IBM Storage Suite for IBM Cloud Paks Alternatives (September 2025)

Container storage for OpenShift

Portworx is persistent storage for containers and databases. Operate data services for containers including persistent storage, HA, snapshots, backup, encryption and disaster recovery. Try today!

An open, massively scalable, software-defined storage system that efficiently manages petabytes of data.

IBM Container Registry enables you to store and distribute Docker images in a managed, private registry.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data is a modular set of integrated software components for data analysis, organization and management.

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is hosting for VMware workloads. Configurations range from self-managed to fully IBM-managed on single- or multi-tenant IBM Cloud servers.

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service enables the orchestration of intelligent scheduling, self-healing and horizontal scaling.

IBM Cloud Object Storage is a scalable and resilient managed data service on IBM Cloud, offering an alternative to block and file storage.

A single console, with built-in security policies, for controlling Kubernetes clusters and applications.

Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka makes it easier to create, discover and connect to real-time data streams regardless of where they exist.

An enterprise application platform powered by Kubernetes that provides the basic functionality of Red Hat OpenShift to run containers in hybrid cloud environments.

IBM Cloud File Storage is flash-backed, durable and fast NFS-based cloud data storage on IBM Cloud.

IBM Cloud Block Storage is a high-performance cloud data storage service on IBM Cloud.

Market-leading data protection service built for Kubernetes, simplifying compliance and data access, and empowering app owners to backup and restore apps.

The NetApp® StorageGRID® software-defined object storage suite supports a wide range of use cases across public, private, and hybrid multicloud environments. StorageGRID stores, secures, protects, and preserves unstructured data cost effectively over long periods.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a stable, proven foundation that’s versatile enough for rolling out new applications, virtualizing environments, and creating a more secure hybrid cloud.

Connect apps, services and data with the IBM Cloud Pak for Integration platform, the most comprehensive integration software solution.

LINBIT brings technology and support for high availability, disaster recovery and kubernetes persistent storage solutions for the Enterprise

IBM Maximo Application Suite is a set of applications for asset monitoring, management, predictive maintenance and reliability planning. It’s available as managed SaaS or deployable in any Red Hat OpenShift environment.

IBM Turbonomic software uses AI to optimize the performance, cost and compliance of hybrid cloud and multicloud environments.

IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation is a modular set of integrated software components for operations management and automation.

A collaborative Kubernetes-native development solution that delivers OpenShift workspaces and in-browser IDE for rapid cloud application development.

Red Hat Runtimes includes a collection of cloud-native runtimes for developing Java or JavaScript applications on OpenShift.

Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) provides enterprise-level high-performance and flexible management of Kubernetes containerized applications throughout the application lifecycle.

IBM Netezza Performance Server is a data warehouse for demanding hybrid-cloud environments available as SaaS and for self-hosting through IBM Cloud Pak for Data System.

IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation is an AI-powered network automation platform for CSPs to evolve to zero-touch operations and deliver services fast.

Hybrid Cloud Storage Array (HCSA) is an enterprise-level storage array that integrates with the Alibaba Cloud storage gateway, allows you to manage cloud storage resources just as local storage.

Explore Harvester, SUSE's hyperconverged infrastructure solution, to streamline your virtual machine and Kubernetes workloads. Discover cost-effective HCI systems for a modern cloud-native environment.

IBM LinuxONE is an enterprise-grade Linux server that brings together IBM’s experience is building Z mainframe systems with the openness of the Linux operating system.

Scale AI workloads, for all your data, anywhere, with watsonx.data.

IBM Informix is an embeddable, high-performance database for integrating SQL, NoSQL, JSON, time-series and spatial data. It is available as a managed service on IBM Cloud, as standalone software, and within IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

Learn about Azure Red Hat OpenShift, an OpenShift service managed by Microsoft and Red Hat with Kubernetes PaaS at its core. Discover a turnkey container platform.

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management is master data management software to consolidate and govern business data. It is available for self-hosting, as managed SaaS, and in IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

An open source Kubernetes Platform to manage enterprise-grade Kubernetes across hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and edge. Get started for free!

IBM PowerVM software is a virtualization environment that can run AIX, IBM i and Linux virtual machines on IBM Power servers.

See how a managed cloud services approach helps mitigate potential tension between traditional IT management and DevOps culture.

Get market-leading performance, efficiency and cyber resilience while streamlining complexity across all environments with the IBM Storage FlashSystem platform family.

Optimize your storage infrastructure using this cloud-based storage management and support platform with predictive analytics.

Cloudian provides exabyte-scale storage for your capacity-intensive workloads: S3-compatible storage for on-prem, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud.

