Re: IBM Cloud Object Storage

Thanks Diego

This is helpful.

We have a use case to store a large number of small files and the IBM COS storage looks promising.

I am curious if the egress fees could me mitigated by using the IBM cloud direct link, as we do have a high number of retrievals for a small segment of the stored files.

I do also like IBM’s Smart Tier (https://www.ibm.com/blog/announcement/announcing-ibm-cloud-object-storage-smart-tier/) as it may be quite useful to keep our storage costs controlled for our use case.

Jim

On Mar 28, 2025, at 1:37 PM, Diego E. Kesselman <diegokesselman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Jim,

sorry for the delay.

1) We use IBM COS with Falconstor VTL , 5733ICC+BRMS , some backup scripts from On-Prem and Cloud to IBM COS, and all work well.

Is it any good?

* Really good, probably the best objet storage service.
* You can chose the redundancy level (local, regional, world-wide)
* You can predict costs
* Can use IBM Aspera to improve transfer rate

The bad: Has egress costs, like most cloud storage services has, but you only recover an small amount of data, let say less than 5% of the total you upload.

2) From my point of view, 5733ICC is a limited product, designed to work with BRMS. If you need to upload/download/delete/list files, I can suggest AWS CLI running in PASE with QSHONI, to get the full funcionality from the cloud with no software charges.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ibm-i-working-s3-buckets-from-5250-terminal-qcmd-diego-kesselman/

Hope this can help you

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Saludos/Regards

Diego E. KESSELMAN



El 27/03/25 a las 2:53 p.m., Jim Grant escribió:

All

1. Does anyone have any experience using IBM Cloud Object Storage?
If so, can you describe your experience, the good, bad, etc.

2. Has anyone had any experience with IBM Cloud Storage Solutions for i
(5733-ICC) LPP?
Specifically, not the integration with BRMS but just for general IFS
object storage?

- Jim

Jim Grant
jawigrant@xxxxxxxxx

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