Dropbox Tries to Attract Entreprise Customers

By Corentin Béchade, Editor at StorageNewsletter

Dropbox recently updated its web platform to better address the need
of enterprise cloud storage.

The company who has now more than 100 million users worldwide is
increasingly trying to invest the SMBs space and the enterprise
world, taking on services like Box, Google Drive, SkyDrive and
others.

This is the first significant update to the product launched
18 months ago. The solution is still sold for $795/year for a
five-user license and 1TB of cloud storage. Each new user adding
$125 to the annual fee can increase total storage with 200GB.

The new software put an emphasis on security, control and visibility.
Admins can now enforce the two-step verification process for each
member of the team, unlink any devices or third-party apps tied to a
member’s account in one click and see every modification in the
activity log.

While this is a welcomed upgrade for the enterprises using Dropbox (three
million according to the site), the lack of on-premise solution and
integration into the right management system is still worrying for an
IT department that cares about data management and integrity.

Dropbox has still a
long way to convince the enterprise market of the safety of
its cloud-based storage, especially after security flaws last August led to a spam attack against users.