{"id":8589,"date":"2014-01-17T19:33:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T18:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/?p=8589"},"modified":"2014-01-17T19:33:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T18:33:59","slug":"enterprise-file-sync-share-race-bottom-continues-someone-foot-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/blogs\/enterprise-file-sync-share-race-bottom-continues-someone-foot-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"The Enterprise File Sync and Share Race to the Bottom Continues: But Someone has to Foot the Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->We saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/benkepes\/2014\/01\/15\/adding-salt-to-dropboxs-wounds-box-offers-50gb-for-free\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announcement<\/a> today that Box will now be offering 50GB \u2013 yes, you heard me, 50GB \u2013 FREE. Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>Frank has <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/blog\/holy-mole-google-drive-triples-free-storage-nothing-in-life-is-free-folks\">talked<\/a> about this before, but, what a great deal for Free users! But, being a cloud service, with a business model of selling storage \u2013 Box has to, you know, deploy and maintain the storage. So, who\u2019s paying for all this \u201cfree\u201d storage?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I don\u2019t know for sure, but I guess it\u2019s the paying customers. It makes sense. Box has to make money, and they have to cover their operating expenses (see: free storage), so SOMEone other than Box has to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>So Free users \u2013 hooray for you, what a great deal. And watch this race to the bottom as Dropbox, Google et al have to chase this \u2013 even greater bargains for Free users. BUT, if you are an enterprise that needs to get control back of your sensitive company data, why do you want to subsidize all these free users?<\/p>\n<p><!--:--><!--:de--><strong>Bring file sync and share back in house, under your control, using the storage you want (hmm, maybe even some of this free storage I hear companies are offering) and stop subsidizing the Free users.<\/strong><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, who\u2019s paying for all this \u201cfree\u201d storage?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":78665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}