CTERA Intelligent Data Platform vs Microsoft Office SharePoint Server comparison

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CTERA and Microsoft are both solutions in the Content Collaboration Platforms category. CTERA is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.6, while Microsoft is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.4. CTERA holds a 3.2% mindshare in CCP, compared to Microsoft’s 3.5% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of CTERA users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 82% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2026

CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server compete in the enterprise file services market. CTERA appears to have the advantage in pricing for long-term deployments, while SharePoint's edge is its integration with Microsoft's ecosystem, offering better initial costs in certain setups.

Features: CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform includes strong data protection, intelligent caching, and seamless backup and disaster recovery features, facilitating efficient operations in both cloud and on-premise environments. Microsoft SharePoint excels in document management, collaboration, and its integration with Office 365, enhancing teamwork and efficient workflow management.

Room for Improvement: CTERA could focus on improving its UI for easier navigation, enhancing monitoring capabilities, and advancing AI features to better meet user needs. Microsoft SharePoint might benefit from refining its interface design, improving documentation, and enhancing seamless integration with third-party applications to increase user satisfaction.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: CTERA offers a flexible deployment supporting private, public, and hybrid cloud settings with generally strong customer support, although response times may vary. SharePoint provides straightforward deployment, especially in Microsoft environments, backed by vast community resources, yet leaves room for improving direct enterprise-level support.

Pricing and ROI: CTERA delivers competitive pricing, lowering operational costs by consolidating backups and reducing hardware needs, which often results in a favorable ROI. SharePoint's cost structure varies, being initially lower due to licensing models, though additional feature costs can increase expenses. Organizations leveraging Microsoft's ecosystem can achieve a significant ROI through productivity gains.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

CTERA Intelligent Data Plat...

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

7th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

File System Software (1st), NAS (4th), Cloud Migration (4th), Cloud Storage (2nd), Cloud Backup (7th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (5th), Cloud Storage Gateways (1st), AI Legal & Compliance (3rd)

Microsoft Office SharePoint...

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

5th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

4.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Content Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of CTERA Intelligent Data Platform is 3.2%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is 3.5%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Content Collaboration Platforms Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server	3.5%
CTERA Intelligent Data Platform	3.2%
Other	93.3%

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Tim M.

Senior Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Supports global file recovery and rapid data versioning across 80 nodes

When we implemented CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform early on, and we've been on the platform for three years, we have three different cloud portals. We have an EU portal, we have an Americas portal, and we have an APAC portal. It would be nice if we could combine that into one portal just for that global single pane of glass look. We've talked with them about that and they say it's challenging just because of some of the structure, but that would be something nice if we could get that. I integrated with Varonis, and because CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform didn't have initially a working relationship with that vendor, it would have been nice had that pre-existed us saying we need this. But that wasn't totally CTERA's fault. There was a lot of challenge working with the vendor to build out that interface. A single pane of glass for CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform would be beneficial. Everything else works fairly well. We've never had a point where we couldn't get to something that caused us to have a serious outage, and that to me is the mark of a good software package. It's never really caused us serious issues. We have our issues, that's true, and every software package does. However, we've always been able to meet the needs of the business, and we drive hard on security, stability, and scalability. From the scalability standpoint, that's one of the most important things to us. We're on their capacity-based licensing, so if I need to ramp up another CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform NAS, if we have an M&A, I can easily and quickly spin up another NAS and start doing that data transition fairly quickly. The biggest maintenance issue with CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform is firmware upgrades. We've done a lot of transition from hardware solution to virtualized infrastructure in order to minimize that hardware lifecycle portion of it. We have to upgrade the firmware and sometimes that can be challenging in the nature of business of our size with 80 CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform nodes around the globe. The issue we've had with CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform happened recently in a firmware upgrade where there was a major database back-end upgrade and that took some time. For our smaller sites, it would be an hour or two, and I can build that into a fairly easy change window. But in our larger sites where we may have hundreds of terabytes of data, that database update process took maybe a day or a day and a half. That becomes more challenging, especially in a manufacturing environment where people are wanting to access configuration files. We had to pin the data locally because the data would be available on the local edge filer, but the cloud sync, while it was updating the database, the cloud files weren't available. That would be the other thing I'd like to see an improvement on: some way to do those database upgrades either in a more segmented fashion or in some type of offline environment. I understand the logistics behind that sounds easy, but I'm sure it's not.

