Secure, reliable storage built on OpenStack
Bluemix storage services are built on OpenStack and allow for management of objects and block volumes through the OpenStack API or Bluemix dashboard. With these OpenStack-based storage services, you can be confident that your data is on an open platform that supports numerous cloud environments.
Reliable
Bluemix Storage is built on flash enterprise-grade hardware, and stored data is replicated to protect against component breakdown. Bluemix Storage is designed for 99.97% availability over a given year and is backed by the Bluemix SLA.
Cost effective
Bluemix storage services feature a pay-as-you-go pricing model, with no contracts or minimum fees. You’ll only pay for the data you store and your outbound bandwidth. Bandwidth between Bluemix data centers and inbound traffic or requests are available at no additional charge.
Highly scalable
Since data is continuing to grow in both size and speed, we made Bluemix Storage services scalable so you don’t have to worry about capacity demands. Whether your storage needs are for a simple application or for petabytes of data for analytics, we have the solution to meet your needs on demand.
Object Storage
Bluemix Object Storage is built on OpenStack Swift and provides redundant, scalable object storage clusters for storing, managing, and retrieving virtual server images, media content, or financial data.
Block Storage
With Bluemix Block Storage, you can connect virtual servers to persistent, expandable, and high performance block volumes for snapshots and replications.
Features
Snapshots and replications
Efficient, point-in-time snapshots are captured non-disruptively and engineered to minimize space. Use snapshots to create new volumes and attach to virtual servers as secondary storage or root store to boot virtual servers.
Flexible storage services
Bluemix storage services offers different types of storage solutions for any use case. Whether you’re storing small objects or petabytes of data, we’ve got a storage solution to fit your unique requirements.
Identity and access management
Control who can access your data, as well as how, when, and where they can access it. Bluemix storage services utilize OpenStack identity and authentication for unified encryption of objects, data volumes, boot volumes, and snapshots, removing the need to administrate key management services.
OpenStack integration
Bluemix storage services are built on OpenStack and allow for management of objects and block volumes through the OpenStack API or Bluemix dashboard. With these OpenStack-based storage services, you can be confident that your data is on an open platform that supports numerous cloud environments.
More services
Block Storage
IBM
Storage
Service
Block Storage provides a persistent block storage service that enables developers to both provision and manage storage on-demand for IBM Virtual Servers.
Object Storage
IBM
Storage
Service
Object Storage provides an unstructured cloud data store to build and deliver cloud applications and services with lower cost, reliability, and speed to market.
Network Security Groups
IBM
Network
Service
Network Security Groups enable users to configure and manage network policies controlling inbound and outbound traffic between virtual servers.
Product resource
Object Storage