Box buys cloud storage startup for streaming technology
June 17, 2014
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Juan Carlos Perez.
Box has acquired Streem, a cloud storage and file-sharing startup that specializes in large media files and that has developed innovative technology for streaming that type of content.
"The entire team at Streem will be joining Box to help work on the future of content management and collaboration in the enterprise," wrote Box CEO Aaron Levie in a blog post Monday…
Streem developed a file system, called StreemFS, that makes its service behave as if it were a local drive attached to users’ computers. It lets users "natively access files in the cloud right on their desktop," according to Streem’s website…
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