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IBM Cloud Block Storage

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What is IBM Cloud Block Storage?

IBM offers their Block Storage service via IBM Cloud, allowing users to deploy and customize flash-backed iSCSI block storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS.

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What is IBM Cloud Block Storage?

IBM offers their Block Storage service via IBM Cloud, allowing users to deploy and customize flash-backed iSCSI block storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS.

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What is IBM Cloud Block Storage?

Block storage, sometimes referred to as block-level storage, is a technology that is used to store data files on Storage Area Networks (SANs) or cloud-based storage environments. Block storage breaks up data into blocks and then stores those blocks as separate pieces, each with a unique identifier. The SAN places those blocks of data wherever it is most efficient. Block storage also decouples data from user environments, allowing that data to be spread across multiple environments. This creates multiple paths to the data and allows the user to retrieve it quickly.

IBM Cloud Block Storage is designed to help partners, enterprises, and organizations with their block storage needs, offering flash-backed, local disk performance with SAN persistence and durability, customizable IOPs, and predictable billing.

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Frequently Asked Questions

IBM offers their Block Storage service via IBM Cloud, allowing users to deploy and customize flash-backed iSCSI block storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS.

Google Cloud Persistent Disk and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) are common alternatives for IBM Cloud Block Storage.

The most common users of IBM Cloud Block Storage are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Diana Dumpsey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The most responsive Cloud platform with great stability and flexible features and even its data protection through Cloud service is incredible. IBM Cloud Block Storage helps on effective management of various Cloud data storage platforms and the data processing functions are excellent and great access control capability and the real time data reporting ability is nice.
  • Simple on big data handling.
  • Creating report is faster.
  • Providing accurate analytics is very simple.
  • Data connectivity is excellent.
  • Multiple Cloud data storage platform management.
  • Setting the Cloud functions when new to the system.
  • Integrating the product with multiple Cloud tools.
IBM Cloud Block Storage is very great help on Cloud data storage, capacity planning and also migration of huge project data through the entire Cloud service. To create clean data reports and sharing across multiple project Engineers is very simple and quick. Its Cloud services monitoring and Automation functions are very effective and perfect for data quality management.
  • Data integration features.
  • Analytics creation tools.
  • Capacity planning options.
  • Access control tools.
  • Cloud data access and easy Cloud data analytics creation platform.
  • Visualization and Cloud data storage solution.
  • Secure and smooth Cloud data transfer.
Unlike the above platforms, IBM Cloud Block Storage enable secure and quick big data migration through its secure environment and the flexibility of its Cloud options is effective. Data analytics through IBM Cloud Block Storage are easily prepared and the data access is very easy and the ability to monitor various Cloud operations is excellent.
Veronica Larson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We rely on this platform to store our data and manage all information that takes place across our teams. It provides high-performing servers that interlink our organization network with our cloud servers. The product provides us with customizable storage disks that can store different volumes of workloads according to the required demands. I am able to set up passwords on my data under the disks to ensure no unauthorized access.
  • Provision of different data storage platforms.
  • Management of cloud storage servers.
  • I have not identified any room that requires improvement.
  • I have not experienced any missing functionality.
IBM Cloud Block Storage platform is a very powerful tool that has served our organization effectively since we deployed it. It has a strong networking capacity between our cloud servers and company applications. It transfers data securely to our cloud storage disks with high speed and our teams can access that data when the demand arises. Implementation of our programs and the performance of our applications is managed and controlled by a powerful cloud networking system.
  • Powerful server networking system.
  • Data storage and cloud server integration.
  • It has contributed to positive ROI.
  • It has implemented all the tasks that lead to its deployment.
  • Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS)
IBM has given us the best data storage services and I am proud of its entire performance. The product has been able to link all our services to cloud servers that enhance transparency and offer backup services to all our services. Data that runs across the entire organization is secure and can contribute to decision-making. We selected IBM Cloud Block Storage for its long-term services in our partner's business enterprise and great views from their experience.
Rita Joy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Block Storage is a diverse space platform, with extensive procedures that oversee the security of every content. Besides, IBM Cloud Block Storage has both the minimal and the maximum space, for optimal services to the users. For instance, IBM Cloud Block Storage has a lower space of 25GB and an extra of up to 12000GB. Again, there is the competent analytical solution, that determines the operational capacity of a company, and the direction that the firm takes.
  • Proficient scaling and system customization, which allows editing.
  • Wide range of system storage, ranging from 25GB to 12000GB.
  • Finally, IBM Cloud Block Storage deploys the most technical and efficient security measures.
  • Lacks a software for mobile devices, which have many clients.
  • IBM Cloud Block Storage also has some technicality, and they demand some ICT basics.
  • However, the performance of IBM Cloud Block Storage is rational and outstanding.
IBM Cloud Block Storage is a competent and accommodating cloud solution, which allows either large or small databases to have an actual storage avenue. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage detailed and complex data (content) get better solutions from IBM Cloud Block Storage as it has been fine-tuned and well designed. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage ensures the performance of either processing or even data backup is quality and nothing that hinders its proficiency. Finally, IBM Cloud Block Storage is a world-class storage platform, with standard mechanisms that have defined working plans.
  • The wide range of space, from the least of 25GB to that of 12000GB, makes all firms fit.
  • The close monitoring of every systems, more so on matters security and data safety.
  • Lastly, a perfect team of helpers and technicians who embrace the developer's dream for an efficient application.
  • Consistent analytical processes, without compromise or breakages, increase production efficiency.
  • Further, quality storage space, or even above 12000GB, accommodates large corporations.
  • Finally, IBM Cloud Block Storage taking security precautions precisely improves the threat detection capacity.
IBM Cloud Block Storage is known for professional space control, [which] values even the large database of above 12000GB. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage co-assist with the data managing solution, more so for data mining, analytics, and sharing. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage design is friendly and competent enough for intellectual usage.
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Ramindu Deshapriya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Cloud Block Storage alongside our IBM Cloud implementations as the storage medium for static files on the cloud. It is used to serve static assets such as images and asset bundles for applications. In some cases it is used to serve static websites running only JavaScript, CSS and HTML (e.g. React and Angular applications). Being able to have cheap static storage on the IBM Cloud enables our organization to store objects effectively and provide granular access.
  • Cheap cloud storage
  • API access
  • Integration with application deployment pipelines
  • More options for stale object offloading
  • Granular access controls to object prefixes
  • Object lifecycle management
If you're deploying applications to the IBM Cloud and if your organization or project is primarily using IBM Cloud, IBM Cloud Block Storage is the best static asset solution for you. The ability to automate workflows related to objects, simple storage mechanisms and the myriad of IBM Cloud service integrations makes it the strongest contender for static object storage on IBM Cloud.
  • Static object storage on IBM Cloud
  • IBM Cloud service integrations
  • Simple-to-use API access
  • Language SDKs
  • Static storage configuration time reduced by 5%
  • Deployment pipeline configuration time reduced by 2-5%
Amazon S3 isn't on IBM Cloud and isn't the best solution to be used alongside applications deployed to the IBM Cloud.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been used IBM Cloud Block Storage as Teamcenter Vault area.
Teamcenter is a common base for making a product development through global sites.
  • Reliability. There is no problem even once for 6 years.
  • Robustness.
  • Flexibility.
  • Improved cost performance
  • Proposal of optimal IOPS
  • Performance Improvement
Suitable example: For global using
Not Suitable example: Like using on premise
  • Snapshots and replicas
  • Flexible capacity change
  • Flexible performance changes
  • Consolidate assets of 4 bases
  • Management cost 1/4
  • BCP cost 1/4
No experience with other products
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