We performed a comparison between Azure NetApp Files and Google Drive Enterprise based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."One aspect of Azure NetApp Files that I truly appreciate is its remarkable performance capabilities."
"Azure NetApp Files has been stable."
"Its security and ease of use are most valuable."
"This solution definitely makes us more efficient in being able to provide storage quickly to our customers in the Azure Cloud."
"Since we have NetApp's internally, we use the SnapMirror predominantly for this process in the cloud which is beneficial."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its flexibility."
"The critical features of this solution are SnapMirror for replication, data protection, and SnapLock."
"It's elastic, so it scales with our demands. We can start small, then with the addition of customer loads, we can expand on-the-fly without the need to reprovision something."
"Google Drive Enterprise provides convenience to its users. Also, it provides its users the option to easily share and collaborate."
"The most valuable feature of Google Drive is its seamless integration across mobile devices and computers."
"I can check emails from anywhere, and use the applications wherever I am."
"For me, the most valuable feature is basically saving and sharing documents with other people outside, having something to be co-shared. When documents are large in size, it is easier to send them via email."
"The solution is absolutely stable."
"Compared to other solutions such as Microsoft, this solution offers faster synchronization."
"Low maintenance solution."
"The stability of Google Drive Enterprise is good."
"We would like for the files which are coming in that we can version them. So, if a file is accidentally deleted, there should have a recycle bin option where we can go back, and at least once, clean it up."
"Azure NetApp Files is expensive."
"The main hurdle in promoting this solution is the price. Its price definitely requires an improvement. It is more expensive than other options, so customers go for a cheaper option."
"This solution would be improved with more innovation."
"We would like to see more paired regions for the replication."
"I would like to see multi-zone redundancy so that I don't have to worry about it. I just back up my data to that one SMB share and I know that it's replicated to a different region."
"We were looking for a clustered solution that has over-complicated things because we had it in AWS, which is Amazon. There was a solution for clustered NetApp. That meant there would be two NetApps that were not clustered because there was no solution for a cluster. We would like there to be an HA cluster solution."
"We would like to have backup functionality built-in so that we don't run into the issue where the replication process makes a copy of the corrupted data."
"It might be ideal if we could increase storage more easily, however, I don't have much visibility on that and have never had any issues."
"The storage limits could be higher."
"The desktop app could be improved, especially how it functions in the Windows environment."
"The conversion of Microsoft Office documents into Google documents could be improved."
"If you have different accounts, you have to log out and log in to access the accounts. This could be improved by removing this requirement. The storage limit could also be increased."
"Google should also make it simpler to manage rights and access for different users. I want to share one folder with some people and another with other groups. It's not easy to manage. You have to use Google's web interface to assign rights, but IBM Box lets you permissions directly on the Windows interface."
"The price of additional storage could be reduced. I have an annual subscription and I'm only using 150GB because of the price."
"It's a cloud-based product that is stable and secure, but I would like to see more security features added."
Azure NetApp Files is ranked 8th in Cloud Storage with 13 reviews while Google Drive Enterprise is ranked 7th in Cloud Storage with 54 reviews. Azure NetApp Files is rated 8.4, while Google Drive Enterprise is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure NetApp Files writes "We can expand our storage on-the-fly without the need to reprovision". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Drive Enterprise writes "Easy to set up with simple file access and very reliable". Azure NetApp Files is most compared with Microsoft Azure File Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Nasuni and Google Cloud Storage, whereas Google Drive Enterprise is most compared with Google Workspace, Citrix ShareFile, Google Cloud Storage, Dropbox and LucidLink. See our Azure NetApp Files vs. Google Drive Enterprise report.
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