IBM Cloud Object Storage vs pCloud

Likelihood to Recommend

Scenarios where IBM Cloud Object Storage is well suited:

* Building enterprise-grade data solutions with large teams

* Where an all-in-one platform is needed to solve complex problems that require an ecosystem of tools to work together

* Where IBM services already exist in the business

* Projects where scalability, security and technology integration are key drivers

Scenarios where IBM Cloud Object Storage is not well suited:

* Small teams with small budgets may be better off using open source tools

* Solving niche industry problems that require niche solutions

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Ausrine S.

RPA Developer

InnoviorManagement Consulting, 11-50 employees

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pCloud is quite suitable for most users. It does a lot well, such as file storage, being multi-platform, and decent user experience with folder organizing and moving files around.
Where it isn't at apt would be in workspaces to manage documents like Google Drive, and even dropbox would provide. The ability to manage google docs, sheets, etc. would be a significant plus.
The ability to use a workflow to store file shortcuts (don't like their star system quite as much)

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Craige Hardel

Founder & Email Income Copy Chief

Hardel Enterprise SolutionsMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

IBM Cloud Object Storage

pCloud

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

Dynamic scaling

Elastic load balancing

Monitoring tools

Security controls

Pros

IBM Cloud Object Storage is fast, secure, reliable and provides quick support when required.
Step by step documentation is easy to understand and implement for new users across the organization.
It is highly customizable and available based on the need of the use-case.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Syncs really fast....both upload and download
Is reliable....decent uptime and quite stable

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Craige Hardel

Founder & Email Income Copy Chief

Hardel Enterprise SolutionsMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Cons

While this platform has been around, it does take some getting used. The interface could be refined. My Firefox Browser automatically closed when selecting some options and creating new objects as an example.
The tutorials are a bit outdated in comparison to the screens shown. We understand the system is constantly improving. The tutorials should reflect the changes in the interface.
There are many pre-trained models. However, it is not clear as to how those models were trained, what bias may exist in the training data, and how a user could improve those models unless we simply have to build our own.

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Dana Rafiee

Director of Worldwide Strategic Consulting

Destiny CorporationInformation Services, 51-200 employees

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Offline folders (a normal sync rather than a separate folder would do)
Backups (ability to keep them longer and not be upsold for it)

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Craige Hardel

Founder & Email Income Copy Chief

Hardel Enterprise SolutionsMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

IBM Cloud Object Storage 8.7

Based on 6 answers

I have been working in IT sector for more than 15 years. I have worked with various vendors. IBM's sales team, support team have been really helpful. After we start to use their product, their UX design team also contacted us to get feedback from us. They are really interested about our experience.

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Christopher J Evans

IT Manager

Nation FarmChemicals, 51-200 employees

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pCloud 6.0

Based on 1 answer

I'm quite as impressed with it, although their faqs cover most current and pending issues. They take around 48 hours to respond to inquiries, while platforms like Gsuite have an instant agent and multiple contact options.
They do attend to you, and I do understand they're trying to keep a lean team and reduce operational costs. For a frequent user who uses cloud storage for multiple things such as website databases, etc. and has clients, it could be a tad frustrating.

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Craige Hardel

Founder & Email Income Copy Chief

Hardel Enterprise SolutionsMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Implementation Rating

IBM Cloud Object Storage 8.5

Based on 2 answers

IBM's professional service for migrating data and implementing new cloud environment was perfect. They started to help us before we begin to bring together all data such as how can it could be best to transfer all data without problems. During the migration they watched all the process closely to prevent any failure. Lastly, after the migration, they gave us trainings on implementation.

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Christopher J Evans

IT Manager

Nation FarmChemicals, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I have evaluated Amazon S3 and Google's Cloud Platform.IBM Cloud Platform is well documented and very integrated with its other range of cloud services.It's quite difficult to differentiate between them all. IBM Cloud Storage is not a service I would have considered on its own merit, but with the power of Watson, which was an absolute pleasure to work with, alongside the cloud server options, I think the IBM cloud ecosystem provides something for everyone.

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Keldon Alleyne

Programmer

Avasopht DevelopmentComputer Games, 1-10 employees

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pCloud makes the storage and retrieval process quite easy. With Google Drive, sure you can store lots of items, but the Linux functionality just wasn't there.
The same was the case with OneDrive, which I still use. However, it can be buggy and taxing on computer systems.
pClould is quite simple to use, flexible, and quite effective at what it does. And it's conveniently priced too.

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Craige Hardel

Founder & Email Income Copy Chief

Hardel Enterprise SolutionsMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

Prior to cloud storage, we used on-premises storage devices to store and backup, and sometimes it was a headache to scale up or down the storage according to our needs. With the introduction of Cloud Object Storage, we don't have to worry about scaling.
The uptime is also improved a lot after the introduction of Cloud Object Storage in our organization
Obviously, it's a very cost-effective way to store and archive data.

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Verified User

Contributor in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 201-500 employees

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Less stress (since I can switch computers and not be limited by hard drive space yet having access to what I need.
Integrating Linux into our workflow (they take the cake there, and that makes life so much easier.

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Craige Hardel

Founder & Email Income Copy Chief

Hardel Enterprise SolutionsMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

IBM Cloud Object Storage Editions & Modules

Edition

Lite Plan	Free¹
Standard Plan	There is no minimum fee, pay only for what you use²

Up to 25 GB/mo. For all terms go to https://www.ibm.com/cloud/object-storage
For pricing and all terms go to https://www.ibm.com/cloud/object-storage

Additional Pricing Details

The Lite and Standard service plans for Cloud Object Storage include resiliency options, flexible data classes and built-in security. Pricing is based on your choice of location, storage class and resiliency choice.

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

pCloud Editions & Modules

Edition

Premium 500 GB	3.99 /mo¹
Premium Plus 2 TB	7.99 /mo¹
Premium 500 GB Lifetime	$175²
Premium Plus 2 TB Lifetime	$350²

per installation
One-time payment

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Rating Summary

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IBM Cloud Object Storage vs pCloud