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Friendly reminder that your company probably pays significant money to dropbox for something you dont use. At my last company I proposed an audit of our cloud
by kramerger 3y ago
Friendly reminder that your company probably pays significant money to dropbox for something you dont use.
At my last company I proposed an audit of our cloud storage services. IT emailed everyone to close their corporate account if they absolutely didn't have to use Dropbox (or move files to personal account if they were storing personal files).
It turned out that most paid a accounts existed because someone had shared something with an employer who then used his corporate email to create a dropbox account. We ended up saving A LOT of money by closing those.
- cyanydeez 3y agoOur company just moved everyones desktop to a corporate dropbox. They also have sharepoints. The also just run servers for the actual project files.
- Nicholas_C 3y agoAlso a friendly reminder to close accounts for people who have left your company.
- quickthrower2 3y agoIf everyone does this, does it trigger the next tech crunch?
- nikanj 3y agoIn most corporations, the only way to reliable send a large file to someone is to bypass the corporation's own systems. You gotta have Dropbox because IT disabled attachments in your Teams, your email scanning drops anything that does not smell like plain text and the USB ports on your PC have been filled with epoxy. Not even going to mention Onedrive and other Dropbox alternatives, because my experiences with those is uniformly terrible
- mcv 3y agoMy current client seems to be the opposite of that; dropbox is blocked, but I can share anything through Teams.
- JohnFen 3y agoWhere I work, we don't use Dropbox. We do have OneDrive, but nobody actually uses it (because it's terrible). Instead, we all share files via shared drives on company servers.