--- title: IBM Cloud Object Storage Reviews meta_title: 'IBM Cloud Object Storage Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 28 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how IBM Cloud Object Storage works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.9 review_count: 28 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: Storage Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/storage-management --- # 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. 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. ### 3. 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. ### 4. 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 ### 5. 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. ### 6. 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. ### 7. 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. ### 8. 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. ### 9. 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 ### 10. 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 ## 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?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=5§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-12+10%3A59%3A33+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=4b619584-fb7a-4ae7-96b5-108ff112211a&secure%5Btoken%5D=239dd78e1fc2fc11e5bbad44d77b4e8ba4a2f5132c77708fb8eccaef7907ceb7&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 (841 reviews) - [Google Cloud Storage](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-storage/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (564 reviews)