We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Storage and IBM SoftLayer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most valuable features of Google Cloud Storage are flexibility and sustainability."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud Storage is its ease of use. It fits well with our business use."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud Storage is that the backup feature is always on."
"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."
"We are satisfied with the parameters of Google Cloud Storage."
"I could store any type of file using the solution."
"The most valuable features are the ease and accessibility of information."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"I would like to see better pricing."
"Google Cloud Storage could be improved if they provided more free storage for free accounts."
"Could be improved from a storage perspective and a cost perspective."
"User management could be better. It's complicated process to delete users and maintain the structure of documents created by deleted users."
"It's actually quite complete and we don't have any issues with the solution."
"What would make Google Cloud Storage better is if it provided more storage."
"The solution should have two factor authentication."
"Google Cloud Storage could be improved by increasing the drive capacity."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
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Google Cloud Storage is ranked 4th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 66 reviews while IBM SoftLayer is ranked 22nd in Public Cloud Storage Services. Google Cloud Storage is rated 8.8, while IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Google Cloud Storage writes "Flexible, reliable, and beneficial for small sized companies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM SoftLayer writes "Stable with excellent speed and agility". 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, whereas IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS.
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