If you're heavily into Google's ecosystem, its Drive makes sense for you. At this point, your choice will be based on which ecosystem you use: If you use Windows and Office, OneDrive integrates tightly with those. While Microsoft offers richer productivity apps and better sharing options for free users, Google offers more initial free storage. The services are pretty much at feature parity, though there are a few differences. Google Drive's closest competitor is Microsoft OneDrive.

Google is in the process of transitioning to one app for both businesses and consumers, and we'll update this review after we've had a chance to test it. This offers a capability resembling OneDrive's Files On-Demand feature, which saves local drive space, only downloading cloud-stored files when you open them. The client application for business users is called File Stream. See our full analysis of Backup & Sync in the section dedicated to it below. The feature is a plus, but it's somewhat quirky, and it doesn't yet turn Drive into a full backup utility.

Best Hosted Endpoint Protection and Security Softwareĭrive's local application for consumers is Backup & Sync, which lets you sync almost any file or folder on a computer, no matter where it lives in your folder structure.

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