IBM has announced their new Cloud service called IBM Object Storage, which gives developers the ability to interactively compose and connect object storage into their apps. Available in beta on Bluemix, IBM’s Cloud Platform, Object Storage also offers app creators a fully scalable, API-accessible platform to store and retrieve unstructured data, while giving access to this valuable data from external apps. IBM indicates that this will allow developers to build and scale their apps around this content, creating new ways to tap into its value.
IBM has announced their new Cloud service called IBM Object Storage, which gives developers the ability to interactively compose and connect object storage into their apps. Available in beta on Bluemix, IBM’s Cloud Platform, Object Storage also offers app creators a fully scalable, API-accessible platform to store and retrieve unstructured data, while giving access to this valuable data from external apps. IBM indicates that this will allow developers to build and scale their apps around this content, creating new ways to tap into its value.
Additionally, IBM adds that Object Storage makes it much more efficient and secure for developers who need to tap into and store growing volumes of unstructured data, such as with images, documents and videos. As such, IBM Object Storage offers developers the following features by leveraging OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) API for API-based data access and OpenStack Identity (Keystone) for authentication:
- The ability to compose and bind apps to object files – both inside and outside of Bluemix
- Identity management and authentication to help protect against unauthorized access to object-based data.
- A service dashboard user interface for simple management
- Object browser, drag-and-drop upload and download from the developer’s desktop
- Industry-adopted OpenStack Swift API and SDKs to access the object store
- Service keys to access and use Object Storage with external apps and services
- Security isolation for each object storage instance within Bluemix
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