IBM Cloud Object Storage - A Review
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What is IBM Cloud Object Storage?
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.
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- Dynamic scaling (120)8.585%
- Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime (118)8.181%
- Monitoring tools (120)8.080%
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What is IBM Cloud Object Storage?
IBM Cloud Object Storage makes it possible to store practically limitless amounts of data, simply. It is commonly used as storage for web sites and mobile applications, data archiving and backup, enterprise file services, and analytics. Flexible storage class tiers with a policy-based archive lets users manage costs while meeting data access needs. The integrated Aspera high-speed data transfer option makes it easier to transfer data to and from Cloud Object Storage, and query-in-place functionality supports running analytics directly on users' data.
Features
Storage classes. Manage costs while meeting data access needs. Storage class tiers are available for active (Standard), cool (Vault), cold (Cold Vault) and dynamic (Flex) data
Archive. Apply an age-based archive policy to move objects from any storage class to long term, lower-cost storage
Resiliency options. Meet availability and resiliency needs. Options include Cross Region, Regional or Single Data Center
Integrated Aspera high-speed data transfer. Quickly transfer data to and from IBM Cloud Object Storage with no cost for data ingress
Query-in-place. Run analytics directly on data at rest using IBM SQL Query
Data durability. Designed for 99.999999999-percent data durability
Encryption. Leverage server-side encryption. Optionally manage encryption keys or use IBM Key Protect
Identity and Access Management. Manage access control using role-based policies
IBM Cloud Object Storage Features
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Features
- Supported: Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
- Supported: Dynamic scaling
- Supported: Elastic load balancing
- Supported: Monitoring tools
- Supported: Security controls
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Object storage enables you to store large amounts of data in a highly scalable manner. Whether you have a server, web application, or a back-up requirement, you can easily store your data with object storage using REST APIs.
IBM Cloud Object Storage Integrations
- IBM Spectrum Protect
- Komprise
- Veritas NetBackup
- IBM Analytics Engine
- IBM Cloud Mass Data Migration
- CTERA
- IBM FileNet
- Cloudberry Explorer Pro
- CommVault Simpana
- DBM Cloud Aire
- Watson Studio (formerly IBM Data Science Experience)
- IBM Content Manager OnDemand
- IBM Aspera
- Nasuni Filer
- NICE Trading Recording
- NICE Engage
- Panzura Filer
- Rclone
- Storage Made Easy
IBM Cloud Object Storage Competitors
- Google Cloud Storage
- Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
- Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
IBM Cloud Object Storage Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Worldwide |
| Supported Languages | English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean. |
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
Google Cloud Storage and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) are common alternatives for IBM Cloud Object Storage.
Reviewers rate Security controls highest, with a score of 8.7.
The most common users of IBM Cloud Object Storage are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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January 18, 2023
IBM Cloud Object Storage - A Review
Score 8 out of 10
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I am using IBM Cloud Object Storage in my organization for data archiving and backup. The product has been great for addressing our business problem of managing large amounts of data in a cost-effective and secure manner. The scalability of the service has been particularly impressive, as we have been able to easily adjust our storage needs as our business has grown. The user interface is easy to navigate and the integration with other IBM Cloud services has been seamless. We have also been impressed with the level of customer support provided by IBM. One of the key features we use is the data archiving feature, which has been a huge benefit for us as we needed to store large amounts of data that we don't need to access frequently, but still need to keep it available in case of an audit or legal request. The scope of our use case has been primarily for data archiving and backup, but I can see how it could be used for other purposes such as large-scale data analytics. Overall, we are very satisfied with IBM Cloud Object Storage and would highly recommend it to other organizations.
- Data Archiving
- Cloud Content Distribution
- Backup and Disaster Recovery
- Large-scale Data Analytics
- Limited File Management Features
- Limited Third-Party Integrations
- Limited data deduplication
Did not used that feature.
December 24, 2022
IBM Cloud Object Storage Review.
