The brand new providing consists of the kind of options one would anticipate from a service of this nature, together with instruments for migrating staff away from private Dropbox accounts into ones that may be carefully managed by a enterprise for safety and compliance concerns. These comments were in response to Houston’s assertions at the expo that the company has a “competitor out there that says ‘we’re Dropbox for the enterprise.'” He also claimed that Dropbox added 50,000 paying customers from the enterprise space in ten months, while Box, on the other hand, added that same number of paying customers in its entire lifetime as a company.
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Scalable deployment tools. Many companies already have strong Dropbox adoption from employees using personal accounts. Dropbox is following in its competitor’s footsteps by offering its services through three suppliers of enterprise hardware and software: Synnex, Ingram Micro and HP Enterprise.
The company kicked off its Dropbox Open event in San Francisco on Wednesday and provided an update on its numbers. Dropbox Enterprise touts domain verification and account capture so administrators can speed up user migration to enterprise accounts without any hassle.
Dropbox now has more than 400 million users and 8 million businesses using it in one form or another, he said.
A few months after Box inked a deal to link up its cloud services with those of IBM, Dropbox for Business revealed its latest premier reseller is the newly-launched Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. When Dropbox released its Carousel photo backup and browsing app, it was a fairly unique experience that integrated easy photo browsing and cloud backup of images.
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“The most important thing is what we’re building is not just a “box” for your stuff, we’re building the world’s simplest and most powerful platform for collaboration”, Houston said. Dropbox can’t compete with the likes of Google Drive and Office when it comes to productivity features, though the company is testing a new Paper collaboration product that’s reminiscent of Google Wave. Also includes access to Dropbox’s platform team for support on custom integrations. The category is called Dropbox Enterprise – not to be confused with Dropbox Business – and it’s geared toward bigger companies that need more advanced tools. “Dropbox isnt serious about business or were only about consumers when its really all the consumers that have brought us into all those businesses”, Houston said. Dropbox is mostly for regular consumers, while Box is nearly exclusively for business customers. Its user numbers have blown up, reaching 400 million worldwide. Among the larger logos on the Dropbox Website online include News Corp., Under Armour, and Yahoo. But unlike Box, Dropbox hasn’t had to open its books for public scrutiny.
