Google Drive, the essential cloud
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Google Drive is a cloud file storage, synchronization, and collaboration platform and service, that features Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for document editing and presentation.
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What is Google Drive?
Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service developed by Google. Launched on April 24, 2012, Google Drive allows users to store files on their servers, synchronize files across devices, and share files. In addition to a website, Google Drive offers apps with offline capabilities for Windows and macOS computers, and Android and iOS smartphones and tablets. Google Drive encompasses Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides, which are a part of an office suite that permits collaborative editing of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, forms, and more. Files created and edited through the office suite are saved in Google Drive.
Google Drive Features
File Sharing & Management Features
- Supported: Versioning
- Supported: Document files
- Supported: Image files
- Supported: Video files
- Supported: Audio files
- Supported: Document collaboration
- Supported: Shared folders
- Supported: Access control
- Supported: File search
- Supported: Device sync
- Supported: Web interface
- Supported: File change notifications
- Supported: Simultaneous editing
Cloud Storage Security & Administration Features
- Supported: Single sign-on
- Supported: Two-step verification
- Supported: User and role management
- Supported: Strorage limit management
- Supported: File organization
Cloud Storage Platform Features
- Supported: Performance
- Supported: Reliability
- Supported: Multi-language
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To learn more about how Drive can help your team collaborate more effectively, take a look at our website. And when you're ready to get started, sign up for a free trial.
Links:
Website → https://goo.gle/drive-enterprise
Start your trial now → https://goo.gle/37pwbjR
To learn more about how Drive can help your team collaborate more effectively, take a look at our website. And when you're ready to get started, sign up for a free trial.
Links:
Website → https://goo.gle/drive-enterprise
Start your trial now → https://goo.gle/37pwbjR
To learn more about how Drive can help your team collaborate more effectively, take a look at our website. And when you're ready to get started, sign up for a free trial.
Links:
Website → https://goo.gle/drive-enterprise
Start your trial now → https://goo.gle/37pwbjR
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
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Google Drive is a cloud file storage, synchronization, and collaboration platform and service, that features Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for document editing and presentation.
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The most common users of Google Drive are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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January 24, 2023
Google Drive, the essential cloud
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Google Drive is a really easy tool to use thanks to the Google ecosystem. Synchronization is very fast and effective. The basic version provides you with 15 GB, being the provider of this type of solution that gives you more storage in the free version. Their payment plans are very adaptable. Today it is one of the most used cloud-based tools.
- Synchronization
- speed
- plans
- Could improve speed
December 14, 2022
Excellent product with a great cost/benefits ratio.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Excellent tool (product) we use for Chat, Mail, Drive, etc. several years of implementation to get data accurate with a single log in and share any document with our co workers and customers. Helped us to have a great tool to share data, info and surveys between our subsidiaries in DR and US. Easy and secure.. We use the product to Share Documents, videos, training materials and conduct surveys and data collection within the company.
- Sharing documents, video, files, etc.
- Create froms to performs some surveys.
- Access to a whole world class of product and services.
- Data collection.
- Graphical Interface, they should change a little bit.
- Copying forms between differents drives to an easiest deployment.
December 10, 2022
The Best
Google Drive is the cloud storage solution that I am most familiar with and most impressed with. I have used Google Drive at several organizations and use it exclusively for my home inspection business. We back up every inspection, including over 500 photos, for every inspection. We had never had an issue when we tried to access the data stored on Google Drive.
- Access is very Dependable.
- Folder options are clear and straightforward.
- Google Drive App works well with my iPhone.
- Can not copy and paste Folders containing subfolders.
- Load times can be extensive.
November 23, 2022
Google Drive application takes you to another world of file management, ease, and access to your work from anywhere
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
It is considered one of the most important cloud storage outlets over the Internet, as it allows you to store 15 GB for free, which is good in that, and it is also possible to buy a larger version, fast, light, and smooth in dealing, and also good at linking files in all formats for downloading to others. I also liked it because I link important files to it through email and mobile. It is good and irreplaceable.
- Link my important files to it by sending a copy of important mail and files to it.
- Connect to a mobile phone and store any important photos or files.
- Reduce the price to buy more space.
- I hope to add an internal file that we can work with with a password.
