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When looking to grow our board, we sought out a leader who could help us expand our global footprint. Condoleezza sure left a global footprint in the Middle Ea
by antonius 12y ago
When looking to grow our board, we sought out a leader who could help us expand our global footprint.
Condoleezza sure left a global footprint in the Middle East alright. Hate do this Dropbox, but time for me to move on.
Edit: Suggestions for a Dropbox substitute?
- sogen 12y agohttp://www.box.com http://www.box.com
- MPiccinato 12y agoWe have been using https://copy.com https://copy.com without any issue.
- bambax 12y agoIt's an American company (Barracuda Inc.)
- EC1 12y agoAny no bullshit European companies that can match the quality of Dropbox software? I hate that I even have to make decisions like this, what the fuck kind of world are we living in.
- Zsolt 12y agoYou should look into Tresorit. https://tresorit.com https://tresorit.com
- luos 12y agoThere is tresorit ( https://tresorit.com/ https://tresorit.com/ ), but depending on what you want to do, they seem to be a little expensive.
- perakojotgenije 12y agoTry hubic (https://hubic.com/en/ https://hubic.com/en/), they are a French company.
- atmosx 12y agoWuala Switzerland (run by Lacie inc.)
- ptman 12y agoyounited by F-Secure (Finnish)? http://www.younited.com/ http://www.younited.com/ There's political debate currently in Finland about giving police and intelligence the same kind of legal framework for access as the NSA has had in the US. But so far the proposals have been resisted. Mikko Hyppönen https://twitter.com/mikko https://twitter.com/mikko and some others have been talking a lot publicly about making Finland a data haven with strong protections for privacy. Maybe they'll even succeed.
- mcv 12y agoYou'd think that by now there's be more than enough incentive to use services from non-US companies, and therefore to start such companies outside the US. Where are they?
- skolos 12y agoFor me dropbox worked very unreliably on Linux. Copy works much better.
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- Shorel 12y agoFrom https://www.copy.com/about/tos/ https://www.copy.com/about/tos/ : We will respond to any notice of alleged copyright infringement if they comply with the law and are properly reported to us through our DMCA process (https://www.copy.com/about/dmca https://www.copy.com/about/dmca). From https://www.copy.com/about/privacy https://www.copy.com/about/privacy : It may be necessary − by law, legal process, litigation, and/or requests from public and governmental authorities within or outside your country of residence − for us to disclose your Personal Information, Non Personal Information, and Private Data Files. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that for purposes of national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary or appropriate.
- skrowl 12y agoWith the new price point, Google Drive is really attractive
- kyrra 12y agoI do use Google Drive some, but the overall usability of it is a bit painful. They have a lot of nice features for sharing folders/files with others, but the organization of it's web UI is just painful to use at times.
- chaosmonkey 12y agoFor some reason I actually like it. What do you find painful?
- kyrra 12y agoYou know... you asking that question made me look at it and try to figure out why I don't like it. I think it actually my lack of organization with it. "My Drive" and "Shared with me" section has lots of docs/spreadsheets that I don't need anymore and they clutter the view, I just never thought to remove them to clean it up. So really, it's my own lack of housekeeping that's bothering me. Time to clean up my Google Drive. Thanks.
- chaosmonkey 12y agoGlad I could help! :)
- walls 12y agoPersonally, I've had endless sync issues with Google drive. It doesn't seem to have any sort of 'retry' feature if it can't sync a file other than restarting the service.
- Jackim 12y agoIf you have your own server, I'd recommend BTSync. Sync any folder on your computer easily, without having to move them into a specific folder. You could probably set something up to also sync everything to Google Drive with a script, for redundancy.
- Shorel 12y agoI have been using hubiC in Windows and Linux without issues. They give 25 GB, and respect your privacy (they are based on France).
- msh 12y agoI tried them but they did not offer any kind of access to previous versions of files which was a show stopper for me.
- Shorel 12y agoI started using hubiC because I need a replacement for Ubuntu One. So far there's no perfect file cloud service, unless you want to also manage your own server.
- Touche 12y agoAh, the further politicization of everything in America continues unabated.
- uptown 12y agoWhat's the current sentiment regarding the security and privacy of BTSync?
- aw3c2 12y agoIt's closed source and proprietary so it is no solution for me.
