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Google Cloud Storage vs NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Google Cloud Storage
Ranking in Cloud Storage
2nd
Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services
4th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
74
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
NetApp Cloud Volumes Servic...
Ranking in Cloud Storage
14th
Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services
19th
Average Rating
9.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Migration (13th)
 

Featured Reviews

Tài Nguyễn Thành - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 13, 2024
A cloud storage tool providing Firestore and BigQuery
We use the solution for Firestore. We used a cloud call to run the database. We also use BigQuery for data logs Google Cloud Storage is a top cloud product on the Google Cloud Platform. We have used many Kubernetes clusters and run a GK and GKA with a pilot. It’s performance is good. It is…
CC
Aug 16, 2021
Enables us to fine-tune storage and capacity on the fly as our needs grow or shrink over time
NetApp delivers High Availability. It's critical to our work. That was the main driver for using NetApp. We have a highly resilient service and if you have a highly resilient service, you are only as resilient as the least resilient part of your infrastructure. That's what we were having trouble with our file system before. It was becoming troublesome, so we needed to find something that was much more highly resilient so that's why we moved to NetApp. The complexity of moving large numbers of files to the cloud depends on what you're trying to do. But for us, it was really simple. I imagine for large enterprise customers it is probably pretty tricky. They're probably on all different technologies inside a large corporation and they may or may not have very large pipes going to them. So if you're in a data center to the cloud then it's going to be easy, but if you have hundreds of branches like if you're a bank and have lots of branch banks, they might have very small pipes out to the internet. It might take forever. In our use case everything's brand new files, so it was pretty trivial. We didn't migrate to the cloud, we were already on the cloud, so it was a nonissue for us. NetApp enables us to share data across VMs. It actually reduced the amount of data storage we need. We were having to have storage attached to each VM. And now we can aggregate that storage across multiple VMs, so that actually gave us a net reduction, which was a good thing. We switched from using block storage to file storage to share data between our VMs. It made it easier, frankly but I worry about the scalability in the future. For the moment it made life easier. We were using block and then we moved back to file with NetApp.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Google Cloud Storage is easy to use, and it's free. I also enjoy the speed I am able to share with family across the globe. The storage is synced."
"It is seamlessly integrated with your Android. There’s no fuss, no hassle."
"On the phone, I appreciate how seamless it is."
"The solution is easy to use."
"We are satisfied with the parameters of Google Cloud Storage."
"The responses from the technical team are fast...It is a stable product...We do have plans to increase the number of users since it is a scalable product."
"It's very practical and reliable."
"It's easy to use."
"High availability is very important to us because we have a production environment. High availability is the highest priority for us to continue keeping our systems running."
"Storage was taking up maybe 10 to 20% of my life at the startup, and now it takes up zero. I was personally running all the infrastructure for the company. Now that we've moved to NetApp, I don't have to worry about making sure it's up and running. It's made my life personally much better."
"In terms of its storage snapshot efficiencies, the service is highly efficient. We are only doing things in small batches right now because we have not converted all of the data, but we have tested them in the Google Cloud and they work efficiently."
 

Cons

"I'd like the solution to integrate better with other clouds, including the Apple cloud."
"What would make Google Cloud Storage better is if it provided more storage."
"Having more storage space would be an improvement."
"It was not easy to reach the storage because there were different network zones."
"It is hard to migrate to another product if we want to."
"I am not sure about the reliability of the solution."
"The user interface could be more intuitive."
"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."
"It would help if they increased the area in which they employ artificial intelligence, by starting to do assessments on the environments, to project those. They're not using any AI tools, currently, on the administrative side."
"The user interface has room for improvement. We would like this service to be more integrated with Azure, which is very easy to manage and use. It was easy to create volumes and add capacity pools in Azure, but in Google Cloud, we can only create separate volumes. We need more management or configuration options in the user interface."
"I would like for the sales team to get in contact more often and let me know what I should be doing next, what we should be doing about new features. So it would be nice if I heard a little bit more from him. From a technology perspective, I have no complaints."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If you're ready to pay, they're ready to give you as much storage as you want. Considering the features that Google Cloud Storage provides, the pricing is reasonable. So far, I'm still using the free service from them because I'm able to meet my requirements with the free subscription. Maybe, in the future, if a storage requirement comes, I'll pay for it or go for the license."
"The solution comes with a cost once a person has exceeded a certain limit."
"We don't pay for a Google Cloud Storage subscription."
"They have recently changed their pricing structures, it used to be free but now it is a paid service. However, I am on a monthly subscription and the price is reasonable."
"In general, it's fairly priced."
"It's an inexpensive product."
"Approximately 800 to 1,000 USD is paid towards the licensing costs of the solution. The solution is neither expensive nor cheap, meaning it is moderately priced. There are no extra costs apart from the licensing costs of the solution."
"The solution was very cheap compared to other products."
"We don't need so much space, and there is no option to pay as we go or use just what we need. Also, the only way to increase performance is by increasing the level of the service."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
67%
Computer Software Company
5%
Retailer
4%
Manufacturing Company
3%
Educational Organization
55%
Manufacturing Company
17%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
5%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Google Cloud Storage?
One area for product improvement would be better synchronization across regions. Currently, the performance can be slow if you access storage from different global locations.
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CVS for Google Cloud, NetApp CVS for Google Cloud, Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud, Cloud Volumes Service for GCP, NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for GCP
 

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Sample Customers

1. Adobe 2. Airbnb 3. Amazon 4. Apple 5. AT&T 6. Baidu 7. Cisco 8. Coca-Cola 9. Dell 10. eBay 11. Facebook 12. Ford 13. Google 13. HP 14. IBM 15. Intel 16. JPMorgan Chase 17. LinkedIn 18. Lyft 19. Microsoft 20. Netflix 21. Nike 22. Oracle 23. PayPal 24. Pinterest 25. Qualcomm 26. SAP 27. Spotify 28. Tesla 29. Toyota 30. Twitter 31. Visa 32. Walmart 33. WeWork
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