The IBM Cloud Object Storage allows me to scale the services I provide into the cloud. The cloud has allowed me to secure my data by managing certain permissions to ensure that my data is managed in a need-to-know zero-trust environment, but it also allows me to conveniently share my data and services with those I want to send them to.
- IBM's cloud dedicated hosting is particularly important for total isolation.
- The VPN allows me to have maximum flexibility.
- It improves the performance of my websites.
- It is very cost effective and we pay only for what we need or more.
- The IBM cloud object storage is very network based that it cannot achieve performance like hardware.
- Extra space do cost more when you do become ready for that expansion.
- Pulling big project data across cloud platforms slows performance.
The Cloud SQL query based on Apache Spark helps me to quickly analyze all of my data that resides in the IBM Cloud object storage. With the IBM Cloud Object Storage, access is very simple; we can access the information from any of our offices in the country, in addition to Search capabilities that allow us to access information more efficiently.
December 08, 2022
Cloud Storage - A Wonderland!
IBM Cloud Object Storage provides great space for AI/Machine Learning projects. It is smooth and user-friendly. I used IBM cloud storage for my Coursera professional data science courses. I will like to keep on using it for my future professional projects. I encountered no problem in using IBM Cloud Storage.
- Third-party integration.
- Great IDE.
- Provides different services.
- Supports different programming languages.
- Make instructions easy.
- Provide a virtual tour.
Yes, it was a fantastic learning experience.
September 15, 2022
IBM always leading!!
In our organization we have a very large amount of unstructured data, access to that information was very complicated, now with the IBM Cloud Object Storage access is very simple, we can access the information from any of our offices in the country, in addition to Search capabilities that allow us to access information more efficiently
- the simplicity of access data concurrently from any location
- Scale performance and capacity
- all the security features
- file access from file-based applications
- setting the configurations
- setting policies
Being in-memory data processing engine optimized for low latency and ad hoc analysis of data allows us easy data exploration and instant querying, thanks to this we can save time and resources
August 11, 2022
IBM ROCKS
Flexible, cost-effective and scalable cloud storage for unstructured data
- scalable cloud
- cost-effective
- flexible
- transfer rate
- different workloads
- manage costs
I think it is very beneficial because of the robustness and security it provides us.
I construct and deploy my solutions with IBM Cloud Object Storage. It is a great privilege of mine to play a role in IBM's ecosystem as a partner and business associate of the company. My IBM business is fully digitalized, and I provide my services via the cloud because of the company's innovative usage of hybrid infrastructures. Hybrid solutions help me get more done faster and bring my business up to date. IBM's user-friendly programs and top-tier answers are two of the many reasons why the company's tech is so well-liked.
- Highly dependable cloud migration services.
- The needs I have for the modernisation of my business have been met at a price I can afford.
- The establishment of a consolidated hub for the creation of designs and developments.
- Application to first-use of the system.
- It's not simple to move a lot of data across different systems.
- Configuring complex Cloud features is also challenging.
Excellent service reliability and remarkable cloud efficiency. Having this feature has allowed for the versatile management of many large data inputs across different systems, as well as a safe space in which the user may store and retrieve whatever data they need, whenever they need it. Their management style is efficient and lucrative.
May 20, 2022
Store your data in the IBM Cloud Object Storage
Using IBM Cloud Object Storage simplifies the evolutionary maintenance of digital transformation solutions. The aspects to be highlighted, are the simplicity of integration with microservices through IBM Pak and the complete documentation for its operation. The high availability and resilience between the regions are also highlighted. I recommend this solution for any type of solution from small to large scale.
- High Availability
- Security
- Simplicity
- sandbox version
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May 02, 2022
IBM Cloud Object Storage is must try product
1. We use it to store the data in different buckets and retrieve it on demand and update it.
2. External APIs put the data and keep watching for the bucket's contents if they have populated/created/ updated and remain in that state for some steady state.
3. Certain APIs upload the data into buckets which get utilized by third-party APIs.
2. External APIs put the data and keep watching for the bucket's contents if they have populated/created/ updated and remain in that state for some steady state.