- toong 12y agoAnd DropBox isn't ?
- Piskvorrr 12y agoAs opposed to...Dropbox?!? (Recap: "Dropbox substitute?" "What about BTSync?" "Meh, isn't open")
- aw3c2 12y agoSorry, I took the comment on its own. I do not use Dropbox. I have not found a usable free sync solution so I am stuck with unison.
- Piskvorrr 12y agoAh, then I have misunderstood; I apologize.
- joshstrange 12y agoTo be fair aw3c2 never said they use Dropbox and while uptown's question was most certainly in respect to "Dropbox alternatives" their question is only asking about "the security and privacy of BTSync" to which aw3c2 responded.
- cottonseed 12y agoBTsync is not the final solution, but it seems like an improvement over Dropbox. What's your open alternative?
- tcc2161 12y agohttps://www.sync.com/ https://www.sync.com/
- mikeryan 12y agoIts funny I was kind of looking for alternatives for our business, we use it as a poor mans shared NAS across two offices, but with the new Business features (personal and business folders in particular) finally reached a usability threshold for us. Ugh...
- Cyph0n 12y agoOneDrive is phenomenal. I've been using it for the past year or so and it's been a breeze.
- rbanffy 12y agoNo Linux support.
- untog 12y agoNot everyone needs that, though. It's still a valid suggestion.
- rbanffy 12y agoAdopting OneDrive would then prevent you from ever adopting Linux in the future without migrating all data to a different service. You may be confident you don't use Linux now, but are you confident you'll never need Linux support? How confident are you with adopting a tool that's not OS agnostic?
- Cyph0n 12y agoYeah, that is a downside, but for me it's OK, since I only use Linux on my web servers.
- someguy1233 12y agoUnless you like privacy. Partially nude photos in your private folder on OneDrive can get your whole Microsoft account banned. [1] [1] http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-what-you-store-on-skydriveyou-may-lose-your-microsoft-life/ http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-what-you-store-on-skydriveyou-m...
- higherpurpose 12y agoI'd like something a little more privacy-friendly, not that plays "team games" with NSA. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c...
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- smtddr 12y agoI've been happy with https://aerofs.com/ https://aerofs.com/ so far.
- ekianjo 12y ago> When looking to grow our board, we sought out a leader who could help us expand our global footprint. Hey actually the word footprint can also be understood as garbage. > the impact on the environment of human activity in terms of pollution, damage to ecosystems, and the depletion of natural resources. Then if you read it this way, the sentence sounds actually very appropriate!
- vadvi 12y agohttps://www.cubby.com/ https://www.cubby.com/
- cottonseed 12y agoI've switched to BTsync until a compelling open option appears (hopefully soon).
- lcfg 12y agoYou might like Wuala: http://wuala.com/en/pricing/ http://wuala.com/en/pricing/
- lingben 12y agoI like wuala but they are very expensive and have not adjusted their prices at all
- up_and_up 12y agoBitcasa: 1TB/$10 - https://www.bitcasa.com/pricing https://www.bitcasa.com/pricing
- taigeair 12y agoAre they faster?
- phireal 12y agoI've been running ownCloud[0] on my server. It has Windows/Linux/Mac/Android/iOS clients and has been working very well for me as a drop in Dropbox replacement. In addition to the clients, you can use webDAV to access your files. [0] http://www.owncloud.org http://www.owncloud.org
- cheez 12y agoHow do you run owncloud? What about security and updates and all that jazz?
- phireal 12y agoI have a cheap hosting account into which I've extracted the ownCloud tarball[0]. For security updates, I've subscribed to the announcements ownCloud mailing list [1] so I get an email each time there's a new version (either bugfix or major). The mailing list is very low traffic (only messages about new versions). I either follow the instructions on the site [2] for major upgrades or otherwise use the built in updater [3][4] for the minor bugfix releases. So far, it's been pretty painless. [0] http://owncloud.org/install/ http://owncloud.org/install/ [1] http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/announcements http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/announcements [2] http://doc.owncloud.org/server/6.0/admin_manual/maintenance/update.html#upgrade http://doc.owncloud.org/server/6.0/admin_manual/maintenance/... [3] http://doc.owncloud.org/server/6.0/admin_manual/maintenance/update.html#update http://doc.owncloud.org/server/6.0/admin_manual/maintenance/... [4] http://imgur.com/Z4U8ac5 http://imgur.com/Z4U8ac5
- atmosx 12y agoMaybe an RPi hosted, with a USB external HD would be a good solution for owncloud.
