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Overview
What is IBM Cloud File Storage?
Deploy and customize flash-backed NFS-based file storage from 25 - 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS. Increase storage capacity or modify your performance to quickly adjust to changes in workload demands.
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Features
IBM Cloud File Storage features
Flexible customization
Choose predefined Endurance tiers with per-GB pricing — ideal for most workloads. Or, fine-tune your environment with allocated IOPS — ideal for workloads with well-defined performance requirements.
Smart and safe management
Stay confident with storage designed to protect against data loss during maintenance or failures with data at rest encryption, volume duplication, and snapshots and replication.
Predictable billing
Lock in your costs without the surprise of hidden fees or additional charges. Ensure lower costs with terabyte increments. For greater flexibility choose between hourly or monthly billing for long-term or short-term storage needs.
Global footprint
Provision file storage alongside your cloud servers in IBM Cloud® data centers around the world.
IOPS provisioning options
Endurance
Provision with predefined, per-gigabyte pricing tiers up to 48,000 IOPS — ideal for most workloads. Starting at USD 0.05 per GB | 0.25 IOPS per GB.
Performance
Manage capacity and total IOPS per storage volume. Provision in granular increments up to 12 TB and 48,000 IOPS max. Starting at USD 0.10 per GB | USD 0.07 per IOPS.
Case study
Jenzabar
Costly, inflexible on-premises systems are limiting higher-education institutions when it's more important than ever to meet evolving student expectations. By using IBM Cloud, Jenzabar has made its business model more scalable and secure. See how this change has opened up a wealth of opportunities.
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