Cloud Storage Services

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From now until the end of December 2023, new IBM Cloud clients can receive up to USD 60,000 in IBM Cloud credits.

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A scalable, security-rich and cost-effective home for data

Our cloud storage services offer a scalable, security-rich and cost-effective home for your data while supporting traditional and cloud-native workloads. Provision and deploy services such as access object, block and file storage. Adjust capacity and optimize performance as requirements change. Pay only for the cloud storage you need.

Cost-effectiveness

Optimize cloud storage services spending with our flexible tiered options and no-cost private network. Move your data between IBM data centers.

Security

Guard your data with BYOK or IBM Cloud®Hyper Protect Services key management. IBM Cloud supports FIPS 140-2 Level 4 hardware.

Governance

Manage and enforce policies with enhanced governance and observability capabilities across all your cloud storage environments.

Durability

Achieve 99.999999999999% data durability for IBM Cloud Object Storage and increase data resiliency with built-in fault tolerance.¹

IBM Cloud Object Storage

This application-data archive and backup platform offers persistent cloud storage and data encryption by default. Made for electronic records retention, it helps with regulatory compliance.

IBM Cloud Block Storage

IBM Cloud® Block Storage for VPC is a hypervisor-mounted, high-performance data storage solution for your virtual server instances. Block Storage for VPC offers a capacity range that spans from 10 GB to 16,000 GB across all available profiles, allows volume capacity increments in GBs along with IOPS tuning for a volume attached to an instance.

IBM Cloud File Storage

IBM Cloud® File Storage for VPC is a zonal file storage offering that provides NFS-based file storage services. File shares in an availability zone within a region can be created, shared with multiple virtual server instances within the same zone or other zones in your region, across multiple VPCs. You can also limit access to a file share to a specific virtual server instance within a VPC and encrypt the data in transit.

Tech takes kids to Antarctica

The Mawson’s Huts Foundation teamed with IBM Business Partner ISW to create an interactive, AI-powered learning platform to educate children about Antarctica. The platform runs on IBM Cloud Foundry and uses IBM Watson® Assistant to interpret questions and deliver answers through videos, images and documents — all stored and retrieved from IBM Cloud Object Storage.

Creating educational opportunities

Object storage

Find blog posts related to cloud object storage, such as IBM Cloud Object Storage, serverless data and analytics, and much more.

Watch this video to learn about object storage and how it stores large amounts of data in a highly scalable manner.

Watch this video for an overview of these two types of traditional cloud storage. Learn the advantages of each and how they’re set up.

What is cloud security?

Get an overview of cloud security, as well as the procedures and technology designed to address external and internal threats to business security.

Next steps

Create an IBM Cloud account. Upgrade to get a USD 200 credit on IBM Cloud applications and services.

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Footnotes

¹ Based on IBM-internal analysis of client data. Individual client results will vary.