{"id":3839,"date":"2012-04-20T18:32:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T23:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2012-04-20T18:32:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T23:32:36","slug":"whos-the-real-dropbox-of-the-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3839","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s the real &#8220;Dropbox of the enterprise&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/news\/2012\/04\/why-everyone-wants-to-be-the-dropbox-of-the-enterprise.ars\">Who&#8217;s the real &#8220;Dropbox of the enterprise&#8221;?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dropbox relies on <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/getting-it-done\/2012\/03\/cracking-the-cloud-an-amazon-web-services-primer.ars\">Amazon&#8217;s Simple Storage Service (S3)<\/a> for data storage, which spreads files across multiple data centers throughout the United States. While Dropbox encrypts these files, the encryption process occurs only *after* they have been uploaded. For some companies, this approach may not be good enough, which is why enterprise and business competitors such as Accellion have made a point of offering &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.accellion.com\/news\/press-release\/accellion-brings-encryption-managed-file-transfer-cloud-and-premise\">seamless client-side encryption of files before they are sent<\/a>.&#8221; SpiderOak, <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/getting-it-done\/2012\/04\/spideroak-dropbox-for-the-security-obsessive.ars\">which Ars examined earlier this month<\/a>, is another example of a Dropbox competitor with client-side encryption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;s the real &#8220;Dropbox of the enterprise&#8221;?. Dropbox relies on Amazon&#8217;s Simple Storage Service (S3) for data storage, which spreads files across multiple data centers throughout the United States. While Dropbox encrypts these files, the encryption process occurs only *after* &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3839\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[419,365,520],"class_list":["post-3839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-cyberlocker","tag-dropbox","tag-enterprise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3840,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions\/3840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}