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Get up to 75% off the One-Rate Plan – a single, all-inclusive price for all storage costs, as low as $10/TB per month for new workloads. Lock in your rate by 31 December 2025.

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IBM Cloud® Object Storage lets you build a centralized datastore for nearly unlimited amounts of AI data. Curate and prepare data in its native format without needing to move in and out of IBM Cloud Object Storage. Leverage optimized datastore for data and AI workloads, supported by querying, governance and open data formats to access and share data across multiple query engines. Start in minutes with built-in security, governance, and automation.

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What you can do
Cost-optimize your data warehouse

Optimize workloads from your data warehouse and achieve up to 2x price performance. Reduce costs of your data warehouse, such as Hadoop, by up to 50% through workload optimization.

Modernize your data lake

Extract more value from your data by modernizing ineffective data lakes with warehouse-like performance, security and governance. Centrally access all cloud data with multiple query engines.

Use Apache Spark analytics

Get a low-cost, scalable persistent storage layer for analytics with optimized connectivity to Apache Spark.

Store training models

Accelerate machine and deep learning workflows required to infuse AI into your business. Build and train AI models, and prepare and analyze data, in a single, integrated environment.

Safeguard your AI data

IBM Cloud Object Storage provides security and data durability to store large volumes of data, helping safeguard your data from tampering or manipulation by ransomware attacks and helping ensure it meets compliance and business requirements.

Build and analyze pipelines

Store massive amounts of IoT data at low cost and allow analytics frameworks to access the data directly. Easily set up and manage data pipelines to generate analytics-ready data.

Features Store data for ML and GenAI workflows

Integrated with tools such as IBM watsonx.ai to train, validate, tune, and deploy both traditional machine learning and new generative AI capabilities. Choose Cloud Object Storage as your data source for low-cost, near unlimited scalability and extreme durability.

Drive insights and predictions

Scale AI workloads, for all your data, anywhere with open lakehouse architectures, such as watsonx.data – natively integrated with IBM Cloud Object Storage for up to 50% lower cost and up to 2x price-performance.

Store data for AI governance projects

Accelerate responsibility, transparency and explainability with watsonx.governance, with Cloud Object Storage as your data source for industry-leading security and encryption, immutable retention with FS validated controls for regulated industries.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

With immutable data retention and audit controls capabilities – IBM Cloud Object Storage supports Gen AI like RAG deployable architecture with watsonx.ai, helping to safeguard your data from tampering or manipulation by ransomware attacks and helps ensure it meets compliance and business requirements.

Perform Apache Spark analytics

IBM Cloud Object Storage offers optimized connectivity to Apache Spark services to store data from multiple sources. Decouple the tiers to store data in an object storage layer and spin up clusters in watsonx.data, IBM Analytics Engine or other Spark deployments.

Readily move data from HDFS clusters

IBM Big Replicate frees up space on Hadoop clusters by efficiently moving data between Hadoop data clusters to IBM Cloud Object Storage, offering continuous replication with data consistency, at up to 50% lower cost and 2x price performance than HDFS.

Perform intelligent data discovery

IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog helps you govern data once it’s in IBM Cloud Object Storage using data profilers that segment and protect data to allow for better governance.

Use cost-effective, flexible and highly durable storage

IBM Cloud Object Storage is designed to deliver 99.999999999999% data durability, enabling a lwo-cost yet robust centralized data repository for virtually unlimited amounts of data of any type, from any source.

Access security-rich encryption

Secure data with automatic server-side encryption or IBM Quantum Safe™ keys managed by IBM Key Protect or Hyper Protect Crypto Services, built on the highest level of security with FIPS 140-2 level 4 certified hardware.

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Harvard | IBM

Learn how Harvard uses IBM Cloud Object Storage to accelerate and scale their AI safety research.

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Blendow Group

At the forefront of legal knowledge and intelligence distribution in Sweden, Blendow Group leverages IBM Cloud Object Storage with watsonx.ai to increase the efficiency and breadth of our legal document analysis.

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Happiest Minds Technologies Limited | IBM

Happiest Minds’ Digital Content Monetization (DCM) solution is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform using IBM Cloud with IBM Cloud Object Storage to provide customers real-time polling, interactive charts, snipping, social sharing, audio-visual content, and AI and ML-powered knowledge bots.

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Comtelsat Cloud Public Sector Broadcasting | IBM

Comtelsat using IBM Cloud with IBM Cloud Object Storage to provide broadcasters resilient IT platforms that can deliver petabytes of video smoothly and reliably, with machine-learning algorithms that can turn existing video content into new business value.

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Gemological Institute of America | IBM

GIA and IBM Cloud team up to revolutionize the diamond industry, using IBM Cloud Object Storage, a cost-effective storage solution that meets all of GIA’s requirements for scalability and accessibility. IBM Cloud Object Storage also offers built-in encryption and policy-enabled, lockable, write once read many (WORM) storage.

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Promare - Mayflower | IBM

Sea change — setting a new course for ocean research with a fully autonomous AI-helmed research vessel powered by IBM Cloud and IBM Cloud Object Storage.

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