IBM Cloud Block Storage vs. Sync.com

IBM Cloud Block Storage

Sync.com

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Cloud Block Storage	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	IBM offers their Block Storage service via IBM Cloud, allowing users to deploy and customize flash-backed iSCSI block storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS.	N/A
Sync.com	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Sync.com is a cloud storage provider that allows businesses to sync and backup files for versioning and collaboration. Sync.com includes a suite of features for managing backup and syncing settings.	$6 per month (billed annually) per user

Pricing

IBM Cloud Block Storage

Sync.com

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Pro Teams Standard: $6
per month (billed annually) per user
Pro Teams+ Unlimited: $15
per month (billed annually) per user
Enterprise: Custom Pricing

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud Block Storage	Sync.com
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Pro Teams+ Unlimited is available on a monthly payment plan at $18 per user. Plans for Solo users also available.

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Community Pulse
	IBM Cloud Block Storage	Sync.com
Considered Both Products	IBM Cloud Block Storage Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Both services are pretty much identical when it comes to their offerings and specifically in their availability, durability and scalability of block storage. AWS S3 stacks someone better in most clients given the vast offerings of AWS within the rest of their solutions … Incentivized Helpful? Diana Dumpsey PPC Manager Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Unlike the above platforms, IBM Cloud Block Storage enable secure and quick big data migration through its secure environment and the flexibility of its Cloud options is effective. Data analytics through IBM Cloud Block Storage are easily prepared and the data access is very … Incentivized Helpful? Veronica Larson Business Analyst Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM has given us the best data storage services and I am proud of its entire performance. The product has been able to link all our services to cloud servers that enhance transparency and offer backup services to all our services. Data that runs across the entire organization … Incentivized Helpful? Rita Joy Information Specialist Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM Cloud Block Storage is known for professional space control, [which] values even the large database of above 12000GB. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage co-assist with the data managing solution, more so for data mining, analytics, and sharing. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage … Incentivized Helpful? Jude Nickson ICT Manager Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM Cloud Block Storage is extensively affordable when compared with the competing applications. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage works in different operating systems, hence, it is never discriminatory. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage creates a proper way of integrating with … Incentivized Helpful? Ramindu Deshapriya Lead Consultant - Technology Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Amazon S3 isn't on IBM Cloud and isn't the best solution to be used alongside applications deployed to the IBM Cloud. Incentivized Helpful? Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage The biggest difference that I have been able to find from other services external to IBM has been the domain, experience and application of the technology at the datacenter scale that allows [us] to be quite sure that the data will be in good collection. But I insist that the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM Cloud Object Storage is better suited for application development and easy to use from a higher level. IBM Cloud Block Storage is better suited as block storage as a service and totally integrated with the infrastructure as a service, making it easy to deploy and used either … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Being part of an organization that has a sizable footprint in IBM Cloud, the IBM Cloud Block Storage is a natural choice. Also, IBM Cloud Block Storage's native integration with Aspera is an added bonus for use cases needing fast, reliable data storage and transfer solutions. Incentivized Helpful? CP Charlie Pusey Technical Operations Manager Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage N/A. IBM Cloud Block Storage was the best solution as we already use IBM Cloud for the information that would utilise it. Incentivized Helpful? NS Nobuyuki Suzuki CAA (Chief Applications Architect) Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage No experience with other products Incentivized Helpful?	Sync.com Paul Li Principal Chose Sync.com Sync does an excellent job stacking up against the competitors. Like the others, Sync.com has an app that helps monitor files uploaded or downloaded into the cloud. Sync.com offers a free account that has a capacity of 6GB which is more than many of the other competitors. With … Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	IBM Cloud Block Storage	Sync.com
Small Businesses	Vultr Score 6.8 out of 10	SugarSync Score 5.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
	IBM Cloud Block Storage	Sync.com
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Cloud Block Storage	Sync.com
Likelihood to Recommend	The service in general is great because on the backend. IBM offers experience and knowledge in the use of data center technologies undeniably. I recommend it for almost any situation but particularly for databases and especially large ones. That possibility of adjusting IOPS dynamically to levels that other data centers do not offer makes it unique. I don't recommend using the service if you don't have an infrastructure expert who knows about servers, Linux, and storage because a lot of the configuration and settings require an expert hand. Incentivized Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review	Sync.com is well suited for all organizations who want to both store & share files in the cloud. Sync.com is only good when dealing with a single account at a time. This means all projects need to reside on a single Sync.com location since there's no app solution currently available to monitor more than one cloud storage location. Incentivized Paul Li Principal Read full review
Pros	Proficient scaling and system customization, which allows editing. Wide range of system storage, ranging from 25GB to 12000GB. Finally, IBM Cloud Block Storage deploys the most technical and efficient security measures. Incentivized Rita Joy Information Specialist Read full review	Store files in the cloud. Share files with others. Have file version history. Incentivized Paul Li Principal Read full review
Cons	The documentation must be clearer and updated, thinking about each distribution that they offer in the cloud Downtime when IOPS are raised can be less The configuration can be more automated from the same control panel and not have to take it so much to the CLI Incentivized Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review	Provide an option on the desktop app to monitor more than a single account. Offer a way to see deleted files on the app. Incentivized Paul Li Principal Read full review
Alternatives Considered	IBM Cloud Block Storage is extensively affordable when compared with the competing applications. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage works in different operating systems, hence, it is never discriminatory. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage creates a proper way of integrating with other applications, more so for database control and management. IBM Cloud Block Storage is clear, through its operational charter. Incentivized Jude Nickson ICT Manager Read full review	Sync does an excellent job stacking up against the competitors. Like the others, Sync.com has an app that helps monitor files uploaded or downloaded into the cloud. Sync.com offers a free account that has a capacity of 6GB which is more than many of the other competitors. With security and version history, Sync.com is the software program to beat. Incentivized Paul Li Principal Read full review
Return on Investment	Cloud data access and easy Cloud data analytics creation platform. Visualization and Cloud data storage solution. Secure and smooth Cloud data transfer. Incentivized Diana Dumpsey PPC Manager Read full review	Sync.com has major ROI in not having to invest in more storage space on premise. Files on Sync.com are all secure and are backed up so we don't need to spend the time doing backups. Sync.com does an excellent job of allowing us to share files with others by just entering their email address. Incentivized Paul Li Principal Read full review
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