DropBox Pitches New Enterprise-Tailored Service

Dropbox, led by CEO Drew Houston, has introduced a new service that aims focused on helping large businesses. The service, called DropBox Enterprise, was reportedly pitched at the company’s user conference on Wednesday in San Francisco.

CIO said the new service will help bring the habit of using DropBox to sync files to the workplace with the aid of IT personnel, who in turn will adopt and enable the product to be used for work.

DropBox said it has saw an increase of paying customers from 130,000 in September to over 150,000. Houston confided to TechCrunch that the new service justifies the company’s shift from the previous model of charging for storage.

He said, “Because we’ve been heads down for most of the year, and we don’t talk about ourselves that much, there’s been these misconceptions, oh we’re just for consumers, we’re playing catchup, we’re not serious about business. I think we’re like, hey, we don’t want to dwell on this, but just so you know this is the scoreboard, and the rate of growth and adoption is really big right now.”