Case Study: Dropbox achieves lower storage costs and greater infrastructure control with Data Foundry

Dropbox - Customer Case Study

Dropbox, a personal cloud and file hosting service, was facing the challenge of high costs and a lack of end-to-end control from relying on Amazon's cloud for storage. The customer sought to shift its infrastructure in-house to gain substantial economic value and customize its systems. Data Foundry provided the solution for this large-scale migration.

Data Foundry enabled Dropbox to build and operate its own exabyte-scale storage system, which featured encrypted data at rest and 99.99% availability. By optimizing the stack specifically for its needs with Data Foundry, Dropbox successfully migrated 90% of its data by the end of 2015. This solution provided a key market differentiator, delivered significant value to its users, and achieved the goal of substantial cost savings.

Dropbox

Akhil Gupta

VP of Infrastructure