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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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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Block Storage would be appropriate for persistent storage of vasts amounts of data that either are yet to be determined how to process or are part of a defined data flow that doesn't require real-time analytics. That is any data lake solution is well suited for the IBM Cloud Block Storage. For big data analytics, IBM data warehouse would be a better alternative.
Diana Dumpsey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Veronica Larson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Rita Joy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Jude Nickson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Block Storage is recommendable to companies that [have a database that] is super sensitive, private, and requires instant access. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage creates a coordinated system, that [classifies] data, based on the requirements that a company has. The security deployment from IBM Cloud Block Storage is another merit that [businesses] attain.
Ramindu Deshapriya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Block Storage is well suited for storing data with high IOPS requirements, as it can go up to 48000 IOPS by increasing capacity. As it is raw storage like hard disks, which means it can be used by both virtual machines and containers. The data encryption feature also ensures the security of the stored data.
Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The service in general is great because on the backend. IBM offers experience and knowledge in the use of data center technologies undeniably. I recommend it for almost any situation but particularly for databases and especially large ones. That possibility of adjusting IOPS dynamically to levels that other data centers do not offer makes it unique. I don't recommend using the service if you don't have an infrastructure expert who knows about servers, Linux, and storage because a lot of the configuration and settings require an expert hand.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
IBM Cloud Block Storage is well suited in scenarios where there is a need for the equivalent of shared block storage, as for deploying and using Kubernetes and Openshift platforms.
Each piece of Block storage is used on a 1:1 basis as a Persistent Volume for Kubernetes, and it allows high scalability and flexibility.

On the other hand, for software development or higher-level usage, IBM Cloud Object Storage would be a better fit.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is a reliable solution for applications involving large amounts of data transfers in a fast and efficient way. It is also reasonably priced in comparison to competitors in the market, making it a budget friendly, reliable pick among compute solutions.
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