Box has been thinking outside of the cloud
December 16, 2013
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.
Many people think of Box as a cloud company. But really, it’s a collaboration company, says Vikrant Karnik, senior vice president of enterprise cloud consulting services for systems integrator Capgemini, a newly minted Box partner. Box has been a poster child for the cloud computing movement, along with companies such as DropBox, SalesForce.com and Amazon Web Services. And it’s been on a roll recently: This winter it secured a $100 million funding round to bring its total fundraising to more than $400 million. It’s expanding globally and rumored to be looking toward an IPO.
The company boasts that 200,000 businesses use Box, including newly announced customers Chevron, Toyota Motor Sales USA, Rosetta Stone and eBay. Last week it made further inroads into the enterprise by announcing a partnership with Capgemini, a company that works regularly with some of the biggest businesses in the country…
“2013 has been a milestone year for Box,” says Alan Lepofsky, analyst at Constellation Research. “They have moved from a ‘cloud based file-sharing service’ to ‘a cloud platform for content centric applications,’ as evident by their new API, policy and automation engine, the upcoming metadata layer, and new security and administration features.”…
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