{"id":749938,"date":"2013-05-06T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T19:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=642619"},"modified":"2013-05-06T15:00:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T19:00:20","slug":"dropbox-to-host-first-ever-developers-conference-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/749938","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox to host first-ever developers conference this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dropbox, the file-sync-store-and-share provider to the masses, will host its inaugural developers conference this summer. The event — called DBX — will take place July 9 at San Francisco’s Fort Mason.<\/p>

\"dropbox\"<\/a>Details other than that are sparse but in a blog post <\/a>the company said it hopes to draw developers and partners wanting to learn about the “Dropbox Platform” and to meet the engineering and design team behind the Dropbox APIs.<\/p>

Dropbox now modestly claims “more than 100 million users” and\u00a0has caused considerable angst among IT heavyweights including Microsoft and IBM, but not necessarily for the same reasons. Microsoft launched SkyDrive — which as of Monday claims 250 million users <\/a>– in part to catch some of that Dropbox lightning in a bottle.<\/p>

IBM forbid the use of Dropbox<\/a> by its employees, citing security concerns.\u00a0In fact, many IT staffs across the board view Dropbox and other consumer-grade storage services with anxiety. Their worst nightmare is that employees will send and store sensitive corporate data to this public service. Dropbox has become the epitome of shadow IT.<\/p>

Those concerns sparked an explosion of startups angling to be the\u00a0“Dropbox of the Enterprise.<\/a><\/p>

Dropbox has been making moves to make its business version more IT friendly<\/a>. But the vast bulk of the company’s hundred million users are no doubt on the consumer service.<\/p>
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