IBM Cloud Block Storage

Overview

Durable and scalable storage solutions

IBM Cloud Block Storage is a high-performance, durable, and scalable storage solution designed for IBM Cloud Virtual Servers. It offers persistent, low-latency storage with a wide range of configuration options, making it ideal for enterprise applications, databases, and high frequency transactional workloads that require high availability and scalability.

Features

Explore key features

Reliable disaster recovery

Easily detach your block storage volumes, then quickly reattach onto another server based on shifting workload requirements. Get encryption at rest, with one click.

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Reliable disaster recovery

Fail-over to an exact replica in a secondary, duplicate volume location with snapshots.

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Fast container storage

Get fast access to geographically distributed data using IBM Cloud® Kubernetes’ persistent volumes and IBM Cloud Block Storage solutions.

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Transactional databases

Cloud based block storage is often used to give high performance to databases and other transactional workloads. As DB requires consistent I/O performance & low-latency connectivity, its best choice.

Server side processing

Any application which requires the service side processing, like .Net, Java, PHP etc.

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Running mission critical applications

Likes of SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft SharePoint etc. High performance and reliability make block storage a common solution for storing emails.

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Use cases

Built for real‑world scenarios

Flexibility

Scalable storage and performance flexibility from 1–32,000 GB, growing seamlessly with demand.

Global Footprint

Provisioned alongside your cloud servers in data centres around the world.

Security

Security and control over your data with encryption options, governance policies and access permissions.

High Availability

IBM Block storage is stored redundantly across multiple physical disks in an availability zone, in order to prevent data loss due to failure of any single component.