Blackberry Workspaces vs. IBM Cloud Block Storage

Blackberry Workspaces

IBM Cloud Block Storage

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Blackberry Workspaces	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Blackberry Workspaces (formerly Watchdox, a product acquired by Blackberry in May 2015) is an enterprise grade cloud storage, file sync and share option.	N/A
IBM Cloud Block Storage	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	IBM offers their Block Storage service via IBM Cloud, allowing users to deploy and customize flash-backed iSCSI block storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS.	N/A

Pricing

Blackberry Workspaces

IBM Cloud Block Storage

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Blackberry Workspaces	IBM Cloud Block Storage
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Blackberry Workspaces	IBM Cloud Block Storage
Considered Both Products	Blackberry Workspaces Katie Lukasek Support Specialist Chose Blackberry Workspaces I have never used anything besides Blackberry Workspaces (formerly Watchdox) so I am not sure how it stacks up against them. Incentivized Helpful?	IBM Cloud Block Storage Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Both services are pretty much identical when it comes to their offerings and specifically in their availability, durability and scalability of block storage. AWS S3 stacks someone better in most clients given the vast offerings of AWS within the rest of their solutions … Incentivized Helpful? Diana Dumpsey PPC Manager Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Unlike the above platforms, IBM Cloud Block Storage enable secure and quick big data migration through its secure environment and the flexibility of its Cloud options is effective. Data analytics through IBM Cloud Block Storage are easily prepared and the data access is very … Incentivized Helpful? Veronica Larson Business Analyst Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM has given us the best data storage services and I am proud of its entire performance. The product has been able to link all our services to cloud servers that enhance transparency and offer backup services to all our services. Data that runs across the entire organization … Incentivized Helpful? Rita Joy Information Specialist Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM Cloud Block Storage is known for professional space control, [which] values even the large database of above 12000GB. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage co-assist with the data managing solution, more so for data mining, analytics, and sharing. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage … Incentivized Helpful? Jude Nickson ICT Manager Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM Cloud Block Storage is extensively affordable when compared with the competing applications. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage works in different operating systems, hence, it is never discriminatory. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage creates a proper way of integrating with … Incentivized Helpful? Ramindu Deshapriya Lead Consultant - Technology Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Amazon S3 isn't on IBM Cloud and isn't the best solution to be used alongside applications deployed to the IBM Cloud. Incentivized Helpful? Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage The biggest difference that I have been able to find from other services external to IBM has been the domain, experience and application of the technology at the datacenter scale that allows [us] to be quite sure that the data will be in good collection. But I insist that the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM Cloud Object Storage is better suited for application development and easy to use from a higher level. IBM Cloud Block Storage is better suited as block storage as a service and totally integrated with the infrastructure as a service, making it easy to deploy and used either … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Being part of an organization that has a sizable footprint in IBM Cloud, the IBM Cloud Block Storage is a natural choice. Also, IBM Cloud Block Storage's native integration with Aspera is an added bonus for use cases needing fast, reliable data storage and transfer solutions. Incentivized Helpful? CP Charlie Pusey Technical Operations Manager Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage N/A. IBM Cloud Block Storage was the best solution as we already use IBM Cloud for the information that would utilise it. Incentivized Helpful? NS Nobuyuki Suzuki CAA (Chief Applications Architect) Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage No experience with other products Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Blackberry Workspaces

IBM Cloud Block Storage

File Sharing & Management

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
	Blackberry Workspaces 8.9 Ratings 6% above category average	IBM Cloud Block Storage - Ratings
Versioning	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Video files	6.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Audio files	6.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Document collaboration	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Access control	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
File search	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Device sync	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Cloud Storage Security & Administration

Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
	Blackberry Workspaces 10.0 Ratings 15% above category average	IBM Cloud Block Storage - Ratings
User and role management	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
File organization	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Device management	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Cloud Storage Platform

Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
	Blackberry Workspaces 7.3 Ratings 17% below category average	IBM Cloud Block Storage - Ratings
Performance	6.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Reliability	6.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Storage Reports	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Blackberry Workspaces	IBM Cloud Block Storage
Small Businesses	SugarSync Score 3.9 out of 10	Vultr Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.4 out of 10	Everpure FlashArray Score 8.3 out of 10
Enterprises	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.4 out of 10	Everpure FlashArray Score 8.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Blackberry Workspaces	IBM Cloud Block Storage
Likelihood to Recommend	6.0 (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	3.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Blackberry Workspaces	IBM Cloud Block Storage
Likelihood to Recommend	It's so easy to have running lists that constantly need updating to basically live in a folder on your desktop. Open and save it like a regular document and then it's synced company-wide! However, syncing issues and almost non-existent customer support means that you're basically on your own to figure things out by trial and error. Incentivized Katie Lukasek Support Specialist Read full review	The service in general is great because on the backend. IBM offers experience and knowledge in the use of data center technologies undeniably. I recommend it for almost any situation but particularly for databases and especially large ones. That possibility of adjusting IOPS dynamically to levels that other data centers do not offer makes it unique. I don't recommend using the service if you don't have an infrastructure expert who knows about servers, Linux, and storage because a lot of the configuration and settings require an expert hand. Incentivized Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review
Pros	Simple to download. Easy to navigate. Incentivized Katie Lukasek Support Specialist Read full review	Proficient scaling and system customization, which allows editing. Wide range of system storage, ranging from 25GB to 12000GB. Finally, IBM Cloud Block Storage deploys the most technical and efficient security measures. Incentivized Rita Joy Information Specialist Read full review
Cons	Signs out unnecessarily. Slow syncing (sometimes). Incentivized Katie Lukasek Support Specialist Read full review	The documentation must be clearer and updated, thinking about each distribution that they offer in the cloud Downtime when IOPS are raised can be less The configuration can be more automated from the same control panel and not have to take it so much to the CLI Incentivized Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review
Support Rating	I've personally never talked to anyone from customer support, but my boss has. It took him almost 2 weeks just to get a response back and it wasn't very helpful. We basically had to figure everything out on our own. Incentivized Katie Lukasek Support Specialist Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	I have never used anything besides Blackberry Workspaces (formerly Watchdox) so I am not sure how it stacks up against them. Incentivized Katie Lukasek Support Specialist Read full review	IBM Cloud Block Storage is extensively affordable when compared with the competing applications. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage works in different operating systems, hence, it is never discriminatory. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage creates a proper way of integrating with other applications, more so for database control and management. IBM Cloud Block Storage is clear, through its operational charter. Incentivized Jude Nickson ICT Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	Instead of sending large documents through email, we use this. Incentivized Katie Lukasek Support Specialist Read full review	Cloud data access and easy Cloud data analytics creation platform. Visualization and Cloud data storage solution. Secure and smooth Cloud data transfer. Incentivized Diana Dumpsey PPC Manager Read full review
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