The capital injection will be used by Axi to increase its market share in the segments retail, government and healthcare. Indufin replaces ING Private Equity and Cytindus to monetize their holdings after ten and five years. Besides Indufin the Axi-shares held by management and various employees. How Indufin invests exactly, was not disclosed.
"Continuing to build the future while maintaining the high quality level remains paramount for us," says Paul Peeters, CEO and Chairman of the new Board of Directors. "Continuity is assured for our customers and employees. The financial contribution of Indufin and their guidance will allow us to grow in our focus markets in Belgium and the Netherlands and to invest heavily in new solutions, services and new employees. We have the ambition to become an even stronger quality brand. "
AXI emerged in 1985 from a management buyout of the IT services of the employers' organization VEV (now VOKA). This is now the third management buyout. With the advent of Indufin also renewed management, with CEO Paul Peeters and CFO Sara De Merechy both remain in post as directors. Two other directors, Michel and Dirk Ballière Noens, lay down their duties as a director, but remain involved in strategic projects. From February 1, 2017 the management team will be expanded with five new directors, three Belgians (Frederick Riebbels Marc Janssens, Els De Bie) and two Dutch (Joost den Ouden and Michel Petrusma).
Axi is in the Netherlands and Belgium active. In the Netherlands they mainly serve retail organizations, care institutions and a single government agency. In Belgium they primarily serve government agencies.
Dropbox has introduced a new feature, previously just by rival Microsoft has been deleted for its OneDrive. In addition, Dropbox debuts an Office alternative.
The struggle for patronage in the world of cloud storage it should no longer only the commandments gigabytes. For a while that was the main bet, where users were lured with free gigabytes (or even petabytes ) of storage. On top was then a fee to get more, or even unlimited space in the cloud. That GB struggle has come to an end, with Microsoft even gigabytes decelerating from users.
hybrid storage
SmartSync
Functionality is the new battleground for cloud storage. Provider Dropbox now rolls his SmartSync feature in which users no longer local storage lost to synchronized data. The files stored in Dropbox or simply and directly accessible from a computer, but need not be synchronized or accessed separately.
Content is currently trapped in silos that are created per team, and that does not deliver particular job joy, says the cloud storage provider. "As more people work in teams, the need for storage space grows exponentially," blogging product manager Rob Baesman Dropbox. After all, shared files must be stored on each team member, resulting in complete synchronization for local storage and more management work.
"With our new Smart Sync feature allows users to see all their files and folders directly from their desktop, or which files and folders are stored locally and synchronized in the cloud." Dropbox allows states to put an end to the routine that has become teamwork and online collaboration.
TOs to 128GB
Users who use a device with a SSD of only 128GB of capacity can easily wade through as yet terabytes of data. Just from Windows Explorer or the Finder in Mac OS. Administrators can SmartSync set needed for their organization, new data is synchronized by default or just default account in the cloud.
This new functionality of Dropbox since early last year in beta, called Project Infinite . Around the same time appeared messages about similar functionality to Microsoft OneDrive. Only went to a return of the hybrid storage for the cloud storage service. OneDrive had the built element of Windows 8 already include the possibility of so-called placeholders. These were files that seemed to be stored locally, but actually stood in the OneDrive cloud.
Because of confusion, however, Microsoft has removed that feature among users. In place of the placeholders came selective synchronization, whereby end users had to indicate themselves what should and should not be local. The software maker - and now also cloud giant - coming back to this deleting and brings the placeholders functionality back to Windows 10 . Allegedly it comes, now called On-Deman Sync in the upcoming Creators Update (codename Redstone 2).
Versus Office (and Google Docs)
Meanwhile Dropbox performs with Microsoft's competition also to take a step in the application market of the OneDrive provider. Simultaneously with the general rollout of Smart Sync debuts the company Paper, which is intended as a counterpart of Office (and Google Docs). Paper is a digital workspace which can be used as an online service. Apps for iOS and Android will follow.
Paper also has been extensively used for several months in beta. Dropbox is proud that testing companies have created millions of documents in over 200 countries and territories. Paper is made for cooperation and thus includes several documents as well as agendas.
For business users Paper gets additional management options for e-discovery and data loss prevention (DLP). Dropbox allows also exists an API (application programming interface) open where security companies and service providers on DLP can join.
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