Google Drive Enterprise vs NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud comparison

Google and NetApp are both solutions in the Cloud Storage category. Google is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.6, while NetApp is ranked #16. Google holds a 3.3% mindshare in CS, compared to NetApp’s 1.8% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 17, 2024

Google Drive Enterprise and NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud are key players in cloud storage solutions. Despite users preferring Google Drive Enterprise's pricing and support, NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud ranks higher for its robust features, making it worth the investment.

Features: Google Drive Enterprise users highlight seamless collaboration, integration with other Google services, and ease of access as valuable features. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud users value high-performance storage capabilities, advanced data management, and reliable scalability functionalities.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest Google Drive Enterprise can improve offline functionality, file organization, and user interface customization. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud could benefit from simplified pricing structures, enhanced customer support, and improved user documentation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Google Drive Enterprise is noted for its straightforward deployment and responsive customer service. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud receives mixed reviews on deployment but is praised for its efficient customer service when issues arise.

Pricing and ROI: Google Drive Enterprise is recognized for its competitive pricing and reliable ROI. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud, although more expensive, is considered valuable for delivering a high ROI thanks to its premium features.

To learn more, read our detailed Google Drive Enterprise vs. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud Report (Updated: December 2024).

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Categories and Ranking

Google Drive Enterprise

Ranking in Cloud Storage

7th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Content Collaboration Platforms (6th)

NetApp Cloud Volumes Servic...

Ranking in Cloud Storage

16th

Average Rating

9.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (14th), Public Cloud Storage Services (19th)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Cloud Storage category, the mindshare of Google Drive Enterprise is 3.3%, down from 5.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud is 1.8%, down from 3.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Kepa-Ayerbe

Connectivity Platform Cyber Security Specialist at BASF Business Services GmbH

Offers valuable features like synchronization and backup

Some time ago, I faced issues with Google Drive Enterprise, but it is not related to the tool and was more of a problem associated with Android. At the end of the day, I had to contact Google's support team to deal with the issue associated with the capacity offered by the solution. Google's support team held me for free, and they helped me change the location from the US because the mobile app factory showed that the activation work was done in the US. Google's team helped me move the location to Spain. Google's support was fast, knowledgeable, and customer-friendly. I rate the technical support an eight out of ten.

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Colin Constable

Co-Founder at Atsign

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.

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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

"Even if you lose your laptop or device, your data will still be accessible on Google Drive Enterprise. Therefore, keeping your files on the tool is a safe option. You can access it from any device if you have a Gmail account. When you create a Gmail account, you automatically get access to free Google resources, including 15 GB of Google Drive Enterprise storage, which is shared across all Google products."

"Google Drive Enterprise is a good product, and it is easy to use."

"Though I don't see a major difference between Google Drive Enterprise and other competitors, I find that the solution is easy to use. You just need to connect to it and upload files and give access to users who need access to the files. It's very easy to manage files and share files on Google Drive Enterprise, and these are its most valuable features."

"Compared to other solutions such as Microsoft, this solution offers faster synchronization."

"The tool is user-friendly."

"Provides a secure backup to my data."

"The solution is very user-friendly."

"I like how Google Drive syncs content across all my devices. It allows me to transfer files between multiple devices at the same time. I also like the versioning features."

More Google Drive Enterprise pros

"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."

"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."

"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."

Cons

"It's a cloud-based product that is stable and secure, but I would like to see more security features added."

"Some features like transpose are still lacking in the solution for power users."

"A separate interface to give users a summary of how they've shared items on the drive would be useful. You can end up having a lot of stuff and the sheer amount can end up making users feel a little bit lost in terms of knowing who they've actually shared items with."

"The solution is kind of expensive."

"There are still many restrictions on what the solution can do on the GenAI front, and much work needs to be done there."

"The product lacks in the area of documentation."

"If you have different accounts, you have to log out and log in to access the accounts. This could be improved by removing this requirement. The storage limit could also be increased."

"Considering things like speech recognition or enhanced benefits in Google Cloud could be worth exploring for a better experience."

More Google Drive Enterprise cons

"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."

"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."

"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

"Google Drive Enterprise is free for everyone to use."

"The program is very affordable."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten."

"I use the free version of the product."

"The costs could be lower, but they are reasonable for the value they provide."

"The product is available for free, so I don't need to pay for it."

"If you need extra storage for the product, then you need to make certain payments towards the product's licensing charges."

"The solution has a subscription-based license."

More Google Drive Enterprise pricing and cost advice

"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

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

16%

Government

12%

Comms Service Provider

Educational Organization

61%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Google Drive Enterprise?

With Google Drive Enterprise, multiple people can edit a document, and you can open it as Google Docs.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Drive Enterprise?

We pay a monthly licensing fee for the solution.

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What needs improvement with Google Drive Enterprise?

Google Drive Enterprise is expensive. Google Sheets APIs need improvement.

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Also Known As

Drive Enterprise, Google Drive

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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Overview

Drive Enterprise enables you to transform how your business stores, accesses, and secures files, all without extensive change management. Drive Enterprise is a standalone offering with usage-based pricing that includes all the features of Drive.

NetApp^® Cloud Volumes for Google Cloud is a fully managed or self-managed file service that is integrated into Google Cloud with the multiprotocol support, performance, and availability required to run business-critical applications. It is designed to provide massively parallel shared access to thousands of Google Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine instances, enabling your applications to achieve high levels of aggregate throughput and IOPS with consistent low latencies.

Use cases. Customers can use the service to migrate existing enterprise applications to Google Cloud. Other use cases include hybrid deployments, multicloud mobility, big data analytics, web serving and content management, application development and testing, media and entertainment workflows, database backups, container storage, and more.

Features. Multiple performance tiers, standard file interfaces, advanced data management, metered service, fully managed service, native service experience, integrated support, and integrated billing.

For more information:

NetApp: https://cloud.netapp.com/cloud-volumes-service-for-gcp

Google: https://cloud.google.com/netapp

Sample Customers

Journal Communications

Atos, Bandwidth, Wuxi NextCode

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