IBM Cloud Object Storage
| Company type | Product |
|---|---|
| Industry | Cloud storage, Data storage |
| Predecessor | Cleversafe Inc. |
| Founded | 2004 (as Cleversafe Inc.) |
| Founder | S. Christopher Gladwin (of Cleversafe Inc.) |
| Fate | Acquired by IBM in 2015 |
| Headquarters | Chicago , United States |
| Products | Cloud object storage solutions |
| Parent | IBM |
| Website | www |
IBM Cloud Object Storage is a solution provided by IBM designed for the storage and retrieval of unstructured data. This object storage offering can be implemented on-premises, through the IBM Cloud Platform, or within hybrid configurations. It caters to a variety of applications such as data archiving, backup solutions, web and mobile app support, and scalable storage for analytic workloads. Users interact with the system via RESTful APIs.
Design
Data within IBM Cloud Object Storage is arranged into buckets, akin to the structure used by S3, where each object is assigned a unique key determined by the user. Access permissions are managed through access control lists associated with both buckets and individual objects, allowing objects to be addressed using HTTP URLs.
Features
This service offers several storage tiers that guarantee uniform levels of data security, protection, durability, and reliability. The primary distinctions among these tiers relate to patterns of data access and availability specifications.
History
The technology was initially created by Cleversafe Inc., a Chicago-based firm established in 2004 by S. Christopher Gladwin within the technology incubator at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Originally named the Dispersed Storage Network (dsNet), Cleversafe marketed its product as providing "limitless data storage" and had secured 116 patents by 2014.
IBM finalized its purchase of Cleversafe on November 6, 2015, after which the technology was rebranded as IBM Cloud Object Storage.