We performed a comparison between Dropbox and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like the synchronization, and the integration with Microsoft Office is good."
"The small business version gave us ample capacity."
"The most valuable features I have found to be accessibility and ease of use."
"I use the product to open files."
"The way the tool is designed and using the tool itself is quite transparent."
"Its usability is valuable. It is easy to use."
"What I like most about Dropbox is that it's very, very easy to use. It's also easy to share files through it."
"The scalability is great for us."
"ONTAP has been very stable for us, specifically in the cloud environment. It allows us to have high availability as well as standalone systems if that's what we want within our specific workloads. Also, on-premise has been a very stable environment. We have very few outages and when we do, we work with support to get systems back online in a timely manner."
"The stability has been really good."
"The ease of use in terms of how the product works is valuable. We are able to work with it and deploy the storage that we need."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We started with a small pilot and we then moved to production with no downtime at all."
"The fast recovery time objective with the ability to bring the environment back to production in case something happens."
"In terms of administration, the portal which provides the dashboard view is an excellent tool for operations. It gives you volume divisions, usage rates, which division is using how much data, and more. The operations portal is fantastic for the support team."
"The most valuable features are tiering to S3 and being able to turn it on and off, based on a schedule."
"Unified Manager, System Manager, and Cloud Manager are all GUI-based. It's easy for somebody who has not been exposed to this for years to pick it up and work with it."
"We are moving to Microsoft Teams. Instead of Dropbox, we will be using Microsoft Teams that has the advantage of saving the versions. It supports file versioning so that you can always go back to the previous version if you want to. If somebody has made a change in one of the files and you don't know what changes have been made, you can always go back to the previous version. This feature led us to migrate to Microsoft Teams. With Dropbox, there is no option for simultaneous work. This feature is there in Google Files. In Microsoft Teams, you can invite team members to collaborate. That is the reason why I prefer Microsoft Teams over Dropbox. It should also have more integration with other solutions."
"Dropbox can improve by enhancing the capacity of storage in the free version."
"The free storage amount should be increased."
"A room for improvement in Dropbox is document editing. It would be nice to have the functionality of editing the document with other people at the same time. This is something that can be done on Office 365, and it's a feature I'd like to see in the next release of Dropbox."
"The interface could have bigger buttons."
"I cannot edit a document at the same time as another user."
"While generally user-friendly, there is room for improvement in the user interface, especially with the introduction of new integrations and features."
"The arrangement of documents can be simplified. Personally, I am used to it, but for a new user, it might be a little confusing. It can maybe have a feature to allow people to collaborate or work on the same document at the same time. I'm just using it to load and access information, and I haven't faced many challenges. However, I have seen that the whole system or laptop slows down a bit when I am synchronizing files to Dropbox. I don't know if it is because of my system. It might be good if they can enhance the synchronization process so that we can specify that synchronization should be done after 30 minutes. In addition, synchronization should only be done for the documents that have been uploaded."
"I would like to see something from NetApp about backups. I know that NetApp offers some backup for Office 365, but I would like to see something from NetApp for more backup solutions."
"There is room for improvement in tier one support, especially with potential language barriers and communication challenges."
"I would want more visibility and data analytics where we can see anomalies within the shares within the GUI."
"I would like to have more management tools. They are difficult to work with, so I would like them to be a bit more user-friendly."
"The solution could be better when we're connecting to our S3 side of the house. Right now, it doesn't see it, and I'm not sure why."
"We would like to have support for high availability in multi-regions."
"I would like NetApp to come up with an easier setup for the solution."
"The cost needs improvement."
Dropbox is ranked 4th in Cloud Storage with 85 reviews while NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked 1st in Cloud Storage with 60 reviews. Dropbox is rated 8.2, while NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dropbox writes "Seamless file synchronization across devices with user-friendly deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP writes "Its data tiering helps keep storage costs under control". Dropbox is most compared with Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint, Citrix ShareFile, Google Workspace and SmartVault, whereas NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Amazon S3, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Google Cloud Storage and Portworx Enterprise. See our Dropbox vs. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP report.
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