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 8.5, while NetApp is ranked #18. Google holds a 2.1% mindshare in CS, compared to NetApp’s 1.6% 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: June 2025).

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

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Categories and Ranking

Google Drive Enterprise

Ranking in Cloud Storage

7th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Content Collaboration Platforms (8th)

NetApp Cloud Volumes Servic...

Ranking in Cloud Storage

18th

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (18th), Public Cloud Storage Services (19th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Cloud Storage category, the mindshare of Google Drive Enterprise is 2.1%, down from 3.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud is 1.6%, down from 2.3% 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

"Low maintenance solution."

"I can easily access my data and see my videos on Google Drive."

"We can use the product to store large documents we cannot always carry."

"For me, the most valuable feature is basically saving and sharing documents with other people outside, having something to be co-shared. When documents are large in size, it is easier to send them via email."

"The solution is very user-friendly."

"The collaboration aspects between teams and within team members are the most beneficial features."

"The most valuable features of Google Drive Enterprise are the secure file-sharing service. It is necessary to communicate with people, and the safe large file transfer is good. It's very useful and critical for us to communicate with each other nowadays. They integrate well with other Google solutions, such as Google Documents and Google Spreadsheet."

"I like that you can easily create folders and sort things by sliding them in and out. I like the sliding option. It's quite nice."

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"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."

"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."

"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."

Cons

"The storage limits could be higher."

"The product does not support certain formats."

"I have sometimes observed that when the data is very huge or there are so many rules, Google Sheets documents get stuck while uploading. It keeps on loading the document and gives an error. There should be an improvement in this aspect. It should be quick. Currently, we have to wait for a long time."

"If somebody has made changes, for example, there should be a timestamp. Also, if two or three people are working and someone deletes something, a mechanism to retrieve the previous version should be available."

"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."

"Security is the only area where there are certain shortcomings in the product where improvements are required."

"The conversion of Microsoft Office documents into Google documents could be improved."

"Google Drive Enterprise can improve by having better compatibility with Microsoft files. Google Drive Enterprise sometimes blocks Japanese characters in documents."

More Google Drive Enterprise cons

"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."

"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."

"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."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"In the free subscription, Google Drive Enterprise provides limited integrations. You get basic integration features, but for more extensive API usage, a paid subscription is required. Even with the paid subscription, there are limits on free API usage, such as a certain number of calls per day or month."

"I use the free version."

"It is inexpensive and the cost is per user per month."

"The product is free."

"The price could be better."

"Google is much cheaper than Microsoft."

"I rate the price of Google Drive Enterprise a four out of five compared to other competitors."

"The product is not expensive."

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

17%

Computer Software Company

15%

Government

Real Estate/Law Firm

Educational Organization

34%

Manufacturing Company

17%

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Google Drive Enterprise?

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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

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.

Google

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

NetApp

Sample Customers

Journal Communications

Atos, Bandwidth, Wuxi NextCode

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