We performed a comparison between Azure NetApp Files and Dropbox 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."The critical features of this solution are SnapMirror for replication, data protection, and SnapLock."
"Its security and ease of use are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its flexibility."
"I like the SnapMirror feature in Azure NetApp Files. It helps me create backups with snapshots and makes data recovery and compression."
"I think the easiest part is, when you do a comparison, it is the throughput versus the cost. And it's much easier to set up."
"The availability is good, meaning downtime or network issues rarely occur. The system also offers flexibility, allowing for increases in data volume, IOPS, and other capabilities without requiring downtime, which is a strong point. Based on the money spent, we can get performance improvements and high availability."
"You can change it non-disruptively. You can increase the size and decrease the size online, which is a huge benefit compared to Azure disks. It just works seamlessly. You don't need to stop the instances."
"It's elastic, so it scales with our demands. We can start small, then with the addition of customer loads, we can expand on-the-fly without the need to reprovision something."
"It is easy to install. It is stable and scalable."
"The solution is reliable and user-friendly."
"The most valuable features I have found to be accessibility and ease of use."
"Dropbox is a very easy-to-use site that allows me to save files to the cloud for retrieval from almost any device (laptop, iPhone, iPad, etc...)."
"Many people can use the Dropbox service and edit the data, it is simple to use."
"I like the synchronization, and the integration with Microsoft Office is good."
"Offers great flexibility."
"Simple to share files with others."
"I have a hunch that storage could be now the most expensive portion of our monthly bill. So I can imagine that, not this year, but next year we will be talking about looking deeper into ways how we can optimize the cost."
"The pricing definitely needs to be improved."
"We would like to have backup functionality built-in so that we don't run into the issue where the replication process makes a copy of the corrupted data."
"Azure NetApp Files could improve by being more diverse to integrate better with other solutions, such as Splunk and the on-premise version. There are some use cases that are not covered natively by Azure. It is not the best solution because it is not external from the cloud which for me is the best type of solution."
"The main hurdle in promoting this solution is the price. Its price definitely requires an improvement. It is more expensive than other options, so customers go for a cheaper option."
"We were looking for a clustered solution that has over-complicated things because we had it in AWS, which is Amazon. There was a solution for clustered NetApp. That meant there would be two NetApps that were not clustered because there was no solution for a cluster. We would like there to be an HA cluster solution."
"I would like to see multi-zone redundancy so that I don't have to worry about it. I just back up my data to that one SMB share and I know that it's replicated to a different region."
"Reserved Instances for Azure NetApp Files would improve more use cases, making them more valuable in Azure as the cost would be reduced."
"The free storage can be increased."
"2 Gb of free space and then a not so cheap subscription (also if the competitors have similar proposals for customers)."
"The product could always offer more storage."
"The interface could have bigger buttons."
"I would like to see an option to secure my files and set password protection to my folders."
"There is a potential improvement regarding storage capacity and offering more than its current four gigabytes."
"I think the product's interface is an area of concern since it has been changed for a long time and can be considered for improvement."
"Dropbox could be improved by reducing the storage price."
Azure NetApp Files is ranked 5th in Cloud Storage with 15 reviews while Dropbox is ranked 4th in Cloud Storage with 85 reviews. Azure NetApp Files is rated 8.2, while Dropbox is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure NetApp Files writes "We can expand our storage on-the-fly without the need to reprovision". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dropbox writes "Seamless file synchronization across devices with user-friendly deployment". Azure NetApp Files is most compared with Microsoft Azure File Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Nasuni and Panzura, whereas Dropbox is most compared with Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint, Citrix ShareFile, Google Workspace and SmartVault. See our Azure NetApp Files vs. Dropbox report.
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