We performed a comparison between Box and Google Cloud Storage 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."It is really easy to load files to and from this solution."
"Office Integration. The full integration into the Microsoft Office products is just perfect."
"I like that Box makes it easy to deploy virtual machines."
"The most valuable feature of Box is security."
"Box is very user-friendly; more so than SharePoint."
"The solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization."
"Governance and ease of use are why I think a lot of people like Box, including ourselves. Basically, we're concerned about what information is being sent to Box, so we use a lot of the Box governance features to make sure that what is being sent to Box is appropriate. If it is not appropriate, it is not allowed to be sent. It is also pretty easy to use. It is the easiest to use for customers and for technologists."
"The interface is very good."
"What I like most about Google Cloud Storage is that it's very stable, very quick, and very useful."
"The solution is stable and has good performance."
"The most valuable feature is that it frees up space in your device by allowing you to store your files on the cloud and provides 15GB storage for free."
"From an availability perspective it's fantastic; from a security perspective it's fantastic."
"There is a free-to-use version. This is the version I use."
"There's no implementation process."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud Storage is the shared folder."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The upload speed needs improvement."
"Better integration with other solutions is needed."
"Maturity of the enterprise security around user management."
"The solution's data security should be improved."
"Tasks and comments could be easier to see, report, search, and manage."
"I find their API to be quite complex and it could be more straightforward."
"The room for improvement is in the area of integrations. They need to establish more integrations, especially with Office 365 and Outlook."
"I don't like the low level of role-based security it provides – it's very cumbersome, and the support is ordinary at times."
"An area for improvement is that when you share with others, they can see all your folders instead of just those you share. Only the folders you specifically share should be visible."
"Google Cloud Storage could improve by having better integration with Microsoft Office files. When I open a Google document I would like it to be able to be opened with Microsoft. You can already open Google documents in Microsoft Office."
"Its security should be better from the data security point of view. It should be more secure, and it should get tightly integrated with products such as Google Docs and Google Sheets. Microsoft covers different kinds of tools such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel."
"User management could be better. It's complicated process to delete users and maintain the structure of documents created by deleted users."
"There are inefficiencies with cache when the names are sequencing."
"It was not easy to reach the storage because there were different network zones."
"I'm not really comfortable with the user interface because I don't use it very often."
"This solution could be improved by increasing integration with other tools, like Microsoft."
Box is ranked 8th in Cloud Storage with 37 reviews while Google Cloud Storage is ranked 3rd in Cloud Storage with 66 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while Google Cloud Storage is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Box writes "Used for data storage and data collaboration, but its data security could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud Storage writes "Flexible, reliable, and beneficial for small sized companies". Box is most compared with SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, Office 365 and Egnyte, whereas Google Cloud Storage is most compared with Amazon S3 Glacier, AT&T Cloud Storage, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Google Workspace and Microsoft Azure File Storage. See our Box vs. Google Cloud Storage report.
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