Teambox On-Premise Delivers “Behind-Your-Firewall” Cloud Collaboration

Grazed from TheVarGuy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.

In theory, the cloud makes communication easier than ever by allowing users to connect with one another from anywhere. In practice, the picture can be more complicated, especially in situations where security or regulator concerns constrain the ability to work in the cloud. But the channel is responding with solutions for leveraging the cloud without violating data policies, as a new collaboration platform from Teambox shows.

The software, called Teambox On-Premise, is designed to reconcile data privacy and security concerns with demand for cloud-based collaboration by allowing organizations to run collaboration software on their own hardware and behind their own firewalls. It’s the latest addition to Teambox’s line of collaboration, workflow management and file sharing applications, and the company bills it as the channel’s "only behind­-your-­firewall collaboration solution."…

The company is pitching the software as a particularly valuable solution for industries like healthcare and finance, where strict regulatory policies define what data they can and can’t place on cloud servers controlled by a third party. It will also likely appeal to organizations that simply have tight security policies or want to minimize their risk of becoming the next headline about a major leak of personal consumer data…

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