We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Storage and IBM SoftLayer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon, Google and others in Public Cloud Storage Services."I have more than enough personal storage and have had no security issues."
"It is easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Google Cloud Storage are the ease of use and I can share files with my colleagues."
"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."
"Everything I store in the solution is available on all of my devices."
"It's very practical and reliable."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud Storage is that the backup feature is always on."
"The feature we've found most valuable is the ability to access our data anywhere, anytime."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"It is hard to migrate to another product if we want to."
"There are inefficiencies with cache when the names are sequencing."
"Google Cloud Storage could be improved if they provided more free storage for free accounts."
"I would prefer more support for alternative operating systems like DSD. The performance could be better because sometimes there are glitches. The price could be better."
"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. All Google needs to do is add the same set or maybe even improve on the sets that they have. All the analytics, including the Data Lake, would then be able to sit in Google Cloud Storage."
"Google Cloud Storage could improve by having better integration with Microsoft Office files. When I open a Google document I would like it to be able to be opened with Microsoft. You can already open Google documents in Microsoft Office."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"Its security should be better from the data security point of view. It should be more secure, and it should get tightly integrated with products such as Google Docs and Google Sheets. Microsoft covers different kinds of tools such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
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Google Cloud Storage is ranked 4th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 66 reviews while IBM SoftLayer is ranked 22nd in Public Cloud Storage Services. Google Cloud Storage is rated 8.8, while IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Google Cloud Storage writes "Flexible, reliable, and beneficial for small sized companies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM SoftLayer writes "Stable with excellent speed and agility". Google Cloud Storage is most compared with Amazon S3 Glacier, AT&T Cloud Storage, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Google Workspace and Microsoft Azure File Storage, whereas IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS.
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