

"The licensing fees are straightforward and predictable."

"It pretty much has a standard price. There is no hidden price with IBM Public Cloud."

"Pricing is not as fair as Amazon or Azure."

"IBM Public Cloud is pretty cheap. They have an ongoing free tier that basically won't expire, so as long as your solution is small enough, you can have a test set that you can use for demos, which will cost you almost nothing."

"IBM has a lesser price compared to other cloud service providers like Azure and AWS."

"In order to be competitive, you have to commit to a contract for at least one year, but you pay a fixed monthly fee."

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"The pricing is on the higher side and there are cheaper options available."

"Licensing is on a monthly basis and right now we pay $24/month. There are no other costs over and above that."

"The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is based on the customer's requirements. However, the price is comparable to other similar solutions."

"We do pay for the licensing cost because we have opted for a private cloud setup. So, it is a cloud setup, and we have to make payments based on the cloud size. I do not consider it very costly when comparing it to the market."

"The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve. However, in this category of solutions, they are all expensive."

"You're paying for the number of virtual machines you want to install in the installation."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

University

12%

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

39%

Manufacturing Company

21%

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

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By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

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Questions from the Community

Which is preferable - IBM Public Cloud or Microsoft Azure?

IBM Public Cloud is IBM’s Platform-as-a-Service. It aims to provide organizations with a secure cloud environment to manage data and applications. One of the features we like is the cloud activity ...

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What needs improvement with IBM Cloud?

The front end is not pervasive, so it is very difficult get the status of your current services or account from a mobile device.

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What do you like most about IBM Public Cloud?

The most valuable feature of IBM Public Cloud is the AI integrations.

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Which would you recommend - Pivotal Cloud Foundry or OpenShift?

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a cloud-native application platform to simplify app delivery. It is efficient and effective. The best feature is how easy it is to handle external services such as database...

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What do you like most about Pivotal Cloud Foundry?

I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pivotal Cloud Foundry?

I would say it is around a nine out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. Just short of Oracle. It's sort of Oracle cloud.

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Comparisons

Microsoft Azure vs IBM Public Cloud

Compared 41% of the time

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) vs IBM Public Cloud

Compared 25% of the time

Amazon AWS vs IBM Public Cloud

Compared 19% of the time

Google Cloud vs IBM Public Cloud

Compared 5% of the time

Heroku vs IBM Public Cloud

Compared 2% of the time

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Microsoft Azure vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Compared 31% of the time

Red Hat OpenShift vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Compared 24% of the time

Amazon AWS vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Compared 16% of the time

Google Cloud vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Compared 15% of the time

VMware Tanzu Platform vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Compared 5% of the time

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Also Known As

IBM Bluemix

PCF, Pivotal Application Service (PAS), Pivotal Container Service (PKS), Pivotal Function Service (PFS)

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Overview

IBM Cloud is a full-stack cloud platform that spans public, private and hybrid environments. Build with a robust suite of advanced data and AI tools, and draw on deep industry expertise to help you on your journey to the cloud.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) is the leading enterprise PaaS, powered by Cloud Foundry. PCF provides a cloud-native application platform that allows you to continuously deliver any app to every major private and public cloud with a single platform. PCF is proven to accelerate feature delivery with higher developer productivity and a 200:1 developer to operator ratio. PCF's built-in security and self-healing capabilities reduce risk in your app portfolio while maintaining high-availability at scale to keep customer facing systems online even in the most challenging circumstances. pivotal.io

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Uvionics Tech, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Alpha Modus, Inventive, Web Business Consulting, FindBrok, SilverHook Powerboats, United Way of Allegheny County

Humana, Citibank, Mercedes Benz, Liberty Mutual, The Home Depot, GE, West Corp, Merrill Corporation, CoreLogic, Orange, Dish Network, Comcast, Bloomberg, Internal Revenue Service, Ford Motor Company, Garmin, Volkswagen, Solera, Allstate, US Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, ScotiaBank

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IBM Public Cloud vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry

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