“The scale that we’re operating on is one that very few other companies will get to,” Gupta says. Dropbox has 500 million users and is storing 500 petabytes of data. There were two factors that made Akhil Gupta, vice president of Infrastructure for Dropbox, realize that the company should get out of the cloud. + MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Dreamhost replaces VMware SDN with open source for big savings + DropboxĪkhil Gupta, VP of Infrastructure at Dropbox
It’s all about growth for them, which makes Amazon every possible competitor’s worst nightmare.Could this be a sign that as companies grow their cloud that it could be more efficient to build their own cloud? If so, what is that cut-off point where its more efficient to not use the public cloud? But even better, Amazon doesn’t earn meaningful profit margins on any of its lines of business so there’s no need for Cloud Drive to be any different. How can Amazon afford to offer such crazy prices? Well, storage is getting cheaper and cheaper, and Amazon has achieved great scale and efficiency with operating large servers. Apple tried and failed in an effort to purchase Dropbox several years ago, but I think in the long term the founders will end up wishing they’d sold. But it’s hard to see how the company can compete with Amazon rushing in, offering a superior free product, and cutting Dropbox’s prices in half.
And I’m already paid up for a year, so I won’t be switching anytime soon. You could get a 50GB account for $25 a year. And unlike Dropbox, Amazon offers intermediate options. Then today I looked at the pricing for Amazon’s competing service. I like it so much that on Monday I upgraded from the 2GB free version to the one in which you get 100GB of storage.
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