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I generally do everything on AWS or GCP, with a little Azure sometimes for personal projects. In what world does IBM beat one of those three in anything? Genera
by voz_ 6y ago
I generally do everything on AWS or GCP, with a little Azure sometimes for personal projects. In what world does IBM beat one of those three in anything? Generally curious - how they are able to stay competitive?
- wmf 6y agoThey had bare metal before Packet or AWS and inter-region traffic is free.
- Operyl 6y agoTheir biggest thing going for them is 100% free dark fiber private network. You do have to pay for the bigger pipe (100mbps included for each server, a minimal upcharge for gigabit), but that's pretty much a rounding error.
- blantonl 6y agoSoftlayer
- twalla 6y agoTheir bare metal cloud offering (SoftLayer acquisition) was actually pretty good whenever I used it about 4 years ago. Wasn’t the most intuitive API or UI but you could get a bare metal server anywhere in the world in a few minutes.
- rad_gruchalski 6y agoWhen the wind blows in the right direction. Sometimes, your server would get stuck in provisioning for hours and only get „un-stuck” after creating a support ticket. Which, I kid you not, at one of the previous jobs, wd had automated in our provisioning popeline. Good times. But when it worked, it worked. API was voodoo.
- Kinrany 6y agoFixing provisioning based on support tickets might have been automated on their side too :)
- bashinator 6y agoI just discovered this today: aws support create-case \ --subject "not working" \ --communication-body file://description.txt
- jonfw 6y agoThey've got the only real managed Openshift option right now, and their managed Kubernetes services is really great and seamless IMO.