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Cloud Object Storage as a Service: IBM Cloud Object Storage from Theory to Practice - For developers, IT architects and IT specialists

by Anil Patil, Deepak Rangarao, Harald Seipp, Maciej Lasota, Reginaldo Marcelo dos Santos, Rob Markovic, Simon Casey, Stephen Bollers, Vasfi Gucer, Andy Lin, Casey Richardson, Robert Rios, Ryan VanAlstine, Tim Medlin

June 2020

Intermediate to advanced

306 pages

5h 23m

English

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1.1 What object storage is1.2 What storage business problems object storage can address1.3 What qualifies business problems for object storage1.4 Access methods for object storage1.4.1 Access to storage through the REST API1.4.2 Access to object storage through other methods1.5 Comparison and positioning to other storage models1.5.1 Block storage1.5.2 File storage1.6 Object storage key concepts1.6.1 Buckets1.6.2 Objects1.6.3 Metadata1.6.4 Access control lists1.6.5 Object data protection
2.1 Overview2.2 Architecture2.3 IBM Cloud Object Storage offerings2.3.1 On-premises: Software only2.3.2 On-premises: Software and appliance2.3.3 Dedicated cloud-based2.3.4 IBM COS Public Services2.3.5 Comparison of IBM Cloud Object Storage deployment options2.4 IBM COS Public Services capabilities2.5 Programming model and interfaces2.5.1 Simple Storage Service (S3) API2.5.2 IBM COS API (future release)
3.1 Setting up your cloud account3.2 Credentials and endpoints3.2.1 Public endpoints3.2.2 Private endpoints3.2.3 Custom Private Addressing (CPA) endpoint3.2.4 Managing credentials3.3 Managing buckets and objects3.3.1 Creating and managing buckets from Bluemix Infrastructure3.3.2 Managing objects from Bluemix Infrastructure3.4 IBM COS S3 API and common functions3.4.1 S3 and IBM COS S3 API differences3.4.2 Supported API operations3.4.3 Authorization and authentication3.5 Clients, CLIs, and SDKs3.5.1 Desktop clients3.5.2 Command-line interfaces (CLIs)3.5.3 Software development kits (SDKs)3.6 Preferred practices for application design3.6.1 Object name3.6.2 Object size3.6.3 Concurrent PUT/GET3.6.4 Handling timeouts3.6.5 Handling overwrites3.6.6 Handling changes
4.1 IBM Cloud Object Storage workloads4.2 Examples from various industries4.2.1 Example 1: Business and financial management solutions4.2.2 Example 2: Media and entertainment4.2.3 Example 3: Education and research4.2.4 Example 4: Healthcare industry and medical imaging4.2.5 Example 5: Government authority managing road and traffic4.2.6 Example 6: Telecommunications industry4.2.7 Example 7: Insurance industry; cognitive damage assessment4.3 Typical use cases4.3.1 Use case 1: Backup repository4.3.2 Use case 2: Internet of Things (IoT)4.3.3 Use case 3: Active archive4.3.4 Use case 4: Enterprise file services4.3.5 Use case 5: Analytics and cognitive systems4.3.6 Use case 6: Content repository4.3.7 Use case 7: Enterprise collaboration4.4 Integration with other IBM products4.4.1 IBM Spectrum Protect4.4.2 IBM Spectrum Scale4.4.3 IBM Watson IoT4.4.4 IBM Aspera4.4.5 IBM Watson API on Bluemix platform
5.1 Scenario description5.2 Architecture of the scenario5.2.1 High-level architecture5.3 Implementation of the scenario5.3.1 Getting started5.3.2 Ordering IBM COS on IBM Bluemix Infrastructure (SoftLayer)5.3.3 IBM Bluemix account5.3.4 Installing Node.js5.3.5 Installing Git5.3.6 Creating the Web Gallery app on IBM Bluemix5.3.7 Creating a Bluemix toolchain5.3.8 Setting up IBM Cloud Object Storage credentials5.3.9 Developing a simple IBM Cloud Object Storage Web Gallery5.3.10 Committing to Git5.4 Verifying the scenario5.5 Conclusion

6.1 Scenario description6.2 Architecture of the scenario6.2.1 Overview6.2.2 Requirements6.2.3 Planning6.3 Implementation of the scenario6.3.1 Pre-test verification6.3.2 S3FS installation6.3.3 S3FS configuration6.4 Verification of the scenario6.5 Conclusion
7.1 Scenario description7.2 Architecture of the scenario7.2.1 Overview7.2.2 Requirements7.2.3 Planning7.3 Implementation of the scenario7.3.1 Pre-testing setup7.3.2 IBM Spectrum Protect configuration7.4 Verification of the scenario7.5 Conclusion
8.1 Scenario description8.1.1 Business case8.2 Architecture of the scenario8.3 Implementation of the scenario8.4 Verification of the scenario8.5 Conclusion
9.1 Scenario description9.1.1 Business case9.2 Architecture of the scenario9.3 Implementation of the scenario9.4 Verification of the scenario9.5 Conclusion
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