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A 5-minute Woz brain dump (AKA, 2013 UC Berkeley commencement address)

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, a veteran of the college commencement address circuit, shared a free-form talk with UC Berkeley grads last month during their ceremony.

By Bob Brown | 10 June, 2013 22:18

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, Woz commencement, dropbox, Networking, education, wireless, hardware systems, Data Center, industry verticals, UC Berkeley Wozniak, Facebook, Steve Wozniak commencement, Apple, Google
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston's 2013 MIT commencement address transcript

Below is the prepared text of the commencement address by Drew Houston '05, the CEO of Dropbox, for MIT's 147th commencement held June 7, 2013.

By Network World staff | 07 June, 2013 20:54

Tags: management, Drew Houston Dropbox, dropbox, Networking, Drew Houston MIT, infrastructure management, techie commencement speaker
CirroScope: Stealthy cloud security startup hatched by ex-Symantec teammates

A small team of ex-Symantec security experts has formed a stealthy Silicon Valley start-up called CirroScope that's focused on shielding enterprises from threats stemming from their use of SaaS applications such Box, Salesforce.com and Google Apps.

By Bob Brown | 05 June, 2013 20:26

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, Evernote, SaaS, dropbox, Salesforce.com, hardware systems, Data Center, Kno, Software as a service, cloud computing, internet, symantec, Google, security, Cloud
Dropbox goes down for more than an hour

Dropbox users this morning experienced an outage that lasted more than an hour. The cloud storage service has yet to explain what happened.

By Lucas Mearian | 30 May, 2013 20:13

Tags: Data storage, dropbox, security, twitter, cloud storage
Google triples free storage to 15GB

Google said it is increasing the amount of free storage for users of its Google Drive cloud storage service to 15 GB.

By Lucas Mearian | 13 May, 2013 19:21

Tags: Data storage, dropbox, Google, cloud computing, internet

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Tutorials about dropbox

Mobile survival guide: Top tips for staying connected

Picture this: You're sitting down

By Patrick Miller | 14 January, 2011 01:11

Tags: mobile broadband, dropbox, Google, Networking, USB, LAN, WAN

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Features about dropbox

Here, there, everywhere: 3 personal Cloud storage systems

Cloud storage has become increasingly popular, both for individuals and companies, as a place to stash everything from tax records to family photos. Services such as Dropbox, Box, SugarSync or Google Drive offer the chance to easily store your data and then access it from any of your devices.

By Brian Nadel | 28 May, 2013 14:42

Tags: Western FDigital, dropbox, storage, D-Link, cloud computing, LaCie
IT's new concern: The personal Cloud

As personal and professional Clouds converge, IT's mission to improve productivity while protecting corporate apps and data is getting tougher.

By Robert L. Mitchell | 20 May, 2013 10:14

Tags: consumerization of IT, dropbox, private cloud, IT management, cloud computing, internet, VMware
Security Manager's Journal: A little housecleaning

Our manager finds the time and opportunity to cross a few nagging items off of his to-do list.

By Mathias Thurman | 22 April, 2013 10:04

Tags: dropbox, data security, security, data protection
Worst security snafus of 2012

The first half of 2012 was pretty bad - from the embarrassing hack of a conversation between the FBI and Scotland Yard to a plethora of data breaches - and the second half wasn't much better, with events including Symantec's antivirus update mess and periodic attacks from hactivists at Anonymous.

By Ellen Messmer | 10 December, 2012 17:57

Tags: reddit, NASA, dropbox, iPhone, Anonymous, Apple, Yahoo, Julian Assange, Al Jazeera, symantec, consumer electronics, Microsoft, security, smartphones, twitter, fbi, popular science

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Whitepapers about dropbox

Fixing Your Dropbox Problem - How the Right Data Protection Strategy Can Help

It’s estimated that more than 50 million people have used public cloud storage services such as Dropbox to share and exchange files. Public cloud services are so easy to use that their openness can undermine existing IT policies regarding the transmission of confidential data. With data volumes threatening to overwhelm onsite storage, IT managers are looking to find a solution that’s affordable and secure. This paper details a simple three-step approach to helping users manage access to the public cloud without placing your data or your business at risk. Read on.
Aberdeen Group Analyst Insight Report: Does Your Enterprise Have a “Dropbox Problem?”
Secure File Sharing in the Cloud: Maximizing the Benefits
8 Critical Requirements for Secure Mobile File Sharing