Tag Archives: dropbox

May 22, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

ShareFile Ties into the Hairball – Embraces legacy Storage

By Ben Kepes

Let’s face it, traditional enterprise data storage solutions tend to be big, inflexible and difficult to use. There’s a reason that Dropbox, Box and all the other “modern” collaboration solutions have had such strong growth – they may lack some of the bells and whistles of the traditional solutions but

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April 30, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

On Centralized File Control – NTP Software Launches Universal File Access

By Ben Kepes

The enterprise world is split between those who believe bottom-up approaches to file sharing (as typified by vendors like Box and Dropbox) will be the future of large organizations. On the other hand a number of people point to the status quo of centralized IT and suggest that the future

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April 10, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Dropbox Pushes Into the Enterprise – SSO Coming

By Ben Kepes

When I was in San Francisco last week I took the opportunity to swing by the Dropbox office and meet the team responsible for giving Dropbox enterprise credibility. They actually have a pretty interesting job, despite Dropbox being extremely pervasive, both with the consumer space and enterprise, there is a

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March 29, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

On Information Silos and Fracturing the Enterprise Brain

By Ben Kepes

Those of us who advocate for a move to the cloud often talk of cloud applications ending enterprise silos – the malaise where different data is stored in lots of different applications and where different departments don’t use any pan-organizational system to communicate and collaborate. The theory goes that by

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March 19, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

GreenQloud Looks to Both Deepen and Broaden Service–Internationalization and QloudSync

By Ben Kepes

One of the emergent tends I’m seeing with technology vendors is a move towards offering more long-tail solutions. As pure infrastructure becomes more and more commoditized, vendors are looking for ways to differentiate themselves, one of the most effective ways is to offer specific solutions tailored to a particular customer

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March 17, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

DropBox Buys Mailbox – MyPOV

By Ben Kepes

Colleague Krishnan Subramanian wrote a post a couple of days ago suggesting that the acquisition of email application Mailbox by collaboration and synchronization vendor Dropbox was some kind of “hail Mary pass” that aims to give them an answer to the deep integration between Google Drive and Gmail. As he

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March 12, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Egnyte Opens Up File Sharing Across Multiple Cloud Vendors

By Ben Kepes

From the “this is an interesting little ploy that makes a difference” files, Egnyte is today launching a new piece of functionality that allows customers to access and share files on the Egnyte platform, but actually phsically being sited across multiple clou dproviders – Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft

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March 8, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Please Don’t Market By Eviscerating Your Competitors–It’s Unseemly

By Ben Kepes

Last November I covered the launch of Filelocker – a company looking to build a cloud backup and collaboration service that meets the needs of enterprise IT. In their launch blurb they came out with guns blaing, with a very thinly veiled comment about Box: Front and center they’ve taken

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February 25, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Box Answers IT Concerns – Deeper Security Options Roll Out

By Ben Kepes

Just a couple of weeks ago I wrote about Dropbox releasing an entire swathe of new security functionality that sees it firmly mark itself as entering the corporate market and responding to the needs of IT. As I said at the time, Dropbox has long signaled an intention to move

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February 15, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Celebrity Engineers–Software’s Equivalent of Arts Patronage

By Ben Kepes

Back in the days gone by, if you were part of the landed gentry, lording over your landholdings and the common folk who lived on said land, you’d look to becoming a patron of the arts as a way to ensure your name would live on after your death. While

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