Case Study: Dropbox achieves cash flow positive growth with Hewlett Packard Enterprise

A Collaboration Platform Provider Expands Operations, Finds a New Market and Boosts Cash Flow

Dropbox, a rapidly growing cloud storage and collaboration platform, faced the challenge of scaling its public cloud infrastructure to target the lucrative enterprise market. Its existing model was becoming cost-prohibitive and lacked the necessary control over performance and security. To migrate hundreds of petabytes of data without disrupting service, Dropbox partnered with Hewlett Packard Enterprise for a new hardware infrastructure.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise provided servers like the ProLiant SL4540 and HPE Cloudline, along with consulting and financial services, to help Dropbox build a high-performance, on-premises private cloud. This solution gave Dropbox greater control, security, and scalability. The results included a significantly reduced cost per gigabyte, predictable and amortizable costs, and the company becoming cash flow positive, which positioned it for further enterprise growth.

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Drew Houston

Founder and CEO