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Google Cloud Storage

Overview

What is Google Cloud Storage?

Google Cloud Storage is unified object storage for developers and enterprises.

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Google Cloud Storage Review

9 out of 10
December 26, 2021
Google Cloud Storage is easy and flexible to use, multi-purpose and secure. Can also send files to others fast and securely. This software …
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Good Storage Solution

9 out of 10
March 04, 2020
Incentivized
Google Cloud Storage is used across our organization in support of our product line as well as our customer success team. It allows us to …
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Overall great product

8 out of 10
December 04, 2019
Incentivized
It’s is currently being used across our entire organization. We are using the Cloud Storage for product images. We are especially using it …
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What is Google Cloud Storage?

Google Cloud Storage is unified object storage for developers and enterprises.

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  • No setup fee

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What is Azure Blob Storage?

Microsoft's Blob Storage system on Azure is designed to make unstructured data available to customers anywhere through REST-based object storage.

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Product Details

What is Google Cloud Storage?

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Frequently Asked Questions

Google Cloud Storage is unified object storage for developers and enterprises.

Reviewers rate Performance highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Google Cloud Storage are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google Cloud Storage is easy and flexible to use, multi-purpose and secure. Can also send files to others fast and securely. This software has a reasonable price point compared to other companies. It allows you to store your data and retrieve it anytime as desired from any location at any time. Prefer google cloud over google drive, it has better features.
Dhiman Roy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In the recent era, we have to generate huge amounts of data for organizations. So we have to store it in a secure way. Here cloud storage is the perfect platform to perform it. We can easily access the data which are secured in this software. In my organization, we can easily store our data in this software and perfectly use the data in the future.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Google Cloud Storage is being used across multiple departments of our organization for storing, managing, and sharing documents, reports, and files. It helps reduce the number of emails, especially attachments to be sent over email, also helps keep everything organized. We give access to team members appropriately and manage the visibility of certain files between departments and teams.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use [Google Cloud Storage] to store large video recordings of gameplay from user research participants, and it works great! Can play the files straight from the cloud without having to download them. Of course, it also works great for smaller files like documents and presentations.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Google Cloud Storage to backup individual files, backup entire systems, share files, and to host static content. Since a storage bucket can be configured to a URL, this tool allows us to easily and temporarily host files needed between systems. Some of our storage buckets are used to host software updates, others are used only as background system backups, among many other uses.
Matthew Bernstein | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Google Cloud Storage is a great cloud infrastructure as a solution product, and deserves to be held up to the tops of the industry. The cost is rather reasonable for the amount of licenses it allows, and is used across all functions of my organization. Highly recommend this product.
March 04, 2020

Good Storage Solution

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Google Cloud Storage is used across our organization in support of our product line as well as our customer success team. It allows us to store data files, images, and other resources required by our product lines inexpensively and securely. We can control access to all resources without being cumbersome and data retrieval is quick and easy.
Cameron Gable | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our software platform is a distributed system; we run many batch jobs of varying workload types and sizes. We use GCS to store data from these VMs. GCS is able to solve the issue of needing a highly available storage option that one can store data on easily using various APIs. Our company also uses it as backup storage for our Google-managed file server.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Google Cloud Storage is currently used by IT, QA, and Accounting. For IT, it is used to manage and verify backups for the business. The Quality Assurance team uses Google Cloud Storage to store and automate code regression and edge case testing. The Accounting department uses the service to store and maintain historical employee records.
February 26, 2020

Cloud for Emails

Randi Yeaman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Individuals use the Cloud Storage for emails that we need to hold onto due to the length of our projects. I have to hold onto every email that comes in to Prime Solution and the only way I was able to accomplish this task was to use the Google Cloud Storage for these emails. This has helped us increase our email and storage capacity in order to best help our customers and their projects we are working with them on.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the Google Cloud Storage in the most diverse technology projects, software development and also in data analysis projects. It is one of the many solutions that Google Cloud Platform offers and is used by the technology and data science department. The GCS helps us deliver high quality solutions when there is a requirement for data storage in the cloud.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We primarily use Google Cloud Storage when we need to store data with a low access frequency cheaply. In the past, we've used it to assist with data migrations and for secure data exchanges. It's mostly used by the product/development team and infrequently used by other teams. The primary business problems it addresses relate to keeping "colder" data storage cheap and secure.
Christian Oquendo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At the moment, my company is using Google Cloud Storage for collaboration purposes with other companies. The convenience of cloud storage is useful for situations when there is no physical storage space available, as my company uses a lot of video content. This software also addresses many organizational issues with documents we share.
Leonel Quinteros | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The first adoption was to store media files (videos) that needed to be accessible publicly. Then we extended the use to store all files generated by our systems. It releases us from having to allocate disk space on our infrastructure to store growing assets. By just uploading to cloud ctorage we can focus on business cases and don't have to monitor space available over time.
September 02, 2019

Peace of Mind!

JaCoby Marston, CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been using Google Cloud Storage for multiple years now. We as a company will do anything we can to verify that our data is safely stored. We love using cloud storage because it gives my business peace of mind that if a computer was to crash, all is not lost. We have a back up located on Google Cloud Storage. We use Google Cloud Storage to back up our serve data. I personally love using Google Cloud Storage because I use multiple Google products and I love having all of the my stuff in one central location with one company.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Google Cloud Storage basically in our whole organization. The most common problem it addresses for us is that a group of us can work on a document/project remotely, so that we don't end up with this huge email string of forwarding and replying to documents. A group of us can make the changes no matter where we are.
Sam Randika | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Google Cloud software platform came up with more than one concept. not only background APIs that operate at code and scripting level of shell and IDEs but also can manage common computer tasks, service, object, the client from virtual disks and machines.its gives everyone a free account that comes with 15GB free storage. When comparing with other competitors that's a huge step. Since it connects with every Google product we can easily share data among them.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use Google Cloud Storage on the I.T. operations side. Our end users all use Google Drive as their primary storage. On the operations side, we use it for the long-term storage of critical information. We also keep data in Google Cloud Storage long-term for servers (physical, virtual, cloud) that have been retired. Archiving data in Google Cloud Storage allows us to eliminate physical media.
Alejandro Matheu, MD, MBA, MSc in Digital Marketing | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use this service for Cloud Storage (obviously). We use two cloud storage services, in case one of these fails or goes down for any reason. This service is used by the IT area mainly. We started using Google Cloud Storage as a trial and kept using it for a couple of months just for testing, but the pricing was better than the competition, that's why we finally decided to use both.
Spencer Baselice | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cloud Storage is used to store files exported from Big Query. When larger data sets are pulled, the tables can be exported into the cloud storage. It is also used for other purposes but my main use is exportation from Big Query. This is needed whenever you have to query data sets containing more than 10,000 rows.
February 26, 2019

Love it!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Google Cloud Storage to house the various documents that our team needs to collaborate on before they are published. This could be anything from "how to" guides to Excel spreadsheets.
Michael Timms | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Google Cloud Storage for several different tasks. For me, it is perfect when I have files that I need to save for an indefinite period of time because I have a habit of sticking them on my Google drive and forgetting about them, then when I need them 6 months later they are there. I also use it for file sharing when I need to quickly get a big file to someone else.
Claudio Hoffer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used to have file servers storing our customer's cases, forms, and documents. Accessing these documents remotely was not simple nor easy for members without extensive training and specific hardware. We replaced our main file server for personal data and legal documents for Google Cloud Storage—this gave us easy access to those files from any device, anywhere.
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