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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's vision of “Cloud for everyone, on every device” no doubt includes Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS). Earlier this week the company put Box, and almost every other vendor in the space, on notice with a blog post, “Thinking outside of the Box.”
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It was supposed to be a feel-good week for Dropbox. CEO Drew Houston unveiled a handsome stack of new, well-received products. Then he invited Condoleezza Rice to serve on his board. We’ll get to that problem in a second, first a recap of the other Dropbox announcements.
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And there’s a prize inside … Hey CIO, you can stop pulling out your hair, Dropbox is going to help you gain control of your rogue company files. There’s no one that can do this the way Dropbox can -- they claim 275 million (passionate) users.
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Or at least we think we know why.
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Today, at SXSW, Box CEO Aaron Levie revealed that Ashton Kutcher (yes, the Ashton Kutcher) and Guy Oseary (Madonna’s manager) have invested in his company. The investment happened in December, but why announce it then when you can do it just before IPO-time? Opportune, no? On Friday Bloomberg reported that
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Dropbox for Business launched in the middle of last year, rebranding its "Teams" product to appeal more to the larger enterprise customers. Since then uptake has been steady, with Dropbox claiming 4 million business users worldwide.
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Some cloud-based file sync and share vendors bill themselves as replacements for SharePoint. Syncplicity isn’t one of them. The rockin’ hot EMC subsidiary has all of the good things that great start-ups are known for, plus a keen understanding of how enterprises operate and their requirements.
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These are golden days for enterprise (and wanna be enterprise) IT vendors, especially for those that offer consumer-like experiences in the cloud. You don’t have to look any further than the (now confirmed) $350 million Dropbox raised last month to prove it.
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Dropbox wants to be the cloud solution enterprises turn to for online file sharing, but there’s a problem. At many companies, workers are prohibited from accessing the service.
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Email isn't going away, no matter how hard we try. So instead of fighting it, I've decided to simplify it. Here are five apps I've tried to tame the email beast. Unroll.me Unroll.
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A handful of Salesforce partners revealed their Salesforce1 apps this week at the annual Dreamforce convention in San Francisco, including Evernote, Box, LinkedIn, DocuSign and about a dozen others. But that doesn't mean they are ready to use.
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Digital workers are constantly discovering ways to run work apps on their own mobile devices. But Dropbox is addressing the reverse problem with its latest update. Dropbox for Business accounts can now access personal accounts so people can access their own files next to the ones they use for work.
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The leaves are changing, the air is crisp. Fall has arrived. Whether you've just returned from your morning hike or you are still laying under your covers, waiting for the sun to warm up your house, what better way to kick off your Saturday than with our weekend reads.
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A battle is being silently waged between IT personnel and business users over the way important business documents get shared at work. On one side, 200 million business users have voted to use Dropbox, a simple but inherently unsecure solution.
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