Issues include a June 2011 authentication problem that let accounts be accessed for several hours without passwords a July 2011 privacy policy update with language suggesting Dropbox had ownership of users' data concerns about Dropbox employee access to users' information July 2012 email spam with reoccurrence in February 2013 leaked government documents in June 2013 with information that Dropbox was being considered for inclusion in the National Security Agency's PRISM surveillance program a July 2014 comment from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden criticizing Dropbox's encryption the leak of 68 million account passwords on the Internet in August 2016 and a January 2017 accidental data restoration incident where years-old supposedly deleted files reappeared in users' accounts.Īpril 2011 user authentication file information ĭropbox has been criticized by the independent security researcher Derek Newton, who wrote in April 2011 that Dropbox stored user authentication information in a file on the computer that was "completely portable and is not tied to the system in any way". And they were too small and thin to compete with Box and Dropbox in the standalone market,” Byrne explained.Criticism of Dropbox, an American company specializing in cloud storage and file synchronization and their flagship service of the same name, centers around various forms of security and privacy controversies. “Many of us hoped that these smaller niche players could provide pluggable services to other applications but in the end the big vendors just did that themselves. Tony Byrne, founder and principal analyst at the Real Story Group says that both of these deals are indicative of consolidation in the online storage space. “This deal provides Mozy customers scalable options for the future and gives Carbonite a broader base to which we offer our solutions,” Ali said in statement. Mohamad Ali, Carbonite CEO and president, sees this deal as a way to expand Carbonite’s family of products. You may recall that Dell purchased EMC in Oct 2015 for $67 billion. Mozy, a cloud backup service, which launched in 2005, was sold to EMC in 2007 for $76 million. Today’s acquisition comes on the heels of the sale of another early cloud company when Dell sold Mozy to Carbonite yesterday for $145 million. Adobe has a big stake in the creative market and providing solutions for creating and sharing the large files they produce. This could allow them to compete with Adobe, at least on the file sharing side. “The acquisition of Hightail underscores our commitment to delivering differentiated content solutions in the cloud that enable marketers and creative professionals to share, produce, and securely collaborate on digital content,” Barrenechea said in a statement. Barrenechea, who holds several titles at OpenText including vice chairman, CEO and CTO, says the addition of Hightail helps them meet yet another content management use case. Hightail still provides them that ability. The company counts 5.5 million customers with a strong emphasis on that creative professional market in advertising and marketing, which often have hefty files to move around between teams and clients. They essentially rethought FTP and filled a niche, particularly for creative media workers,” Pelz-Sharpe told TechCrunch. “Hightail was one of the few - though it largely went unnoticed - that focused on that problem. ![]() It operates almost like a private equity play, buying up older companies and living off of the assets, while incorporating them into the OpenText family of products.Īlan Pelz-Sharpe, founder and principal analyst at Deep Analysis, says Hightail is still solving that edge problem of moving large files around the internet, which has remained a problem even in the age of cloud storage. OpenText is a highly acquisitive Canadian content management company. The company, which became Hightail in 2013, was sold to OpenText today for an undisclosed amount. ![]() ![]() YouSendIt tried to resolve that problem by providing a way to share large files in the days before the cloud became a thing. Email services limited attachment size because bandwidth and storage were both expensive and FTP required a certain level of technical acumen. Back in the early 2000s before Dropbox was a gleam in Drew Houston’s eye, sharing large files was a huge challenge.
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