File Sharing News & Articles

Mobile security is one of IT’s biggest headaches, especially in this age of Bring-Your-Own-Device. To help out, online storage/content sharing service Box has undertaken a new partnership with mobile security provider MobileIron and launched a new mobile app, Box for MobileIron AppConnect. 

Online apps are becoming a big craze, particularly with the all-out war between Google Apps and Microsoft’s Office 365. But Zoho has been in the game for quite a while, reporting over six million users, and the company is now out with version 3.0 of its Docs online document management application. The enhancements focus on file sharing and collaboration, providing tighter integration across its office productivity apps.  

Sharing files in the cloud is now possible in the Salesforce Chatter Mobile app for iOS, and a new day has dawned for mobile teams using iPads and iPhones to get work done away from their offices.

Google looked to the enterprise this week with a couple of updates intended to make administrator's and document collaborator's lives a little easier.

Someday, a study will determine if business teams have become more -- or less -- collaborative because of all of the enterprise collaboration software now available. Another one emerged this week, with Japan-based ChatWork announcing the official entry into the U.S. market of its cloud collaboration solution. 

Cloud-based document sharing provider, Box and social business software provider Jive, have released Box for Jive, which enables users to manage and share content across both platforms.

Online storage service Dropbox has been trying, with limited success, to target its offerings at businesses. Now, the company is moving forward on that front, with a name change for its business service and the addition of single sign-on (SSO) capability.

There were a number of interesting releases in the document management space that are definitely worth a look. Among them are the new Service Pack 2 beta releases for Office and SharePoint 2010, WatchDox apps for mobile-desktop collaboration and sharing, and Docstocs new link-up to the Microsoft store. We also revisited the paperless office through EchoSign.

Online project management software provider, Wrike has announced a new feature for its Live Editor that allows users to track document changes as they happen.

Mobile file sharing technology provider Accellion is extending its kitepoint external file sharing tool to provide mobile users with secure access to content in enterprise content management (ECM) systems.

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) managers typically struggle between two important imperatives -- delighting users and keeping corporate information assets safe and in compliance. Trying to do both at the same time has proven to be a frustrating experience, especially in a world where more and more work is being done collaboratively from anywhere, at any time, via any one of many devices (be they iPads, iPhones, tablets or Droids…). 

 Newly launched, mobile-focused, email manager and productivity boosting service Mailbox has joined forces with Dropbox to provide a more rounded, yet somehow boxier, service. Expect the move to help improve and scale the Mailbox side of the offering. 

Content storage and sharing provider, Dropbox has announced updates to the menu feature of its desktop client designed to improve the service’s functionality.

Social and visual workspace provider, LiveHive, Inc has announced its LiveHive solution, a cloud-based enterprise collaboration platform.

Maybe Yahoo doesn't want its people working from home, but plenty of other companies do. It saves employees commute time, keeps them out of ridiculously long meetings and allows them to focus on their work versus office politics.