Item: IBM Cloud Object Storage
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Cloud Object Storage is being used by a department. We run IoT service in IBM Cloud for the connected devices that we make. We use IBM Cloud Object Storage to store images taken by those connected devices. Users then have the capability to view the stored images in the mobile apps.

Pros and Cons

Good region selections
Good web UI support
Easy to configure

Search function in the web UI has room for improvement

Return on Investment

We are able to use different storage classes to lower the infrastructure cost
We are able to store all images with no storage operation work

IBM Cloud Object Storage Flexible Storage Tiers

Yes, we chose the most cost efficient storage class to minimize the cost. For example, we use cold for backup data and active for regular user data.

IBM Cloud Portfolio

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
IBM Cloud Databases

We are able to select the best IBM products that satisfy our service requirements. With the combination of IBM Cloud products, we don't need to spend much time on the infrastructure level. Instead we can spend time improving applications that can serve our consumers better.

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Cloud Object Storage is well suited to store unstructured data. It has different storage classes to choose based on requirements such as availability, performance, cost, etc. Buckets can be used to control the data grouping and data access.

It can also be used for scenarios like data backup, or long-term. cheap, persistent storage.

Good object storage service in the cloud

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Object Storage