November 04, 2022
Google Drive(s) our institution
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Google Drive as part of the GSuite line of products. We use Google Drive to provide 'at rest' encryption of data and to facilitate an easy way for staff to share and collaborate on files. The product is easy to use and provides flexibility for our employees and students so they can work from anywhere.
- Easy to use
- Great for collaboration
- Encrypted storage
- Accessible anywhere
- Improve ways to find documents shared with me
- Sometimes the search feature hangs or does not locate documents
- The ability to view the tree structure within folders
October 28, 2022
Love our Google Drive
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Google Drive is one of the tools we use to share files and projects easily. I use it for a project storage drive for quick access to the files. I like the security of it, the ease of use, and the options that come with it. My staff finds access to it from the top toolbar, we have macs, which makes it fast access. For my clients that we do retouching for it is an easy way to securely deliver and retrieve their images.
- File sharing both on local computers and from clients.
- Such easy access from the top tool bar on our Mac.
- I like the security of it.
- Google Drive fits nicely into our Google suite of services.
- So far we have not found an issue we would like fixed or an idea to be implemented.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Google Drive is our main cloud storage tool at Lumen Studio. It addresses the availability of footage, resources and digital assets for creative projects. Enhances the organization remote capabilities and makes the collaboration with international clients/freelancers possible. The scope of our use is it works as a secondary storage besides our main physical one and we currently use the 2+TB service.
- 24 hour availability
- layout of information easy to navigate
- multiple collaborators
- UI friendly, simple and clean
- different plans of storage according to company/personal needs
- organizing collaborators can be cumbersome
- permissions and privacy managing
- limited file formats to check files in the cloud/explorer directly
- issues with multiple downloads
October 20, 2022
Google Drive.
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
We collect meeting notes, write new blog entries, communicate information with clients, and more using Google Drive. Most of our customers also favor Drive over other file storage solutions. There are several causes for this, but Google Drive is just quick, easy, and safe. Here are a few additional justifications for why you should use Drive if you don't already: Utilize a computer, tablet, or smartphone to access data. There are no lost copies or forgotten saves to be concerned about because everything automatically saves in the cloud. Google offers 15GB of storage at no cost, with additional space available on a monthly basis. Who sees or edits your documents is under your control. We are collaborating with others in real-time. Apps for Google Drive - Use apps to edit Drive and add signatures, charts, and forms.
- Storage.
- Quick Access.
- Access Anywhere.
- Easier User Interface.
- File Size Limits.
- Downloading and Uploading Speed.
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Store and access the data from anywhere and everywhere as the integration between mobile and laptop is the best, also ability to edit files through google drive is the added advantage over others. Also, the search feature makes it very user-friendly along with the software available on different operating systems like android and ios in the case of mobile.
- Many keyboard shortcuts are there which let you navigate the website quickly
- File sharing feature is quite amazing which allows to add comments, suggestions, etc
- Its feature of converting Microsoft files like excel, power point directly into google drive files is very useful
- 15 Gb free storage is large enough to store important files and data
- The best thing about google drive is it's integration over different devices
- Limit of uploading file size is sometimes create issues where more data needs to be shared
- Downloading and uploading speed sometimes irritating
- .Potential security risk due to no extra layer of protection
July 01, 2022
Easy Collaboration, Backups and file sharing.
We use Google Drive for short-term sharing of files that are too large to send via email or WhatsApp. We also use the platform for storing business files to be accessed by multiple remote users. We even use Google Drive to provide uploading functionality to clients and other 3rd parties from whom we require files that are too large to send via email or WhatsApp.
- File viewing, whether PDF, sound or video files
- Access control from view-only to edit rights
- Synchronisation with local folders
- More flexibility of choosing an account on which storage space is used.
- Access control could be more intuitive especially when adding new files to an already shared folder.
- Synchronising local folders was tricky to first set up
June 15, 2022
Data available for your team everywhere, everytime!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I usually use Google Drive to share files with my colleagues, it's pretty easy and helpful, the file system can be divided into sections just like the one used on your personal Operative System. The application for windows simplifies furthermore all the processes giving the possibility to perform all the operations from the OS's file system.
