Dropbox on Monday introduced its cold storage service, a custom-built infrastructure that allows Dropbox to store less frequently accessed data at lower costs. The service is part of Magic Pocket, ...

The move forms part of a series of updates affecting the Dropbox architecture. The company has started to move its workflow away from Amazon’s AWS cloud and to its own data centers, which provides ...

Dropbox started shifting workloads away from AWS to its own data centers several years ago because it needed more control over how files were stored and accessed. It developed a storage architecture ...

If your Dropbox account keeps sending you those dreaded “storage full” notifications, you’re not alone. With the free plan offering only a limited amount of space, it’s easy to hit the ceiling before ...

If you're a Dropbox user, there's a good chance that your online storage space is a chaotic and confusing mishmash of files and folders. Or perhaps you're not making enough use of the space you have.

The various life-extension technologies that will keep disk at the forefront of some of the largest storage installations are working–and keeping disk’s largest consumers, like Dropbox, around for ...