3. Certain APIs upload the data into buckets which get utilized by third-party APIs.
- Atomicity
- Consistency
- Ease of handling data
- Refresh token implementation
- Bulk delete
- Bulk update using regex
Yes, it's powerful, and you can use it to retrieve data much quicker.
April 19, 2022
Review of IBM Cloud Object Storage
I use IBM Cloud Object Storage to build and implement my solutions. I am honored to be an IBM partner and a part of the IBM ecosystem. I use hybrid infrastructures in IBM to digitize my company and provide my services in the cloud. Hybrid solutions accelerate my performance and assist me in the modernization of my company. Technology provided by IBM is highly appreciated due to its user-friendly applications and high quality solutions.
- Providing security services
- Providing centralized development and design solution facilities
- Affordable and tailored solutions to my demands in the modernization of my company
- Trustworthy services for migration to cloud
- More focused approach to cashflow
Yes, the facilitation of high-quality digital solutions development and design services can be attained by using this service. Having a reliable solution for webhooks and implementing solutions on various platforms is a competitive edge for digital solution providers.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloud Object Storage is used to store and manage data in the cloud. The product addresses the need for reliable and scalable storage and provides a way to access data from anywhere in the world. The scope of our use case is to manage data for a large number of users and to make it available to them on demand.
- IBM Cloud Object Storage is designed to provide high durability and availability for data stored in the cloud. It does this by replicating data across multiple Availability Zones within a region, and by storing data in multiple geographic regions.
- IBM Cloud Object Storage also provides a number of features that make it well-suited for storing large amounts of data. For example, it offers infinite scalability, meaning that you can store as much data as you need without having to worry about capacity limits. It also offers a variety of data protection features, such as encryption at rest and in transit, and the ability to create snapshots of data for easy recovery in the event of data loss.
- A few areas where IBM Cloud Object Storage could improve include:
- Making it easier to manage data and permissions. It can be difficult to keep track of who has access to what data, and what they can do with it.
- Adding more features for analyzing and visualizing data. It would be helpful to be able to see more information about how data is being used and to have better tools for exploring it.
- Improving performance. Sometimes the system can be slow, particularly when dealing with large amounts of data.
- Making it easier to integrate with other systems. It can be challenging to connect IBM Cloud Object Storage to other tools and platforms.
Yes, the built-in query capability has been very beneficial. It has allowed us to quickly and easily analyze data sets that we otherwise would have had to spend a lot of time and effort to process manually.
March 15, 2022
Store your data smartly!
IBM Cloud Object storage is being used to restore windows OVA and iseries images and backup. Since the images of iSeries are too large to transfer over the network, IBM recommended using MDM to transfer and restore on COS before it can be uploaded to Power system to configure.
- Manage, restore and available data as per demand.
- Easily maintain data on COS.
- High availability.
- COS can be provided as hyperlink to directly drag and drop.
Not yet explore on this side.
February 10, 2022
IBM Cloud Object Storage - An Easier & Reliable Object Storage Solution that You Can Trust.
IBM Cloud Storage is simply awesome for hosting lite webpages and static websites. We use this platform for our clients to create unstructured citations for their local businesses. We create mini static webpages that can help us to create brand consistency online and managing these websites on IBM Cloud are super easy. Thanks to IBM!
- Easy management.
- Buckets can be made public.
- Free storage options.
- UI can be improved.
Not sure on this.
February 04, 2022
Easy Cloud Data Storage and Storage Platform Management System
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The software offers effective cloud storage capacity planning and secure storage of multiple business data and effectively manages other cloud storage platforms. The data accessibility on this IBM platform is easy and fast, even the reports through the system are accurate and helpful. Access control tools are the best, it has excellent data analytics features, and it's easy to adjust various tool capabilities.
- Easy to access stored business information
- The reports on multiple data processing are quickly created.
