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Did Box Just Cancel Its IPO? Or Did We Just See How Bad Anonymity Can Be?

March 4, 2014

Business

box, dropbox, Facebook, Initial public offering, ipo, Silicon Valley, twitter, US Securities and Exchange Commission

Anonymous application Secret is an awesome tool. It allows people who would never be able to put their name to a statement to tell others something they know. It enables whistle blowers to tell the world of injustices that…

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Box Answers IT Concerns – Deeper Security Options Roll Out

February 25, 2013

Business

Android, box, box.com, dropbox, GoodData, Knox, Mobile World Congress, Samsung KNOX, Star Trek: Enterprise, VMware

Just a couple of weeks ago I wrote about Dropbox releasing an entire swathe of new security functionality that sees it firmly mark itself as entering the corporate market and responding to the needs of IT. As I said…

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Box Solves the Enterprise Adoption Roadblock

May 24, 2012

Business

Avaya, box, Business, Lennar Corporation, MGM Resorts International, Netflix, Stanford University, Webcor Builders

I’ve spent the last few years watching the meteoric rise of cloud content management vendor Box. Their approach has been to empower individual groups or business units within an organization to collaborate more effectively around their content and then…

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Google Cloud Storage–Enterprise Announcements Roll In from Panzura and Zmanda

March 6, 2012

Business

box, Cloud storage, dropbox, google, google app engine, Google Cloud Storage, panzura, Zmanda

We’ve been talking for years about Google offering a storage system to take on the likes of Box and DropBox. It’s an obvious development for the company who arguable has the best economics around data storage on earth. Last…

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On Privacy, US Legislation and Cloud Vendors

March 5, 2012

Business

Aaron Levie, box, dmca, google, MegaUpload, Salesforce.com, United States, USA PATRIOT Act

While in the US a week or two ago I spent some time talking with vendors about the security of Cloud data, in particular the impact of the DCMA and Patriot Act on non US customers of vendors. As…

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Did Box Just Cancel Its IPO? Or Did We Just See How Bad Anonymity Can Be?

Box Answers IT Concerns – Deeper Security Options Roll Out

Box Solves the Enterprise Adoption Roadblock

Google Cloud Storage–Enterprise Announcements Roll In from Panzura and Zmanda

On Privacy, US Legislation and Cloud Vendors