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Tom Runar Lauritzen

Enterprise Architect at Veidekke

Creating internal architecture content has become smoother but embedding linked diagrams still needs work

I'm not currently working with IBM, IBM Controller, or other IBM tools. I still do a little bit of work with my previous company, but it's very minor. I don't work with any software or solutions outside of personal productivity suites such as Microsoft Office and things of that nature. I use Microsoft suite, Exchange, Teams, and so on. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is more accessible for the average user, but it lacks certain features that more advanced users would look for, making it seem unnecessarily complicated to do simple things or things one expects to be simple. I'm not directly involved in pricing and licensing, but I work closely with people who are, and my company has a third party to help manage licensing. I don't have the impression that Microsoft is regarded as particularly expensive. The product was licensed directly from Microsoft. I would give Microsoft Office SharePoint Server a rating of seven points on a scale from zero to ten, where ten is the best.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I have seen a clear return on investment, and I would estimate that CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform saved about 50 to 60 percent of the costs tied to our old file storage and backup setup."

"The best feature is the migration tool within CTERA."

"After we finished the implementation, after about six months or so of using it, it's good because all the administration tasks are done via a graphical user interface."

"I find deduplication to be the most valuable feature in my day-to-day work because it prevents data duplication, which is crucial since traditional storage often fills up, requiring IT to replace it."

"CTERA's instantaneous and redundant file replication, available across multiple geographical locations, ensures easy and user-friendly recovery."

"CTERA has been particularly capable of keeping all of our workstations backed up. That became a critical feature for us during the pandemic when computers were rarely in the office. Everybody went off-site with their computers, and we were accustomed to working with a centralized storage infrastructure where people would come to the office and connect to the server to use, create, and modify files. Everything was done directly to that server."

"CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform has positively impacted our organization as it has allowed us to shrink our on-premise file system footprint, moving out from data centers and adopting a cloud-first strategy, which brings cost savings."

"CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform has improved our operations tremendously by eliminating our NAS branch and providing a single platform for our file storage where we can sync, share, and backup our runtime data."

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"Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is a scalable solution because our applications are not staying in one place, year on year we are increasing users, so definitely it can scale with what we need."

"This product has improved the way our organization functions in the following manner: We are provided with policies and procedures for administration, we can store all the documentation related to all IT projects, and we have developed some workflows for automating licensing requests and other types of requests."

"The most valuable feature is the "Alert Me", which provides the ability to set an alert when content is either added or changed and that the alerts can be either real-time or aggregated for the day or the week."

"The most valuable feature is that it is very usable. I can navigate it, I can have a media call, I can have a call with my project team, so we can chat with every team kind of like WhatsApp. Any time there are projects or other things, we can chat in a secure way. It's automation-specific secure."

"Because of the integration of documents stored in SharePoint to be edited by any of the Office Suite products, that overpowers and is a greater good than what DocuShare brought to the company."

"What I appreciate most about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is how it centralizes information and collaboration in one place."

"The software is friendly to use for mixing data and analyzing it."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Communication Site."

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Cons

"The web portal that our users access to view data and backups could be optimized. CTERA could apply some of the improvements made to their administrative interface on the user side. The administrators are a much smaller group of people than the users, so it would be helpful if they targeted user experience resources to them."

"I think CTERA Intelligent Data Platform could improve by offering licenses below the minimum of fifty terabytes, which would make it accessible to medium and small companies, not just large enterprises."

"The only challenge I faced with CTERA Intelligent Data Platform is with respect to monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting."

"One of the bigger things that I would like to see is additional logging. There are logs in there. They provide us with the initial logs on what is happening on our CTERA device. I appreciate that, but they do not give us any further information. I would like to have more information on the logs themselves."

"Setup and onboarding could be simpler, and reporting and troubleshooting could be more intuitive."

