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IBM Cloud Object Storage Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9.2 out of 10
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9.2 out of 10

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Pros

Ease of Use: Reviewers consistently praise the platform's clean and user-friendly interface, facilitating easy navigation and glitch-free operation. The clarity of the dashboard layout has been commended for its ease of use and customization options, enhancing the overall user experience.

Scalability: Users appreciate the system's scalability, noting its efficiency in handling larger workloads. Multiple reviews highlight the platform's robust nature, providing a reliable and stable environment for various tasks.

Security Features: Customers value the security features of the platform that ensure data safety and protection. The high level of security provided has been positively highlighted as a key benefit by reviewers, contributing to a sense of trust and reliability in utilizing the platform.

Reviews

159 Reviews

IBM Cloud Object Storages Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM storage is well suited for storing logs from support systems, backups from internal tools, and raw data for AI training. We needed something that scales easy, keeps data safe long term, and connects well with our existing setup. IBM fit that need.

Using IBM Cloud Object Storage to help with Mainframe Storage

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For product integration with Mainframe Storage, using IBM Cloud Object Storage as another storage tier for the mainframe. IBM Cloud Object Storage helps with storing backup information plus store static data for other people to use like the rest of your enterprise.

Pros

  • Credentials
  • Set up
  • Management

Cons

  • Usability
  • UI

Likelihood to Recommend

I think IBM Cloud Object Storage is great for storing additional data or using it as another storage tier

Vetted Review
IBM Cloud Object Storage
2 years of experience

IBM Cloud Object Storage Today

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I recommend IBM Cloud Object Storage to my clients who are looking for a safe, secure and efficient resource to move unused data from the mainframe to the cloud.

Pros

  • gives companies the best of both worlds with reliability and mainframe support
  • Allows for data to be recalled once moved to cloud
  • Becomes a natural extension of the mainframe

Cons

  • Performance and latency
  • Data governance

Likelihood to Recommend

Hospitals may need to hold onto the medical records of patients that have passed. Instead of clogging up your tape storage, the cloud gives an option to keep data, but hold space for it in another area, with option to recall if needed.

Vetted Review
IBM Cloud Object Storage
1 year of experience

IBM Cloud Object Storage The Best Cloud Storage

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use the IBM Cloud Object Storage to store the converted Zarr files from oceanographic data to make the available for my client to access, which makes it easy for me to query and access it in time of need.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Bucket management
  • Compatibility

Cons

  • Deleting large amount of data at once
  • More detailed error logs
  • Proper visibility management

Likelihood to Recommend

Personally I use to it host data that I need readily available to use in multiple projects and update them without the hassle of updating it in git

Vetted Review
IBM Cloud Object Storage
2 years of experience

IBM Cloud Object Storage is a hidden gem in IBM Cloud

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

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

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Cloud Object Storage is an amazing tool for backups, cloud migrations, and data retention

IBM Cloud Object Storage Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

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

Likelihood to Recommend

For the document storage scenario it works well, we cannot complain because of the cost or the speed. But we also tried it to store data for an Elastic, with the help of a plugin. In this scenario was neither fast enough nor cost effective. Therefore when you need faster storage, the COS is less appropriate.

Vetted Review
IBM Cloud Object Storage
3 years of experience

IBM COS review

Rating: 9 out of 10

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

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for me to host the websites with endpoints to the customer for a quick demo.

Vetted Review
IBM Cloud Object Storage
1 year of experience

IBM Cloud Object Storage provides basic storage functionality at the best cost performance

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used IBM Cloud Object Storage to store all of the data from the actual production, including videos, images, and various types of sensing data from equipment in the actual factory in Thailand.We deployed over 100 cameras and sensors in the factory, storing the data in IBM Cloud Object Storage via the internet, and allowing the results to be retrieved and accessed from anywhere in the world.The biggest challenge is how to create a scalable system at a reasonable cost, since the data volume will be small in the initial stage and we know that the data volume will continue to increase every month. in the end, the data volume was about 150TB, but the cost did not hit our business operations.

Pros

  • cost performance
  • simple and easy to use
  • secure as usual

Cons

  • It would be useful if the data hierarchy could be made a little deeper.
  • performance of data deletion
  • undo or cancelation for data deletion

Likelihood to Recommend

As far as I can tell, it has better cost performance than any other cloud.This is a particularly promising service candidate for actual data accumulation, which requires the continuous retention of large amounts of data. Another attractive feature is that it can be used without using other services to guarantee security and performance.

Vetted Review
IBM Cloud Object Storage
3 years of experience

Storage that is secure and has a lot of free space

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

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

Likelihood to Recommend

It is reliable for both business and research use. The performance and options it gives are also really hard to beat, so I’ll recommend it.

Sharing My Observations on IBM Cloud Object Storage

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

With two years of experience in a corporate office, I have send the IBM Cloud Object Storage playing a imp role in our organization's data management policy. We use it to Archive imp documents and compliance records as well as for backups. Reliable and secure.

Pros

  • Data backup and management
  • Archiving and secure storage for documents and multimedia
  • Cost effective solution

Cons

  • Real-time analytics would be really a great addition
  • Better UI and dashboard

Likelihood to Recommend

Very well suited for an organisation looking for a cost effective and secure solution for data management.