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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:
 

Categories and Ranking

Egnyte
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Content Collaboration Platforms (13th)
Google Cloud Storage
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
78
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Storage (2nd), Public Cloud Storage Services (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Egnyte and Google Cloud Storage aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Egnyte is designed for Content Collaboration Platforms and holds a mindshare of 6.2%, up 2.8% compared to last year.
Google Cloud Storage, on the other hand, focuses on Public Cloud Storage Services, holds 9.7% mindshare, down 11.3% since last year.
Content Collaboration Platforms
Public Cloud Storage Services
 

Featured Reviews

John Michael - PeerSpot reviewer
Great search functionality and useful co-authoring capabilities with an easy setup
The best feature is the co-authoring. Before, in Egnyte desktop sync, it didn't have the capability to co-author. Now, since you have Egnyte Connect on your machine, it gives you the capability to co-author on a single file at the same time. 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. You can also access those files and folders using your mobile device, which is good. Some of our advisors don't have a desktop or laptop, so they are just accessing their files via mobile devices or tablets. Before, in Egnyte desktop sync, you could install it on a certain server. Now, with Egnyte Connect, you can install the application on a particular server, and then you can save your file from there. The initial setup is easy. It's easy to move files around, even to, for example, SharePoint. The search functionality has been good. The user interface is great. Support is great. In Egnyte Connect, you can add more domains if you want to access files and folders.
Manimaran Tannimalai - PeerSpot reviewer
User interface consistency facilitates seamless project planning and design for specialized tasks
While Google has made efforts to address SAP loads, the company lacks a product specialist focus. They cover a broad range of products, which might affect their ability to compete well in certain niches. Google's strength lies in their adapted approach to specific tasks, as seen with SAP loads. Generally, their focus is widespread.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is scalable and stable."
"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."
"It's easy to move files around, even to, for example, SharePoint."
"It is a good storage solution."
"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."
"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."
"Egnyte Connect is a great application to save files."
"The combination of Firebase features, including storage, the Firebase database, and authentication, has been the most valuable. Firebase offers Google authentication, which is convenient for our needs. Additionally, Firebase provides email authentication and Gmail authentication, which are easy to set up and integrate into our applications."
"What I like about this program, is that it's quite fast, because you pay for your usage."
"On the phone, I appreciate how seamless it is."
"The best feature is ease of use."
"It's user-friendly. We find it to be very easy to use."
"One of the most valuable features of the solution is its ease of use."
"We are mostly doing telephony and generic web services in the telephony."
"From an availability perspective it's fantastic; from a security perspective it's fantastic."
 

Cons

"As of right now, I have everything that I and my team need."
"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."
"Before, when we were starting to use Egnyte, we were struggling with a lot of bugs with Egnyte desktop sync."
"You cannot delete a file when you have uploaded it in error."
"One area for product improvement would be better synchronization across regions."
"The cost of additional storage could be cheaper."
"The tool should be cheaper."
"I am not sure about the reliability of the solution."
"Could be improved from a storage perspective and a cost perspective."
"It is hard to migrate to another product if we want to."
"This solution could be improved by increasing integration with other tools, like Microsoft."
"Here in the Philippines, we don't have direct support from Google. We have self-studied to learn the services."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"As far as I understand, licenses are associated with the Egnyte platform. There aren't any licenses associated with Egnyte Connect."
"I do not have experience with the pricing of this solution."
"I am paying a yearly subscription fee."
"It's an inexpensive product."
"The product pricing is reasonable."
"For licensing, I pay yearly. The pricing is fine."
"I pay for a monthly subscription."
"The price of Google Cloud Storage is reasonable when compared to other similar solutions."
"The solution is free."
"Better pricing would be helpful."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
46%
Computer Software Company
8%
Construction Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
5%
Educational Organization
70%
Computer Software Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
3%
Comms Service Provider
2%
 

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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