<p>In a move to make itself more relevant to companies hungry for drag-and-drop online storage, Dell announced new plans that will bring Dropbox to several of Dell's products and services.</p><p>Dell's expansion into cloud-based storage says a lot about its future strategy. Following its 2011 break with EMC as its storage provider, Dell quickly aligned itself with many cloud-based storage providers and application vendors.</p><p>This week, Dell Venturesthe company's venture capital armannounced a fresh round of $300 million to invest in strategic startups to help build out Dell's data centers, storage and mobile products. The round follows $60 million that Dell invested last year for storage-specific companies to help it build out its data center business. Popular personal cloud startup Dropbox is expected to gain a portion of those funds.</p><p>The venture capital money follows Dell's announcements last week that it's salespeople will be offering Dropbox for Business to new and existing customers. Dell said it will also pre-install Dropbox's online storage service (complete with Dell's own brand of data protection software) on its consumer and business tablets.</p><p><a href="http://readwrite.com/2013/12/17/dell-dropbox-pact-perks-up-business-argument-for-online-storage">Keep reading...</a></p>