- Capacity planning and other cloud data storage platform management
- Implementation on the initial usage of the platform
- Migrating a large amount of data across platforms is not an easy task.
- Setting the advanced Cloud functionalities is not easy also.
Very reliable services and the efficiency of its cloud capabilities is amazing. The capability has easily enabled flexible handling of multiple big data that are imported across different systems and secure the environment where the user can store and access any required data easily and very quickly. Its management quality is effective and very profitable.
January 28, 2022
IBM CLOUD is powerful and nice to use
We have been using Cloud IBM Storage for 1 year to back up with Veeam and among other daily uses.
The environment is safe and stable and demonstrates excellent performance.
We are satisfied with everything we have so far. We recommend to anyone who needs Storage the Cloud IBM.
- Security
- Scalability
- Performance
- Nothing to add
We don´t use this feature at moment.
January 13, 2022
IBM Cloud Object Storage - Great for my organisation
We at our organization are using Cloud Object Storage for our growth as it has helped to reduce our storage costs and accelerate data transfer. Our developers are greatly benefitting from it as it has helped them to boost their productivity a lot. With IBM's Cloud Object Storage, we are easily able to increase our scalability and hence work better.
- Cost Effective
- Flexibility
- Scalability
- Can be made more developer friendly.
- Can be improved both in terms of User Interface and User experience and made more secure.
- The documentation can be made better.
It is highly advantageous to perform various kinds of data analysis tasks. It allows [us] to access a variety of information and also enables us to combine data from various data sources. It provides an extremely secure and flexible storage solution [that] prevents the issues associated with local storage. Looking forward to exploring more!
December 28, 2021
robust, secure and fast to store your data
We use IBM Cloud Object Storage to store IBM QRadar data and be able to achieve greater connectivity between security monitoring tools. besides being easy to set up and powerful in storage able to keep the data safely and efficiently and be able to admony the machines and data bucket in a single environment
- integral data storage ecosystem
- data security and backup storage efficiency
- Maximize performance
- simpler creation template
- more visible execution status
I don't need to use
December 22, 2021
Good place to start
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I have used it for completing the IBM AI course which helped me learn AI and computing.
- Objects (data) in an object-storage system are accessed via Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
- You can store any number of static files on an object storage instance to be called by an API.
- File storage
- Block storage offers an alternative to file-based storage—one with improved efficiency and performance.
- Linkages with thirds party ( Aure / AWS etc).
It is been beneficial, I have not used it.
[IBM Cloud Object Storage] is utilized in our
IT department, most specifically. I have found it [to be] a convenient and
advanced tool for data storage as well as for the management of the data
lifecycle. It is a solution that is great for data recovery, storage,
cost-effectiveness, and time saver. A scalable tool that has the propensity to
store massive files of petabyte data.
- IBM [Cloud Object Storage] is great for the data [storage]. Even [with] bulky files and we can [still] get access to those data files without facing any complex or perplexing situations.
- It is a scalable tool, and has made it easy for us to scale our data as the volume of our files increases.
- It is a highly protective and secure platform, and our company’s secrecy is maintained with it.
- It provides details of the usage.
- I am not content with its collaboration feature.
- Sharing data is not easy, and should be improved.
- The condition to get access to IBM cloud storage by only utilizing an IBM Cloud account is a bit unsatisfying for us.
It is the most important feature for our company as it helps
in analyzing the data in a swift demeanor. [With] IBM [Cloud Object] Storage, we can look for
the required data within the storage using it. SQL Query is a feature to
facilitate data exploration, and it is performing its task in a highly efficient
way.
November 30, 2021
File storage that adapts as your infrastructure scales
We use Cloud Object Storage to store documents that are uploaded to our web application. We also use it for archiving internal files large and small, such as backups and media files. We primarily use it because there are no limitations on the amount of data we can store and because it has auto expiration features that will delete older files based on a date.
- Stores both short term and long term files.
- Auto scales based on our usage.
- Auto deletes older files.
