Item: IBM Cloud Object Storage
Rating: 7
Author: Li Rong

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Object Storage

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Cloud Object Storage [is] used for training and and data storage. It is mainly used by the data science department. It enables users who are not the most familiar with difficult devops procedures to work with big data and manage their data. It addresses problems like data synchronization, user training, and so on.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Ease of Use.
Extensive documentation.
One stop shop with devops integration.

Cons

Loading speed.
CLI integration not as declarative as other providers.
Certain documentation not up to date.

Return on Investment

Helped to speed up sprint.
Helped to onboard non-technical users.
Cost is sometimes by finance departments.

Alternatives Considered

AWS Data Pipeline

Aws platforms requires a lot of prerequisite knowledge, which is of very high cost to developers and data scientists in general. Although we were able to facilitate training for usage of aws, the overhead of maintenance and onboarding still poses a big problem. This is why IBM Cloud Object Storage comes as a very good out of box solution.

Likelihood to Recommend

Cloud object storage is well suited for storing static assets, things like images, videos, music clips, or any other type of unstructured large data blobs. It is especially suited for use cases when users need storage across different regions and time zones.

It is potentially not suited for cases when there is large amounts of read and write at a very high speed.

IBM Cloud Object Storage Feature Ratings

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Jordan Freedman
(Vendor Representative) commented 5 years ago
Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback on your experience with IBM Cloud Object Storage. We truly value our relationship with you and appreciate your willingness to share details about your experience.