We performed a comparison between Dropbox and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP 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."Offers great flexibility."
"The most valuable feature of Dropbox is its user-friendliness. You can drag and drop files you want to store easily. Additionally, the speed of the solution is great if you have a fast connection."
"The solution is easy to use."
"I think Dropbox is a good option for Windows users because it's easy to use in Windows and a user can access all other products and software."
"I use the product to open files."
"Dropbox is an easy-to-use solution that has good stability."
"The security features of the product for data protection are good. I rate the security part a ten out of ten."
"Dropbox is a very easy-to-use site that allows me to save files to the cloud for retrieval from almost any device (laptop, iPhone, iPad, etc...)."
"The most valuable feature is its exceptional performance and storage efficiency."
"The ease of use in terms of how the product works is valuable. We are able to work with it and deploy the storage that we need."
"This solution has helped us because it is easy to use."
"If you have a fair amount of experience with NetApp, you can work on it very easily."
"Its functionality and technical support are adequate to help prevent failure due to errors."
"If anything happens, their technical support will come onsite and fix it."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of file storage."
"It gives a solution for storage one place to go across everything. So, the customer is very familiar with NetApp on-prem. It allows them to gain access to the file piece. It helps them with the training aspect of it, so they don't have to relearn something new. They already know this product. They just have to learn some widgets or what it's like in the cloud to operate and deploy it in different ways."
"The solution could be better integrated with other platforms."
"I would like to see integration with Office products, it would be very helpful."
"I'd like to see security improved a bit."
"Dropbox could be improved by reducing the storage price."
"Security could be enhanced."
"I think the product's interface is an area of concern since it has been changed for a long time and can be considered for improvement."
"The mobile aspect of the solution needs improvement. For instance, if I want to use a file from Dropbox on my phone, I sometimes struggle to download images off of Dropbox. The solution lacks accessibility on different devices."
"I would like to be able to unarchive my files online."
"It definitely needs improvement with respect to clustering and with respect to more collaborative integrations with Azure. Right now, we have very limited functionalities with Azure, except for storage. If CVO could be integrated with Azure that would help. When there is any sort of maintenance happening in the cloud, it disrupts the service in Cloud Volumes ONTAP."
"They definitely need to stay more on top of security vulnerabilities. Our security team is constantly finding Java vulnerabilities and SQL vulnerabilities. Our security team always wants the latest security update, and it takes a while for NetApp to stay up to speed with that. That would be my biggest complaint."
"I would like NetApp to come up with an easier setup for the solution."
"The support is good in general but the initial, front-line support could be improved. Because I have already been using the product for so long, when I call support I would rather talk to somebody who is a little bit more advanced or senior, rather than talking to the first-level support. Usually, it takes some time to reach out to their senior support."
"There is room for improvement with the capacity. There's a very hard limit to how many disks you can have and how much space you can have. That is something they should work to fix, because it's limiting. Right now, the limit is about 360 terabytes or 36 disks."
"Something we would like to see is the ability to better manage the setup and tie it to our configuration management database. We manage our whole IT infrastructure out of that database."
"Their support and development teams can collaborate better to resolve an issue."
"We have used technical support. As long as they don't call me at four o'clock in the morning to tell me that a drive failed and they are sending me another one, I like it. They have a tendency to do that."
Dropbox is ranked 4th in Cloud Storage with 83 reviews while NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked 1st in Cloud Storage with 60 reviews. Dropbox is rated 8.2, while NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dropbox writes "Seamless file synchronization across devices with user-friendly deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP writes "Its data tiering helps keep storage costs under control". Dropbox is most compared with Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint, Citrix ShareFile, Google Workspace and Office 365, whereas NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Amazon S3, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Google Cloud Storage and Portworx Enterprise. See our Dropbox vs. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP report.
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