Cloud Computing: Box swivels to small businesses with new subscription plan
August 21, 2013
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Juan Carlos Perez.
After spending the past two years beefing up its cloud storage and file sharing app for use in large enterprises, Box has turned its attention back to small and medium businesses with a new subscription plan. The company today introduced its Starter tier, priced at $5 per user per month for teams of as many as 10 people. It includes pooled storage of 100GB and an individual file size limit of 2GB.
The new Starter tier is sandwiched between the existing Personal plan, which is free for individual users, and the Business plan, which costs $15 per user per month and includes basic IT administration and security features…
The Starter plan is intended to plug a gap in the product line and attract customers that need more than free, individual accounts for their employees, but can’t afford the Business plan, and thus look at rival options like Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft SkyDrive. Those could be small companies or small teams within medium or large companies…
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