The cloud storage company will allow enterprise users to integrate work and non-work accounts. November 13, 2013 10:53 AM PST Dropbox CEO Drew Houston (Credit: Richard Nieva/CNET) SAN FRANCISCO -- Cloud storage company Dropbox on Wednesday announced a reboot of Dropbox for Business, giving each business user the ability to toggle between personal and work accounts. "Some people think theres a consumer version of Dropbox, and there's this different enterprise version of Dropbox, and we think that's ridiculous," said CEO Drew Houston, at a press event here. With the new version of the product -- which will launch early next year -- notifications are labeled either "personal," or with the name of the company. IT administrators can control different elements of the work account, including whether or not users can have access to it on personal devices, and who they can share work files with. Related posts Dropbox buys startup Sold, shuts down easy-sales service Dropbox is like Microsoft in the '90s, says startup's CEO Get 100GB of free cloud storage from SurDoc There are other checks to the product as well. For example, when a photo is uploaded from a personal device, it automatically goes to the personal account. And if an employee leaves a company, an IT administrator can remote wipe his account, or transfer the files to another employee. Houston said that over 4 million businesses are already using Dropbox, including Kayak, National Geographic and BCBG. He also said 97 percent of the Fortune 500 are using the service. Houston also spewed off a few stats about the company's health: over 200 million users, over a billion files saved a day. The cloud storage space has been an unlikely category to heat up of late. Last week, Reuters reported that Dropbox's closest competitor, the enterprise storage company Box, had chosen three investment banks to lead it through a 2014 IPO. Dropbox has also been expanding outside of business. The news comes a week after the company acquired the startup Sold, a seemingly out of the blue purchase. Sold aimed to make it easier for people to sell items online, automating the process of setting a price, and handling selling, shipping and payment. Developing. More to come...
The cloud storage company will allow enterprise users to integrate work and non-work accounts.
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston
(Credit: Richard Nieva/CNET)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Cloud storage company Dropbox on Wednesday announced a reboot of Dropbox for Business, giving each business user the ability to toggle between personal and work accounts.
"Some people think theres a consumer version of Dropbox, and there's this different enterprise version of Dropbox, and we think that's ridiculous," said CEO Drew Houston, at a press event here.
With the new version of the product -- which will launch early next year -- notifications are labeled either "personal," or with the name of the company. IT administrators can control different elements of the work account, including whether or not users can have access to it on personal devices, and who they can share work files with.
Related posts
- Dropbox buys startup Sold, shuts down easy-sales service
- Dropbox is like Microsoft in the '90s, says startup's CEO
- Get 100GB of free cloud storage from SurDoc
There are other checks to the product as well. For example, when a photo is uploaded from a personal device, it automatically goes to the personal account. And if an employee leaves a company, an IT administrator can remote wipe his account, or transfer the files to another employee.
Houston said that over 4 million businesses are already using Dropbox, including Kayak, National Geographic and BCBG. He also said 97 percent of the Fortune 500 are using the service. Houston also spewed off a few stats about the company's health: over 200 million users, over a billion files saved a day.
The cloud storage space has been an unlikely category to heat up of late. Last week, Reuters reported that Dropbox's closest competitor, the enterprise storage company Box, had chosen three investment banks to lead it through a 2014 IPO.
Dropbox has also been expanding outside of business. The news comes a week after the company acquired the startup Sold, a seemingly out of the blue purchase. Sold aimed to make it easier for people to sell items online, automating the process of setting a price, and handling selling, shipping and payment.
Developing. More to come...
