[Chicago] Cloud storage: Dropbox or Google Drive?

[Margaret Callard]

We use box.com some here at the OpenStack Foundation (and dropbox and google docs). Box was looking at incorporating some OpenStack technology, which is programmed in Python. Not sure if box did, but I like the service. I use it for uploading groups of presentations as a central repository. I have three main account users and can share somewhat secure links to anyone on specific groups of content - about $45/month.
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Margie Callard
OpenStack Foundation


On Dec 17, 2013, at 4:26 PM, Yarko Tymciurak <yarkot1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I haven't seen anyone mention (I dont' think) box.com - but I did note an article where they were HIPPA (i.e. doctors & medical records) approved, which got my attention.
> 
> It looks like they are a (ahem)  Scala & Php (& node, &...)  shop, but beyond security certification, there are at least two additional notes about them which stick in my mind from casual observation:
> 
> 15G default free space (fairly big);
> sharing does _NOT_ count against the target (sharee), as it does (unless you're cleverly careful) on dropbox (which sort of rubs me wrong;)
> 
> I personally use both Drive and Dropbox (preferring each for different kinds of things, but leaning more stuff onto Drop);
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:12 PM, David Dumas <daviddumas at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just upgraded to paid Dropbox because I outgrew the free space I
> could easily get from referrals etc..  I would have considered google
> drive but they don't offer a linux client, and I'm not sure I believe
> their promise that it's "in development".  The dropbox linux client is
> decent.
> 
> I didn't know about spideroak but thanks for the tip.  When my year of
> paid dropbox is up, I'll reevaluate.
> 
> -David
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 10:49 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Matthew Erickson <matt at soulrobotic.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> As to Python… we’re pretty much an all-Python shop with some Erlang and
> >> more and more JavaScript, and are slowly making it a point of hiring
> >> maintainers of software we use (we pay the salary of one of the PyWin32
> >> maintainers, for example).
> >
> >
> > Neato, I didn't know we had a spideroak employee in the group. Yay
> > python+erlang.
> >
> >
> > --
> > sheila
> >
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