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  • Huddle Fights to Gain Viral Uptake

    January 24, 2012

    Business
    Alastair Mitchell, Andy McLoughlin, box.net, Huddle, Microsoft, Microsoft SharePoint, SharePoint
     

      In a world where new entrants are trying to break the near-hegemony that Microsoft SharePoint has in enterprise content management, the new generation of vendors is painfully aware that they are in a death race to build momentum.…

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  • Syncplicity moves to Document Lifecycle and Workflow

    November 15, 2011

    Business
    backup, box.net, dropbox, google docs, sugarsync, syncplicity
     

    I use a bunch of document and file synchronization, backup and collaboration tools. From SugarSync to Box.net, from Dropbox to Syncplicity I’ve pretty much used, and currently use, them all. One of the things that interests me from a…

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  • Box Raises $81M and Raises the Stakes at the Same Time

    October 21, 2011

    Business
    Aaron Levie, Box Innovation Network, box.net, dropbox, Heroku, Levie, Microsoft, salesforce, SAP, SAP AG
     

    Big news last week was the confirmation of a massive new funding round for perennial crowd favorite box.net. For those that didn’t see the news, Box snagged $81M from existing and new investors including salesforce and SAP ventures. While…

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  • Huddle Riding a Wave–Collaboration to the World (of Enterprise)

    October 5, 2011

    Business
    box.net, boxworks, google, Huddle, MessageLabs, Microsoft SharePoint, SharePoint
     

    Reflecting on the recent BoxWorks conference that I was unfortunately not able to attend, Krish commented on Box’s increasing adoption by enterprise saying that; I am convinced about the traction Box is getting in this space. Starting with companies…

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  • Sometimes Box Size Does Matter

    October 28, 2010

    Business
    Aaron Levie, box.net, cloud computing, Content management
     

    (ummm – any double entendre taken from that title was unintentional, sort of!) Box.net, the cloud content management vendor, is today upping the ante in the war of storage space. They’re moving all plans to a much greater storage…

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  • On Keeping Up – Box.net and Dropbox and the New Arms Race

    September 23, 2010

    Business
    box.net, dropbox
     

    Watching competing technology companies and their product developments is sometimes like watching the arms race of the later part of last century. Despite having enough fire power to split our planet in two, The US and the USSR would…

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  • OxygenCloud Opens the Kimono

    July 19, 2010

    Business
    box.net, dropbox, oxygencloud, sugarsync, syncplicity
     

    I recently spent some time talking with OxygenCloud. I’ve spent a bit of time talking with these guys over the past year, first meeting them when they called themselves LeapFile. OxygenCloud sells itself as a "secure virtual file system…

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  • T Shirt Friday #48 – Altitude 2010

    June 25, 2010

    altitude2010, Just for fun
    box.net, t shirt friday
     

    Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with  […]

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  • Box Takes on Desktop Sync, the Space Gets Ever More Crowded

    June 10, 2010

    enterprise, Strategy
    box.net, dropbox, sugarsync, syncplicity
     

    I’ve written before about a number of desktop sync products I use – these products help me to keep my life organized across multiple devices (see my Syncplicity posts for example). The fact is that, for me at least, I live on three different laptops, a desktop from time-to-time and one or two mobile devices […]

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Papers

The Future of ERP – Moving at the Speed of Change

If we look back a generation, business tended to be static. While it is undeniable that innovation occurred, it tended to at a much slower pace. While Henry Ford’s manufacturing and distribution models certainly marked disruption for the horse and buggy industry, this was a change that took decades.

Channel Strategies for Success in the Cloud Age

Cloud Computing is perhaps one of the biggest shifts in the technology industry in a generation. Alongside the technology shifts involved in Cloud, there is also a significant change in the way technology will be supplied, implemented and delivered going forward. While this shift offers real benefits to consumers in terms of reduced costs and increased agility

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Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.

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