[voz_]

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?

[twalla]

Their 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]

When 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.

[bashinator]

I just discovered this today:

    aws support create-case \
        --subject "not working" \
        --communication-body file://description.txt

[Kinrany]

Fixing provisioning based on support tickets might have been automated on their side too :)

[jonfw]

They've got the only real managed Openshift option right now, and their managed Kubernetes services is really great and seamless IMO.

[wmf]

They had bare metal before Packet or AWS and inter-region traffic is free.

[Operyl]

Their 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]

Softlayer