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What are Object Storage Solutions?
Object storage solutions are systems designed to store large amounts of unstructured data, such as multimedia files, backups, logs, and archives, in a highly scalable and accessible manner. These platforms break data into individual objects, each containing the data itself, metadata, and a unique identifier, which makes retrieval and management more efficient. Object storage is typically used for cloud storage environments, where flexibility, scalability, and redundancy are key. It allows organizations to store vast amounts of data with high durability, often offering features like automated data tiering, access controls, and encryption. Object storage solutions are ideal for businesses that need cost-effective, scalable, and secure storage for large datasets or growing volumes of unstructured data. Compare and read user reviews of the best Object Storage solutions currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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QuantaStor
OSNEXUS
QuantaStor is a unified Software-Defined Storage platform designed to scale up and out to make storage management easy while reducing overall enterprise storage costs. With support for all major file, block, and object protocols including iSCSI/FC, NFS/SMB, and S3, QuantaStor storage grids may be configured to address the needs of complex workflows which span sites and datacenters. QuantaStor’s storage grid technology is a built-in federated management system which enables QuantaStor servers to be combined together to simplify management and automation via CLI and REST APIs. The layered architecture of QuantaStor provides solution engineers with unprecedented flexibility and application design options that maximizes workload performance and fault-tolerance for a wide range of storage workloads. QuantaStor includes end-to-end security coverage enabling multi-layer data protection “on the wire” and “at rest” for enterprise and cloud storage deployments.Starting Price: $/TB based on scale -
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Google Cloud Platform
Google
Google Cloud Platform offers Object Storage solutions through Google Cloud Storage, designed for scalability, durability, and performance. With different storage classes such as Standard, Nearline, and Coldline, businesses can store unstructured data at optimal costs. New customers can use $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads, enabling them to explore GCP’s object storage solutions and determine which best meets their storage and retrieval needs. GCP’s object storage is built to be highly reliable, with automatic replication and redundancy across multiple regions. It also supports lifecycle policies to automatically transition data to more cost-effective storage classes as access patterns change. These features make Google Cloud Storage an ideal choice for businesses that need secure, scalable, and cost-effective storage for large volumes of data.Starting Price: Free ($300 in free credits) -
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Files.com
Files.com
6,000+ companies trust Files.com to automate and secure business critical transfers. We obsess about security, compliance, reliability, and performance so your critical business processes just work every time. Easily manage any transfer flow without writing scripts or code, and onboard workloads and partners effortlessly. We support standard file transfer protocols (FTP, SFTP, AS2) for working with external partners and also provide native apps for high performance internal transfers. As a fully Cloud-Native SaaS, there are no servers for you to buy or maintain, there is no installation required, and high availability and redundancy are built in and free. Out-of-the-box integrations include Microsoft (Azure, SharePoint, OneDrive, Active Directory & Office), AWS (S3 & SNS), Google (Cloud & Drive), Box, Dropbox, Zapier, and dozens of others. Developers can leverage our SDKs, API, and CLI to build custom integrations too. -
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BVR CLOUD
BVR CLOUD
BVR CLOUD is an American privately-owned cloud hosting company that provides Cloud Products Ranging from Virtual Machines to Managed Satellites. Currently, it Provides More than 50 Products." BVR CLOUD Products Includes Virtual Machines Baremetal Servers GPU Kubernetes Virtual Desktops Onetime Bandwidth Object Storage Block Storage Longterm Store Longterm Store Plus Content Delivery Network Cloud firewall Managed Satellites Audio/Video Streaming Transcoder Loadbalancer, etc.Starting Price: $10 -
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Cloudian
Cloudian
Solve your capacity and cost challenges with Cloudian® S3-compatible object and file storage. Exabyte-scalable and cloud-compatible, Cloudian software-defined storage and appliances make it easy for enterprises and service providers to deliver storage at one site, or across multiple sites with a modular architecture that’s easy to manage and grow. Gain actionable insight. Cloudian HyperIQ™ provides real-time infrastructure monitoring and user behavior analytics. Track user data access to verify compliance and monitor service levels. Spot infrastructure issues before they become problems with configurable, real-time alerts. Customize HyperIQ to your environment over 100 available data panels. Protect your data from ransomware with Cloudian Object Lock, a hardened solution for data immutability. HyperStore® is hardened by the use of HyperStore Shell (HSH) and RootDisable, securing the solution at the system level, even disabling root access to make the solution impregnable.Starting Price: Pricing as low as 1/2 ¢ per gi -
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NetApp StorageGRID
NetApp
More flexible than a gold-medal gymnast. NetApp® StorageGRID® is the flexible, multi-cloud object store you can trust to manage your most critical data. NetApp StorageGRID’s intelligent metadata-driven policies work around the clock to help optimize your data so it’s always available across multiple geographies, incredibly durable, highly compliant, and stored in the most cost-effective manner possible. Did someone say, “hybrid cloud?” StorageGRID also lets you keep your data in a local private cloud while taking advantage of S3-compatible public cloud services, such as notifications, metadata search, and analytics. StorageGRID helps organizations around the world manage extremely large data sets and ensure that their data is cost-efficient and always available with flexible deployments, differentiated service levels, and hybrid-cloud workflows. StorageGRID provides greater data management intelligence on a simplified platform for your object data. -