- phireal 12y agoIf your pi is just running ownCloud and it's got access to a relatively fast connection, there shouldn't be any problem with doing that. I'm thinking of getting a VPS to run my own server as the limitations of a hosted account are pretty important when it comes to running your own stuff (as opposed to 'just' hosting a blog or whatever).
- higherpurpose 12y agoMediafire also offers 1 TB for $5 (first month is $2.5 or something). https://www.mediafire.com/upgrade/ https://www.mediafire.com/upgrade/ If you want something with strong security and privacy, there's https://spideroak.com/ https://spideroak.com/
- Freaky 12y agoIt's 50% off if you pay yearly, plus 2 months free on top. $25 for the year, not bad. Not exactly comparable, but still.
- xandersvk 12y agoMEGA! it's end-to-end encrypted and 50GB free! they already have desktop client for windows and will also release for Linux and OSX shortly.
- walls 12y agoYeah lets store everything on a service that has already evaporated once before!
- icebraining 12y agoUnlike other services, which are eternal? If you're relying on a single service with all copies of the data, you're doing it wrong. Always have backups.
- rbanffy 12y agoThe company I used to work for has one (and can help you build a DropBox for your company). http://titansgroup.com.br/cloud.php http://titansgroup.com.br/cloud.php It's currently aimed at telcos (América Móvil used it in Latin America) but IIRC they rolled out their own product, at least for internal use.
- sogen 12y agohttp://owncloud.org http://owncloud.org
- zanny 12y agoI've been using Spideroak https://spideroak.com/ https://spideroak.com/, they push security but only have 2G of free storage and their prices are steeper. But they have a Linux client! Proprietary, but I can never get grive to work right so I use it (hesitantly). Most of my stuff is synced via owncloud, though.
- peerbreed 12y agoI could honestly care less about Dr. Rice being on the board of directors or not. Is she going to start a program to torture users of Dropbox? If that comes to pass, it may be a cause for concern. Other than that it appears that Dropbox is adding an accomplished and intelligent person to their board. Is who ever made this website, going to run around and try to get Dr. Rice fired from every job she gets? It really does appear that this is a personal vendetta of some sort. However! I do welcome the thought of people looking for alternatives to Dropbox. I consider trusting your information with a propriety company based in the US, to be quite foolish these days. Personally I use Owncloud. It's open source. You can run it from your personal server. Owncloud has clients for Linux, Window, MAC, Android and IOS. You can also access your information through any web browser. To put the cherry on top, Owncloud has the capabilities to sync contacts, calendars and bookmarks across your all devices. It's a great piece of software and should suit those looking for an alternative. http://owncloud.org/ http://owncloud.org/
- maaaats 12y agoJottaCloud. Based in Norway, so no US involvement.
- iaskwhy 12y agoAre you using it? If so, how's it going?
- jpwagner 12y agoHeroku alternatives too? http://www.salesforce.com/company/leadership/board-of-directors/#powell http://www.salesforce.com/company/leadership/board-of-direct...
- ionised 12y agoWuala or SpiderOak. I'd say Wuala, as SpiderOak's mobile application wasn't great last time I checked. It only had read capability.
- sparkie 12y agoNote that there are potential privacy concerns with Wuala and similar services, as they use de-duplication techniques, meaning if somebody makes a file public, and you have the same copy in storage, they can see these files in your account. It's not a serious privacy violation, as it only identifies what are otherwise public files anyway - but if you want complete privacy, including being able to hide what you are uploading, not just the content - then you're better with something self-hosted perhaps.
- MatthiasP 12y agoThey stopped using de-duplication some time ago.
- ptman 12y agogit-annex assistant + hosting at rsync.net? http://www.rsync.net/products/git-annex-pricing.html http://www.rsync.net/products/git-annex-pricing.html
- sparkie 12y agohttp://seafile.com/en/home/ http://seafile.com/en/home/ Similar to ownCloud, has client support for all the major platforms. For the record, it's written by a Chinese company - not that this should matter, but it's often rejected because all those Chinese are cyber criminals, y'know?