IBM Cloud Object Storage vs. Nomadesk vs. OneDrive

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud Object Storage
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
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
Nomadesk
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Nomadesk is a business file sharing and synchronization platform. It allows employees at enterprises to access secure data remotely, while complying with corporate IT requirements. Nomadesk file security features are a main differentiator from free cloud storage solutions. Security features include an encrypted local drive, Theftguard (the ability to wipe devices remotely), and an online trashcan, among others. Nomadesk also offers unlimited storage, file revisions…N/A
OneDrive
Score 7.4 out of 10
N/A
OneDrive from Microsoft is a cloud storage and file syncing service.
$5
per month
Pricing
IBM Cloud Object StorageNomadeskOneDrive
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
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OneDrive for Business Plan 1
$5.00
Per Month (Annual Commitment)
Microsoft 365 Business Basic
$5.00
Per Month (Annual Commitment)
OneDrive for Business Plan 2
$10.00
Per Month (Annual Commitment)
Microsoft 365 Business Standard
$12.50
Per Month (Annual Commitment)
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud Object StorageNomadeskOneDrive
Free Trial
NoNoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNoNo
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.OneDrive can be purchased as a standalone tool, or as part of a Microsoft 365's business suite.
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Community Pulse
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IBM Cloud Object Storage
Chose IBM Cloud Object Storage
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Nomadesk

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OneDrive

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Features
IBM Cloud Object StorageNomadeskOneDrive
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
Nomadesk
-
Ratings
OneDrive
-
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 controls9.9149 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Object Storage
-
Ratings
Nomadesk
10.0
1 Ratings
18% above category average
OneDrive
7.1
119 Ratings
16% below category average
Versioning00 Ratings10.01 Ratings7.695 Ratings
Document collaboration00 Ratings10.01 Ratings8.4113 Ratings
Access control00 Ratings10.01 Ratings6.7114 Ratings
File search00 Ratings10.01 Ratings7.0119 Ratings
Device sync00 Ratings10.01 Ratings7.5117 Ratings
Video files00 Ratings00 Ratings6.3106 Ratings
Audio files00 Ratings00 Ratings6.3100 Ratings
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Object Storage
-
Ratings
Nomadesk
10.0
1 Ratings
15% above category average
OneDrive
7.3
113 Ratings
17% below category average
User and role management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings7.1101 Ratings
File organization00 Ratings10.01 Ratings7.8113 Ratings
Device management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings7.096 Ratings
Cloud Storage Platform
Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Object Storage
-
Ratings
Nomadesk
10.0
1 Ratings
14% above category average
OneDrive
8.0
116 Ratings
8% below category average
Performance00 Ratings10.01 Ratings8.4115 Ratings
Reliability00 Ratings10.01 Ratings8.1116 Ratings
Storage Reports00 Ratings10.01 Ratings7.489 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 4.0 out of 10
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Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM Cloud Object StorageNomadeskOneDrive
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
(158 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
5.3
(118 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(6 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
5.9
(17 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(36 ratings)
Online Training
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
5.8
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Cloud Object StorageNomadeskOneDrive
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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Nomadesk
Nomadesk runs seemlessly and has not caused any major or even minor issues in over a dozen years. It is a great application because we don't think about it
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Microsoft
I can speak from my own experience: in cases where workstations are switched every year or so, one drive makes it very simple to keep things synced, even for very large files. This is even true for large files (such as video or CAD files) that are enormous.
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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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Nomadesk
  • Secure online file organization and storage.
  • Responsiveness to questions.
  • Issue resolution in extremely rare instances.
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Microsoft
  • Allows for easy organization of documents
  • Secures files separate from general documentation
  • Allows for documents to be collaborated on in live real time with multiple editors accessing the same copy
  • Provides online access across the globe to resources for teams development and project needs
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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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Nomadesk
  • We are happly with Nomadesk product.
  • We are happy with Nomadesk service.
  • We are happy with Nomadesk pricing.
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Microsoft
  • Some functions and apps are not available to all countries/regions
  • The one drive app takes too much space in mobile devices
  • The apps for mobile devices lack some tools, like the option to search templates
  • It could allow to manually plan when to sync, specially photos, which take long times to sync
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
because it is a robust, safe and flexible product
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Nomadesk
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Microsoft
I like Box better. If you sign into Microsoft using a personal account, be EXTREMELY careful. All of your downloads could suddenly be available to your entire company, and that is incredibly embarrassing. Did that happen to me? Not going to say, but just always check which MS account you sign into.
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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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Nomadesk
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Microsoft
Using OneDrive is very intuitive and has been improved over the years. It's just like using native file management on either your Mac or PC. It's drag and drop functionality is easy and it clearly shows when files are uploaded to the cloud or if there are errors
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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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Nomadesk
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Microsoft
No answers on this topic
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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Nomadesk
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
It has a good performance, the pages load normally, access to the files, management, reports, everything is working well. With regard to integration with other systems, we have not done so yet.
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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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Nomadesk
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
It's a Microsoft product so there is a wealth of information online both from Microsoft directly and from millions of users but as a corporate user we also have access to direct Microsoft support through a variety of avenues (phone, email, etc.). This makes finding answers to issues more accessible, however, it does also mean that any new feature requests will get buried.
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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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Nomadesk
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Microsoft
No answers on this topic
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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Nomadesk
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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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Nomadesk
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Microsoft
Box is another file-sharing application that is very similar to OneDrive. Box falls short of OneDrive in its syncing capabilities. OneDrive is very quick with syncing so you never have to be concerned that you are not using the most up-to-date materials. Box was always a bit delayed and did not always accurately sync across systems. OneDrive benefits from being backed by Microsoft, so you expect the connection across applications that it allows. OneDrive also provides consistency for use and intuitive understanding because of that Microsoft consistency. I'd prefer OneDrive over Box.
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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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Nomadesk
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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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Nomadesk
  • Low cost
  • Highly effective
  • No problems or issues
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Microsoft
  • OneDrive allows us to save much time on creating and archiving backup copies of our data. Microsoft gives a guarantee on the possibility of recovery of files or folders even from 30 days ago. It provides a great comfort of work.
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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