Storage Economics
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Cloud Migration Planner
Match workloads to the most cost-effective cloud destination
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Cloud Migration Planner

Match workloads to the most cost-effective cloud destination

Workload Placement

Find the right home for every workload

Input your application's size, performance, and access requirements to find the most cost-effective storage destination.

INTERACTIVE

Workload Profile

Describe the application's storage needs
Workload name
Data size (TB)500 TB
IOPS requirement5,000 IOPS
Latency sensitivity
Access pattern
Read % (vs write)70 %
Planning horizon36 mo

Recommended Destination

Best fit for your workload's performance and cost requirements
BEST FIT
IBM Storage Ceph
On-prem SDS object · $25/TB/yr · $12,500/yr
Perfect access-pattern match (warm) at moderate cost.
81/100

All Destination Rankings

Every destination scored on fit, performance, and cost
#1
IBM Storage CephOn-prem SDS object
$25/TB
$12,500/yr
81
#2
IBM Storage ScaleOn-prem file fabric
$40/TB
$20,000/yr
70
#3
IBM Cloud Object StorageHyperscale S3
$12/TB
$6,000/yr
28
#4
Azure Blob (Hot)Cloud object
$18/TB
$9,000/yr
27
#5
GCP Cloud StorageCloud object
$20/TB
$10,000/yr
26
#6
IBM Storage TapeOn-prem archive
$3/TB
$1,500/yr
25
#7
AWS S3 StandardCloud object
$23/TB
$11,500/yr
25
#8
IBM FlashSystemOn-prem all-flash
$80/TB
$40,000/yr
15
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