I’ve written a lot about the rapid transition toward contextual conversation tools (chat-based collaboration) in business. In June, we published Contextual conversation: Work chat will dominate collaboration, where I wrote This rise of… Read more »
Microsoft is taking a page from Dropbox, and is merging the personal edition of OneDrive and OneDrive for Business into one client: the two-headed design. And it is taking the surprising step of… Read more »
BitTorrent Sync is a peer-to-peer file sync and share tool that leverages the BitTorrent protocol. Because of its decentralized architecture, it’s an effective means of rapidly distributing very large files. The… Read more »
There is a very steep trendline toward near-zero pricing for file sync-and-share storage. Basically, giving away unlimited storage is now table stakes in the industry, as I said in June (see The price… Read more »
File sync-and-share platforms are remedying a defect in today’s operating systems, which have yet to implement virtual distributed file systems. Read more »
Box, the file sync-and-share player, made two announcements yesterday. The first is Box falling into line with other vendors that have been dropping storage limits for business accounts. Box offered an… Read more »
Box for Office 365 supposedly puts Box front and center and will allow for users to share attachments in Outlook via Box. Additionally, the file-sync and sharing company is giving away… Read more »
Last week we witnessed the reorienting of two giant work technology players — Amazon and Microsoft — with enormous impacts for the industry, and the marketplace. Amazon announced Zocalo, its entry… Read more »
I’m involved in writing a Gigaom Research Roadmap on what I call the distributed core. File sync-and-share has rapidly moved from a consumer convenience to the core element of a distributed computing architecture… Read more »
Google is pushing hard to get into the enterprise. Yesterday, Google announced at the I/O conference a new version of Google Drive, the company’s file sync-and-share application. The new version — called… Read more »