Wow this is familiar lol..... My hybrid cloud storage team here at Microsoft in Silicon Valley (which was a startup called StorSimple that Microsoft acquired)

Wow this is familiar lol..... My hybrid cloud storage team here at Microsoft in Silicon Valley (which was a startup called StorSimple that Microsoft acquired) already built this feature for our hybrid cloud storage virtual appliance that released a few months ago and its already in production and being used by customers..... We called it Just in Time Item Level Restore but it's the exact same thing........and looks exactly the same in behavior as well.....and we have various optimization to make it efficient and deal with latency and stuff..... (Btw we have nothing to do with one drive or one drive for business. That'a completely separate team. We only build enterprise storage devices) Ugh this is why you want to be in the consumer space , not the enterprise space. If a consumer product and enterprise product make the exact same thing/product, most people remember/see the consumer product. The race conditions and clever data structures to represent the file blobs and file system structure in the cloud to do this efficiently is actually very cool......I'm not sure how they (Dropbox) implemented it but I wonder how similar it would be to how we did it. Oh well this is my last week here in Microsoft and I'm moving to Apple in a different space so I guess I don't really care about storage anymore lol. At least at Apple the cloud services and applications will be the backend for consumer used front end applications. People will think Dropbox was the first one to do this because it's in consumer space so it's more well known...... Well actually I can link all the public announcements and stuff that was dated long before this video on the feature. We should have made a public video like this. We have videos but they were all for internal demos.... Click the Preview link (skip to item level recovery section but the PM explanation doesn't do it justice so you won't see it as the same from a technical feature point of view but it's exactly the same and behaved the same zero storage on disk but the file system thinks it's there) To accomplish all our feature we actually have low level stuff as well but I can't go into the details since I'm not allowed to so I'll leave it at that. But Dropbox is a great company and I'm glad this feature is now available to Consumers not just enterprise. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-storsimple-virtual-array-preview/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-storsi... https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-the-storsimple-virtual-array/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-general-av...