"I am looking for a process where version upgrades do not impact the customers. There is no downtime."

"There are two things about CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform that I think they can improve. The first one is the reporting or maybe the monitoring solution because they lack reporting about the shares that we have, the used space, the total space, the permissions, or other relevant metrics."

"CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform could be improved by being a little faster in performance and having a timeline for new features and updates."

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"The solution needs to enable better sharing capabilities between users and external users. Several users also have problems with linking their emails to their Microsoft account."

"Concerning technical support from Microsoft, I am not very satisfied with their support."

"It is a bit restrictive to develop in the cloud version. A lot of features are in the cloud now, and you have to develop on the outside. As far as the platform and the programming side of things are concerned, it is moving more towards configuration management rather than programming. When we are doing solutions, we are basically just configuring it to make solutions happen rather than actually using the Visual Studio code and developing from scratch in the cloud. It is almost like creating an app. You have created an app for your phone, but the app doesn't really sit on your phone. It sits somewhere on a server, and the database sits on another server. The app is just pulling and pushing information. The whole development has changed. We used to install things directly on the server and then run the application from the server. Now, it is more of a modular architecture."

"Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is more accessible for the average user, but it lacks certain features that more advanced users would look for, making it seem unnecessarily complicated to do simple things or things one expects to be simple."

"The product could be improved by accommodating different technologies, particularly integration."

"I think that it can be improved in terms of security, to manage roles and better performance."

"I think these tools do a pretty good job. There is only one area of improvement. Maybe Microsoft can invest a little bit more into the ease at which integration can be done with other third party applications."

"From Microsoft, the support normally takes longer than we need and it's not a route we appreciate."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"So far, pricing seems to be fine."

"It is hard to compare the costs if we want to retain the same model of a separate high-performance storage or certain things, but it is one of the cheapest solutions available in Israel."

"CTERA's pricing seems to be on par with some of the other players, such as Nasuni and Azure. They all have benefits, but CTERA is competitive for its features."

"It is fairly priced. I am not too involved in the pricing of what we used to pay, but it would have reduced the cost of ownership. I cannot give a figure, but the EMC solution was very expensive compared to CTERA."

"CTERA's pricing model is competitive compared to other companies that achieve the same thing. Their closest rival is Nasuni, and CTERA is significantly more affordable than Nasuni."

"I am not directly involved in the pricing aspects, but I understand that CTERA's pricing is competitive and within industry standards."

"I find the pricing reasonable. They offered us deals that helped us. Especially with the upgrade to a bigger unit last year, they were helpful with the deal."

"It can be expensive for on-premises deployments, especially when you have to support SQL Server as your backend database. That's where the cost comes into play. SQL Server has its own licensing, which Microsoft keeps on changing. Therefore, it can become costly. In the earlier versions of SharePoint, version 2007 or 2010, they had an express version where the SQL Server licensing was free. It wasn't like a full-blown SharePoint. It was only a slimmed-down version. It used to be whatever your hardware costs. You would install the free software and work with it, but you were very limited in what you could do in SharePoint. If you wanted the SharePoint Enterprise Server with all the bells and whistles, then you had to pay more to get the SQL Server license based on the number of users or servers. The subscription model is different for cloud deployments. Licensing is per user and per month. The cost also depends on the storage required. If you have a lot of sites or documents, then you need to expand it based on your needs."

"There are some aggressive discounts offered by Microsoft for organizations that are not for profit, which we are, and it makes it quite attractive to consider."

"Pricing plans may be flexible depending on volume usage and your corporate relationship with Microsoft."

"One of the reasons why we don't recommend the cloud version of SharePoint is the cost. With the on premise version, you pay for the license once. For the cloud version, there is a recurring fee. It is very expensive. They expect everyone to pay $20 or $30 per user per month."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

34%

Computer Software Company

30%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	31

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	13
Large Enterprise	17

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it's just fine; we found what we wanted, and we could show the cost reduction compared to classic file server solutions combined with b...

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What needs improvement with CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform?

CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform can be improved, most likely by the support. Major problems are taking more time to resolve compared to other IT vendors we work with.

