TrustRadius Insights for IBM Cloud Object Storage are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
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.
For product integration with Mainframe Storage, using IBM Cloud Object Storage as another storage tier for the mainframe. It 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
Its great for storing additional data or using it as another storage tier
VU
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (Computer Software company, 51-200 employees)
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.
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Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (Computer Software company, 201-500 employees)
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.
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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (Computer Software company, 11-50 employees)
In our BMI application, we utilize IBM Cloud Object Storage to securely store and manage user data, which includes height, weight, age, and sex. This cloud-based solution addresses key business challenges by providing scalable, reliable, and cost-effective data storage and retrieval. It ensures data accessibility for our machine learning model, enabling accurate BMI calculations. The scope of our use case revolves around maintaining privacy, data integrity, and seamless access for users, thereby enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of our application. IBM Cloud Object Storage plays a pivotal role in supporting our BMI calculation and health monitoring system.
Pros
Scalability
Security
Data accessibility
Compliance
Cost efficiency
Cons
User interface
Pricing transparency
Advanced analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Cloud Object Storage is well-suited for:
Data Backup and Archiving
Media and Content Distribution
IoT Data Storage
Data Lakes
Collaborative Workflows
IBM Cloud Object Storage may be less appropriate for:
Transaction Processing
Small-Scale Data Storage
Temporary Storage
Highly Regulated Data
Legacy Systems
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Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (Computer Software company, 1-10 employees)
I effectively leverage IBM Cloud Object Storage to streamline my data management needs. Its robust features and scalability ensure seamless storage and retrieval of crucial data. The user-friendly interface simplifies the process of organizing and accessing files, while its robust security measures guarantee data integrity. IBM Cloud Object Storage has become an indispensable tool for my data storage and retrieval requirements, enhancing my workflow and data management efficiency.
Pros
Clarity of dashboard layout (and the ability to edit the the dashboard to fit our needs) makes it easy and intuitive to use.
Ease of navigation allows for quick selection of tasks to complete and/or manage.
Clear and reasonable billing options for usage.
Cons
Would like to be able to add a favorites list as a dashboard block for quick access to the most frequently managed resources (rather than searching the Resource List page).
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Cloud Object Storage is well suited for businesses that require scalable and cost-effective data storage solutions. It excels in scenarios involving massive unstructured data, like multimedia content, backups, and archives. However, it may be less appropriate for organizations with minimal storage needs or those requiring high-performance, low-latency access to data, as it's optimized for durability and data integrity rather than real-time data retrieval.
I use IBM cloud storage for educational purposes in order to learn its features and applications. It has helped me to learn the various aspects of cloud computing and begin my journey as a cloud computing professional.
Pros
Beginner Friendly
Wide variety of Storage Facilities
Suitable for both professionals and learners
Cost effective
Cons
In future IBM cloud could provide free or paid courses for learning cloud computing
Likelihood to Recommend
It is very versatile for all kinds of businesses and can be a great learning platform for beginner level cloud engineers.
I used it to render my web development project . Smooth to use
Pros
Clean UI
Easy to use
Robust
Cons
Complex Pricing Model:
Limited Integration with Non-IBM Services
Data Transfer Speeds
Likelihood to Recommend
Big Data Analytics: Organizations that need to store and analyze large datasets for business intelligence, data warehousing, or machine learning can benefit from IBM Cloud Object Storage. It integrates well with analytics tools and platforms like Hadoop, Spark, and IBM Watson. Small File Storage: If you have a large number of very small files (e.g., small text files or configuration files), using IBM Cloud Object Storage may not be the most efficient choice. Object storage systems are generally optimized for larger objects, and managing small files might result in increased metadata overhead.
IBM's Cloud Object storage has a very wide scope of use. In our organization, it is being used for internal operations which involves a lot of data generation from one department/subsidiary to the other. It has been an efficient and faster way to access bulk of this unstructured data. We work with a lot of students data which they generate through portal, and this has been a cost effective way to store it.
Pros
Scales well (faster)
User friendly once set up
Reliability has never been an issue
Cons
Set up process could have been easier
More dashboard analytics on data
Access control
Interface
Likelihood to Recommend
It would work well in scenarios when there is a lot of unstructured data (with different types of data) that has to be accessed periodically that too in a secure manner. This has been our use case for this product. It might not be suited when you have very fast (high-frequency) moving data, which might not require encryption as well.
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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (Computer Software company, 11-50 employees)
I used it to create a bucket and store object inside it. I cam e to know about it via Coursera course on DevOps. It taught me end to end on how to create a bucket and store object inside it. Apart from it different types of Storage like: vault, Smart tier, Cold etc.
Pros
Stores Objects
Hosts Websites
Cons
On introduction of more Storage classes
Likelihood to Recommend
For hosting any website it would be a great fit as I feel it is not something alot of people already know. Hence it has great potential to be boom in future to be used in many firms for a Storage model in IBM cloud. I like the smart tier of this IBM Cloud Object Storage. ALso it can be used to store backups and media files of the infrastructure.
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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (Computer Software company, 10,001+ employees)
I'm currently new to it but I plan to use it for migrating some of the work I'm currently busy with as it requires the need for cloud migration, the main product is the usage of the company telematics where I have to draw insights for our clients and be able to produce real time results.
Pros
The safety of data which is the crucial part
Receive real-time results
The use of other useful features like AI tools
Cons
Integration with other cloud services
Limited customization options
User interface, I had a hard time finding out how to delete an instance that I've created
Likelihood to Recommend
I would say it's the large-scale data storage because I'm able to store a large amount of unstructured data which is a secondary backup for the company, what I tend to see as not so great is the lack of storing structured data. It is cost effective as I pay for what I use which is very convenient
