IBM Cloud Object Storage
Object Storage is the primary storage solution that is used in the cloud and on-premises solutions as a central storage platform for unstructured data. Object Storage is growing more
popular for the following reasons:
▪It is designed for exabyte scale.
▪It is easy to manage and yet meets the growing demands of enterprises for a broad set of applications and workloads.
▪It allows users to balance storage cost, location, and compliance control requirements across data sets and essential applications.
IBM Cloud Object Storage (IBM COS) system provides industry-leading flexibility that enables your organization to handle unpredictable but always changing needs of business and evolving
workloads. IBM COS system is a software-defined storage solution that is hardware aware. This allows IBM COS to be an enterprise-grade storage solution that is highly available and
reliable based on commodity x86 servers. IBM COS takes full advantage of this hardware awareness by ensuring that the server performs optimally from a monitoring, management, and
performance perspective.
The following areas are covered in the IBM Cloud Object Storage section: