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Box vs Egnyte vs Google Cloud Storage comparison

 

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

Mindshare comparison

Enterprise Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Box3.7%
SharePoint11.6%
OpenText Content Management8.0%
Other76.7%
Enterprise Content Management
Content Collaboration Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Egnyte5.2%
Office 3659.9%
Google Workspace8.9%
Other76.0%
Content Collaboration Platforms
Public Cloud Storage Services Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Google Cloud Storage6.7%
Amazon S313.8%
Amazon S3 Glacier10.9%
Other68.6%
Public Cloud Storage Services
 

Featured Reviews

Ahmed Rashad - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Projects Manager at Tech-hub
Team collaboration has improved through shared access and real-time synchronization
I find the synchronization feature most valuable in Box. When I use multiple devices, it syncs them together and gives excellent results. I can assess the benefits of Box's file sharing. Box's integration with third-party apps is valuable, especially with Outlook. Box has helped my team's productivity by being very helpful with team collaboration when we are sharing certain shared documents between us. I mostly value Box's automation capabilities. They have helped optimize my business processes by saving time for sharing or sending files between the team. This gives us a shared workspace to work together on the same document or the same ideas. Box's security features have helped my organization meet compliance needs.
GG
Chief Operating Officer at Quarem
Fantastic for small businesses; the customer feedback has been great
From a small firm perspective, Egnyte Connect is simple, it is easy to get users up and running the same day, and I have nothing negative to say about the software. I can't speak to how Egnyte Connect would operate in a midsize company or even a large Fortune 500 company, but, from our perspective as a small business, it is fantastic. For us, security was front and center. Usability was also important and took second place. Next, we asked "Is it simple and easy for anyone to quickly learn how to use it?" Egnyte Connect checked that box. Third place for us was price. We liked the fact that they charge on a monthly basis so there is not an annualized upfront fee that we pay.
Tulanun Jiangpradit - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Leader at SCG INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION CO.,LTD.
Cloud storage has optimized my tiered costs and supports seamless sharing and collaboration
Currently, I think it is okay and easy to use for an individual and to share with another person, so there is no room for improvement for Google Cloud Storage at this time.In the future, I would like to see additional features in Google Cloud Storage such as integrating Gemini to function as a chat for finding information, or OCR, or reading the content in my files for searching purposes.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the set of security options that can be set when sharing files with a group."
"The ability to collaborate around data anywhere, anytime is the most powerful features of Box."
"You can upload your bin, upload your files quickly, and download your files quickly, and you can use it on your own, on an iPad, or on your mobile phones whenever you wish to."
"Box thinks of features before I realize I want them!"
"The most valuable feature of Box is security."
"Governance and ease of use are why I think a lot of people like Box, including ourselves, because we use a lot of the Box governance features to make sure that what is being sent to Box is appropriate, and it is also pretty easy to use and is the easiest to use for customers and for technologists."
"Box is very simple and effective, so I prefer Box."
"The editable features and upgrading capabilities are great."
"From a small firm perspective, Egnyte Connect is simple, it is easy to get users up and running the same day, and I have nothing negative to say about the software."
"It provides a way to granularly choose which folders from the internet you want to sync to your computer, and it is really useful for people who are working on teams that are working with files that are frequently changing."
"It is a good storage solution."
"Now that the Egnyte vendor upgraded the version and they introduced the Egnyte Connect, there are a lot of features that they added, including co-authoring."
"It's easy to move files around, even to, for example, SharePoint."
"You can really do a lot of cool things with it in terms of being able to co-author and share documents with users that are not in your organization."
"It provides a way to granularly choose which folders from the internet you want to sync to your computer. It is really useful for people who are working on teams that are working with files that are frequently changing. You can go in and pretty clearly see what changes have been made. It gives you a constant feed."
"It is scalable and stable."
"Using this solution has improved the security of our data."
"It is easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Google Cloud Storage are flexibility and sustainability."
"It is stable and scalable."
"I use Google Cloud Storage for my personal things."
"Google Cloud Storage is fast, and it's scalable."
"The most valuable features are the ease and accessibility of information."
"Anyone looking at using Google Cloud Storage should go ahead and implement the solution."
 

Cons

"Technical support has some room for improvement, but nothing insurmountable."
"Box is extremely user friendly, however our clients have been having a hard time adjusting and understanding Box."
"One thing that Box would benefit from is a records management component."
"I wish the search was faster, like a google search."
"I find their API to be quite complex and it could be more straightforward."
"Like all cloud platforms, there are always areas of improvement around sync to local devices."
"Tasks and comments could be easier to see, report, search, and manage."
"Maturity of the enterprise security around user management."
"With Egnyte Connect, you cannot delete a file when you have uploaded it in error, which needs improvement."
"If this solution had a better ability to search, that would be helpful. In addition, if there was an ability to collaborate, that would also be a benefit. At present, the vision control is had because if someone gets out of it, it locks. And, whoever saves last overrides everyone's work."
"It would be nice to see an integration of using an active directory to validate and authenticate users on our end as well as on the client user's end."
"The issue of my authorization token expiring pretty quickly was pretty annoying. On pretty much every update, it would expire on every computer. On every computer update, at the first opportunity, it would expire. When my computer got updated or the authorization got cut, my saved drives would get messed up. So, I had to reconnect them all. I was never able to set up a useful drive system with my local computer with Egnyte Connect. It would be a big improvement if there was a cached system so that when it loses connection, it can still save what kind of connections were set up, and when it reconnects, it repopulates all those. I don't know if that's even possible, but that's the feature I'd want."
"It would be nice to see an integration of using an active directory to validate and authenticate users on our end as well as on the client user's end."
"You cannot delete a file when you have uploaded it in error."
"Before, when we were starting to use Egnyte, we were struggling with a lot of bugs with Egnyte desktop sync."
"If this solution had a better ability to search, that would be helpful. In addition, if there was an ability to collaborate, that would also be a benefit."
"It is hard to migrate to another product if we want to."
"The solution only allows so much space for free."
"I would like the storage to be less expensive."
"The solution should offer more free storage."
"Google Cloud Storage could improve the integrations in a way Microsoft Azure is going about it. For Data Lake integrations, Microsoft Azure has a bunch of native pipelines available."
"Sometimes, I'm not too fond of privacy policies, especially when using certain features like Gemini AI, where agreeing to the terms might mean losing access to your history. One area for improvement is document retrieval—sometimes, it's hard to find documents because the file names aren't always recognizable, and the preview feature could be more efficient. Maintenance for Google Cloud Storage is minimal, but it would be helpful to have a tool that automatically removes duplicate versions of files to save space. The file management in Google Cloud and Workspace isn't very straightforward, which could be improved."
"They need more enhancements in the security features."
"It could be made even more secure and allow for more storage."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are using the free version of the solution. There is a free version and monthly and yearly subscriptions available."
"Our pricing and licensing is excellent. I'd tell all Higher Ed customers to talk with Internet2 for excellent pricing and support."
"They are very price competitive when pushed. Initially, they come out with a standard list price, but they are willing to be very competitive. The Box price was pretty much equal to or lower than the Citrix price, and Box has more features."
"Box needs to improve with their pricing in terms of licensing costs."
"Better sign a full year's contract to get a discount."
"I have to pay for Box. It could be a little cheaper. On a scale from one to ten, I would give the pricing a five."
"There's a free version that allows you to use it with almost full-feature access. Even in the free version, it gives you all you need."
"My organization pays for the license."
"I do not have experience with the pricing of this solution."
"As far as I understand, licenses are associated with the Egnyte platform. There aren't any licenses associated with Egnyte Connect."
"The solution comes with a cost once a person has exceeded a certain limit."
"The product pricing is reasonable."
"If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the product price as a nine to ten out of ten."
"If you want a shared file system, you have to buy a server with the minimum capacity of one TB."
"I am paying a yearly subscription fee."
"For licensing, I pay yearly. The pricing is fine."
"The price of Google Cloud Storage is reasonable when compared to other similar solutions."
"Regarding the cost of the solution, Google offers its users a pay-as-you-go model pricing."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
7%
Construction Company
6%
Construction Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise27
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise35
 

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I found the pricing reasonable because when I was working for an IBM partner, Box was free for us. We did not go to p...
What needs improvement with Box?
I believe Box has a lot of features that put it in a good rank among the file-sharing apps. I would like to see featu...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Cloud Storage?
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Currently, I think it is okay and easy to use for an individual and to share with another person, so there is no room...
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I am now working with Google Cloud solutions. I am a user of Google Cloud, but for Amazon Cloud, I am a software deve...
 

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Sample Customers

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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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