- Searching for files by keyword could be better. Currently one can only filter by prefix.
We have not used this feature.
November 30, 2021
IBM Cloud Object Storage, Fast and Flexible storage service.
Previously, we [had] servers with pre-defined configurations and resources. But when data grows, it's difficult to store and manage data, [so] we come to a solution that IBM Cloud Object Storage resolved our issue. It provides flexible services to store and maintain data with all-time availability. [No], we no need to worry about data backup and data availability for users.
- Scalability
- Durability
- High availability
- Data migration
- As of now all features are working fine, so not much except improvements in SDK
- Cost difference between multiple regions
IBM Cloud Object Storage provides IBM Cloud Query directly to data location. It provides a server-less architecture to run the query and filter your data when needed. IBM Cloud Query provides a cost-effective service that provides pay amount per query price. IBM Cloud query provides data formats that we can use for our requirement, which can be JSON and CSV.
November 30, 2021
The best data storage option!!
As we work in information technology department, there is a lot of unstructured data in our organization to manage and to store it IBM Cloud Storage helps us ease the process.
- Managing unstructured data.
- Helping us deal with lot of data with the help of multiple petabytes.
- Accessing data on the cloud becomes easy.
- Cost is one the major fields where IBM Cloud Storage can improve.
- The UI of the applied storage is a bit complex.
- Overall there are not much issues I face.
For multinational companies, we use IBM Cloud [Object] Storage for regional and cross-region cloud storage. And that with a lot of data. We ended up "trying" IBM for having servers in specific countries and we wanted to lower the transfer times of data. This with the options to make private clouds and public clouds, to make specific files accessible, on [specific] locations based on geodata.
- Security - We did many tests with many cloud solutions and IBM performed in the top options
- They have a cold vault service that is perfect for backups
- Easy to scale
- Easy to setup with multiple devices
- The speed, this was a important part, but we still have many desyncs.
- Setup with specific rules and data migrations can be a hassle.
- The UI can be daunting, it needs another look from UX perspective.
Yeh, we used this for web projects to create cloud-based databases for collaboration projects. And also to fetch data for creating reports with automated tools.
We have used several IBM Cloud products. IBM Cloud Object Storage allowed us to use a solution for unstructured data storage within the ecosystem of our other products. Most systems, including ours, has significant unstructured data, so finding a scalable solution for this data, and APIs to read and write this data, was paramount.
- Scalable unstructured data storage
- Built-out client APIs
- Competitive IO
- The price
- Better storage class management
We have not used this feature.
November 24, 2021
IBM Cloud Object Storage...The best for any big data corporation
With the proliferation of cloud computing, object storage is being widely adopted for the management of unstructured data, and analysts estimate that this will represent the majority of all data globally in the near future. As a researcher in machine learning, I have huge data sets I use, for example, the TUH EEG Corpus, the world’s largest
publicly available database of clinical EEG data, comprising more than 25,000
EEG records and over 14,000 patients. I use this dataset in my study.
- Affordability.
- Cloud compatibility.
- Storing and/or managing unstructured data.
- I cannot think of any area IBM cloud storage needs to improve. It is a complete service - where users can store and/or manage unstructured data, build, deploy, and AI models. Complete with videos to learn about Watson Studio.
I haven't used the Cloud SQL query yet.
November 23, 2021
Efficient Cloud Server and Data Storage Platform
IBM Cloud Object Storage is used across our organization in each department to store data and transfer files. It has helped us to work on our workloads and save most of our files in a safe and secure platform. We used to lose a lot of data before we deployed this platform from unnecessary circumstances but since we deployed this tool everything has been running smoothly.
- Data and files storage
- Security to our organization information
- I have not come across any potential challenge that can lead to changes.
- There is no missing functionality.
The data analysis feature [has] been very helpful in giving us on-time analytics that we highly [rely] on. It has large and well-planned database services that give us the most reliable and effective cloud data services that we require. The built-in query makes it easy to search and find any information from our cloud services without wasting any time.