IBM Cloud File Storage

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IBM Cloud File Storage
Score 8.7 out of 10
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IBM Cloud provides a File Storage service allows the user to deploy and customize flash-backed NFS-based file storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS.N/A
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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IBM Cloud File Storage and 1Password serve distinct purposes, catering to different organizational needs. IBM Cloud File Storage excels in providing scalable and high-performance cloud-based file storage, making it an ideal choice for enterprises grappling with storage …
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IBM Cloud File Storage is most stable performance you can get.It has excellent monitoring tools which are very collaborative and helps in multiple data solutions.The product has operating system which are very nice.Its security control management is good and helps in workflow …
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IBM has a really compelling offering for businesses, offering greater scalability, and flexibility over the competing solutions. This is an ever more important area of cloud operations, and IBM offers a service backed by one of the biggest names in the industry, offering …
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IBM Cloud File Storage is easier to manage and easier to move on other datacenters to create new workflow. The ecosystem on IBM is more enterprise oriented and math company's customers requirements more than the other 2 providers. In addition we also wanted a different …
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Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage did not meet the set storage standards that we were demanding. The cost of maintenance was very high and the overall licensing price was not suitable. It is easy to work with IBM storage application with simple set features that can be adapted easily …
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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 …
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At the end of the day, for our group, the decision to go with IBM Cloud File Storage was for security purposes. Keeping data on a hard drive does not compete with a secure cloud solution that can be accessed anytime when internal servers go down. From what I know as well, the …
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In my opinion, IBM has produced excellent products that have been instrumental in the development of our business. We rely heavily on data to power the programs in our organization. Because our systems can be accessed from various apps without experiencing any downtime, …
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IBM Cloud File Storage served well to our need to store and share files easily with team members in the office, and uploading files into the central library was very easy to collaborate on files with internal users. It allowed us to archive files and data with back-ups and …
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High speed to connection when using this platform is incredible with effective data encryption process and volume duplication and replication, always confident that your data is stored safely. Reaching for international dimensions to cater [to] our client's compliance …
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Yes, we are heavily using the AWS Cloud platform and they have a managed NFS service called Elastic File System (EFS). With our HA architecture, it works really well for us.
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Pricing of IBM Cloud File Storage is excellent, the performance of IBM Cloud File Storage is incredible and easy UI with excellent design and fully loaded with great useful features. The data encryption on IBM Cloud File Storage is effective, great data backup capability and …
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We currently use Google Cloud Filestore for our data stored in Google Cloud. They are comparable solutions.
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AWS has much better tutorials and documentations to get started and implement their services directly to our tech stack. I found IBM very difficult to get around here. IBM support does not help at all. We mostly use IBM because of the cloud credits program, must choose AWS if …
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We selected in mainly because we are already in IBM's ecosystem. Our entire business infrastructure is hosted with IBM.
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We use their cloud platform so you have to use tools that are complementary to your stack. You can roll your own tooling but it is just more costly and unnecessary if you don't need highly specific functionality.
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IBM Cloud File Storage feels a little more businessy tough Google Cloud Storage is cleaner and simpler (and cheaper).

Right now I am giving it a go just for user data because the option to create just a bucket and connect it directly to the user machine is always valuable.
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Yes, we are heavily using the AWS Cloud platform and they have a managed NFS service called Elastic File System (EFS). It workes really well with our HA architecture.
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We selected IBM Cloud File Storage because of the company's reputation as a good provider of cloud file storage solutions and more generally, my company at that time relied heavily on IBM software. We hesitated a little bit with Amazon EFS which had some key features that IBM …
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IBM is well known for its amazing design and programming, plus server connectivity, so it made sense to first try their packages and then make a final decision on which one suits the company best. The amazing customer support and quick responses helped us understand everything …
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It provides a much higher level of security and uptime than Google Drive. It has a similar structure set up for the organization. Google Drive is easier to be set up but much more simple in its layout and uses. Both are great tools to use and depend on the size of your …
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IBM Cloud File Storage
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
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IBM Cloud File Storage
9.0
39 Ratings
10% above category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime9.737 Ratings
Dynamic scaling9.036 Ratings
Elastic load balancing9.235 Ratings
Pre-configured templates8.731 Ratings
Monitoring tools8.437 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images8.933 Ratings
Operating system support9.636 Ratings
Security controls9.737 Ratings
Automation7.830 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM Cloud File Storage
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(40 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(6 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Cloud File Storage
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
well suited: Enterprise File Sharing and Collaboration: Scenario: our organization has teams working on projects across different geographical locations, and they need a centralized and easily accessible file storage solution. IBM Cloud File Storage can facilitate seamless file sharing and collaboration among team members. less appropriate Highly Transactional Databases: Scenario: Your organization has highly transactional and I/O-intensive database workloads that require low-latency access to data. In such cases, block storage or specialized database services might be more appropriate than file storage.
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Pros
IBM
  • 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)
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Cons
IBM
  • 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.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
IBM Cloud File Storage is a valuable tool in the arsenal of any small business. It's flexibility combined with its ease of use ensure that there is low operational overhead, combined with a solid return on investment. It's role based access control features combined with sharing capabilities make it a significant win for any business.
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Support Rating
IBM
The IBM team provides effective support for all the cloud operations. They tracks operations and database functionalities closely to enhance reliable operations and remove inefficiencies that affect work processes. The support team has prepared video tutorials and manuals that guides our members on how to work with the database systems effectively.
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Implementation Rating
IBM
The IBM Professional services provided the re4quired infrastructure for getting the best out of this tool. It offered excellent guidelines that enhanced efficient integrations. The organization was pleased with the setup process that was completed quickly than expected. The application has been operation effectively after deployment. We have continued to get support from the IBM support team when there are challenges.
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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.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • 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
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