IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Alternatives (September 2025)

IBM Storage Suite for IBM Cloud Paks delivers secure persistent storage resources for your Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift container environments.

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service enables the orchestration of intelligent scheduling, self-healing and horizontal scaling.

IBM Container Registry enables you to store and distribute Docker images in a managed, private registry.

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VMware Tanzu is a cloud native application platform that enables vital DevSecOps outcomes in a multi-cloud world.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data is a modular set of integrated software components for data analysis, organization and management.

IBM PowerVM software is a virtualization environment that can run AIX, IBM i and Linux virtual machines on IBM Power servers.

IBM Turbonomic software uses AI to optimize the performance, cost and compliance of hybrid cloud and multicloud environments.

Create a multicloud strategy across any cloud for your workloads, applications, and data using Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) services.

IBM Cloudant is a fully managed JSON document database that offers independent serverless scaling of provisioned throughput capacity and storage. Cloudant is compatible with Apache CouchDB and accessible through a simple to use HTTPS API for web, mobile, and IoT applications.

IBM Cloud Object Storage is a scalable and resilient managed data service on IBM Cloud, offering an alternative to block and file storage.

IBM Maximo Application Suite is a set of applications for asset monitoring, management, predictive maintenance and reliability planning. It’s available as managed SaaS or deployable in any Red Hat OpenShift environment.

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IBM Cloud Block Storage is a high-performance cloud data storage service on IBM Cloud.

Applications that don’t work well in public cloud don’t have to be excluded from cloud benefits. They can be moved to a managed, hosted private cloud.

IBM Cloudability is a cloud financial management platform that improves visibility, optimization, governance and more across cloud environments.

IBM Cloud File Storage is flash-backed, durable and fast NFS-based cloud data storage on IBM Cloud.

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are 100% dedicated, secure, bare metal servers. Servers are available with Intel, Z, or LinuxONE architectures in a shared or VPC environment.

Optimize, modernize and cloud-enable your WebSphere applications and operations to increase efficiency while reducing costs and maximizing infrastructure utilization.

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are configurable single- or multi-tenant virtual machines, available with Intel, IBM zSystems, and IBM LinuxONE architectures.

IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation is an AI-powered network automation platform for CSPs to evolve to zero-touch operations and deliver services fast.

IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation is a modular set of integrated software components for operations management and automation.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a stable, proven foundation that’s versatile enough for rolling out new applications, virtualizing environments, and creating a more secure hybrid cloud.

OVHcloud is a global, cloud provider delivering hosted private cloud, public cloud, and dedicated server solutions trusted by over 1.5 million developers.

An enterprise application platform powered by Kubernetes that provides the basic functionality of Red Hat OpenShift to run containers in hybrid cloud environments.

A single console, with built-in security policies, for controlling Kubernetes clusters and applications.

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Connect apps, services and data with the IBM Cloud Pak for Integration platform, the most comprehensive integration software solution.

IBM App Connect is application integration software that connects applications and data sources. It features a no-code interface with hundreds of prebuilt connectors, plus the ability to create custom connectors. It can be deployed on-premises, on any cloud, or as a fully managed service on AWS.

IBM Db2 is the database to run your mission-critical workloads. Power low-latency transactions and real-time analytics across any cloud, hybrid or on-prem.

Red Hat Runtimes includes a collection of cloud-native runtimes for developing Java or JavaScript applications on OpenShift.

vSAN for Horizon is a tightly integrated hyperconverged software stack that is optimized for Horizon desktop and app virtualization.

IBM Cloud Internet Services offers security, reliability and performance capabilities designed to protect public-facing web content and applications.

Simplify your infrastructure with cloud computing solutions from Akamai (formerly Linode). Develop, deploy, and scale faster and easier.

Reduce storage cost and complexity with VMware vSAN, enterprise-class storage virtualization software that provides the easiest path to HCI and hybrid cloud.

IBM Edge Computing, combined with 5G, is helping create new business opportunities across industries by acting on insights closer to where data is created.

IBM API Connect is software to rapidly create, secure and manage APIs. IBM API Connect can be deployed in any Red Hat OpenShift environment. It’s also available as SaaS in a shared or dedicated instance, and as part of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration.

Read how Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes helps you secure your systems

Easily create and run online VMs on Google Cloud. Choose from preset or custom machine types for web servers, databases, AI, and more.

Taikun CloudWorks is an Advanced Platform for Delivering Kubernetes & Applications Seamlessly Across Multi Cloud Environments

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management is master data management software to consolidate and govern business data. It is available for self-hosting, as managed SaaS, and in IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

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Portworx is persistent storage for containers and databases. Operate data services for containers including persistent storage, HA, snapshots, backup, encryption and disaster recovery. Try today!

Simplify and extend your VMware environment with Dell VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure appliances. Streamline your IT operations and lower costs.

Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) provides enterprise-level high-performance and flexible management of Kubernetes containerized applications throughout the application lifecycle.

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IBM Netezza Performance Server is a data warehouse for demanding hybrid-cloud environments available as SaaS and for self-hosting through IBM Cloud Pak for Data System.

IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS drives operational efficiencies while increasing service agility, with a service delivery platform for cloud computing.

GKE is the industry's first fully managed Kubernetes service with full Kubernetes API, 4-way autoscaling, release channels, and multi-cluster support.

An open source Java EE 8-compliant application server that lets you build Java applications once and deploy them everywhere.

IBM MQ is a family of middleware products for point-to-point and publish-subscribe messaging. MQ is available as as SaaS on IBM Cloud, as a hardware appliance, and for self-hosting, including on z/OS.

"StorPool is the most efficient, reliable & scalable data storage software for Cloud Builders, Hosters & MSPs. Starts from 1 million IOPS and 0.1 ms of latency."

IBM FileNet Content Manager provides low-code tools and capabilities to help create meaningful business applications on any cloud.

Get market-leading performance, efficiency and cyber resilience while streamlining complexity across all environments with the IBM Storage FlashSystem platform family.

IBM Watson Discovery is an API to search and answer questions about business documents using custom NLP and Large Language Models from IBM Research. It is available as SaaS or for self-hosting within IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

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Explore Harvester, SUSE's hyperconverged infrastructure solution, to streamline your virtual machine and Kubernetes workloads. Discover cost-effective HCI systems for a modern cloud-native environment.

IBM Z mainframe servers and software deliver secure, reliable, and fast IT infrastructure for digital transformation.

The IBM UrbanCode family of software products helps you deliver software to market faster by accelerating application delivery and reducing manual processes.

IBM Informix is an embeddable, high-performance database for integrating SQL, NoSQL, JSON, time-series and spatial data. It is available as a managed service on IBM Cloud, as standalone software, and within IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

Market-leading data protection service built for Kubernetes, simplifying compliance and data access, and empowering app owners to backup and restore apps.

Our Enterprise VDI platform delivers virtual desktops and apps across multiple clouds and on-prem data centers with industry-leading reliability.

European cloud computing for cloud native teams. Start your first SSD Instance in 30 seconds.

Full dev-to-prod cloud native security platform on Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Fargate, Lambda, AWS & other container platforms

Canonical Kubernetes enterprise solutions build up from Ubuntu OS to hybrid multi-cloud container orchestration clouds, edge and IoT, managed Kubernetes and enterprise support packages.

Identify, manage, and remediate vulnerabilities and misconfigurations on-prem, in your cloud or containerized infrastructure in a unified view

Learn how NetApp technology delivers end-to-end virtual infrastructure management. Cut complexity and boost performance in your VMware virtual environments.

IBM Process Automation Manager Open Edition is a robust enterprise automation platform that provides a fully open-source foundation for developing rapid, lightweight, cloud-native business automation applications.

Backblaze B2 provides unlimited data storage in the cloud at 1/5th the cost of Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Learn about Azure Red Hat OpenShift, an OpenShift service managed by Microsoft and Red Hat with Kubernetes PaaS at its core. Discover a turnkey container platform.

IBM watsonx Assistant provides customers with fast, consistent and accurate answers across any application, device or channel.

A collaborative Kubernetes-native development solution that delivers OpenShift workspaces and in-browser IDE for rapid cloud application development.

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IBM Event Streams is an event streaming software built on open-source Apache Kafka. It is available as a fully managed service on IBM Cloud or for self-hosting.

Automate repetitive and time-consuming back-office tasks by using software robots that emulate human actions on a computer.

Optimize your storage infrastructure using this cloud-based storage management and support platform with predictive analytics.

IBM watsonx Code Assistant is a solution that leverages generative AI to accelerate code generation and increase developer productivity.

Pure Cloud Block Store™ helps reduce your cloud storage costs with superior data reduction and enterprise-grade data services.

Unified storage solutions from NetApp deliver reliable data storage strategies that brings file and block storage into a single, scalable data management platform. Truly unified for any data type, workload, or application.

Hybrid Cloud Storage Array (HCSA) is an enterprise-level storage array that integrates with the Alibaba Cloud storage gateway, allows you to manage cloud storage resources just as local storage.

Container storage for OpenShift

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Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka makes it easier to create, discover and connect to real-time data streams regardless of where they exist.

IBM Knowledge Catalog is software to manage and curate data, knowledge assets and their relationships. It is available as managed SaaS or within IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

IBM Instana Observability is the gold standard of incident prevention with automated full-stack visibility, 1-second granularity and 3-seconds to notify.

See how Densify optimizes your cloud and container resources and ensures app and workload performance is optimal.

Data Center Security – Complete server protection, monitoring, and workload micro-segmentation for private cloud and physical on-premises data center environments.

DXC Virtual Desktop and Applications services give employees a better way to work. In addition to improving employee efficiencies and experiences, you'll also streamline IT management and lower costs.

Try Azure File Storage for managed file shares that use standard SMB 3.0 protocol. Share data with on-premises and cloud servers, integrate with apps, and more.

Stream live, and manage recorded video content. Cloud streaming platform for video hosting, transcoding, multi-platform playout, and analytics.

IBM Power servers accelerate big data insights and hybrid cloud deployment with an open server ecosystem.

Cloud Volumes ONTAP enables you to optimize your cloud storage costs and performance while enhancing data protection, security, and compliance.

IBM Blockchain Transparent Supply enables companies to build their own blockchain-enabled collaboration and data-sharing ecosystem with their supply chain partners.

CloudM helps migrate, archive and backup data through frictionless, secure and automated products. Perform cloud migrations and backup data.

Infoblox NIOS 9.0.1 delivers advanced encrypted security and privacy for enterprises (DoT/DoH), expands multi-cloud automation and templated API integrations, and strengthens cost-effective DDI reliability for hybrid networks of any size—today and into the future.

For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.

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