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Nothing Stops the Box Bunny

Nothing Stops the Box Bunny

By Zoli Erdos on October 7, 2012

OK, so I ‘m abandoning my pictorial post schedule, as Box-mania just broke out, and I feel compelled to jump in.  But the skipped  NetSuite post is coming soon… I’ve been following Box longer than probably most observers and some of the old memories are worth sharing – from an admittedly subjective point of view. […]

Posted in Application Software, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged @levie, #df12, Aaron, box, box.net, boxworks, collaboration, conferences, dreamforce, File sharing, Filesharing, netsuite, salesforce.com, sharepoint, startups, techcrunch | 1 Response

A Pictorial Tale of Two Conferences (and more)

A Pictorial Tale of Two Conferences (and more)

By Zoli Erdos on October 3, 2012

Recently I’ve attended two conferences two weeks apart in San Francisco, and the difference in style is shocking.  One did not even feel like a conference, rather a Festival – Woodstock, Mardi Gras, SXSW – your pick:-)  The other a decidedly more “closed” traditional corporate conference, so much so, that fellow commentators actually compared it […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged #df12, box, box.net, boxworks, conferences, dreamforce, festival, Howard Street, Moscone, Moscone Center, netsuite, oow, oow12, opennes, Oracle, salesforce.com, San Francisco, suiteworld, workday | 4 Responses

Tucon 2012: Initial Thoughts

Tucon 2012: Initial Thoughts

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 26, 2012

I am on my way back from Tucon 2012, Tibco’s annual user conference at Las Vegas. During the event I had a chance to talk with Tibco execs, partners, customers and fellow analysts. I thought I will do a quick post talking about my initial thoughts on what I heard there. Tibco’s rise to fame […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged box, Enterprise, ESB, insights, integration, messaging, tibbr, tibco, tucon, tucon 2012 | 1 Response

Box Solves the Enterprise Adoption Roadblock

Box Solves the Enterprise Adoption Roadblock

By Ben Kepes on May 24, 2012

I’ve spent the last few years watching the meteoric rise of cloud content management vendor Box. Their approach has been to empower individual groups or business units within an organization to collaborate more effectively around their content and then to expand their presence within the organization. The “land and expand” strategy is a valid one, […]

Posted in Application Software, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged avaya, box, Lennar Corporation, MGM Resorts International, Netflix, Stanford University, Webcor Builders

From Small Box to ... Large Box

From Small Box to … Large Box

By Zoli Erdos on May 6, 2012

Warning: mindless weekend post 🙂 Boxes come in all sizes. Some small, others large, some start small but grow large.   I’ve been tracking one since they were very-very small: As they grew, the moved to bigger and bigger boxes offices, like this one, where even toilets had flat screens: And finally they are in […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Just for fun | Tagged box, box.com, box.net, startups

With Box OneCloud, Organizations Can Embrace Both BYOD And BYOA

With Box OneCloud, Organizations Can Embrace Both BYOD And BYOA

By Krishnan Subramanian on March 29, 2012

Box (previous CloudAve coverage), the enterprise software company formerly known as Box.net, yesterday announced Box OneCloud, their enterprise grade cloud platform to unify business information. With this announcement, they solved a major pain point experienced by the business users. They have also added some social features which will hep them fend off the competition from […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged box, box.net, BYOA, byod, coit, ensw, enterprise software, insights, onecloud

Google Cloud Storage–Enterprise Announcements Roll In from Panzura and Zmanda

Google Cloud Storage–Enterprise Announcements Roll In from Panzura and Zmanda

By Ben Kepes on March 6, 2012

We’ve been talking for years about Google offering a storage system to take on the likes of Box and DropBox. It’s an obvious development for the company who arguable has the best economics around data storage on earth. Last year we got an inkling of this direction with the release

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged box, cloud storage, dropbox, google, google app engine, Google Cloud Storage, panzura, Zmanda | 5 Responses

On Privacy, US Legislation and Cloud Vendors

On Privacy, US Legislation and Cloud Vendors

By Ben Kepes on March 5, 2012

While in the US a week or two ago I spent some time talking with vendors about the security of Cloud data, in particular the impact of the DCMA and Patriot Act on non US customers of vendors. As part of my research I spent some time talking with Lindsay

Posted in Security, Trends & Concepts | Tagged aaron levie, box, dmca, google, Megaupload, salesforce.com, United States, USA PATRIOT Act | 1 Response

Position Paper: Five Attributes Of Enterprise Cloud Applications

Position Paper: Five Attributes Of Enterprise Cloud Applications

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 16, 2012

Abstract: In this position paper, we define the five core attributes of a modern enterprise cloud application which includes Simplicity, Cloud Scale Architecture, Open APIs, Mobile Platform Support and Social Awareness. We expect this definition to help organizations differentiate between a true cloud application from a cloud-washed application. Such an understanding will help enterprises to […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged box, cloud applications, ensw, enterprise software, IBM, microsoft, netsuite, position paper, research, saas, salesforce, workday | 9 Responses

BoxWorks 2011: A Recap

BoxWorks 2011: A Recap

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 3, 2011

Last week Box, the enterprise software company formerly known as Box.net, held their first annual user conference by name Boxworks. With this conference, Box is signaling that they want to be part of the big enterprise software club. Since this is their first attempt, it was a one day event but they are planning a […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged box, box.net, boxworks, boxworks11, boxworks2011, Enterprise, enterprise software, insights | 2 Responses

Tablets In The Enterprise: Workday and Box Announce Tablet Apps

Tablets In The Enterprise: Workday and Box Announce Tablet Apps

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 11, 2011

From the days when we considered iPads in the enterprise as an exciting new trend, we have slowly moved into a world where tablets are a norm from boardroom to IT admins. In fact, it has become a defacto device for many of the top level executives, thereby, forcing cloud application providers to offer a […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged android, box, box.net, briefs, Enterprise, enterprisetablets, ipad, mobile, Mobile Computing, Mobile Enterprise, tablets, workday | 3 Responses

Gartner Says Worldwide SaaS Revenue To Grow 21% This Year

Gartner Says Worldwide SaaS Revenue To Grow 21% This Year

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 8, 2011

Gartner, the leading research firm, said SaaS will grow by 21% this year with CRM leading the way. Based on the trends we have been observing in the recent years, this is pretty much expected. After the initial FUD and maturation of cloud based technologies, enterprises are looking beyond the security and privacy issue to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2011, box, box.net, briefs, CRM, erp, gartner, gartner forecast, saas | 1 Response

Box Counters Office 365 With Deeper Google Integration

Box Counters Office 365 With Deeper Google Integration

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 23, 2011

Box (previous CloudAve coverage), Palo Alto based cloud content management solution provider, yesterday announced their readiness to take on Office 365 (previous CloudAve coverage), Microsoft’s comprehensive online office solution including Sharepoint, which will be generally available next week. They announced a tighter integration with Google Docs, clearly a credible option to go against Sharepoint inside […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged box, box.net, briefs, google, google apps, google docs | 1 Response

ECM Cloud Connect - Box Is Finally Getting Realistic

ECM Cloud Connect – Box Is Finally Getting Realistic

By Krishnan Subramanian on March 23, 2011

Yesterday, Box (see previous CloudAve coverage) announced that they are releasing ECM Cloud Connect, a connector for traditional enterprise content management software. This marks a subtle turn around in Box’s strategy, partly due to the recognition of their challenges and, possibly, due to the pressures that came with their recent whopping $48 Million funding round. […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged Alfresco, box, box.net, briefs, cloud content management, content management, Enterprise, Enterprise content management, sharepoint

Will Box's Enterprise Strategy Pay Dividends?

Will Box’s Enterprise Strategy Pay Dividends?

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 17, 2011

Box (see previous CloudAve coverage), formerly known as Box.Net, continues to push hard on gaining enterprise marketshare. Today they announced a newer version of iPad app that includes not only some of the recently announced #newbox features but also additional security measures aimed squarely at the enterprise customers. Box is trying to project themselves as […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged box, box.net, cloud computing, cloud storage, Enterprise, ipad, ipad apps, ipad-enterprise | 1 Response

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