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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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