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    Box Private Vendor Watchlist Profile: Cloud-Based Content Collaboration Services Enabling Enterprises to Move Toward Next-Generation Collaboration

    Posted May 24, 2012 - 8:00 am

    This IDC Vendor Profile analyzes Box, a company playing in the public cloud advanced storage services market and the content management and collaboration market, and reviews key success factors: market potential, technology/solution, corporate strategy, force multipliers, and customers. The company, headquartered in Palo Alto, California, has over 8 million users and is growing quickly in the file synchronization and collaboration market. Leveraging IDC's expert understanding of the competitive landscape and future outlook, this document highlights company and market information tailored to the investment professional's needs.

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    Content Sharing 2.0: The Road Ahead

    Posted May 24, 2012 - 8:00 am

    A growing number of companies are taking advantage of the natural synergies that exist between cloud-based IT services and content access and sharing. Legacy content management and collaboration systems simply weren't designed to meet the evolving requirements of today's IT and business managers, as well as the needs of content users. Box provides cloud-based content storage, access and collaboration services that require virtually no user training and supports file access and delivery on almost all popular PC and mobile devices. Read how Box let companies rapidly implement a cost-effective and secure content storage and sharing system that can easily expand to accommodate any size and number of files.

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    Sharing Simplified - Consolidating File-sharing Technologies

    Posted May 24, 2012 - 8:00 am

    Employees need to share content with colleagues within their organization and outside. Yet, ECMs make it hard to share content within a business and impossible between organizations. Read how one company consolidated multiple file sharing technologies to increase productivity and reduce complexity.

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    Market Landscape Report: Online File Sharing and Collaboration in the Enterprise

    Posted May 24, 2012 - 8:00 am

    The trend toward "consumerization" marches onward in IT; more and more end-users are choosing their own hardware plaforms and software applications in lieu of the IT-sanctioned business tools provided by their companies. These end-users are looking to tackle issues like data sharing, portability, and access from multiple intelligent endpoint devices, creating a conundrum for IT as it needs to balance business enablement, ease of access, and collaborative capacity with the need to maintain control and security of information assets. This need for balance is one of the drivers of the fast growing online file sharing and collaboration segment of the SaaS market. This paper examines the market drivers, inhibitors, and top vendors in this segment, including Box, Citrix Sharefile, Dropbox, Egnyte, Nomadesk, Sugarsync, Syncplicity and YouSendIt.

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    Empowering Your Mobile Worker

    Posted May 24, 2012 - 8:00 am

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    The Cloud: Reinventing Enterprise Collaboration

    Posted May 24, 2012 - 8:00 am

    Collaboration and content sharing are not, of course, new concepts. But cloud computing has changed the nature of collaboration, content sharing, document storage and project management to enable more efficient, faster-acting and cost-effective enterprises. According to a new study by IDG Research, the vast majority of knowledge workers (86%) placed a very high level of importance on collaborating with internal coworkers and external stakeholders, and having access to the most up-to-date corporate information. Read how organizations are realizing massive productivity gains by transitioning their content management solutions to cloud-based models.

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    The Total Economic Impact of the HP 3PAR Storage

    Posted May 23, 2012 - 2:30 pm

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    Activities Streams Base An Integrated Social Layer

    Posted May 23, 2012 - 1:30 pm

    The enterprise social software market is exploding thanks to converging trends of consumerization, cloud, and mobile. In this must-read report, "The Forrester Wave: Activities Streams, Q2 2012", Forrester Research Inc. evaluated five social software vendors with core strengths in the stream based on the overall strength of vendors' current offerings, a clear product strategy, and vendor market presence. In a detailed look at the space, Forrester named Yammer as a leader.

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    Finding the right cloud solutions for your organization

    Posted May 23, 2012 - 1:30 pm

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    Converged Infrastructure for Dummies

    Posted May 23, 2012 - 1:30 pm

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    Measuring the Business Value of CI in the Data Center

    Posted May 23, 2012 - 1:30 pm

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  • White Paper

    Finding the right cloud solutions for your organization

    Posted May 21, 2012 - 5:46 pm

    Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

  • White Paper

    Converged Infrastructure for Dummies

    Posted May 21, 2012 - 5:46 pm

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    The Cost of Retaining Aging IT Infrastructure

    Posted May 21, 2012 - 3:33 pm

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  • White Paper

    Converged Infrastructure for Dummies

    Posted May 18, 2012 - 2:33 pm

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    Gartner on the Network Infrastructure Market

    Posted May 18, 2012 - 10:02 am

    The network infrastructure market has evolved rapidly, from one in which most organizations adhered to a single-vendor architecture to a more business-driven network architecture that increasingly uses a multivendor, best-of-breed approach. Gartner research found there is no operational advantage to maintaining a single-vendor approach; therefore, analyzing the functional and financial differences between vendors is key for building a network that best fits business requirements. This white paper reviews the enterprise networking market dynamics and reveals Gartner's recommendations on how to proceed.

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    Solve the 6 top problems in your data center Business White Paper

    Posted May 18, 2012 - 10:02 am

    Whether your data center is large or small, it faces a similar set of roadblocks to efficiency, uptime, and ROI. This white paper reveals the six most common and intractable problems facing the data center and explains how to rectify them while improving efficiency and uptime.

