Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) vs. IBM Cloud File Storage

This tool is very well suited if you want to work in the AWS ecosystem along with other AWS tools as it easily integrates with them. This works very fast for distributed systems. Sometimes, you can face compatibility issues with the operating system so my advice would be to check that before the implementation.

Incentivized

IBM Cloud File Storage is a great tool for integration with your applications, as it has excellent documentation of its api, thus facilitating the development of software that is integrated with it.IBM Cloud File Storage also has high availability, which is vital for our applications, and is easy to configure.

Incentivized

• Easy Integration
• No problem like in RDBMS
• Cloud script to maintain EFS dynamically

Incentivized

• Simple file system sharing
• Lots of storage space (up to 12 TB)
• Choice of performance (up to 10 IOPS/GB)
• Simple interface to order more storage
• Quick interface to allow more servers to share the file store
• Security - only allows access from specified server(s)

Incentivized

• EFS could be made highly-available across regions.
• EFS could be made with a better on-premise extension than Cloud Gateway.
• EFS could be made to support CIFS/SMB.

Incentivized

• We have sometimes experienced some outages and hope IBM will fix this soon.
• Initial trainings are required for the teams to work and do the setup.
• Support documentation from IBM needs improvement with [the] inclusion of more detailed steps and video tutorials for [a] better understanding of the engineers.
• The billing process is very complex and you may have to incur additional overhead. Need a simpler approach and clarity on this aspect.
• Support response from the IBM team is very slow and lacks information.

Incentivized

The documentation is sufficient for setting up and it is basic NFS for mounting so not much support is required. I have not had any issues to warrant a request with AWS support.

Incentivized

I just had one issue requiring contacting the support. People were very friendly and helpful. I cannot rate better because I have not been exposed to other similar situations (just had one single issue in 6 months), and cannot rate lower because this proves that IBM is trustworthy. I think it is fair.

Incentivized

If your Team/Company already using AWS and you are building a scalable solution which require API building which connect to a database consist numerous file, then Amazon EFS is definitely must go to tool. which enable the productivity with less maintenance highly compatibility with old system . easy integration and api development.

Incentivized

IBM Cloud File Storage, unlike other similar products, offers excellent Cloud data security and its overall data management quality on IBM Cloud File Storage is incredible and its data integration support is perfect because it allows big data migration across many Cloud platforms for effective data analytics generation and data visualization tools are great.

Incentivized

• This tool is responsible for providing efficiency in multiple aspects.
• It has a positive impact on the business outcomes.
• Because of this tool we are having positive impact on customer retention.

Incentivized

• Compared with company datacenter require less maintenance time with an incomparable high availability and business continuity features
• The possibility to move snapshots on other data centers let this solution super scalable worldwide
• The price for gb let us pay what we need without a pre commissioned storage buy