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Flexible Scalable Cloud Object Storage

Key Points

  • The surge of data from emerging technologies (IoT, video, cloud, analytics, etc.) is growing exponentially, creating major storage and management challenges.
  • Traditional on‑premise storage solutions are too complex, costly, and insufficiently scalable to handle today’s data volumes.
  • IBM Cloud Object Storage offers a flexible, scalable, and simple solution that balances cost, performance, location, and compliance across diverse workloads.
  • It provides tiered services—Standard for high‑performance, frequently accessed data and Vault for archive/backup—supporting S3 APIs and deployable in regional or cross‑regional configurations for durability and security.
  • By adopting this cloud‑native storage, organizations can unlock greater business value, enable innovative customer experiences, and accelerate operations with unmatched flexibility and massive scalability.

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# Flexible Scalable Cloud Object Storage **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHP2jQ6bFZU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHP2jQ6bFZU) **Duration:** 00:02:16 ## Summary - The surge of data from emerging technologies (IoT, video, cloud, analytics, etc.) is growing exponentially, creating major storage and management challenges. - Traditional on‑premise storage solutions are too complex, costly, and insufficiently scalable to handle today’s data volumes. - IBM Cloud Object Storage offers a flexible, scalable, and simple solution that balances cost, performance, location, and compliance across diverse workloads. - It provides tiered services—Standard for high‑performance, frequently accessed data and Vault for archive/backup—supporting S3 APIs and deployable in regional or cross‑regional configurations for durability and security. - By adopting this cloud‑native storage, organizations can unlock greater business value, enable innovative customer experiences, and accelerate operations with unmatched flexibility and massive scalability. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHP2jQ6bFZU&t=0s) **IBM Cloud Object Storage Overview** - The passage outlines the exponential data growth challenge and presents IBM Cloud Object Storage—offering flexible, scalable, and simple storage options (Standard and Vault) with S3 API support for high‑performance and archival workloads across regional and cross‑regional deployments. ## Full Transcript
0:03first came networks then mobile video 0:06cloud social analytics 0:09internet-of-things cognitive each new 0:12innovation creates tremendous 0:14opportunity but also generates more and 0:17more data data that is multiplied 0:19exponentially as its created shared 0:22copied stored and shared again as 0:25unstructured data grows exponentially it 0:28creates a challenge how to store and 0:30manage all this data so that your 0:32company can access and take advantage of 0:34it for your business traditional 0:36on-premise storage was never designed to 0:38handle data at this scale it offers 0:41control but at scale traditional storage 0:43is far too complex and costly today you 0:47need a new approach that helps manage 0:48data growth and unpredictability that 0:50can balance storage costs location 0:53performance and compliance needs across 0:55data sets and essential applications you 0:58need a solution that's flexible scalable 1:00and simple 1:01that's IBM Cloud object storage a new 1:05approach to storage that's flexible 1:07scalable and simple to manage it's the 1:10only storage flexible enough for today's 1:12changing needs flexible to buy ready to 1:15work with today's data intensive apps 1:17choose IBM Cloud object storage standard 1:20for your high-performance applications 1:22and workloads that need to be accessed 1:24frequently we support for s3 api's IBM 1:28cloud object storage vault service is 1:30ideal for archive backup and other less 1:32frequently accessed workloads delivered 1:34across the IBM cloud both standard and 1:37vault cloud services can be deployed in 1:39regional or cross regional models to 1:41give you durability security and 1:43availability you cux tracked more 1:45business value from your data than ever 1:47so you can enable compelling customer 1:50experiences new innovative business 1:52models and faster flexible operations 1:54all leveraging your data and the IBM 1:56cloud unmatched flexibility 2:00massive scalability powerful simplicity 2:03IBM Cloud object storage flexible 2:06storage built for rapid change 2:09[Music] 2:14you