Amazon Drive vs Panzura

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Cloud Drive is a fantastic backup solution for storing your digital files on the web, but if you want to manage, tweak, organize or otherwise maintain those files after they have reached the cloud, the experience immediately begins to suffer. This is especially noted when major competitor products like Microsoft and Dropbox offer similar services at similar prices, but offer far better interfaces for file management.

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Jorden Beatty

Digital Marketing Manager

LGD CommunicationsMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Panzura works well for companies that have a high amount of data with cross site collaboration being done. The caching ensures you don't need huge investments of storage at each site and the cloud storage ensures high availability over what can be done locally. Also helps eliminate duplicate data across sites and/or small variations in the same data.

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Ryan Lee

Enterprise Infrastructure Supervisor

KLJCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon Drive

Panzura

Versioning

Video files

Audio files

Document collaboration

Access control

File search

Device sync

Amazon Drive

Panzura

User and role management

File organization

Device management

Amazon Drive

Panzura

Performance

Reliability

Storage Reports

Pros

Amazon Drive automatically detects photos and videos in specific folders (that you choose). It will add them to Drive without any action from me.
There is a desktop app where you can access all of your files (in addition to web-based access).

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Kristin Cole

Owner

Sound Wave EventsEvents Services, 11-50 employees

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Real time file locking
Backup and recovery
Easy access to all your files

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Andy Knauf

Vice President of IT, Principal

Mead & HuntCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

Less storage than Google Drive, Google offers 15GB of free space - vs. Amazon's 5GB.
Also, unlike with Google Drive, you can't back up your work with Amazon Drive ( I also use Google Drive, since I have a Gmail account).
A lot more expensive than Google Drive, which is 1.99/month...but they are more in line with Dropbox pricing.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Packaging and Containers Company, 51-200 employees

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I would like to see more connectors. Tie in to traditional block storage or NAS. Additional cloud connectors to products like Hitachi Content Platform.
I would like to see a collaborative product created between Panzura and Riverbed. I envision an almost perfect small footprint ROBO solution where Riverbed provides the compute+WAN optimization and Panzura provides the storage/risiliancy components. Combine the boxes into a single 4U solution and you have a near perfect product for remote offices.

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Rob Clendenin

Storage Engineer

Charter CommunicationsGovernment Administration, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

Amazon Drive 6.0

Based on 3 answers

The system is very easy to use and it's use of apps for almost all devices and hardware makes it even easier to manage and store photos and documents. I highly recommend this as an easy to use solution for novices!

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James Murphy

Senior Web Developer

Web Juice LtdInternet, 1-10 employees

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No score

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Performance

Amazon Drive 6.0

Based on 1 answer

It is safe but has little added value.

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Arlex Guzman

VICEPRESIDENT

EYEMAR EXPRESSAirlines/Aviation, 1-10 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Support Rating

Amazon Drive 9.7

Based on 6 answers

Overall great software to use for file share, storage, and collaboration. Its security is great and the user management is spot on. The only thing that makes me dock it a point is that the device management as a subset of user management is kind of clunky. It hasn't been an issue yet, but it could compromise security in the future. Overall, would recommend

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Blake Baron

Ecommerce & Consumer Products Manager

Midwest Tungsten ServiceMining & Metals, 11-50 employees

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Panzura 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Hands down support is the best part of Panzura. Their techs are always helpful, always knowledgeable, and consistently solve complex problems quickly. You can definitely tell they hire their support folks from the top tier of other companies and they go above and beyond what I have come to expect in terms of support compared to other companies.

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Ryan Lee

Enterprise Infrastructure Supervisor

KLJCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Amazon Drive Cloud has the advantage of being backed by one of the companies that has had the highest growth in recent years: Amazon. That gives us security and has been the main reason for us to trust this product. We believe that the security systems of this company are good enough to be quiet while our files are stored on their servers

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Miguel Brito

Director de Marketing en Festejos Car-Yan. C.A.

Festejos Car-Yan. C.AEvents Services, 11-50 employees

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There are several other devices but Panzura is best of class.

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Andy Knauf

Vice President of IT, Principal

Mead & HuntCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

It slowed us down at first since we went from purely agile to document based then agile.
It is easy to use so even non-developers can access code snippets which they wouldn't know how to access on github.
It has a lot of features we don't have a use for in our business.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Environmental Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Exceptional positive impact on availability - as users move so do their files.
Panzura+DFS allowed for simple chargeback models to be implemented.

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Rob Clendenin

Storage Engineer

Charter CommunicationsGovernment Administration, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Amazon Drive Editions & Modules

Edition

100 GB	1.99¹
1 TB	6.99¹
2 TB	11.99¹
3 TB	179.97²
4 TB	239.96²
5 TB	299.95²
6 TB	359.94²
7 TB	419.93²
8 TB	479.92²
9 TB	539.91²
10 TB	599.90²
20 TB	1,199.80²
30 TB	1,799.70²

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Panzura Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

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Likelihood to Recommend

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Feature Rating Comparison

Versioning

Video files

Audio files

Document collaboration

Access control

File search

Device sync

User and role management

File organization

Device management

Performance

Reliability

Storage Reports

Pros

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Panzura

Cons

Amazon Drive

Panzura

Usability

Amazon Drive

Panzura

Performance

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Panzura

Support Rating

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Panzura

Alternatives Considered

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Panzura

Return on Investment

Amazon Drive

Panzura

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Amazon Drive Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Panzura Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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