Customize your file share capacity and number of IOPS based on your workload demands, then increase capacity and adjust IOPS on the fly without having to provision new file shares.

Avoid data loss during maintenance or failures without creating system-level RAID arrays.

File shares are provisioned alongside your cloud servers in data centers around the world.

Protect your data with provider-managed encryption for data at rest at no additional charge. For more control, bring your own root keys to the cloud or have an IBM key management service generate them for you. Root keys encrypt the file share using envelope encryption, a process that encrypts a key with another key. This offers you greater security. Supported key management services are Key Protect and Hyper Protect Crypto Services (HPCS).

You can establish an encrypted mount connection between the virtual server instance and storage system by using the Internet Security Protocol (IPsec) security profile and X.509 certificates. By enabling encryption in transit, you create secure end-to-end encryption for your data.

File shares are exposed to authorized devices over routed TCP/IP connections for resiliency. Redundant network architecture (multiple network paths) and redundant storage (high availability pairs) assure file shares tolerate service interruption to a part of the infrastructure while maintaining service availability.

File storage is flash-backed for faster performance.

Choose to pay for your storage on either an hourly or monthly basis.

Support most workloads and various application needs at your desired level with simple, predefined, per-gigabyte pricing tiers up to 48,000 IOPS.

Manage rapid data changes and well-defined performance requirements. Control both storage capacity and total number of IOPS per storage volume.

Increase or decrease your IOPS and expand existing volumes to meet dynamic workload demands. Pay only for what you need, when you need it.

Capture point-in-time snapshots and replicate them to other data centers for business continuity.

Create a new, independent volume from a snapshot. Increase the size and performance for a new volume and immediately manage like other volumes.

Provider-managed encryption at rest by default protects your data at no additional cost or impact to performance.

Mount block devices for high availability and durability while clustering configurations. Avoid data loss during maintenance or failures.

Implement flash-backed storage, encryption for data at rest, snapshots and replication, volume duplication, expandable volumes and adjustable IOPS.