After nearly a year on the market, Amazon has finally provided its Cloud Drive apps for Windows and Mac with a file syncing folder, taking it into stiffer competition with Dropbox.
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One Direction, 50 Shades of Grey and David Beckham in his underpants - it was clear as soon as Box CEO Aaron Levie opened his mouth that this was to be no ordinary tech discussion.
CIOs need to come to terms with the reality of the situation which is that most companies are probably already using consumer Cloud file sharing services, with or without permission.
Webfusion’s latest survey shows US consumers understand what the Cloud is about than UK ones, but misses the point that there is no earthly reason why they should when it is the service that is important.
Is it possible to use public Cloud storage offerings in government circles? Yes and no and sometimes seems to be the answer.
Salesforce.com wants to “completely eliminate the need for Dropbox in the enterprise” with the launch next year of a rival Cloud storage offering, Chatterbox.
With an increasing numbers of such offerings in the market – ranging from Box through Huddle to Microsoft and Google – Salesforce.com is pitching the major competitive differentiator with Chatterbox as its integration with the established Chatter collaboration offering.
DropBox may have been the first to spot the market for both online storage and file sharing, but with the advent of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) lots of new contenders are coming along with offerings aimed at squaring the circle of online flexibility and business security.
One of the latest is Axway, which has just announced MailGate SC with DropZone, which it claims is the first secure collaboration gateway and platform.
Some things are fact, and some things are folklore, and the latter usually includes a fair degree of the former. But it is certainly the case that most security experts believe the folklore that Dropbox is hardly the most secure online storage service, and there are facts to prove it.
However, for the typical user Dropbox is extremely easy and convenient to use, and really rather useful. That is why it has become a common operational tactic for business people who want or need to work away from their desk.
This week, Dropbox confirmed that they were indeed hacked. They issued a blog post explaining: