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 Description:Box is more than online backup--it's really a collaboration platform as well. It has more features than many standard online backup systems. For example, it integrates with Google Apps, Salesforce.com, Netsuite and Outlook. In terms of mobile compatibility, it goes beyond Apple and Android to support Blackberry, TouchPad and PlayBook. It has APIs for custom integration, and offers more file sharing and collaboration features than most. At the same time, it can’t back up servers, doesn’t support Linux, and doesn’t offer Continuous Data Protection. |
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Box.net: Best online file storage service. Ever. |
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February 28, 2012
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Submitted By: Mehta Soham Company Size: $10 Million - $50 Million in revenues |
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| Very intuitive to use. Used by individuals and corporates alike. Box.net has super fast customer service. Kickass engineers. Box.net has a sync product, Mobile apps, as well as a web interface. Doesn't get any better. | |
Box.net: Good, but could be better. |
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February 28, 2012
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Submitted By: Sohrob Tahmasebi Company Size: Over $150 Million in revenues |
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| Setting up Box.net was super easy. I needed no training whatsoever. I do think that the UI on Box.et is a little busy. It could be cleaner and more streamlined. I wish it worked more like Syncplicity though in that I don't have to move the files I designate into a special folder for them to be backed up and synched. |
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February 28, 2012
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Submitted By: Roderick Goodman Company Size: $1 Million - $5 Million in revenues |
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| Setup: Painless Customer Service/Satisfaction: Not needed Training: Not needed Customization likes: The verdict is still out Additional resources: Not needed Online storage is pretty cookie cutter. Not much needed as it typically is a glorified FTP transfer of data. Box.net is amongst many players on the net. They bring a very simplistic approach to a simplistic concept. FTP without having to use a FTP client to transfer files. Most consumers (today) have a healthy pipe coming into their homes and/or businesses, so there is very little challenge of streaming data at slow speeds. In 2000-2001, I was the CIO at XDrive technologies and that was one of our challenges. Consumers and businesses were still on dial-up and ISDN. As we positioned ourselves to solve those basic problems by developing fat and thin clients, we were still plagued with IP data being stored in "god knows where" infrastructures. Online storage is a CIOs worst nightmare. Unless Box.net has mastered bobbing and weaving around this challenge, there are still other challenges to tackle, i.e., security, privacy, compliance, and so on. |
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Box.net sync and mobile apps rock |
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February 28, 2012
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Submitted By: Daniel OLeary Company Size: $10 Million - $50 Million in revenues |
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| Before Box.net, I used a network drive for my team. Files were easily lost, deleted, and versioning was out of control. If you needed to provide access to a team member or were out of the office, you were out of luck. We also considered Dropbox and Yousendit before picking Box.net. The main reasons we selected Box.net were price, the amazing amount of personalized customer service, and the speed of deployment. We used their Box Sync tool to upload and backup all of our files to the cloud, and were live that same day. |
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