IBM Cloud Object Storage vs. Memonic vs. Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud Object Storage
Score 9.3 out of 10
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IBM Cloud Object Storage is an IBM Cloud product in the endpoint backup and IaaS categories. It is commonly used for data archiving and backup, for web and mobile applications, and as scalable, persistent storage for analytics.
$0
per month
Memonic
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Memonic is an organizational tool that competes with Evernote. It allows you to organize content in folders, tags and groups and then share content with others. It's differentiation from Evernote is the emphasis given to sharing and collaboration. It also, like Evernote, provides a web clipper tool that allows you to save web pages and organize and annotate them.
$28
per month
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
An integrated solution, designed for small or medium-sized businesses, bringing together the productivity of Microsoft Office with advanced security capabilities to help safeguard data from external threats and help protect against data leaks. With Microsoft 365 Business Premium, users can empower employees to be productive anywhere on any device. Get more done with AI built into the Office apps. Work better together with a hub for teamwork bringing your tools and people together in one place.…N/A
Pricing
IBM Cloud Object StorageMemonicMicrosoft 365 Business Premium
Editions & Modules
One-Rate Plan
As low as USD $12/TB a month
per month
Standard Plan
Free up to 5GB—no minimum fee, pay only for what you use
per month
Premium
$28.00
per year
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud Object StorageMemonicMicrosoft 365 Business Premium
Free Trial
NoNoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThe One-Rate and Standard service plans for Cloud Object Storage include resiliency options, flexible data classes and built-in security. Pricing is based on the choice of location, storage class and resiliency choice.
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Features
IBM Cloud Object StorageMemonicMicrosoft 365 Business Premium
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Object Storage
8.7
155 Ratings
6% above category average
Memonic
-
Ratings
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
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Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime6.1143 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling9.8143 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing8.9140 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring tools8.8144 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Security controls9.8149 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Object Storage
-
Ratings
Memonic
8.1
1 Ratings
3% below category average
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
-
Ratings
Versioning00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Video files00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Audio files00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Document collaboration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Access control00 Ratings7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
File search00 Ratings7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Device sync00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Object Storage
-
Ratings
Memonic
7.7
1 Ratings
11% below category average
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
-
Ratings
User and role management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
File organization00 Ratings7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Device management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Storage Platform
Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Object Storage
-
Ratings
Memonic
8.3
1 Ratings
4% below category average
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
-
Ratings
Performance00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Reliability00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Storage Reports00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM Cloud Object StorageMemonicMicrosoft 365 Business Premium
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
(158 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.8
(108 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(57 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(41 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(9 ratings)
Online Training
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
5.8
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Cloud Object StorageMemonicMicrosoft 365 Business Premium
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
In my experience, IBM Cloud Object Storage is well suited for projects like the one I am working on. This includes the use of natural language classification and the uploading of data to train a machine learning model for tag suggestions based on a body of text. Using IBM Cloud Object Storage has helped with this greatly. IBM Cloud Object Storage has also been great for Big Data Analytics thanks to its scalablilty and ease of use for large datasets. Alongside IBM Watson and our team's internal big data tools we've managed to process and analyze data more efficiently, leading to key insights that have driven business value for our clients.
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Memonic
The Memonic tool is a very powerful application that is hugely used by students, research scholars, journalists,s and corporate employees. It helps to jot down important points or a summary which makes a user brief the task with other people. Software is easy to use and has a basic touch. Content can be stored and shared easily.
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Microsoft
Microsoft 365 Business Premium is well suited to any size organization and is a must-have for business purposes. It is a vital component for the majority of work software needs, as the Microsoft 365 Business Premium package has apps to handle needs that I didn't know we had. It is a great way to provide the required software programs to teams, especially those that work remotely due to the great sharing capabilities built into it. Furthermore, the nonprofit program provided our small nonprofit with vital components for our remote work, while allowing us to keep our donated funds going directly to our mission.
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Pros
IBM
  • IBM Cloud Object Storage is an excellent choice for disaster recovery and backup solutions. Its high durability and geographic redundancy ensure that our backup data is safe and can be quickly restored in case of a disaster. This capability is crucial for maintaining our business continuity and minimizing downtime. We have deployed our loads in an IKS cluster distributed in 3 different AZs with stateful data allocated in COS.
  • We have a video streaming application and need to store and deliver a vast library of video content to millions of users worldwide, so we store our data in COS, which is cheap and reliable.
  • We have a bunch of data that must be analyzed and stored in datasets for fraud detection, risk management, and customer insights. In these cases, this data is moved from Onprem to IBM Cloud so we can use cheap storage like COS.
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Memonic
  • Easy to use web surface.
  • Easy sync of data between any device.
  • Notes are stored without ay hassle and can be fetched even if you are not online.
