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."Sharing and collaborating across files and folders has been a massive game changer."
"It is a very user-friendly product."
"The interface is very good."
"The sharing feature, with its various permission settings, such as viewing or uploading, is convenient and helpful."
"Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities."
"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."
"Box is extremely stable, they have not been hacked or lost any data in the past seventeen years. I am very impressed with it."
"I like the ease of use."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud Storage is that the backup feature is always on."
"It is easy to use."
"It's easy to use."
"The combination of Firebase features, including storage, the Firebase database, and authentication, has been the most valuable. Firebase offers Google authentication, which is convenient for our needs. Additionally, Firebase provides email authentication and Gmail authentication, which are easy to set up and integrate into our applications."
"Its performance and security features are valuable."
"Their technical support is good and very professional."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud Storage is the filter option. You can search with some artificial intelligence kinds of features. For example, if I search for a beach, it'll show me all the beach-related pictures, which I took five or ten years before. So this is a cool feature that I've seen. They give as many features as they can to make it better, so I'm happy with this solution."
"You do not need to install anything."
"One thing that Box would benefit from is a records management component."
"If you want to delete something in Box, you have to do it manually, one by one. That was my recent experience. They might have a bulk delete, but I could not find that option. If you want to delete something, you have to go to each and every file and delete it."
"The search features and role permissions are not very user friendly. It only searches the first few pages of a document, which is quite a problem."
"Improvements in speed - Box's high level of security impacts performance, especially when compared with other similar services."
"Data privacy, regarding where to store your data: Offering several transparent(!) options (where to store my data and whether to sync back or not and where to sync) regarding the local law situations (USA, EU, Switzerland!) would increase the credibility of a US based company (after NSA ‘snooping’)."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"I haven't really come across a case where we're not able to use it for what it is, so I don't really have anything holding us up or any customers holding us up at this point that I know of. There are always some limitations, but as a technologist, I just live with them, and there is always room for improvement, but I don't have anything quantifiable."
"I would love to see the ability to invite collaborators extended to a file level, not just the folder level."
"The solution could improve by adding an automatic removal of duplications feature."
"I would prefer more support for alternative operating systems like DSD. The performance could be better because sometimes there are glitches. The price could be better."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"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."
"Additional cost for more storage"
"Could be improved from a storage perspective and a cost perspective."
"The solution should improve its security and accountability."
Box is ranked 10th in Cloud Storage with 38 reviews while Google Cloud Storage is ranked 2nd 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), Microsoft Azure File Storage and Google Workspace. See our Box vs. Google Cloud Storage report.
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