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage enables customers to securely store any type of data in its native format. With built-in redundancy, OCI Object Storage is ideal for building modern applications that require scale and flexibility, as it can be used to consolidate multiple data sources for analytics, backup, or archive purposes. Enterprises store data and backups on OCI Object Storage, which runs on redundant hardware for built-in durability. Data integrity is actively monitored, with any corrupt data detected and healed by automatically recreating a copy of the data. For longer-term data storage needs like compliance and audit mandates and log data, OCI Archive Storage uses the same APIs as Object Storage for easy setup and integration but at one-tenth the cost. Data is monitored for integrity, automatically healed, and encrypted at rest.Starting Price: $0.0255 per month
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Zadara
Zadara Storage
Zadara is enterprise storage made easy. Any data type. Any protocol. Any location. Get Zadara — on your premises or with your chosen cloud provider — and you get more than industry-leading enterprise storage. You get a fully-managed, pay-only-for-what-you-use service that eliminates the cost and complexity typically associated with enterprise storage.Starting Price: $0.02/GB/month -
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Quobyte
Quobyte
With Quobyte’s high-performance file and object storage you have the freedom to deploy anywhere (any server, any cloud), scale performance and manage large amounts of data while simplifying administration. Quobyte was designed with one goal in mind, to make your life easier. That’s why we make storage simple with a straightforward download and install (no tedious or complex configuration, no kernel modules), allowing ease of management. The ability to deploy anywhere means that you get to choose where you install your software storage solution. Whether it’s on new or existing hardware, in the cloud, or a combination of the two, Quobyte lets you pick what works best for your needs. From software updates to adding or removing nodes, everything is 100% non-disruptive in Quobyte. That way you can work whenever it’s convenient for you. So say goodbye to maintenance windows and say hello to free up your nights and weekends.Starting Price: $8,999 per year -
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Pilvio
Astrec Data OÜ
Pilvio is a simple virtual cloud platform. You can easily have your websites, applications, and files hosted in the cloud. Intuitive platform to ease resource creation, management, and maintenance. We offer Virtual machines with a wide range of Operating Systems (Ubuntu, Centos, Windows, Debian, Fedora, OpenSuse, or Rocky.) Additionally, we offer 1-click installation for WordPress, Moodle, Docker, Nodejs, MikroTik, cPanel, CyberPanel, Mailcoach, or Plesk. (S3) Object Storage resource bucket creation and management. Our service is backed by a 99.9% uptime guarantee and comes with live human support.Starting Price: €6 per month -
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DataCore Swarm
DataCore Software
Are you struggling with protecting and providing access to rapidly scaling data sets or enabling distributed content-based use cases? Using tape is cost-effective but data is not instantly accessible; and tape is difficult to manage. The public cloud often presents the challenge of compounding, unpredictable recurring costs, and the inability to meet local performance and privacy requirements. DataCore Swarm provides an on-premises object storage solution that radically simplifies the ability to manage, store, and protect data while allowing S3/HTTP access to any application, device, or end-user. Swarm transforms your data archive into a flexible and immediately accessible content library that enables remote workflows, on-demand access, and massive scalability. -
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FlashBlade//S
Pure Storage
Pure FlashBlade//S is the industry's most advanced all-flash storage solution for consolidating fast file and object storage. Modernize your storage with a unified unstructured storage platform that delivers a Modern Data Experience™. Tackle your most challenging modern data requirements. FlashBlade delivers cloud-like simplicity and agility with consistent high performance and control. FlashBlade can help you address the needs of modern applications and leverage modern data. FlashBlade//S delivers massive throughput and parallelism with consistent multidimensional performance for all data. Simply add blades to scale capacity and performance. It’s fast file and object storage that goes beyond traditional scale-out NAS. FlashBlade’s scale-out metadata architecture can handle tens of billions of files and objects with maximum performance and rich data services. Purity//FB supports cloud mobility with object replication and disaster recovery with file replication. -
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Object Storage Service (OBS) provides stable, secure, efficient, and easy-to-use cloud storage service that lets you store virtually any volume of unstructured data in any format and access it from anywhere using REST APIs. OBS supports REST APIs, provides multi-language software development kits (SDKs), and is compatible with all mainstream clients. With OBS, you can upload, download, and manage your data anytime, and from anywhere. OBS can handle high-volume concurrent connections and sudden traffic bursts. You do not need to worry about capacity. OBS can handle whatever you throw at it. OBS provides a massive volume of inexpensive storage that is highly reliable and can handle high concurrency with extremely low latency. It provides end-to-end solutions that are capable of managing devices, performing video surveillance, and processing video content.Starting Price: $0.014 per GB per month