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Microsoft
  • Work in sync in different departments.
  • Being able to work from any device or computer. It is a very noble tool in different devices.
  • The work between the different programs (Word, Excel, Notes) that it offers is extremely light and good.
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Cons
IBM
  • Searching and retrieving—full-text search or metadata search—is one of the significant areas of improvement. It isn't easy to search for data with this.
  • Integration with other IBM cloud services is trickier. For example, integrating this with API Connect to access the data from API will be difficult for users.
  • Support - I think you should have more support community.
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Memonic
  • Application is little bit out dated and can have a new UI.
  • Basic Grammar and Spell check functionality should be added.
  • Should include more security layers.
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Microsoft
  • adding calendar invitations is not straight forward
  • copying folders from SharePoint libraries to an external drive should not be relying on the available space on the C drive
  • administering mailboxes for our company is convoluted forcing me to hunt for settings and options
  • lack of flexibility on the location of the OST and PST files
  • the new version should not do away with PST files but rather improve their reliability.
  • the PST internal structure is inefficient. the PST file should be able to shrink automatically when one delete emails.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
because it is a robust, safe and flexible product
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Memonic
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Microsoft
It is part of the organisation now. It provides and rich feature set and requires a relatively low amount of administration.
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Usability
IBM
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
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Memonic
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Microsoft
The basic apps are straightforward and easy to use, especially since they have been around so long. I'm referring to the basic apps like Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, etc. Other features such as Microsoft Teams and Sharepoint Sites, Sharepoint Lists, Sharepoint Groups, etc. all require a higher level of knowledge to both implement and use properly
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Reliability and Availability
IBM
We rarely face downtime or access issues with IBM Cloud Object Storage. It’s mostly available when we need it, even during peak hours or heavy data loads.
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Memonic
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Microsoft
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Performance
IBM
I would give it a 9 because it works smooth with our AI and analytics tools, no major slowdown. Pages and dashboards load fine most of the time, and reports finish in decent time even when data is heavy.
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Memonic
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Microsoft
In the last 5 years, Microsoft has come a long way. The performance of the products has become more and more user-friendly and it seems that the feedback provided by the user community is being listened to and worked on. The processes are very fast and seamless. There are negligible errors and doesn't slow the systems down.
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Support Rating
IBM
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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Memonic
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Microsoft
As mentioned elsewhere in the review, Microsoft has historically paid attention to community feedback and issues, but timeliness can improve, and so can the addressing of long-standing issues about which many users have said "I have this issue too!" but no official solution exists. For issues that do have a solution, however, the solution is usually not difficult to find, and the explanation of features on Microsoft's website can mitigate many problems.
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Online Training
IBM
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.
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Memonic
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Microsoft
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Implementation Rating
IBM
Yes Our organization used IBM professional services to implement IBM object storage because of its data consistency and multiple way to upload and download data and its encryption security features. Also that its brand matter for the any organization to secure the layer and storage. It sis also verify that application and system are compatibale for this product
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Memonic
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Microsoft
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
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.
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Memonic
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Microsoft
Before migrating to Microsoft 365 Business Premium, we possessed an in-house exchange server. Therefore, it was difficult for us to look at alternatives to Microsoft for a solution – we did look at the Google Suite of products, but the transition for us seemed less cumbersome to stay with Microsoft from a staff and administrative perspective. While the G Suite does offer us many outstanding products and services, we also didn’t feel that Gmail is up-to-par as a corporate solution the way Exchange/Outlook/OWA are – this alone was also a driving force for our end-users, as there was minimal transition for them to move from an on-premise solution to an off-premise solution. The additional features of SharePoint, Teams, Project, and so many other applications within Microsoft 365 also helped us make a strong case to stay with Microsoft and expand what we were using. The end-user and mobile protections of InTune have also put us at ease when issuing laptops and mobile phones to an almost fully-remote end-user base.
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Scalability
IBM
Scaling up the number of users can lead to significant increases in licensing costs, which, while not a technical limitation, can be a practical constraint for some organizations
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Memonic
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Microsoft
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • 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.
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Memonic
  • Positive: Easy file sharing and user friendly.
  • Negative: No spell/grammar check functionality.
  • Positive: Multiple device support.
  • Positive: We can easily download any data once synced with the device via offline mode also.
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Microsoft
  • We can now keep work going from anywhere. It doesn't matter if we are on a job site or sitting in the office or working from home for a day or two we don't have to miss a beat.
  • It has unified how we store information so that everything isn't stored on individual computers
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ScreenShots

IBM Cloud Object Storage Screenshots

Screenshot of Cloud Object Storage set upScreenshot of storage bucket creationScreenshot of the Access Management interfaceScreenshot of the interface to create, add and management of Storage BucketsScreenshot of data uploadingScreenshot of usage details