We performed a comparison between Dropbox 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."Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"I use the product to open files."
"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 solution is very fast and simple. If I want to share a file I can put it on the cloud or on-premise. It's user-friendly."
"One of the advantages of Dropbox is that you can share files with people who are external to your organization without any additional costs. It is also easy to use, stable, and trustworthy."
"The features that I find most valuable are the ability to sync across devices, easily access/share files and organize them among myself and my team."
"The main feature that I found the most valuable is the ability to link the documents such that they are automatically taken to a page where you can review them."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The feature we've found most valuable is the ability to access our data anywhere, anytime."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud Storage is the shared folder."
"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."
"Google Cloud Storage performs well and it's easy to use."
"From an availability perspective it's fantastic; from a security perspective it's fantastic."
"Google Cloud Storage includes Docs, calendar, Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Meet."
"The solution is very flexible."
"Google Cloud Storage is very convenient to use."
"While generally user-friendly, there is room for improvement in the user interface, especially with the introduction of new integrations and features."
"There is a potential improvement regarding storage capacity and offering more than its current four gigabytes."
"It could be more secure."
"Dropbox needs to increase its storage."
"I would like to be able to unarchive my files online."
"Currently, it permits up to five users, but for larger families, it would be beneficial to have a more flexible offering."
"The tool must be better protected."
"The price is expensive for individual users."
"The implementation is not as easy as Microsoft, and the process could be improved."
"Google Cloud Storage could be improved by increasing the drive capacity."
"They need more enhancements in the security features."
"Google Cloud Storage could be improved if they provided more free storage for free accounts."
"My use case of this solution is fairly minimal. However, I am concerned about privacy on a cloud platform. Many people are not migrating to a cloud service because they are still concerned about putting data in cloud-based storage."
"The tool should be cheaper."
"Google Cloud Storage could improve the integrations in a way Microsoft Azure is going about it. For Data Lake integrations, Microsoft Azure has a bunch of native pipelines available. All Google needs to do is add the same set or maybe even improve on the sets that they have. All the analytics, including the Data Lake, would then be able to sit in Google Cloud Storage."
"It would be better to assign storage usage to different categories, because storage capacity is cumulative, if your Google album and email are both full, you will be unable to send or receive email."
Dropbox is ranked 4th in Cloud Storage with 83 reviews while Google Cloud Storage is ranked 3rd in Cloud Storage with 66 reviews. Dropbox is rated 8.2, while Google Cloud Storage 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 Google Cloud Storage writes "Flexible, reliable, and beneficial for small sized companies". Dropbox is most compared with Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint, Citrix ShareFile, Google Workspace and Azure NetApp Files, whereas Google Cloud Storage is most compared with Amazon S3 Glacier, AT&T Cloud Storage, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Google Workspace and Zadara. See our Dropbox vs. Google Cloud Storage report.
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