IBM Storage Archive software in the IBM Storage portfolio provides a graphical interface to manage data on tape using the Linear Tape File System (LTFS) format.

How do you want to manage your systems? That probably depends a lot on the type of environment you have—whether your systems are primarily on-prem, or if they reside in the cloud. Or a mixture of both. Either way, Red Hat is looking to meet you where you're at and provide management tools to suit your needs with Red Hat Smart Management.

Store application data on durable, high-performance block volumes where data stored is persistent meaning volumes can be connected, detached and moved as needed, even beyond the lifespan of the current compute instance.

IBM API Connect is software to rapidly create, secure and manage APIs. IBM API Connect can be deployed in any Red Hat OpenShift environment. It’s also available as SaaS in a shared or dedicated instance, and as part of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration.

Experience high-performance software-defined block storage with DataCore SANsymphony. Software-defined storage for SAN and HCI environments.

IBM FileNet Content Manager provides low-code tools and capabilities to help create meaningful business applications on any cloud.

Oracle Container Registry is a highly available container registry service for storing and sharing container images and artifacts across multiple deployments.

Canonical Kubernetes enterprise solutions build up from Ubuntu OS to hybrid multi-cloud container orchestration clouds, edge and IoT, managed Kubernetes and enterprise support packages.

Unified storage solutions from NetApp deliver reliable data storage strategies that brings file and block storage into a single, scalable data management platform. Truly unified for any data type, workload, or application.

Read how Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes helps you secure your systems

IBM Db2 is the database to run your mission-critical workloads. Power low-latency transactions and real-time analytics across any cloud, hybrid or on-prem.

Optimize, modernize and cloud-enable your WebSphere applications and operations to increase efficiency while reducing costs and maximizing infrastructure utilization.

Pure Cloud Block Store™ helps reduce your cloud storage costs with superior data reduction and enterprise-grade data services.

"StorPool is the most efficient, reliable & scalable data storage software for Cloud Builders, Hosters & MSPs. Starts from 1 million IOPS and 0.1 ms of latency."

An open source Java EE 8-compliant application server that lets you build Java applications once and deploy them everywhere.

IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS drives operational efficiencies while increasing service agility, with a service delivery platform for cloud computing.

Cloud Volumes ONTAP enables you to optimize your cloud storage costs and performance while enhancing data protection, security, and compliance.

IBM Cloud Internet Services offers security, reliability and performance capabilities designed to protect public-facing web content and applications.

IBM Edge Computing, combined with 5G, is helping create new business opportunities across industries by acting on insights closer to where data is created.

IBM Z mainframe servers and software deliver secure, reliable, and fast IT infrastructure for digital transformation.

MinIO's High Performance Object Storage is Open Source, Amazon S3 compatible, Kubernetes Native and is designed for cloud native workloads like AI.

The IBM UrbanCode family of software products helps you deliver software to market faster by accelerating application delivery and reducing manual processes.

Object Storage reliably and securely stores any type of data in its native format. It is ideal for building modern applications that require scale and flexibility, and is often used for data consolidation, analytic data lakes, backup, and archive.

Portainer is your container management software to deploy, troubleshoot, and secure applications across cloud, datacenter, and Industrial IoT use cases.

Store, manage, and simplify all your unstructured data and hybrid workflows in one platform, anywhere - at the edge, in the core, or in any cloud.

Kubernetes message broker and message queue platform. An open-source project providing the most efficient way to connect microservices.

IBM App Connect is application integration software that connects applications and data sources. It features a no-code interface with hundreds of prebuilt connectors, plus the ability to create custom connectors. It can be deployed on-premises, on any cloud, or as a fully managed service on AWS.

A flexible messaging platform that enables real-time integration and connects the Internet of Things (IoT).

IBM MQ is a family of middleware products for point-to-point and publish-subscribe messaging. MQ is available as as SaaS on IBM Cloud, as a hardware appliance, and for self-hosting, including on z/OS.

Whether you use spinning disk, SSD, NVMe, or a combination of each, the Cisco UCS S-Series has you covered to scale to Petabytes in just minutes.

Securely store any type of data with Oracle Archive Storage. Archive storage provides long-term data storage for digital assets, online backup, records compliance and other data retention needs.

FlexPod is a secure, smart, sustainable, hybrid platform engineered to transform infrastructure and operations. FlexPod unites innovative compute, storage, networking, and management to help customers accelerate the delivery of modern workloads and future-proof their environments.

Optimize your hybrid cloud strategy with Hitachi Content Platform (HCP). Span on-premises and cloud storage for intelligent data management, unlocking insights across environments.