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What is your primary use case for CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform?

My main use case for CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform is file sharing at remote offices. A specific example of how I use CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform for file sharing at remote of...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server?

I am not aware of the pricing, so I cannot say if the solution is expensive or quite affordable.

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What needs improvement with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server?

My expectation when I start using a Microsoft product is that it would be easy to incorporate diagrams and such from other Microsoft Office products. Incorporating a diagram I've embedded in a slid...

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What is your primary use case for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server?

I produce content about the work I'm doing inside the company, making information about IT architecture, work processes within IT architecture, and security reviews of applications or infrastructur...

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Overview

CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform provides scalable, robust data protection solutions with secure file access, global synchronization, and centralized control. Its cloud integration offers streamlined file sharing and infrastructure management, enhancing productivity and minimizing downtime.

CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform is designed for efficient resource allocation and offers a reliable, user-friendly interface. It features advanced data protection with ransomware protection, versioning, and seamless disaster recovery capabilities. The platform facilitates file restoration, backup, and secure sharing with excellent integration into legacy systems. While offering a scalable storage solution, users find areas for improvement in UI simplicity and documentation clarity. Users also request improved monitoring tools and enhanced performance stability.

What are the key features of CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform?

Convenience and Scalability: Users experience secure file access with centralized control and global synchronization.
Cloud Integration: Enables easy file sharing and cost-effective infrastructure management.
Data Protection: Includes ransomware protection, versioning, and disaster recovery.
Performance and Reliability: Minimizes downtime with a user-friendly interface.

What benefits should users expect from using CTERA?

Enhanced Security: Robust data protection and seamless integration with legacy systems.
Increased Productivity: Minimizes downtime and streamlines resource allocation.
Cost Efficiency: Scalable storage and efficient file replication reduce operational costs.
Comprehensive Support: Supports backup, archiving, and synchronization across multiple locations.

CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform is widely implemented in industries requiring reliable server management and cloud access. Companies leverage its scalability for NAS solutions, SMB services, and efficient storage management. It supports data protection activities like backup and archiving, crucial for businesses with complex IT infrastructures, enhancing their operational efficiencies and reducing expenditure.

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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server enhances collaboration, document management, and version control while integrating seamlessly with Office apps, Teams, and OneDrive for efficient communication and content sharing.

Offering automation, workflow management, and effective metadata usage, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server improves operational efficiency. It's user-friendly with low-code and no-code capabilities, ensuring accessibility for organizations. Robust security measures and access control with Active Directory integration provide secure data handling, while real-time editing allows multiple users to collaborate productively. Its search functionality streamlines information retrieval, although enhancing this feature could further improve usability. Addressing the need for a more intuitive interface, distinct integration between Team and SharePoint sites, workflow simplification, as well as improved performance with large data handling, would add to its practicality. Better third-party application integration, enhanced document sharing, and increased licensing flexibility are areas for potential development.

What are the key features?

Collaboration: Enables seamless team collaboration with integrated Office apps and Teams.
Document Management: Advanced version control and document sharing capabilities.
Automation: Streamlines processes with workflow management and metadata usage.
Security: Robust access control with Active Directory integration.
Real-Time Editing: Allows multiple users to edit documents simultaneously.
Search Functionality: Assists in swift information retrieval.

What benefits or ROI should users consider?

Improved Productivity: Real-time editing and seamless integration enhance work efficiency.
Security Assurance: Strong access control supports safe data management.
User Accessibility: Low-code and no-code features increase ease of use.
Operational Efficiency: Automates workflows and optimizes document handling.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is utilized in industries such as healthcare, finance, and manufacturing for document sharing, collaboration, and internal communications. It supports project management, custom application development, and acts as an enterprise content management system. Organizations leverage its integration with Microsoft Teams for coordination and use it as a corporate portal. It facilitates data management, serves as a document library, and supports workflows with advanced capabilities like integration with Power Apps and Power BI for enhanced data visualization and interaction.

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McDonald's, WPP, US Navy, Gore, Festo, Stryker, Bezeq, PERI

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