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    Centage/IOMA Budgeting Survey: Benchmarks and Issues

    Posted May 14, 2012 - 4:14 pm

    How are other financial professionals dealing with the issues you face? This report offers you an inside peak into what the minds at over 200 financial executives are thinking and doing to impact their own bottom line.

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    IDC White Paper: Delivering an Integrated Infrastructure for the Cloud

    Posted May 10, 2012 - 3:50 pm

    In an IDC White Paper sponsored by HP, IDC covers how cloud computing is one of the prevailing IT trends today and how HP is helping organizations address this trend. By providing greater levels of provisioning and automation, cloud computing can help organizations become more nimble, reduce operating costs, improve application performance, and efficiently allocate their compute resources.

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    Gartner on the Network Infrastructure Market

    Posted May 10, 2012 - 3:50 pm

    The network infrastructure market has evolved rapidly, from one in which most organizations adhered to a single-vendor architecture to a more business-driven network architecture that increasingly uses a multivendor, best-of-breed approach. Gartner research found there is no operational advantage to maintaining a single-vendor approach; therefore, analyzing the functional and financial differences between vendors is key for building a network that best fits business requirements. This white paper reviews the enterprise networking market dynamics and reveals Gartner's recommendations on how to proceed.

  • White Paper

    Solve the 6 top problems in your data center Business White Paper

    Posted May 10, 2012 - 3:50 pm

    Whether your data center is large or small, it faces a similar set of roadblocks to efficiency, uptime, and ROI. This white paper reveals the six most common and intractable problems facing the data center and explains how to rectify them while improving efficiency and uptime.

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    How Blade Centers Impact Data Center Management and Agility

    Posted May 8, 2012 - 12:50 pm

    This paper examines enterprise adoption of blade servers in the US, UK and China; the benefits of blade server use; and the connection between enterprise data center management and agility goals and blade server use. It reveals that blade servers are highly associated with core infrastructure consolidation and optimization efforts and offer high value to users as a virtualization platform and means of reducing OpEx.

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    Gartner Magic Quadrant for Blade Servers

    Posted May 8, 2012 - 12:50 pm

    The market for blade servers is becoming ever more complex and diverse due to the convergence of related modular form factors, a fast-growing interest in fabric-based infrastructure and the influence of cloud computing on buying behavior. Download the Gartner Magic Quadrant to see how the vendors in blade servers stack up.

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    Picking the Right Server solution to solve your Space, Power and Cooling problems

    Posted May 8, 2012 - 12:50 pm

    The type of server you install in a data center can have a big impact -- positive or negative -- on the space, power and cooling required. Knowing and choosing the appropriate server type can extend the effective life of your data center, saving millions of dollars, and make room to add new systems.

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    The Cost of Retaining Aging IT Infrastructure

    Posted May 8, 2012 - 11:40 am

    This paper describes HP ProLiant Gen8 servers, the technology on which they are based, and the way they address many of the causes of operational costs found at customer sites. The hardware and software capabilities of the HP servers were designed to be proactive, reducing the effort and knowledge required to run the server systems and leveraging automation to reduce maintenance costs and IT staff costs.
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White Paper

The Cloud: Reinventing Enterprise Collaboration

Collaboration and content sharing are not, of course, new concepts. But cloud computing has changed the nature of collaboration, content sharing, document storage and project management to enable more efficient, faster-acting and cost-effective enterprises. According to a new study by IDG Research, the vast majority of knowledge workers (86%) placed a very high level of importance on collaborating with internal coworkers and external stakeholders, and having access to the most up-to-date corporate information. Read how organizations are realizing massive productivity gains by transitioning their content management solutions to cloud-based models.

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Empowering Your Mobile Worker

Today's most productive employees are mobile, and your company's IT strategy must be ready to support them with 24/7 access to the business information they need across a range of mobile devices.See how corporations are meeting the many needs of their mobile workers with the help of Box.

White Paper

Market Landscape Report: Online File Sharing and Collaboration in the Enterprise

The trend toward "consumerization" marches onward in IT; more and more end-users are choosing their own hardware plaforms and software applications in lieu of the IT-sanctioned business tools provided by their companies. These end-users are looking to tackle issues like data sharing, portability, and access from multiple intelligent endpoint devices, creating a conundrum for IT as it needs to balance business enablement, ease of access, and collaborative capacity with the need to maintain control and security of information assets. This need for balance is one of the drivers of the fast growing online file sharing and collaboration segment of the SaaS market. This paper examines the market drivers, inhibitors, and top vendors in this segment, including Box, Citrix Sharefile, Dropbox, Egnyte, Nomadesk, Sugarsync, Syncplicity and YouSendIt.

White Paper

Sharing Simplified - Consolidating File-sharing Technologies

Employees need to share content with colleagues within their organization and outside. Yet, ECMs make it hard to share content within a business and impossible between organizations. Read how one company consolidated multiple file sharing technologies to increase productivity and reduce complexity.

White Paper

Content Sharing 2.0: The Road Ahead

A growing number of companies are taking advantage of the natural synergies that exist between cloud-based IT services and content access and sharing. Legacy content management and collaboration systems simply weren't designed to meet the evolving requirements of today's IT and business managers, as well as the needs of content users. Box provides cloud-based content storage, access and collaboration services that require virtually no user training and supports file access and delivery on almost all popular PC and mobile devices. Read how Box let companies rapidly implement a cost-effective and secure content storage and sharing system that can easily expand to accommodate any size and number of files.

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