With the recent shutdown of Megaupload, the question for CIOs and IT managers is "Will that have an impact on the ability of other general purpose file sharing platforms like Dropbox".
With the rapid adoption of mobile technology and the resulting need to deliver a range of content to those devices, general purpose file sharing sites have been often used as a temporary solution to this problem, but now with the added pressure from content owners being applied, is there a risk that the other sharing sites will suffer short term or permanent shutdowns?
There are many references to this on the Internet now, and whilst its certainly not something that is a certainty, it will be important for IT managers and CIOs to keep this in mind when planning their content management solution. Even worse for those planning IT deployments, the "personal" nature of those file sharing sites, leads to the possibility of workers placing copyrighted or illegally obtained materials in those services and then syncing that content to their mobile device.
The impact of potential illegal use is one of the factors that drove BTC to create a system for managing content where the organisation itself takes a more prominent role. With BTCDashboard the IT team can play an active part in managing content and ensuring that only recommended and approved materials are distributed - even going as far as disabling the personal MyChannel for users on the system.
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