From a long back, Dropbox has been there in the market, even before against players like Google, Microsoft, and Apple. Well, undoubtedly, Dropbox is a great cloud storage and collaborative work solutions for SMBs and Startups.
Being one of the most popular cloud storage solutions for both individuals and businesses, Dropbox is gearing up with the big guns of the cloud space and SaaS. Therefore, it can still be used as a great option.
However, the requirement for Cloud Storage depends completely on the requirement type.
Here, in this blog, let's significance, benefits, and limitations of the Dropbox Cloud Solution.
Dropbox was initiated with an idea to create an on-demand and synchronous storage solution across a wide variety of file types and also accessed across all devices. The data and file would be hosted on servers run by Dropbox or its partners and your hard drive space do not get affected. As we understand, storing files comes as a necessity for security and privacy to avoid any hack or data breach.
Security & Privacy:
When we talk about overall security for more basic plans, whether individual or business, Dropbox relies on connecting to your account via an e-mail address with signed e-mail address. Further, it enables the users to integrate Facebook Logins as executed by many other services and log in similarly. A Dropbox owes a section that is completely dedicated to security and answering questions on how it's security works on the website.
Thus, when someone signs into Dropbox account, the account holder will promptly receive an email - notifying " we have noticed a new sign in to your Dropbox". this makes account verification easy as you can make it out whether it's you are someone else and according take action (like change password or change security setting for added security).
The Enterprise Plan offers various security options - in terms of corporate file privacy or in terms of higher level encryption techniques and firewall options - than the other plans for corporations to take advantage of. Moreover, According to Dropbox's business processing section of its website, the enterprise plan offers "Sophisticated admin, audit, integration, and security features"
For sure, any user will like to allow access to your file or collaboration through a paper to trusted individuals or co-workers. Thus, in case you are an enterprise that depends on confidential data sharing. However, for small business, Dropbox is a secure solution.
File Sharing and Syncing:
Dropbox offers various options to change the settings to users - some of the settings can be a bit quirky or set to defaults. For instance, in case of a mobile device (iPad in my case) having its language set to another language then English, the Dropbox app offers a feature that automatically changes its own internal language to the same language that too without allowing users the option to change it the way they see fit.
Pricing Tiers:
Dropbox has a variety of pricing tiers and separate pricing structures for Personal Plan and corporations or businesses Business Plan, thus one can choose as per requirements. However, it allows access to 2GB of storage, and it has the Plus and Professional plans for individuals as well with both plans offering 1TB of storage.
The Basic option does not facilitate most of the other features of the other Individual pricing plans, such as intelligent sync and the ability to access your files (sync and load files) on mobile in offline mode.
The corporate Dropbox known as Dropbox Business and business can try for 30 days free of charge. For the Standard plan - it costs 10¢ per user, however, 15¢ per user if one goes for the Advanced plan. Further, the larger enterprises can contact Dropbox for additional tiers.
Aditional Features & Collaboration:
This is a really noteworthy feature of Dropbox - here you can click on the lower right of the menu - in the eyeball icon showing and see your deleted files. What you can do is - bring back those files - this is a very nifty feature for anyone collaborating on multiple files. Or one using one account to do a lot of work where files may get deleted accidentally.
The collaborative feature of the Dropbox is called Dropbox Paper which allows sharing many affinities to Google Docs. Another cloud service this time from Google also lets its users work on applications in the cloud collaboratively and save them this way.
Dropbox Paper empowers users to generate documents collaboratively with image and numerous multimedia addition possible as well as various formatting alternatives. This is a transcendent way to go on a story or report with people round the globe.
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