IBM Cloud Object Storage: A developer's perspective
August 10, 2020

IBM Cloud Object Storage: A developer's perspective

Ausrine Stankeviciute | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Object Storage

I use IBM Cloud Object Storage primarily for rich data asset storage. As a developer who likes to play around with data, I find that IBM Cloud Object Storage is the perfect platform to host and manage unstructured data that can be made easily accessible either via the IBM portal or via an API call.

Pros

  • Highly secure way of storing and sharing data as it needs authorization to be accessible.
  • Pre-built API calls and code snippers make accessing data via secure APIs a breeze.
  • Easy to migrate data to and from data storage
  • Ability to manage large amounts of data with considerable speed

Cons

  • Unexpected errors are known to occur when downloading/uploading files.
  • Not easy to get started. In order to take full advantage of the platform and its features, additional training and reading documentation is needed.
  • The UI of the platform can get a bit confusing and it's easy to get lost.
  • Significantly reducing time-to-market
  • Speeding up development times and facilitating dev-ops
  • Unlocking scalability in data capability
In my personal experience using both Google Cloud Storage and IBM Cloud Object Storage, I think that IBM provides a much better service when it comes to uploading, managing and sharing files because of how easy and straightforward the process is. Overall, because of the added factors of data security, durability and reliable uptime IBM Cloud Object Storage was the logical choice.
Scenarios where IBM Cloud Object Storage is well suited:
* Building enterprise-grade data solutions with large teams
* Where an all-in-one platform is needed to solve complex problems that require an ecosystem of tools to work together
* Where IBM services already exist in the business
* Projects where scalability, security and technology integration are key drivers

Scenarios where IBM Cloud Object Storage is not well suited:
* Small teams with small budgets may be better off using open source tools
* Solving niche industry problems that require niche solutions

IBM Cloud Object Storage Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
9.4
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
9
Dynamic scaling
10
Elastic load balancing
9
Monitoring tools
9
Security controls
10

Comments

  • Joe Cornejo | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Joe Cornejo
    (Vendor Representative) commented 5 years ago
    Thank you for your valuable feedback! You comments are integral to IBM in improving product functionality and viability for our customers. Please let us know if we can help at all going forward!

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