# IBM Cloud Object Storage Reviews **Vendor:** IBM **Category:** [Object Storage Solutions](https://www.g2.com/categories/object-storage-solutions) **Average Rating:** 3.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 28 ## About IBM Cloud Object Storage Implement data storage that is scalable, flexible and simple —using the same platform across your enterprise – on premises, in the cloud or both. Flexibility Gain unmatched flexibility by choosing deployment options that meet your needs –dedicated and private cloud or public and shared cloud, implemented within a region or across multiple regions. Scalable Achieve massive scalability for any volume of data, any business need with IBM Cloud data centers worldwide. Simple Enhance efficiency and reduce costs by using an intuitive, single pane of glass for storage management. ## IBM Cloud Object Storage Reviews ### 1. Reliable and Cost-Effective Enterprise Storage with IBM Cloud Object Storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ricardo M. | Senior Systems Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2026 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** What I like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage is that it combines strong durability and scalability with a cost-effective pricing model, making it a practical and affordable choice for enterprise storage. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** A small downside is that pricing and retrieval costs can be a bit harder to predict at times, especially for active workloads. **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** IBM Cloud Object Storage helps solve the challenge of securely storing large amounts of data in a scalable and durable way. It also works very well for offloading IBM i backups, which helps reduce the load on local systems and simplifies backup management. ### 2. IBM's best product ever I have used. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Srinath P. | System admin, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** I like the way they are implementing the product at our convenience. It is effortless to use, and also storing unstructured data is possible in IBM. Price is also less. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** We are not satisfied with the performance during business hours and it is lagging many times than we expect. The graphical user interface is not up to the mark. So it should be evaluated. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Object Storage:** I want to recommend this product to my friends who are working in different organizations, and they should adequately make use of this. It will be helpful for them and sure they will get satisfied after using this product. I have used this in many ways and my organization is supporting us and providing us this product frequently by renewing it on time. **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** In our organization, we are using storage products, and we have to choose the best one, so now we have replaced it with IBM Cloud Object storage. Now we are very much satisfied. ### 3. Great free quota for testing the platform **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Armando R. | Brand Manager and Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** The generous 25GB of storage is quite nice, either for testing or for small projects **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** It can be a bit complicated to start especially if you need something a bit more technical since there is not so much documentation and community feedback and tutorials like AWS S3 **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Object Storage:** Either if you want to test the platform, or serve 25GB of object storage for free, definitely IBM is worth experimenting with. **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main benefit is serving images from the cloud to my websites. ### 4. All time availability **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** Deploy all the vast amount of data on the cloud and make it available anytime. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** Data transfer speed is not that fast and should be improved. **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am maintaining the client data object on the cloud and using it for analysis purposes. ### 5. Robust object storage on cloud **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nikola M. | Cyber Security Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** I like IBM's Cloud Object Storage class option, IBM provides 4 type of storage options as Active (Standard), Smart Tier, Cool (Vault), Cold Vault. In our company, every IT team member owns an IBM cloud account, and use different services based on their job. As a cybersec team member, I monitor the system and store log data on IBM's active tier. More importantly, company have backups on IBM's Cold Vault service. I tested and I can say it is secure and robust for our company. Migration process was easy and fast thanks to IBM's support desk. They did a real good job. During my security tests, IBM's service was the best amongst cloud services. Compliance check performance was the best. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** Nowadays, support desk is a bit late on answering my enquiries. I can understand, it is hard to work at home due to COVID-19 disaster. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Object Storage:** Compare before you chosse which cloud service perfectly fit for your needs. IBM's support was really helpful during migration process. **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before we migrate to cloud, it was difficult to find enough storage for log data. Because, each system on the environment creates logs every second. After switching to IBM Cloud, it become easier, as it is really easy to scale the service. ### 6. When you need powerful resource, IBM COS helps **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** As a neuroscientist, I need powerful and scalable resources to conduct my brain simulation. Because my research contain lots of brain scan data from different species. IBM Cloud Object Storage is a good solution for my needs. Each brain part data acts as an object of simulation code. Therefore, I need to simulate each brain part simultenaously. IBM COS allows me to organize my data into buckets. Each bucket can be in different regions across the world and the closest location tome is London. It provides less latency while I make a WAN connection. IBM COS offers a reliable access management system as well. As a research team, we collaborate other's work and we need to share some parts of data while I need to limit some of it. Access management is usefull when I need to share objects separately. Lastly,object upload options are various and I findAspera high-speed service useful. The university's security restrictions does not allow me to use API, therefore Aspera provides fast and resilience data transfer. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** Service connection management interface is a bit vague. I am confused each time I try to manage other connect IBM services on that screen. Service usage statistics are clear but not too detailed.I wish they could provide more detailed logs. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Object Storage:** IBM offers free package if you want to try. You will not lose anything if you try it. **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** My neuroscience research simulation require powerful machines to run the code. IBM offers cloud application data storage as unstructured which enables me to shape it according to my needs. If you need powerful and fast resource, I definetely recommend it. ### 7. Object Storage is easier with The IBM COS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher J E. | IT Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** IBM provides real fast service on that product. I know my files are secure, I trust IBM about that. They provide fast and high bandwith. It satisfies my parallel file system and object management needs. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** Nothing I can say negative about it.I am satisfied. **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Object storage,parallel file system, secure, robust, stable. Tool integration has a wide option library. ### 8. Cloud Storage beyond its time! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nelson A. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** IBM Cloud Storage is both easy and fast. It allows us to setup object storage in mins, and best of all, they give us a whopping 10TB capacity, more than enough to handle any of our current and future object storage needs. They provide an easy to use interface, tools to facilitate migration , and testing, and they have embedded AI tools to monitor and let you know if everything is working as it should be. The support is beyond useful, they provide chat, phone, email support that responds in mins not days. They even provide step by step documentation on all the major providers and development languages to guide you. They speed and reliability of their network seems to improve constantly , leaving us always happy with response times and loading of our Assets on the IBM Cloud Object Storage. They are always keeping us in the loop of scheduled maintenance and improvements they are doing and they even migrate things for us , if anything were to possible affect us. We are beyond satisfied with the IBM Cloud Object Storage services we receive. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** At the moment we have not found any dislikes. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Object Storage:** Test them out they offer a free trial, and $200 Credit. **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** As our services grow, we found that speed and performance would become an issue even with flexible cloud solutions, using the IBM Cloud Object Storage we can effectively load our code without worrying about bogging down resources that use to be used by assets, now stored in the IBM Object Storage Cloud. ### 9. The data never miss again! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Restaurants | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** The data protection. As a business company, the privacy and safety of the data are very important. IBM Cloud Object Storage can protect our data from deletion and modification, it can really save us from the operation mistakes. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** So far so good I think. Maybe because I just use the few functions of this software, it's pretty nice for the fundamental need. **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** The fast transfer speed. IBM Cloud Object Storage is one of the fastest transfer software I used. It saves our transfer time and really help us when we are in the middle of the meeting and need to download something on the cloud quickly. ### 10. Very easy to use and plenty of storage **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anthony T. | Field Network Specialist/Solutions Arcitect , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** Very easy to use and plenty of storage I know my data is secure **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** nothing really I like that its easy to login and easy to see all of my data **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** When you deploy infrastructure resources, you have more options about where your data is located. You can select a location, or you can select from a list of the IBM Cloud data centers ### 11. Better than Google Cloud **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emily P. | Lifeguard, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** IBM Cloud Storage allows me to store documents fro many device and not just from one device. It's a very useful platform for all of my documents. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** Pricing is a little expensive especially if you store a lot of data. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Object Storage:** This program even though is a little pricey is worth the money. It saves your company and helps to run the company more smoothly by being able to share files easily with other employees. **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has allowed me to open documents from my company more conveniently and has helped to run the company more efficiently. ### 12. Store whatever you want whenever you want **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dorian B. | Branch manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** The object store solution it’s very reliable and it’s tailored to your needs. You pay for the amount of data stored you use. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** Because it’s scalable you have to thoroughgoing plan the days you will save on the cloud. That requires a lot of work. **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can save money by the option of scalable. Also our data are very secure and we can access them from any device we authorize. ### 13. Perfect Cloud Hosting with the benefits of great security **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** The foremost thing in the minds of users in a cloud environment is security and IBM helps deliver this alongside its hosting services perfectly. Also having servers to in a cloud environment powered by IBM is very time and cost effective. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** It takes time to get a hang of what to do with the IBM Cloud private. Quite technical, sometimes I wish it was more GUI Friendly. **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** PROBLEMS SOLVING We currently use IBM Cloud Private Data Storage with high privacy priority. BENEFITS All in one security: The IBM data facility is a security complaint across the board so that means the peace of mind that comes with knowing that security breaches are covered is always there. Cost: IBM Cloud Private is predictable when it comes to cost so that means no nasty surprises when it comes to budgeting. Automatic Updates: The updates are automated that means that you don't have to worry about updates after systems migration. ### 14. IBM Experience **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Franchesca D. | Left-Mid soccer player Carolina Warriors, Sports, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** I actually like the ease of use or user friendliness of this particular software. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** I don’t like having to train others on this software because they sometimes try to create their own way to use it and create unnecessary issues. **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is used for unstructured data that we need storage for. It secures that data until we’re actually ready to either structure it or demo it. ### 15. Cloud Object Storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Irina K. | Social Media Director, Retail, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** what I like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage is that it is very easy to use and it saves storage in your computer. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** I don't dislike anything about IBM Cloud Object Storage, I think everything is good! I love how it saves room in my computer. **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using this for my Social Media business and it has been very helpful. ### 16. IBM Cloud Object Storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Farming | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** I like being able to invite team members as well as giving them certain permissions. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** I wouldn't say it's the most user-friendly application, but it definitely isn't supposed to be. