We performed a comparison between Google Drive Enterprise and Linode based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Some of the most useful features of Google Drive Enterprise is the ability to store my data and share it."
"The solution is very easy to scale."
"With Google Drive Enterprise, multiple people can edit a document, and you can open it as Google Docs."
"I have found the most valuable feature to be the Google Drive synchronization."
"The possibility of working together in real-time on the same document is the most useful feature for me."
"This solution has become an enhanced product over the years. It is more stable and they keep adding features."
"The initial setup of Google Drive Enterprise was simple."
"The most valuable feature is the static IP address, which has been very helpful for being able to log into the same address over the course of more than a decade."
"The number one thing we like about Linode isn't necessarily a service, it's their support. We've found their support to be absolutely fantastic. They've been so outstanding with their support. Every single time we call them and we ask for advice or help, they go above and beyond and it's really made us appreciate what they do."
"The virtual machine configuration tool is very helpful for setting up a new server or for modifying an existing server."
"Because of the way that their pricing model is set up, I can scale up or down the size of a customer's server very easily. It makes life very easy for me when they run out of space, need more speed or RAM, etc. I can very easily pay the difference and reboot the machine, and now I have the upgrade that I wanted. That just makes it extremely simple."
"The most valuable features are the simple scalability and ease of starting a new virtual machine."
"The most valuable feature is that they are flexible and easy to get ahold of if I need something."
"The ability to fire up a virtual machine, use it, and then kill it, is quite a valuable feature for me."
"Linode offers cost-effective pricing, and it enables me to swiftly deploy my services."
"It's become difficult to fit everything in one window."
"The solution is relatively new and takes some time to get used to."
"The price could be better. Google should rethink and realign its pricing strategy along with the storage prices because storage prices are going down for on-premise solutions. If they can reduce the cost or increase the storage capacity for that same tier, that would be a great advantage."
"The free tier of storage is limited."
"Lacks scalability and security."
"I had some issues with permissions at first. I have to ask for Drive permissions because I'm a new doctoral student. Sometimes I have to ask for permission because I can't access this kind of document, but recently they fixed that by adding me to their team. Now I can access any document that my department supervisors and staff share on Drive."
"The desktop app could be improved, especially how it functions in the Windows environment."
"I am not sure what will happen if you forget to renew your license."
"They are already working on the firewalls and VLANs, which need improvement, and are now in beta. I am on the beta program for the firewalls, but I can't use it yet because they are only in Mumbai and Australia, and I am not in those data centres. This is the one thing that I have been waiting for almost since the day that I joined them, so it is nice that they are doing that. The VLANs will be an improvement as well, and I am keen and waiting for that."
"When it comes to marketing and exposure, Linode needs improvement because I just randomly found them by looking for Linux solutions."
"They recently changed the web interface and although the older one did not look as good, the new one is less responsive."
"They could have more international servers. There are certain places throughout Europe and Eastern Europe which are very open to doing a lot of technology business, such as Romania. Romania is very open to technology. At other service providers, I have stuff in Romania. I think there are some Eastern European locations that would be more open to it. So, if they could have more European points of presence, that would be more helpful."
"Our primary concern is always the latency."
"I would like Linode (without cluttering things) to provide some type of DevOps workflow where people are configuring their pipelines from running their tests and deploying to their test server. Once approved by clicking a button, it just gets deployed to production. I would like something like Azure DevOps, which we use for large applications, and would be something nice to have in Linode."
"It would be helpful if they provided the additional Linux distributions that I prefer using. But there is still a workaround. I can do it without direct support. It's a bit more complicated, but it can still be done."
"I don't know how all of their services work, but my understanding is that they're not offering the entry-level machine for someone who just wants to own their own web page."
Google Drive Enterprise is ranked 7th in Cloud Storage with 54 reviews while Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews. Google Drive Enterprise is rated 8.4, while Linode is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Google Drive Enterprise writes "Easy to set up with simple file access and very reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Linode writes "Straightforward to set up, helpful support, and the Object Storage is useful for system backups". Google Drive Enterprise is most compared with Google Workspace, Citrix ShareFile, Google Cloud Storage, Dropbox and LucidLink, whereas Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare and Google Kubernetes Engine.
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