Tonight I was at my kids school event, and a friend called me over to tell me that he ran into my blog post about the problems with Dropbox, and wondered if there is a good alternative and what I thought about the other solutions such as Evernote, to which I only have a little detail so far. I was planning on really digging into these solutions soon, but now seems like the time. So I’m going to be starting some research with my team to see what we can find.
So far there are the following solutions to dig into
Dropbox – Already know some of the problems. Has some add-ons popping up to help with security byt generally breaks multi-platform support
Evernote – Solid player in the space, but thereare problems to look into
SugarSync – Another decent looking solution, but need to dig into it more
Box.net – Decent looking as well, but will research
SparkleShare - Nice looking Open Source project to have your own service.
RubyDrop - Another Open Source project to have your own Dropbox like service
I’m looking forward to finding out what can be learned in this process, and maybe after finding the collective set of problems, I can offer suggestions to those looking for a solution.
Its even possible that I could some up with suggestions on how to solve the problems so that they may be avoided by other entries into the market.
Dan Kuykendall is the CTO and Co-CEO at NT OBJECTives. Dan is a founder of NT OBJECTives and has been with the company for more than 10 years. He is responsible for the strategic direction and development of products and services and works closely with technology partners to make sure integrations are both deep and valuable. As a result of Dan’s dedication to security, technology innovation and software development, NTO application security scanning software is often recognized as the most accurate because of its sophisticated automation techniques. Dan joined NT OBJECTives from Foundstone, where he was responsible for the portal interface to the company’s flagship product, FoundScan. Prior to Foundstone, Dan was the founder of the Information Security team in the United States branches of Fortis.
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Google docs is a pretty cool solution, but doesnt really handle random file sharing between devices, anything from zip files, docs, pdfs, mp3, ppt, photoshop files, etc. So while I think google docs is a nifty service, I dont see it as a solution for what users use dropbox type solutions to accomplish.
Have used sugar and drop. Both decent products, lack any real functionality or enterprise multi-user functionality.
We are launching a new project middle of August that we built to handle a multi-user, multiple department corporate environment. Check us out on August 15, 2011. The core was built as a white label custom backoffice plugin. http://www.filocity.com.
Is there something wrong with Google Docs?
http://rdist.root.org/2011/05/09/encrypted-google-docs-done-well/
Have you tried rsync?
Google docs is a pretty cool solution, but doesnt really handle random file sharing between devices, anything from zip files, docs, pdfs, mp3, ppt, photoshop files, etc. So while I think google docs is a nifty service, I dont see it as a solution for what users use dropbox type solutions to accomplish.
What about CX.com? I’ve used it briefly, and they offer more space than dropbox does with the free account.
Have used sugar and drop. Both decent products, lack any real functionality or enterprise multi-user functionality.
We are launching a new project middle of August that we built to handle a multi-user, multiple department corporate environment. Check us out on August 15, 2011. The core was built as a white label custom backoffice plugin. http://www.filocity.com.