IBM Cloud Object Storage

Score9.3 out of 10

562 Reviews and Ratings

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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Screenshot of Cloud Object Storage set up

Screenshot of the Access Management interface

Screenshot of the interface to create, add and management of Storage Buckets

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Security controls
Compliance with security protocols like SSL and AES
Category average: 8.7
Dynamic scaling
Ease of scaling up or down in response to customer needs
Category average: 8.8
Elastic load balancing
Automatic balancing and distribution of resources across multiple virtual computers
Category average: 9

Monitoring tools
Monitoring tools provide alerts when problems are detected
Category average: 7.7
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
The service uptime as a percentage defined in the SLA
Category average: 8.5

#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

35.2%

31 installations of 88

#2 most frequent

Information

17.0%

15 installations of 88

#3 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

14.8%

13 installations of 88

Nikhil Sharma

Project Manager in Product Management at Lenovo (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

IBM storage manages large and growing data smoothly and also keeps data safe and available for long time.
Easy to connect with analytics and AI tools, saving a great amount of time.
Strong security with encryption and access control. Easy to adapt and learn.

Cons

Access control is strong, but setting roles and policies not very simple. Needs better guidance.
Works well with IBM tools, but connecting with some third-party apps needs extra effort.

Return on Investment

Easier to meet data retention and audit rules. Encryption and access logs helped us pass 3 internal audits smoothly. Helped with compliance.
IT team spends less time fixing storage issues. That time now goes into innovation and support, boosting overall output.
Around 15–20% reduction in storage cost after moving to IBM Cloud Object Storage, thanks to auto-tiering and pay-as-you-use model.

Alternatives Considered

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Other Software Used

IBM AIOps Insights, Lenovo XClarity, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service

Diego Kesselman View profile

General Manager in Engineering at ESSELWARE Soluciones, SA de CV (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We save backups for our customers with IBM Power systems using native and 3er party tools.
We have built our own tool to take backups from IBM I Operating System securily and compressing data.

Pros

Allows accelerated uploads
Checks data integrity before allowing access to the data
Provides granular security

Cons

The UI could be more easy to use

Return on Investment

Allows to avoid using physical media
Improve data migration performance

Jayant Kaduskar

CTO in Corporate at Biz4Solutions Private Limited (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Cloud Object Storage is mainly used to store client data objects for analysis, because it's been helpful for both small testing projects and large-scale storage needs.

Pros

the 25GB free storage is generous and great for testing or small-scale use
IBM provides different storage classes like Active, Smart Tier, Cool and Cold Vault, which makes it flexible based on what I need
migration was fast and smooth and their support desk really helped during the process

Cons

pricing is a little expensive
the data transfer speed is not that fast and I feel it should be improved
it can be a bit complicated to start

Return on Investment

i feel confident storing sensitive data because of its strong protection against deletion and modification
the 10TB capacity meets all our storage needs and leaves room to grow
being able to share and store documents across devices and teams makes day to day work smoother

Other Software Used

Microsoft Azure, Vasion Print, IBM Verify

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use COS as document storage for our document management system, and it serves its purpose: it stores documents that can be retrieved at a reasonable speed and at a reasonable price.

Some time ago, we submitted a suggestion for improvement regarding the backup functions of COS. Recently, a significant improvement called “backup policies” was announced. We are very much looking forward to implementing this, as it is one of the most important issues for an application that stores files with adequate backup in accordance with GDPR regulations.

Pros

Storing documents
Price
Backup policies
Redundancy mirroring
Reliability

Cons

GDPR back up policies per default
More polished UI (no that important tough)
Easier monitoring/notifcation when the bucket quota is reached

Return on Investment

Storing files in a block storage would not be cost effective enough for us
Allowing to set quotas on bucket level, helps to control the cost
The fast deployment integrates well with our deployment process (application is ready in any minutes)

Alternatives Considered

IBM Cloud Block Storage, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Azure Blob Storage

Other Software Used

PostgreSQL, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, IBM Cloud Block Storage

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have used IBM COS, for my internal organisaation projects. In which I have used COS very often in building the real projects by intergrating with wx.ai . I have also used COS in storing the project files of various file types. The COS I used once for deploying a static html file for a quick showcase to the team manager within short period of deployment time.

Pros

Hosting Static html websites
For storing the essential file types such as pdf's, excel sheets. Very much appreciated to accept other programmetical files such as ipynb, py etc

Cons

It is Good to include the hosting of Dynamic websites

Return on Investment

time savings from automating manual data processing
Securing of Files

Alternatives Considered

IBM watsonx.ai, IBM watsonx.data, IBM watsonx Orchestrate and IBM Cloud Code Engine

Other Software Used

IBM Cloud Code Engine, IBM watsonx Orchestrate, IBM watsonx.ai

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Dynamic scaling

Elastic load balancing

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Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

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