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Object Storage:** The fast data transfer makes it worth it **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm trying to overcome the limitations of traditional FTP and HTTP transfers by utilizing Aspera high-speed transfer. ### 17. Very easy to use - secure strorage **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew B. | Customer Service Advisor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** It is very easy to store images and important data safely and in a secure space **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** I did find a couple times that the system would lag and cause me to re-upload the data to store **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have been able to store the data that we needed securely ### 18. Secure Storage **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carina B. | Entrepreneur, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** This is probably one of the most business friendly storage solutions lots of support and easy integration **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** I don’t have any dislikes but the price was not as competitive as it could be for similar solutions **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping track of information organizing reports and file storage. ### 19. Reliable & Scalable Object Store Solution. Fast enough for AI **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** Reliable and scalable to our requirement Excellent team members, information, services, and products achieve a high-bandwidth parallel file system solution, with a high stability and robustness. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** The user experience is not great External IPs are not provided for free account. Sometime, it slow and present problems of delay to synchronize **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has a data migration with high security, which increases the efficiency of the work ### 20. Great experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kelly A. | Customer Service Representative, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** Great ability to save information for use **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** Nothing so far. Not too much experience with it yet **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Excellent ability to manage and store data ### 21. IBM Cloud **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** 1. This is a low cost Archive. 2. Data transfer is very fast. 3. Data is protected and is secured. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** 1. Storage is limited. 2. This is pay as you go. We need to buy it rather than free storage space. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Object Storage:** Very good product with improved security for the data stored. **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are using this for data archiving and backup, web and mobile applications, and as scalable, persistent storage for analytics ### 22. IBM Cloud Review **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** The integrated system is perfect for serving small-medium companies with integrated cloud storage space available when need be **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** I do believe the system could be updated to better reflect the systems needed to utilize the cloud platform **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are utilizing the storage space for our highly sensitive information that we no longer need to utilize at the moment ### 23. Secure ask Watson **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** IBM is always providing the best of the best, but not always the best solution when user adaption is on a learning curve. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** This was not the way to go for non advanced technical knowledge **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** This was used to store PII information of client base, it was definitely secure ### 24. Effective and efficient **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** Very few drops, speed is never and issue and attractive. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** I don’t have really any dislikes. Having the ability to try it for a month and then choose whether we wanted to use it, was awesome. **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Trusted storage ### 25. IBM Storage Cloud Gets Job Done **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** It’s a no frills storage system. Just maintains files seamlessly without manual effory **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** Customer service could improve for any questions after implementation. **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing data storage and backing up employee files ### 26. ICOS **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** It is easy to use and the documentation and code examples are comprehensive. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** There is a lot of dependency on the documention of AmazonS3. **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** I worked on a POC with connecting working with ICOS but I imagine that we could use it to store legacy data. ### 27. Useful and efficient process **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Relations | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** Easy and intuitive data integration service **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** Difficult and cumbersome to use in the beginning **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Object Storage:** Pay attention to instructions **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** One stop shop for data storage ### 28. Great product **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2017 **What do you like best about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** I like having all data located in one place accessible anywhere you have a secure connection. It is very useful when collaborating and sharing data and conducting meetings. **What do you dislike about IBM Cloud Object Storage?** I dislike the fact that there is always constant threats and vulnerabilities to think about when using the cloud based database. **Recommendations to others considering IBM Cloud Object Storage:** Make sure you have a team that can handle transition and plan for a short period of data sharing uploads to be backlogged and prepare for ongoing tweaks and revisions. **What problems is IBM Cloud Object Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides a safe yet efficient place to retrieve store and update information while driving down cost of storing physical data. ## IBM Cloud Object Storage Discussions - [What is IBM Cloud Object Storage used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ibm-cloud-object-storage-used-for) - [Which protocol is supported by the IBM cloud object storage offering?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-protocol-is-supported-by-the-ibm-cloud-object-storage-offering) - [Who are the main cloud competitors for IBM cloud object storage?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/who-are-the-main-cloud-competitors-for-ibm-cloud-object-storage) - [What is IBM cloud storage?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ibm-cloud-storage) - [What is the cloud object storage used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-cloud-object-storage-used-for) - [View IBM Cloud Object Storage pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-cloud-object-storage/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-10+22%3A10%3A37+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=61f98b19-8e00-4144-8e50-f5a9d2c1e19f&secure%5Btoken%5D=d7180e30acf8d3b313c18bfa023e74bfc382273940906fd03280f44245faf595&format=llm_user) ## IBM Cloud Object Storage Integrations - [IBM i on Power Systems](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-i-on-power-systems/reviews) ## IBM Cloud Object Storage Features **Customization** - Custom VMs - Console Configuration - Operating Systems **Functionality** - Versioning - Scalability - Speed of access **Infrastructure** - Network Management - Virtual Machines - Security - Maintenance - Scalability **Reliability** - Redundancy - Availability **Management** - Cloud Migration - Storage Management - Analytics - Database Management - Logging **Security** - Encryption - Auditing - Access control **Compatibility** - Infrastructure compatibility - Interoperability ## Top IBM Cloud Object Storage Alternatives - [Azure Blob Storage](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-blob-storage/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (103 reviews) - [Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-simple-storage-service-s3/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (842 reviews) - [Google Cloud Storage](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-storage/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (564 reviews)