Box uncaps cloud storage limits for business users
July 15, 2014
Grazed from CNet. Author: Charles Cooper.
Box on Tuesday became the latest company to remove limitations on the amount of cloud storage it offers business customers. The change affects users who previously paid $15 a month for 1 terabyte of storage. Box already offered unlimited storage to customers choosing a different plan that cost $35 a month.
At the same time, the company announced that it would more closely integrate its products to work with Microsoft’s Office 365 and Outlook starting this fall. The announcement further underscores an industry in transition. With cloud storage costs plummeting, Box and other providers can’t afford to get caught in a breakneck race to the bottom and are keen to play up the ancillary products they offer beyond simply housing files on servers…
"Storage is at the core of what we do, but our real value is all of the collaboration features and security and administrative control and compliance and fine-grained permissions and things like that," said Heidi Williams, Box’s senior director of platform engineering. "That’s really the value Box has, above and beyond storage."…
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