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IBM Storage Ceph
IBM
Consolidate block, file, and object data on-premises with an enterprise storage platform that delivers a cloud-native experience. IBM Storage Ceph is an enterprise storage platform that unifies block, file, and object data to help organizations eliminate data silos and deliver a cloud-like experience while helping reduce costs and provisioning times. IT Leaders are shifting from a traditional storage approach towards integrated enterprise storage platforms that can handle diverse modern workloads seamlessly across on-premises and hybrid environments to simplify IT operations, reduce costs, and adapt to new and changing requirements. IBM Storage Ceph is the only enterprise storage platform that unifies block, file, and object data protocols within a single software-defined solution that can support most enterprise operational workloads to help reduce long-term costs of operating dedicated storage systems, delivering a cloud-like experience on-premises. -
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Rackfish
Rackfish
Rackfish is a comprehensive hosting provider specializing in online video services, server hosting, and related support. Our flagship product, Streamio, is a complete online video platform designed for easy management and publication of videos and live streams. Rackfish is user-friendly, accessible, and prioritizes data protection, ensuring GDPR compliance. For live streaming needs, Rackfish offers Rackfish Live, a customizable solution capable of delivering ultra-low latency streams with latency around one second, suitable for applications requiring minimal delay. This service supports high-quality streaming in HD or 4K with transcoding, recording solutions, and customized distribution via CDN. Additionally, Rackfish provides RTMP deployment services, offering stable and fast video distribution with sub-second latency, ideal for professional contexts where low latency is crucial. Our infrastructure is based on a redundant platform, ensuring robust and reliable service delivery.Starting Price: €16 per month -
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Scality
Scality
Scality provides file and object storage for enterprise data management deployments of all sizes. We adapt to your environment. Traditional on-prem storage? No problem. Storage for modern cloud-native applications? We’ve got you covered. Whether it’s critical healthcare or financial data, government intelligence, digitized national treasures, streaming video content or any other valued asset — Scality has a proven track record of ensuring eleven 9s data durability and long-term protection. -
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Rackspace Cloud Files
Rackspace
Cloud Files provides online object storage for files and media, delivering them globally at blazing speeds over a worldwide content delivery network (CDN). You can store as many files as you want—even very large files. Our tightly integrated and easy-to-use CDN can distribute your public content—images, video, audio, and even HTML, JavaScript, and cascading style sheets—to hundreds of edge locations worldwide, so it’s close to your users. Less distance to travel means your users get your content faster. Cloud Files integrates with a variety of 3rd party tools built for object storage, such as Cyberduck, Jungle Disk, and FireUploader. Cloud Files is perfect for non-dynamic web hosting. Host static websites such as blogs, brochure sites, and small company sites entirely from Cloud Files with a global CDN. When you enable a container for CDN, your media files receive a web-ready URL that you can share with anyone. CDN accelerates the speed in which your content is delivered. -
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Qumulo
Qumulo
The new way to manage enterprise file data at scale, anywhere. Our cloud-native file data platform, with extreme scale and efficiency, meets your most rigorous workloads with radical simplicity. Qumulo Core is a high-performance file data platform designed to help you store, manage and build workflows and applications with data in its native file form, at massive scale, across on-prem and cloud environments. Securely store petabytes of active file data in a single namespace with intelligent scaling. Easily manage with real-time IT operational analytics of every file and user. Build automated workflows and applications with a comprehensive API and multi-protocol support. It’s now remarkably simple to manage the full data lifecycle from ingestion, transformation, publishing and archiving -
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Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon
Amazon S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive are a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost Amazon S3 cloud storage classes for data archiving and long-term backup. They are designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability, and provide comprehensive security and compliance capabilities that can help meet even the most stringent regulatory requirements. Customers can store data for as little as $1 per terabyte per month, a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions. To keep costs low yet suitable for varying retrieval needs, Amazon S3 Glacier provides three options for access to archives, from a few minutes to several hours, and S3 Glacier Deep Archive provides two access options ranging from 12 to 48 hours. The S3 Glacier storage classes offer sophisticated integration with AWS CloudTrail to log, monitor, and retain storage API call activities for auditing, and they support three different forms of encryption.Starting Price: $1 per terabyte per month -
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ArvanCloud
ArvanCloud
ArvanCloud CDN comprises tens of PoP sites in important locations all around the world to deliver online content to the users, from the closest geographical point at the highest speed and quality. With ArvanCloud Cloud Computing infrastructure, you are just a few clicks away from creating unlimited cloud servers on demand. You can create several cloud storage disks for each server and easily manage your cloud data center communications using Firewall and private and public networks. ArvanCloud allows you to save any kind of data on Cloud Storage in a completely encrypted format. You can have stable access to a reliable storage system from all around the world, without worrying about data loss. With ArvanCloud container-based Platform as a Service, which conforms to Kubernetes standards, you are just a few commands in CLI away from an operational product. -
