Google Cloud Storage vs. IBM Cloud Object Storage

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Google Cloud Storage	Score8.5 out of 10	N/A	Google Cloud Storage is unified object storage for developers and enterprises.	N/A
IBM Cloud Object Storage	Score7.1 out of 10	N/A	IBM Cloud Object Storage is an IBM Cloud product in the endpoint backup and IaaS categories. It is commonly used for data archiving and backup, for web and mobile applications, and as scalable, persistent storage for analytics.	$0 per month

The One-Rate and Standard service plans for Cloud Object Storage include resiliency options, flexible data classes and built-in security. Pricing is based on the choice of location, storage class and resiliency choice.

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	Google Cloud Storage	IBM Cloud Object Storage
Considered Both Products	Google No answer on this topic	IBM Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Object Storage As Google Cloud Storage is our main product for this kind of thing, it remains the standard but in terms of overall performance, flexibility, stability, durability, and scalability, IBM Cloud Object Storage has put it through its paces. I think having a product put Google … Incentivized Helpful? Ausrine Stankeviciute RPA Developer in Information Technology at Innovior (Management Consulting, 11-50 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Object Storage In my personal experience using both Google Cloud Storage and IBM Cloud Object Storage, I think that IBM provides a much better service when it comes to uploading, managing and sharing files because of how easy and straightforward the process is. Overall, because of the added … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Object Storage Google Cloud Storage does not have a lot of elements in comparison to IBM Cloud Object Storage. Incentivized Helpful? Md Masudul Hassan Lecturer in Professional Services at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (Education Management, 501-1000 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Object Storage Along with IBM Watson for AI and machine learning, IBM Aspera for fast data transport, and IBM Cloud SQL Query for data analysis, IBM Cloud Object Storage works seamlessly with other IBM Cloud services. For research initiatives that call for a variety of tools and services, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Object Storage The previous cloud OSS platform that we used was provided by Google. Functionality in OSS is restricted in several ways. The setup and configuration steps are complicated, making the software difficult to operate. We had no problems at all during our time at IBM. Buckets may be … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Object Storage Every vendor provides the storage capability. Just IBM Cloud Object Storage suits our needs from the cost perspective and usage perspective. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Object Storage I feel that both of these products have almost the same kind of work. Both are used for cloud based storage of unstructured data. IBM Cloud Storage Object Storage provides an upper hand as it is more effective. Incentivized Helpful? Mike Koolwijk Online marketing consulent in Marketing at Klantenfabriek (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Object Storage IBM is [on] another level against these products. I think IBM is more for the bigger companies with bigger projects. If you are smaller and already use MS Office or Google then check those products first, they also have more advanced options (sometimes paid) to enhance your … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Object Storage Both products are very similar, offering cloud based unstructured data object storage. I think each works the best when it is being accessed from other products in that cloud's ecosystem. IBM Cloud Object Storage definitely stands up to other products, however those products … Incentivized Helpful? MAURICIO CORRAL RIERA CTO in Information Technology at AUDINSA (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Object Storage I consider that it is easy to learn, intuitive, easy to administer, has high data handling capacity, satisfactory performance in large volumes of records Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Object Storage Better price consistency, performance and flexibility. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Object Storage IBM Cloud Storage makes things simple and delivers the same result. We don't need to complicate things, from a user's perspective, if the purpose of cloud storage is just simple. Incentivized Helpful? Akhil Ramani Full Stack Developer in Information Technology at zeonlabs (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Object Storage As I have mentioned earlier IBM provides free 25GB storage to start with. So, I was experimenting with a new solution to implement in our product. Therefore, it is good to start with a free plan and reduce costs. Then, I found IBM COS as a good fit for my projects. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Object Storage Above listed do not provide free trial at all. IBM provided me with free lite plan so we can try it first for free. And I think this is the best thing about IBM. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Object Storage IBM storage is easy to use for someone who has some prior experience with cloud services. It provides a fluid interface which is detailed and helps navigate. Incentivized Helpful? Kim Desrosiers Full-stack Developer in Information Technology at WikiNet (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Object Storage We selected IBM Cloud Storage because it is a product from our cloud provider. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Object Storage at this moment, IBM Cloud Object Storage is the best cost-performance service Incentivized Helpful?
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Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Google Cloud Storage and IBM Cloud Object Storage
Feature	Google Cloud Storage - Ratings	IBM Cloud Object Storage 7.9 145 Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	00 Ratings	8.1133 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	00 Ratings	7.5135 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	00 Ratings	8.3132 Ratings
Monitoring tools	00 Ratings	7.3135 Ratings
Security controls	00 Ratings	8.2140 Ratings

User Ratings
	Google Cloud Storage	IBM Cloud Object Storage
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (35 ratings)	8.2 (149 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (2 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (12 ratings)	7.3 (5 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (9 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.8 (13 ratings)	9.1 (8 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	7.3 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (1 ratings)	5.8 (4 ratings)

Google Cloud Storage vs. IBM Cloud Object Storage

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