Item: IBM Cloud Object Storage
Rating: 9
Author: Vishnu Devineni

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Serverless architectures--especially the ability to access cloud object storage though IBM Cloud functions--provide tremendous potential for business users to rapidly prototype innovative risk management models within the financial services industry.
IBM Cloud Object Storage has a very intuitive UI and dashboard which allowed me to leverage its potential very quickly to demonstrate business benefits to clients.

Pros and Cons

Trusted brand
No downtime
Great UI for object management

Pricing

Return on Investment

Reduced hardware maintenance costs
Higher scalability
Rapid deployment

IBM Cloud Object Storage Built-in SQL Query

I haven't tried this. IBM Cloud functions, through Python runtime, also provide analysis. To optimize analysis routines, we will be shifting the query capability into IBMCloud SQL.

IBM Cloud Object Storage Data Transfer

I haven't tried this.

IBM Cloud Object Storage Flexible Storage Tiers

Yes. This flexibility is crucial to allow us to maximise the potential for cloud object storage based on our use cases to store time series information. These options are under evaluation.

Alternatives Considered

Google Cloud Datastore

IBM Cloud Portfolio

IBM Cloud Functions

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited in scenarios where all public clouds are generally used. We use object storage for maintaining integral files provided by customers.

Excellent cloud offering from the leader in enterprise computing

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Object Storage