Taking a Second Look at Box
Written by Alan Saturday, 21 January 2012 06:00
We used to refer to them as Box.net, but now that they also own box.com they prefer to just be known as Box – they even redirect the box.net address to box.com. I looked at Box a long time ago, but I have ended up using both SkyDrive and Dropbox for my cloud needs. However Box restructured themselves and added a lot of new functionality to become one of the fastest growing cloud apps on the internet in the past year.
Box has become a viable Storage service for both home and business users. Their user count at the end of 2011 was up to 1.9 million, which was nine times higher than 2010. One of the biggest driving forces behind the success of Box is their mobile push, which has added many of their new users because of the great cloud deals they are offering to those users. The new mobile push resulted in 1.2 million downloads from iOS users and more than 460,00 Android users. Clearly the cloud is becoming very important to mobile users. According to TechCrunch:
“But when Box tracks its enterprise sales, it tracks the reason for buying, and this past year, the company found there was a 30x increase in the number of enterprise deployments that were mobile-driven.”
That’s due to the number of users who need the ability to have their files synced to the cloud constantly so they can have access to the latest version when they are offline. With all of this new functionality I plan to take another look at Box on both our home computers and mobile devices, so expect some more in-depth looks at Box to be coming soon.
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