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Red Hat Ceph Storage
Red Hat
Red Hat® Ceph Storage is an open, massively scalable, simplified storage solution for modern data pipelines. Engineered for data analytics, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), and emerging workloads, Red Hat Ceph Storage delivers software-defined storage on your choice of industry-standard hardware. Scale to unprecedented levels, up to 1 billion objects and beyond, without compromising on performance. Expand or shrink storage clusters with no downtime. Gain the agility you need to get to market faster. Start faster with dramatically simplified installation. Quickly gain insights from massive amounts of unstructured data with streamlined operation, monitoring, and capacity management. Safeguard your data from outside threats and hardware failures with integrated data protection and data security features, including client-side and object-level encryption. Easily handle backup and recovery with a single point of control and administration. -
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Hitachi Content Platform
Hitachi Vantara
With massive scale and robust security, HCP eases data control and access. Discover why IDC views Hitachi Vantara as a leader in object storage. Navigating modern challenges requires support for multiple use cases with visibility and control across all data. A modern digital platform enables easy management of volumes of data, seamless response to application demands and wide data accessibility, while satisfying compliance requirements. Grow cloud storage from terabytes to exabytes to easily manage IoT, machine and application data. Mitigate data exposure or theft risks with multitenancy, “write once, read many” and encryption. Use advanced metadata features and deliver low latency and high throughput for modern applications. Try Hitachi Content Platform and learn why thousands of the world’s leading organizations rely on it to manage their most valuable asset – their data. -
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Nutanix Files Storage
Nutanix
Nutanix Files Storage is a simple, flexible and intelligent scale-out file storage service for the data driven era. Update non-disruptively with a single click, and manage all storage from a single pane of glass. Scale-up or scale-out flexibly on the hardware of your choice and enjoy cloud-like consumption. Know your data, who’s using it, and how—and then drive automated management and control. IDC study shows how Nutanix Files Storage reduces operational overhead by 66% over traditional siloed storage resulting in 414% ROI and 7 month pay back. Nutanix Files Storage is built to handle billions of files and tens of thousands of user sessions. As your environment grows, just one click will elastically scale your cluster up by adding more compute and/or memory to the file server VMs, or out by adding more file server VMs. All from a single platform. You can also provide object and block storage using the same resources. -
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Improve the way you manage, protect and store data, with unlimited access to select IBM SDS products and IBM Cloud®Object Storage. IBM Storage Software Suite provides a unified interface that streamlines data management, and cost-per-TB pricing makes it easier to plan as your capacity grows. Non-production use of the software in test environments is included. Straightforward per-TB pricing for the entire suite is related to the amount of storage capacity, not the type of storage or how it is used. There are no licensing headaches when changing from one type of storage to another or from one data type to another. All the IBM Storage Software Suite products share a consistent user interface, reducing user errors and the need for training. All the products are designed to work together, streamlining integration and worldwide support for the complete solution.
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ActiveScale
Quantum
ActiveScale™ delivers security, resiliency, and accessibility to your data at scale. Data is an asset with its own lifecycle; it is created, consumed, and retained, sometimes indefinitely. Year-over-year data growth of over 40% is challenging organizations to find efficient ways to retain data throughout its lifecycle. Long-term retention requirements in industries such as Life Sciences, Media and Entertainment, Broadcasting, Healthcare, and Financial Services demand data to be available and secure; much of the data being stored is key to market differentiation, product and services support, and raw inputs from sensors, sequencers, cameras, and other devices. To future proof data availability, organizations need to ensure data integrity, infrastructure resiliency and scalability, and continuous and ubiquitous access to data. -
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Stratoscale
Stratoscale
Stratoscale enables IT to operate as an internal cloud service provider, so that IT can offer single-click / on-demand consumption of resources and managed open source technologies, and respond at the speed of the public cloud. Stratoscale’s multi-cloud hybrid platform delivers true infrastructure-as-a-service, ideal for DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code automation. With single-panel monitoring and scaling of all resources and services as well as automation of the entire life cycle of open source technologies, IT can now shift focus to business specific innovation, governance and compliance. APIs are the best way to consume open-source technologies. But different cloud environments offer different sets of APIs which adds a significant layer of complexity and prevents DevOps professional from maximizing their potential. Stratoscale delivers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS),Database-as- a-Service (DBaaS).
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