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Azure NetApp Files vs Dropbox comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Customer Service

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Azure NetApp Files support is praised for responsiveness, though effectiveness varies, with some users relying on internal teams.
Sentiment score
7.5
Users find Dropbox easy to use, with mixed feedback on technical and billing support response times and varying regional experiences.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
4.2
Azure NetApp Files needs innovation, better versioning, cost optimization, simpler deployment, better support, and enhanced disaster recovery and replication.
Sentiment score
4.9
Dropbox requires enhancements in security, pricing clarity, collaboration, storage, synchronization, integration, and user interface to compete with rivals.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Azure NetApp Files is highly rated for scalability, flexibility, automation, and minimal maintenance, with some size and availability concerns.
Sentiment score
7.1
Dropbox is highly scalable with easy storage upgrades for paid plans, though some users find competitors easier for scaling up.
 

Setup Cost

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Azure NetApp Files offers flexible pricing with pay-as-you-go and subscription models, but may seem expensive for small deployments.
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Dropbox offers a free version with 2GB storage and competitive paid plans, with annual subscriptions typically cheaper.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Users highly rate Azure NetApp Files for its stability and reliability, consistently handling increased loads without issues during migrations.
Sentiment score
8.7
Dropbox is highly rated for its stability and reliability, with users rarely reporting significant technical issues or performance glitches.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.2
Azure NetApp Files provides flexible, secure, high-performance storage with fast provisioning, scaling, snapshots, SQL backups, and high availability.
Sentiment score
8.3
Dropbox offers device accessibility, seamless sharing, user-friendly interface, Office integration, synchronization, collaboration, security, stability, backup, access control, organization, and versatile storage.
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure NetApp Files
Ranking in Cloud Storage
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Migration (3rd), Public Cloud Storage Services (8th)
Dropbox
Ranking in Cloud Storage
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
88
Ranking in other categories
Content Collaboration Platforms (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Cloud Storage category, the mindshare of Azure NetApp Files is 14.0%, down from 15.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dropbox is 8.5%, down from 10.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Storage
 

Featured Reviews

We can expand our storage on-the-fly without the need to reprovision
Ease of provisioning: It's very easy to consume the product. We are not doing this manually. We are doing this programmatically, but it's very easy and seamless for us to consume it. It's like any other Azure component. It's very good and well-integrated into the ecosystem of Azure. There is tight integration. We didn't need to learn anything new. It feels like we know everything already, although under the hood, the product is something totally different. However, it seemed very easy for us. It's elastic, so it scales with our demands. We can start small, then with the addition of customer loads, we can expand on-the-fly without the need to reprovision something. The performance is quite good, so it's almost on par with the make of SSD storage. It provides a quick, scalable storage solution. We were looking for a supported solution. We didn't want to experiment. We didn't want to look for open source, though we did look into open source initially before we bumped into NetApp. We figured out that adding yet another unknown into our system was not going to bring us benefit. It would be another problem that we would need to tackle. So, we said, "Okay, let's look for a supported solution," and NetApp was one of them. Then, we turned to NetApp.
Anton Krivonosov - PeerSpot reviewer
An easy-to-use solution that can be used to store files in the cloud and share them with different people
Dropbox is a cloud-based solution. Dropbox is a nice solution to use if you have nothing to hide or aren't afraid that others will view some secrets because you don't know how the company protects them. If you store normal files you don't care much about, you can use Dropbox. Overall, I rate Dropbox a nine out of ten.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
33%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Educational Organization
57%
Computer Software Company
5%
University
4%
Financial Services Firm
3%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How does Azure NetApp Files compare to NetApp ONTAP?
Azure NetApp Files is a Microsoft Azure file storage service built on NetApp technology. The platform combines the file capabilities of Azure and NetApp to move critical file-based applications to ...
What do you like most about Azure NetApp Files?
The availability is good, meaning downtime or network issues rarely occur. The system also offers flexibility, allowing for increases in data volume, IOPS, and other capabilities without requiring ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure NetApp Files?
The solution's competitors like Oracle or Amazon are not cheap either. I think we're paying two million dollars for Azure NetApp Files. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is exp...
What do you like most about Dropbox?
For me, the biggest thing is version history. I can easily go back and view older versions.
What needs improvement with Dropbox?
Dropbox needs to improve its integration with Google platforms, including Google Sheets, Google Docs, and Google Slides, which facilitate easier collaboration. I would also like to see features rel...
 

Also Known As

NetApp ANF, ANF
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