Who is behind Dropbox?

This week we spoke to Drew Houston, founder and chief executive of US cloud storage company Dropbox. Drew Houston says it felt as if he had just two weeks to find a complete stranger to marry. Back in 2007 the then 24-year-old was desperate to secure funding to get his idea for a cloud storage business up and running.

Does Microsoft own Dropbox?

Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by the American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, U.S. that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software.

Which is better Google Drive or cloud storage?

With Google Cloud Storage you can upload/download a file, delete a file, obtain a list of files, or obtain the size of a given file. Google Drive, on the other hand, is used for storing personal files and it's free up to 15 GB across all your different personal services offered by Google.

What is the difference between cloud and Azure?

Microsoft Azure services and Google cloud both offer virtual machines (VMs). Microsoft calls them Azure virtual machines while Google calls them Compute Engines. Azure offers boot-disk-only and full machine VMs where the cloud is boot-disk-only. Both have autoscaling included.

Why is Google Drive free?

Google's big idea with Drive is to make cloud storage and productivity available to everybody. For this reason, Google Drive has always been completely free. All you need is a Gmail account to access it. All free Google Drive accounts come with 15GB of storage too, which is plenty to get started.

Is Dropbox part of Google?

Dropbox is an independent company, and a relatively small one at that compared to such a giant one like Google. However, Dropbox holds its own by having acquired 8 million business customers business customers who love the simplicity of its sync and share file features.

Why is Dropbox so expensive?

Their prices seem to be similar to their competitors like Google Drive and iCloud Drive. It costs them money to store your data, and they need some way to pay for it. Indeed it is very expensive at $20/user/month.

Is OneDrive a security risk?

Generally speaking, Microsoft OneDrive is as safe as any other cloud storage platform. The platform provides encryption for data shared and stored on it. However, OneDrive is exposed to the same security risks that threaten other cloud applications with similar capabilities.

Does anyone still use Dropbox?

Dropbox is one of the most popular cloud storage services, with 500 million registered users, including 11.9 million paying users. Thanks to that, it's one of the services almost everyone can name off the top of their head, but it's far from the best cloud storage provider out there.

What country owns Google?

What country owns Google? Google is an American multinational tech company founded on September 4, 1998, in California, USA.