Amazon Cloud 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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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

Panzura

Versioning

Video files

Audio files

Document collaboration

Access control

File search

Device sync

Amazon Cloud Drive

Panzura

User and role management

File organization

Device management

Amazon Cloud Drive

Panzura

Performance

Reliability

Storage Reports

Pros

Worldwide accessibility, including from China's great firewall.
Highly flexible with different server options: Aurora, MariaDB, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server.
Lengthy free trial lets you really dive deeply and explore the solutions offering and all that Amazon has to provide you with.

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Verified User

Employee in Marketing

Retail Company, 201-500 employees

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Ease of configuration - I installed well over 50 Panzura CSGs in under 6 months. The web interfaces are easy to navigate and the CLI is easy to learn.
Simplified replication creation. Pick your partners and go, hub & spoke, full mesh, take your pick the GUI makes it clear to understand what is being done.
Efficient storage usage. Expandable via additional drive enclosures, resilient due to replication and efficient due to deduplication.
Hybrid cloud done right. With APIs to external CAS storage you can create the private cloud you want, and with hooks to external resources like S3 take advantage of the public cloud space for economy of scale.

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Rob Clendenin

Storage Engineer

Charter CommunicationsGovernment Administration, 10,001+ 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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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 Drive 6.0

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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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Performance

Amazon Cloud Drive 6.0

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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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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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