- Near real time synchronization.
- Share files and drives with other people.
- Integration with Windows 10.
- Limit of file size you can upload in a day.
- Security Risks.
- File Size Limits.
We are using Google on a daily basis day to day life for creating and managing spreadsheets for creating PRD and SRS documents and many more. This is primarily used and we can share all the documents with any mode to another user like read, write, or comment so that according to this we can take the action on it.
- Sharing of any document with privilege
- Inline comment section
- Spreadsheet with multiple sheet
- We can set the priority on document
- As according to my use case it is fulfilling all my requirement so i don't have as such requirement which is not implemented here.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google Drive is the platform for daily use. We use it to manage all our documents, images, and formats in the cloud. Essentially it is the platform to work online from the agency with clients. It allows us to save time with collaborative work in real time, in web writing, reports, and proposals to clients using various formats.
- Collaborative work
- Seo online writing
- Collaborative reports
- Follow-up of copies and ads arts.
- Delete recent documents
- Improve the desktop
- More options for folder design and configuration
- User interface
June 04, 2022
One of the best drive with amazing cloud storage
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
I have been using google drive on my laptop and phone. It provides easy access to the files and we can share the files with just one click. Google Drive provides free storage of 15 GB where we can store the files. It can be accessed in Gmail and the Google Drive apps in android phones.
- Free storage of 15 GB
- Easily accessibility via gmail and Google Drive app in android mobiles
- Very user friendly interface
- Files can be shared very easily
- Free storage can be provided more in today's market competition
- Even if I use some best possible search words, sometimes its quite difficult to find the files
- User interface can be made more attractive
Google Drive is an online briefcase where we store all the important files and folders. It is very easy to use. Is embedded in Gmail and is seperately accessible via our Android phones as well via a Gdrive App. It comes with a free space of abot 15 GB. For more space of course you can buy it however 15GB is a resonably good space for routine operational activities. Al our Google forms are by default saved in G drive and also the response to those forms via excel export. I think it is a great application.
- Great Free Space of about 15GB
- Easy user interface
- Easily Accessible in form of a G Drive Mobile App in Android phones and in Gmail
- Excellent for Google Forms as output and the forms are stored in G drive by default.
- Negligible downtime. Always up and running.
- More free space can be provided in view of market competition.
- GDrive can come in more attractive user interface.
- Gdrive needs to be marketed more aggressively for user awareness.
May 16, 2022
Google Drive Review
I use Google Drive between my laptop, desktop, and phone. Whether, I am working in the office, remotely, or on the go, I have access to my files and I keep work moving forward. I use Google Drive for the desktop to keep my files synced. I can start a project on one device, and pick it up and edit the project as needed when working at a different location. I work with graphic design project files and video files, which take up a lot of space and I cant save all my files on my desktop, so it's great to be able to save everything to Google Drive.
- The new Drive for desktop application, which recently replaced Google Backup and Sync, works better than Google Backup and sync.
- I can easily search for files in Google Drive.
- I can preview certain types of files right within Google drive without having to open a different application or download the file.
- The drag and drop user interface makes file organization very easy.
- You can upload multiple files and folders to google drive all at once and see the upload progress/status for each individual upload in the que.
- While I do like the new Drive for desktop sync app over the previous Google backup and sync program, it still is very limited in the choices you have for syncing your files. You either have to stream all files or mirror or files and neither of these options is the best fit for me. I liked that with Google Backup and sync. you could select which folders to sync, so I would like it if some of that flexibility was brought back into Drive for Desktop.
- Google Drive keeps changing the app and method for locally syncing files. In the pasy four years, I hae had to learn three syncing apps for this at work.
- Previously when browsing google drive, I could select to open a file or a folder location in a new tab. In recent years that functionality has been removed and I miss it. It is still available in other Google apps like Gmail, but for some reason, it's no longer available in Google Drive.
May 14, 2022
My two cents on Google Drive
Our company uses Google Drive to share files, that are too large to be shared via email, with the team. Moreover, Google Drive has been a very useful tool to save important files and data and can be accessed conveniently by anyone who has been authorized. Furthermore using Google Drive helps save the use of paper which can help save the environment.
- Share files easily and conveniently
- Ability to share files instantly
- Updated in real-time
- Very easy for beginners
- Cannot be accessed offline
- Could be more user-friendly
- Should support more file types like TIFF, PSD etc.
May 14, 2022
User friendly and easily accessible
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I use google drive to save my work documents for the ease of access to view, edit or download the documents anytime, anywhere. It has been really helpful in saving personal and professional documents especially in the times that no one needs a hard copy and view of the soft copy works everywhere.
- Saves any format of file
- Pulls up list of recent documents
- Lets you share document with other users
- When a document is downloaded, the formatting isn't the same
- Downloading ppts takes away the animations on every slide
May 13, 2022
Excellent tool for sharing information
I have been using Google Drive for sometime along with several other users from my organization. It is great for downloading and uploading data very quickly. It is easy to use and integrates well with other applications. It's an easy way to collaborate and use information.
- The application is very secure.
- It's easy to use and integrates well with other applications.
- Storage can be adjusted based on business size.
- Quality of usage depends on the internet speed.
- A gmail account is needed.
- Free version has limited space.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google Drive was used to manage projects with freelancers who may not have access to internal communication at the time. It also allowed different international teams to easily share documents with other global teams and with clients in a secure manner. It is global footprint made it easy to adopt across teams, rather than get a paid management tool.
- Allow collaboration across teams, clients and freelancers.
- Easy to use across different systems (Mac versus PC).
- Easy to use
- Some functionalities on excel are still not present in the web version and it is really problematic. It is hard to use and at times we are forced to download the file, work offline and then upload again.
- Better way to organize files
Google Drive allows us to collaborate with ease and maintain our shared documents/files as we continue to work remotely, providing a valuable and quick alternative to logging on via VPN to access the network-based file sharing folder we had previously been using. Really helps speed things up by having a near-flawless app, too!
- Quick, universal access on web and via app
- Automatically saves
- Allows for easy collaboration
- Ease of access
- Would like to be able to personalize app - ie. set preference of file/folder appearance to be last-accessed, instead of alphabetical
- Some colleagues struggle with linking as attachment instead of drive link
- Some colleagues struggle to get answers to FAQs
Google Drive has allowed both myself and other colleagues of mine the ability to access documents conveniently and efficiently regardless of where we are working from. It also gives us the opportunity to work on projects as a collaboration and see each other's notes and edits in real time, which helps everyone in terms of project deadlines.
- Collaborative workspace
- Real-time revisions
- Easily accessible regardless of location
- Some of the features in the Google Slides can provide more creativity
- Connection issues tend to happen from time to time
- There are no other features I believe would need to be added to suit our organization's needs
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Google Drive to save the business documents. It helps us to share the documents securely with authorized users only. Also, we can preview a few files such as pdf and images within Google Drive only. It also helps keep the versions of different files whenever we upload the same file.
- Organization of files and folders
- Version management
- File sharing
- Support different file formats for preview.
- File uploading on mobile devices needs to be improved.
- Can add "Shared By Me" option same as "Shared with me" option.
April 04, 2022
Google Drive has always been the way to go.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It is the main cloud storage location for the company. It solves communication problems, it's used as an information wall and also retains sensitive data managed by admin users for several accounts. The scope of use is wide; mechanics use it for installation guides storage, office use it for sensitive data retention, sells use it for customer personal information.
- Sharing large files.
- Organization and discretization of files.
- Access control based on permission roles.
- Easy visualization of content on multiple devices.
- Fast content updates.
- The app could implement a hierarchy based structure.
- Quick notifications for permissions request could make everything easier.
- Faster is always better. Rapid file transfers would be great.
March 07, 2022
Good Drive Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Now a day, Cloud storage are become more popular and provide the superior functionality. Google drive is one of the product that gives storage capability includes many more features. Using google drive storage we are independent of using laptop, mobile or any end user device. User can easily upload and download the docs stores in drive. so accessibility of docs from google is absolute hassle-free operations.
- Docs stores
- Docs share to others
- webapp for desktop and mobile users
- Search from Creator, Name or other parameter
- untitles docs saving should be stopped,
- layout of drive should be improve and user friendly
- sharing the docs on drive with time limit or unlimited time options