• Dropbox breach shows how impactful poor security can be

    September 1, 2016

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    Way back in the dark ages (well, four years ago, anyway), something happened within file sharing vendor Dropbox that, all these years later, has come back to haunt the powerhouse and its customers. While the actions or inactions from…

  • Is education the vertical that will save Dropbox?

    May 10, 2016

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    Life is pretty stressful at Dropbox HQ. The company, once very much the darling of the so-called unicorn club, was comfortable in its billion dollar-plus valuation. After all, the hundreds of millions of people who use its product justify…

  • Dropbox extends its channel play, hooks Ingram Micro globally

    April 12, 2016

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    A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post detailing some angst that file sharing vendor Dropbox was causing within its ecosystem. Dropbox’s communication people reached out after my post (which is a nice change from them ignoring me)…

  • How not to do a partner channel? Dropbox and the pressures of change

    March 23, 2016

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    As Dropbox moves to a new licensing systems, which sees them centralize licensing through larger regional and national distributors, Dropbox partners have been receiving very unwelcome emails over the last few weeks. In the past, Dropbox has partnered with…

  • Dropbox goes enterprise (again). Too little, too late?

    November 12, 2015

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    Dropbox has, since its inception, seen meteoric growth. The reasons for that are fairly self-evident. Dropbox is the case study for virality. Its file sharing solution is widely-regarded as the easiest solution in the space to use and its…

  • Microsoft And Dropbox Further Cement Their Relationship

    April 9, 2015

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    Good news for the two companies involved but better news for their customers. Microsoft and Dropbox are today deepening the relationship that they already had by way of an integration between their respective products that will allow Dropbox users to edit Microsoft Office files directly within Dropbox using Office Online. Readers will […]

  • Dropbox Acquires CloudOn–Because The Value Lies In An End-To-End Solution

    January 20, 2015

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    News this evening that file sharing and synchronization vendor Dropbox has acquired CloudOn, a company that focuses on the creation and editing of document on mobile devices. CloudOn has built a significant footprint by offering these services in an agnostic way no matter what file sharing solution the user was signed up to […]

  • Bitcasa’s Pain In The Context Of The Impending Box And Dropbox IPOs

    January 19, 2015

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    A couple of months ago cloud storage vendor Bitcasa made the decision to reverse its previous unlimited storage strategy. One of Bitcasa’s core value propositions before the move had been offering customers an unlimited storage plan which many with high storage requirements took advantage of. Many of those same customers […]

  • Dropbox Launches It Enterprise Developer Ecosystem Play

    December 1, 2014

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    Dropbox’s consumer product has long leveraged an extensive ecosystem of third party products to deliver greater benefits to users. But this same approach towards an ecosystem that Dropbox has had with its consumer product has been sadly lacking from the Dropbox for Business product launched earlier this year. This looks […]

  • Microsoft And Dropbox Announce Strategic Partnership–Pre-IPO Validation?

    November 4, 2014

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    Big news today that will potentially have a negative impact on Box.com as arch-rival Dropbox signs a high level strategic partnership with Microsoft. A great fillip to its expected IPO perhaps? Dropbox has long been the poster child (and not in a good way) for “Shadow IT” – the move within […]

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