Turn a world of disruption into opportunity with intelligent data infrastructure from NetApp. Realize seamless flexibility—any data, any workload, any environment—with the only enterprise-grade storage service embedded in the world’s biggest clouds.

IBM Power servers accelerate big data insights and hybrid cloud deployment with an open server ecosystem.

Simplify and accelerate your IT with HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged, an intelligent, hyper-efficient HCI solution for edge, VDI, and general virtualization workloads.

MicroK8s is the simplest production-grade conformant K8s. Lightweight and focused. Single command install on Linux, Windows and macOS. Made for devOps, great for edge, appliances and IoT. Full high availability Kubernetes with autonomous clusters and distributed storage.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes service with hardened security and fast delivery. Deploy and manage containerized applications with AKS.

InfoScale 8.0.2   Veritas InfoScale is a software-defined infrastructure solution that is integrated directly with applications to provide high availability and disaster recovery for critical business services, including databases, customer applications and multitiered business services. It delivers a common availability platform that supports physical, virtual, and all major public cloud environments, providing the flexibility to optimize availability for any platform based on business requirements.   To learn more about InfoScale and what it can do for you, please visit our InfoScale product page: https://www.veritas.com/availability/infoscale   What’s new in InfoScale 8.0.2   With this release, InfoScale expands on Veritas’ decades-long position as the leader in this space. InfoScale 8.0.2 introduces significant security and usability improvements while simultaneously expanding our platform support to include the latest and most widely adopted hyper-converged and multi-cloud environments.    Expanded cloud support – Oracle Cloud, AWS VMC, Google Cloud GCVE, AWS MultAttach, Azure Shared Disk, Azure Managed Identity, better support for VVR stretch clusters Enhanced security – Secure Boot support (Linux), Windows Volume Encryption, SecureFS ransomware protection, support for the latest updates to OS, database and virtualization platforms Improved ease of use – simplified deployment using Ansible templates and native CPI installers, VIOM improvements for ransomware protection and VVR, Windows wizards for shared-storage configuration in cloud Core functionality enhancements – Support S3 target, OpenStack Manila and Cinder support, improved DMP performance (FPIN), NVMe fencing (AFA), FSS resync improvements   See Release Notes for details

D2iQ makes it easier to build and run Kubernetes at scale, reducing time to market from months to days.

A Kubernetes-native open-source framework for building continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to build, test, and deploy software.

Combine compute, block storage, and file storage in a single comprehensive and adaptable software-defined infrastructure.

The Pure Storage Evergreen® subscription portfolio offers choice and flexibility in how you purchase and consume storage, based on the non-disruptive Evergreen architecture.

Managed Enterprise Container Management for Organizations. We have private and managed container orchestration for Kubernetes, Docker, and more!

See how Densify optimizes your cloud and container resources and ensures app and workload performance is optimal.

Reduce storage cost and complexity with VMware vSAN, enterprise-class storage virtualization software that provides the easiest path to HCI and hybrid cloud.

IBM Blockchain Transparent Supply enables companies to build their own blockchain-enabled collaboration and data-sharing ecosystem with their supply chain partners.

Store images for all types of container deployments and OCI artifacts, using Azure Container Registry.

Persistent Disk is Google’s local durable storage service, fully integrated with Google Cloud products, Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine.

An in-memory, distributed, NoSQL datastore solution that lets your applications access, process, and analyze data.

Production-Grade Container Orchestration

Uptycs protects workloads wherever they run and gives you security visibility from dev to runtime. Reduce risk, vulns & misconfigurations from a single UI.

Container Engine by Oracle provides a developer friendly, container-native, and enterprise-ready managed Kubernetes service for running highly available clusters.

Merge new levels of simplicity and flexibility with NetApp® ONTAP® unified storage operating system. Eliminate data silos, power your data and simplify your hybrid multicloud. Test-drive ONTAP Unified Storage OS today.

Create a multicloud strategy across any cloud for your workloads, applications, and data using Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) services.

IBM Cloudant is a fully managed JSON document database that offers independent serverless scaling of provisioned throughput capacity and storage. Cloudant is compatible with Apache CouchDB and accessible through a simple to use HTTPS API for web, mobile, and IoT applications.

Huawei FusionCube HCI is a hyperconverged infrastructure solution that integrates computing, storage, network, and management. Discover it now!

IBM Knowledge Catalog is software to manage and curate data, knowledge assets and their relationships. It is available as managed SaaS or within IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

Simplify and extend your VMware environment with Dell VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure appliances. Streamline your IT operations and lower costs.

Documentation and resources for NetApp HCI. Learn how how to install, deploy and maintain NetApp HCI.