To help customers harness the employee productivity gains Dropbox offers while maintaining IT control and visibility of data, Dell will be offering Dropbox for Business through its sales organization so customers can provide their employees with a secure enterprise file sharing and collaboration solution along with their new Dell products.
Dell now offers Dropbox for Business plus Dell Data Protection Cloud, part of the Dell Data Protection solutions portfolio, to let employees use their favorite cloud storage application at work and provide IT departments with a broader range of controls to meet even the most stringent compliance and regulatory requirements.
“Dropbox has always been about giving people a simple, elegant way to access their most important digital stuff, and today Dropbox is used in over 4 million businesses because it’s easy to use, easy to deploy and offers a secure, centralized location for company data,” said Marc Leibowitz, global vice president of partnerships, Dropbox.
“Dropbox is one of the most innovative and fastest growing start-ups and the most popular solution of its kind. Now through Dell’s global sales team, Dropbox and Dell can help organizations of all sizes embrace consumerization of IT while protecting company data,” said Brett Hansen, executive director, end user computing software, Dell.
Over 200 million people and 4 million businesses use Dropbox and 1 billion files are uploaded to Dropbox every 24 hours.
Dropbox and Dell are working closely together to better shape and define the future of cloud-based data management for companies of all sizes. In the coming months, Dell and Dropbox will “announce exciting developments across Dell’s consumer and commercial client platforms.”
