Overview

Why IBM Cloud for storage

Cloud storage services from IBM offer a scalable, security-rich and cost-effective home for your data while supporting traditional and cloud-native workloads. Cloud storage services from IBM make it easier to 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.

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Benefits of cloud storage services

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 and resiliency

Achieve 99.99999999% data durability for IBM Cloud Object Storage and increase data resiliency with built-in fault tolerance.¹

Cloud storage services solutions

IBM Cloud Object Storage

a light board demo of object storage capabilities

IBM Cloud Object Storage is an application-data archive and backup platform that offers persistent cloud storage and data encryption by default. Made for electronic records retention, it helps with regulatory compliance. 25 GB per month — no cost.

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IBM Cloud Block Storage

a light board demo of block storage capabilities

This NFS-based file-share solution is feature rich, persistent and high performing. Get up to 12 TB of cloud storage with snapshot and replication support or IOPS allocations for demanding performance needs.

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IBM Cloud File Storage

a light board demo of file storage capabilities

This NFS-based file-share solution is scalable and backed by flash. Endurance and custom performance provisioning tiers are available.

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Bitly

Bitly, Inc. stores and manages a 1 billion-user-interaction data set using cloud storage services, including the cost-effective IBM Cloud Object Storage environment.

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Cloud storage services resources

Cloud security

Cloud security is a collection of procedures and technology designed to address external and internal threats to business security.

Cloud object storage blogs

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

What is object storage?

Object storage is a cloud storage service enabling storage of large amounts of data in a highly scalable manner. (03:42)

Block storage versus file storage

Amy Blea shows you which type of cloud storage you should use if you need low latency, high scalability or the ability to share data with multiple users. (04:03)

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Footnotes

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