{"id":11355,"date":"2014-08-26T23:49:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T23:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/aug\/27\/dropbox-goes-deeper-more-powerful-pro-tool-set\/"},"modified":"2014-08-26T23:49:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T23:49:31","slug":"dropbox-goes-deeper-with-more-powerful-pro-tool-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/dropbox-goes-deeper-with-more-powerful-pro-tool-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox goes deeper with more powerful Pro tool set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Dropbox? While its upstart little brother Box has been giving the tech press plenty to write about with its soap opera-styled &lsquo;will they, won&rsquo;t they&rsquo; IPO saga and proclamations of the end of the storage wars, Dropbox &nbsp;has been going about its business a little more quietly.<\/p>\n<p>And the company has today launched an update to its Dropbox Pro product, chief of which revolves around introducing a single plan of 1 terabyte of space at the same price of $9.99 a month.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the other changes to Dropbox&rsquo;s paid individual product revolve around collaboration and security. You can now creating passwords for shared links, adding an extra layer of security; create expiry dates for shared links; and put together view-only permissions, so you can delegate as to who can read and who can edit files <em>(below)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/media\/dropbox_pro.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"457\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Picture credit: Dropbox<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The updated Dropbox Pro also dabbles in content and device management by incorporating a remote wipe facility. Current Dropbox Pro users will see their software being upgraded automatically in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dropbox.com\/2014\/08\/introducing-more-powerful-dropbox-pro\">A blog post announcing the move<\/a> has generated mixed reviews, with positive comments being weighed out by users complaining at only one price option. Yet it&rsquo;s a balancing act; there will be users ecstatic at essentially getting more storage for no extra charge, while others who don&rsquo;t need 1 TB will be disappointed there aren&rsquo;t lower tiered, lower cost options.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes at an interesting time for Dropbox, with cloud storage vendors&rsquo; tiered business model of individual freemium and enterprise coming under scrutiny. Last month Box announced it was clearing out all storage limits for enterprise customers &ndash; you want to pay for the world, we&rsquo;ll give it to you. Once the biggest vendors &ndash; Amazon, Google, Microsoft &ndash; were slashing its prices, it sounded the death knell for Box and Dropbox&rsquo;s traditional models.<\/p>\n<p>Last month Gartner released its Enterprise File Synchronisation and Sharing Magic Quadrant, with Dropbox finding a place in the &lsquo;challengers&rsquo; section whilst Box placed among the leaders, behind Citrix and EMC. Yet according to this CMSWire article, for this enterprise-heavy field of business, pure cloud vendors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmswire.com\/cms\/information-management\/a-graceful-exit-for-box-026225.php\">might not be the best solution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With Box&rsquo;s BoxWorks event coming up at the start of this month, all eyes will be on CEO Aaron Levie. Investors and analysts certainly haven&rsquo;t forgotten the company bailing out of its IPO in July, opting instead for more private cash.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the latest Dropbox Pro <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/admin\/hub\/news\/add\/dropbox.com\/pro\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Dropbox? While its upstart little brother Box has been giving the tech press plenty to write about with its soap opera-styled &lsquo;will they, won&rsquo;t they&rsquo; IPO saga and proclamations of the end of the storage wars, Dropbox &nbsp;ha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}