Likelihood to Recommend IBM Cloud Object Storage is well suited for businesses that require scalable and cost-effective data storage solutions. It excels in scenarios involving massive unstructured data, like multimedia content, backups, and archives. However, it may be less appropriate for organizations with minimal storage needs or those requiring high-performance, low-latency access to data, as it's optimized for durability and data integrity rather than real-time data retrieval.
Read full review GFS is well suited for DEVOPS type environments where organizations prefer to invest in servers and DAS (direct attached storage) versus purchasing storage solutions/appliances. GFS allows organizations to scale their storage capacity at a fraction of the price using DAS HDDs versus committing to purchase licenses and hardware from a dedicated storage manufacturer (e.g. NetApp, Dell/EMC, HP, etc.).
Read full review Pros Cloud storage allows you to save data and files in an off-site location that you access either through the public internet or a dedicated private network connection. Cloud storage delivers a cost-effective, scalable alternative to storing files on on-premise hard drives or storage networks. Cloud storage services provide elasticity, which means you can scale capacity as your data volumes increase or dial down capacity if necessary. Business continuity of Storing data offsite supports business continuity in the event that a natural disaster or terrorist attack cuts access to your premises. Read full review Scales; bricks can be easily added to increase storage capacity Performs; I/O is spread across multiple spindles (HDDs), thereby increasing read and write performance Integrates well with RHEL/CentOS 7; if your organization is using RHEL 7, Gluster (GFS) integrates extremely well with that baseline, especially since it's come under the Red Hat portfolio of tools. Read full review Cons Unexpected errors are known to occur when downloading/uploading files. Not easy to get started. In order to take full advantage of the platform and its features, additional training and reading documentation is needed. The UI of the platform can get a bit confusing and it's easy to get lost. Read full review Documentation; using readthedocs demonstrates that the Gluster project isn't always kept up-to-date as far as documentation is concerned. Many of the guides are for previous versions of the product and can be cumbersome to follow at times. Self-healing; our use of GFS required the administrator to trigger an auto-heal operation manually whenever bricks were added/removed from the pool. This would be a great feature to incorporate using autonomous self-healing whenever a brick is added/removed from the pool. Performance metrics are scarce; our team received feedback that online RDBMS transactions did not perform well on distributed file systems (such as GFS), however this could not be substantiated via any online research or white papers. Read full review Likelihood to Renew because it is a robust, safe and flexible product
Read full review Usability For my use cases, it has been a very smooth experience. Even my new colleagues have been able to get on top of things very quickly. This shows how easy it is to work with
Read full review Support Rating 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.
Read full review Online Training I just researching and applying the tools on their platforms to ensure a good learning path, based on my needs. Reading the documentation related with resources, tools. Is too big, but I am trying to know more about it every day. It is a good way to know more about their resources. A new way to attract new customers. At the end of the day, we are all involved in improvement and automation of our tasks and resources for customers and end-users.
Read full review Implementation Rating 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.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Amazon S3 is a great service to safely back up your data where redundancy is guaranteed, and the cost is fair. In the past I have used
Amazon S3 for data that we backup and hope we never need to access, but in the case of a catastrophic or even small slip of the finger with the delete command, we know our data and our client's data is safely backed up by
Amazon S3 .
Amazon S3 service is a good option, but based on the features it provides compared with IBM Cloud Object Storage, it is less suitable. IBM Cloud Object Storage is also integrated with more services, like IBM Cloud SQL and IBM Aspera, which AWS does not provide to transfer files at maximum speed in the world.
Read full review Gluster is a lot lower cost than the storage industry leaders. However, NetApp and Dell/EMC's product documentation is (IMHO) more mature and hardened against usage in operational scenarios and environments. Using Gluster avoids "vendor lock-in" from the perspective on now having to purchase dedicated hardware and licenses to run it. Albeit, should an organization choose to pay for support for Gluster, they would be paying licensing costs to Red Hat instead of NetApp, Dell, EMC, HP, or VMware. It could be assumed, however, that if an organization wanted to use Gluster, that they were already a Linux shop and potentially already paying Red Hat or Canonical (Debian) for product support, thereby the use of GFS would be a nominal cost adder from a maintenance/training perspective.
Read full review Return on Investment This allows us to recommend a platform to our clients that will quickly help them create new, efficient business processes with very little development. This saves clients hours and days of manual analysis of images, allowing the system to do the work when attaching Object Storage to models. There is a learning curve in utilizing the storage and the modeling, but once up and running, it works well during deployment. Read full review Positive - Alignment with the open source community and being able to stay abreast of the latest trending products available. Positive - Reduced procurement and maintenance costs. Negative - Impacts user/system maintainer training in order to teach them how to utilize and troubleshoot the product. Read full review ScreenShots IBM Cloud Object Storage Screenshots