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Did Box Just Cancel Its IPO? Or Did We Just See How Bad Anonymity Can Be?

March 4, 2014

Business

box, dropbox, Facebook, Initial public offering, ipo, Silicon Valley, twitter, US Securities and Exchange Commission

Anonymous application Secret is an awesome tool. It allows people who would never be able to put their name to a statement to tell others something they know. It enables whistle blowers to tell the world of injustices that…

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GreenQloud Goes Hybrid – QStack Built On Top Of CloudStack

February 25, 2014

Business

cloud computing, CloudStack, dropbox, GreenQLoud, Iceland, Open source, OpenStack, Scality

I’m a big fan of Icelandic cloud vendor GreenQloud (more on them here) for a number of reasons – firstly they’ve managed to differentiate what they do without resorting to post-Snowden fear mongering. In GreenQloud’s case it’s all about…

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Temboo, Connected Devices and Web Services

October 4, 2013

Business

Application programming interface, Arduino, dropbox, opensource, PayPal, Temboo, twitter, Yun

Much has been written about the rise of connected devices – the number of people who are tinkering with Arduino, various sensors and wearable devices is growing rapidly. One aspect of connected devices use that has been a little…

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New Sophisticated Vectors of Attack….

September 17, 2013

Business

Computer security, Cyberwarfare, dropbox, Information security, malware, security, United States, wordpress

I tend to have a fairly laissez faire attitude towards cyber security – while I know full well just how much dodgy stuff happens online (hey, my spambox is as full of phishing attempts as anyones) I tend to…

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ShareFile Ties into the Hairball – Embraces legacy Storage

May 22, 2013

Business

Computer data storage, dropbox, Filesharing, Google Drive, Microsoft, Microsoft SharePoint, sharefile, SharePoint

Let’s face it, traditional enterprise data storage solutions tend to be big, inflexible and difficult to use. There’s a reason that Dropbox, Box and all the other “modern” collaboration solutions have had such strong growth – they may lack…

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On Centralized File Control – NTP Software Launches Universal File Access

April 30, 2013

Business

BYOD, Chief information officer, Computer file, dropbox, Filesharing, Network Time Protocol, NTP, Solution

The enterprise world is split between those who believe bottom-up approaches to file sharing (as typified by vendors like Box and Dropbox) will be the future of large organizations. On the other hand a number of people point to…

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Dropbox Pushes Into the Enterprise – SSO Coming

April 10, 2013

Business

dropbox, Okta, OneLogin, San Francisco, Security Assertion Markup Language, Single Sign, SSO, Symplified

When I was in San Francisco last week I took the opportunity to swing by the Dropbox office and meet the team responsible for giving Dropbox enterprise credibility. They actually have a pretty interesting job, despite Dropbox being extremely…

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On Information Silos and Fracturing the Enterprise Brain

March 29, 2013

Business

cloud computing, Cloud storage, Collaboration, dropbox, enStratus, google, Huddle, project management, ReadWrite, RightScale, yammer

Those of us who advocate for a move to the cloud often talk of cloud applications ending enterprise silos – the malaise where different data is stored in lots of different applications and where different departments don’t use any…

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GreenQloud Looks to Both Deepen and Broaden Service–Internationalization and QloudSync

March 19, 2013

Business

cloud computing, Cloud storage, dropbox, GreenQLoud, Iceland, MegaUpload, Patriot Act, QloudSync

One of the emergent tends I’m seeing with technology vendors is a move towards offering more long-tail solutions. As pure infrastructure becomes more and more commoditized, vendors are looking for ways to differentiate themselves, one of the most effective…

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DropBox Buys Mailbox – MyPOV

March 17, 2013

Business

Drew Houston, dropbox, Email client, Filesharing, gmail, google, Google Drive, Mailbox

Colleague Krishnan Subramanian wrote a post a couple of days ago suggesting that the acquisition of email application Mailbox by collaboration and synchronization vendor Dropbox was some kind of “hail Mary pass” that aims to give them an answer…

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Did Box Just Cancel Its IPO? Or Did We Just See How Bad Anonymity Can Be?

Temboo, Connected Devices and Web Services

New Sophisticated Vectors of Attack….

ShareFile Ties into the Hairball – Embraces legacy Storage

On Centralized File Control – NTP Software Launches Universal File Access

Dropbox Pushes Into the Enterprise – SSO Coming

DropBox Buys Mailbox – MyPOV

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