Amazon Cloud Drive vs Panzura

Amazon Cloud Drive

An excellent scenario for Amazon Drive Cloud is one where the main customer will only need to store a little information in the cloud for free. Many times we run out of space and do not want to pay for a larger storage capacity, and that's where Amazon Drive Cloud has strength because it's a free service, which gives you 5GB.

Now, Amazon Drive Cloud is not very well known and that decreases its potential. We do not recommend this software to store large amounts of information, especially videos and audio because sure 5GB will not be enough.

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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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Panzura

I believe Panzura can fit into any company structure.

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Andy Knauf

Vice President of IT, Principal

Mead & HuntCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon Cloud Drive

7.6

Panzura

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Versioning

7.8

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Video files

7.9

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Audio files

7.5

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Document collaboration

7.5

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Access control

7.0

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File search

7.9

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Device sync

7.9

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Amazon Cloud Drive

8.1

Panzura

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User and role management

8.1

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File organization

8.6

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Device management

7.7

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Amazon Cloud Drive

8.4

Panzura

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Performance

8.6

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Reliability

8.6

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Storage Reports

8.0

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Pros

Amazon Drive Cloud is free and that is positive. It gives us 5GB of storage when we register
The application for smartphones is very useful because you can do what you do when you connect from the web browser

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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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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

Amazon Drive gives you 5 GB of storage, which compared to other companies that give you 15GB, is not flashy. I think they should increase the storage capacity to a minimum of 15Gb so they can compete.
Amazon Drive Cloud competitors have additional text editing services, spreadsheets, online web presentation editor, among others, and this program only offers you storage. I think they should think of a strategy to become more attractive and beat the competition.

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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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Faster browsing of photos

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Andy Knauf

Vice President of IT, Principal

Mead & HuntCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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Usability

Amazon Cloud Drive6.2

Based on 2 answers

Because Amazon Cloud Drive is very easy to use.

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Arlex Guzman

VICEPRESIDENT

EYEMAR EXPRESSAirlines/Aviation, 1-10 employees

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Performance

Amazon Cloud Drive6.0

Based on 1 answer

It is safe but has little added value.

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VICEPRESIDENT

EYEMAR EXPRESSAirlines/Aviation, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Actually I think both Box and Dropbox are easier to use and have better features for sharing files, especially if you need password security on those files, but Amazon is better for storing tons of data. Box and Dropbox are much more expensive to store a lot of files.

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Verified User

Executive in Research & Development

Market Research Company, 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

Positive - has done exactly what we need it to do: back up massive amounts of files with relatively easy retrieval.

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Verified User

Executive in Research & Development

Market Research Company, 11-50 employees

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People are always working on the latest copy of their files. Since we implemented Panzura no files have [been] overwritten and [no] data has been lost.

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Andy Knauf

Vice President of IT, Principal

Mead & HuntCivil Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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