Berlin, Germany (February, 2010) – Today, Team Part-Time Scientists announced Dropbox Inc. as an official sponsor of the team. The cloud based storage provider connects shared folders across platforms and continents. Available on Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android and web, it syncs files on all platforms. The cloud takes care of sharing, syncing and backups. Team Part-Time Scientists, headquartered in Berlin, Germany, with 38 team members is among 21 teams from 11 countries that are competing for their share of the $30 million prize purse.
“As a SAN (Storage Area Network) expert myself, I am very excited that Dropbox decided to sponsor us. Collaborative working on such a scale needs a reliable and easy way to let people work on files simultaneously. Our engineers are scattered across the hemispheres. When a U.S. member updates a file it is instantly available to every member in the world, while dozens of generations from that file are available for recovery in the background. I can’t think of a better way for collaborative work over the internet than Dropbox”, said Team Leader Robert Boehme.
ABOUT DROPBOX
Dropbox was founded by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi in 2007, and received seed funding from Y Combinator. Today, Dropbox is well-funded by Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, and Amidzad. Since launching publicly in September of 2008, Dropbox attracted over four million users and are growing rapidly. It has been featured in the New York Times and on TechCrunch, and won awards from places like PC Magazine and CNET. Their passion is making a product that rocks and putting it in millions of people’s hands. For more information, go to their site: http://www.getdropbox.com
