Monday, September 10, 2012

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the Lead: foreign media wrote that as an emerging field of science and technology industry, the cloud storage industry not only sought after by technology giants, and even spawned a large number of start-up companies. With the first-mover advantage, these start-up companies are not worried about Google and other established businesses incoming will have an impact.
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In past , every time Google launched a similar product with the start-up companies, will make these fledgling corporate-ism. Now, however, has been completely transformed. April 24, Google launched the highly anticipated Drive cloud storage service, which help users store data and synchronize between different devices. File synchronization services to the Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, Drew Houston on Twitter quipped: Manufacturers Box according to the original plan, a rooftop terrace in Manhattan on April 25 held a party. Alan Levy, CEO of the company by Aaron Levie, happily dressed in suits and sneakers, dance, Hollywood actor Elijah Wood (Elijah Wood) is responsible for playing the disc. If the CEOs fear, then had to admit that he was an excellent camouflage.
Houston and Levy indeed reason to be confident that their companies not only to attract a first-class Silicon Valley investors, also have tens of millions of users. Sequoia Capital, at Greylock Partners, and even U2 lead singer Bono (Bono) has accumulated to the Dropbox to invest $ 257 million, valued at approximately $ 4,000,000,000. Box also $ 162 million financing from Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and Anderson - Horowitz Fund (Andreessen Horowitz) company. Phone, browser and e-mail, everyone needs this technology. This product is rare.
In addition to start-up companies such as Box and Dropbox, Microsoft, Amazon (microblogging) and Apple have joined this fight, hoping to seize the high ground in advance in the future of computing. With the popularization of science and technology, people create pictures, video, Word documents and other files are also increasing year by year. Gradually, these data scattered in mobile phones, tablet PCs, PC and other devices. Thus, the new store start-up companies have come into being. Their competitors are focused on creating a central console, hoping to help users manage all the information. the CTO of 2005, the company was acquired by Microsoft. Success or failure cases

of cloud storage appears to be simple, but really want to do is not easy. FolderShare story fully reflect this. This company, founded in 2002, can help users to sync between multiple computers as much as possible of the folder, but the excessive freedom has forced some users feel unwell. Many users did not even understand the
Dropbox was established in 2007, chose an easier path. When users install the desktop or mobile applications produced by the company, this service will be created on each device to a separate file folder, which is a dropbox in the Whatever the contents stored in the folder will be synchronized to other devices. FolderShare needs the Internet can use Dropbox but both keep a copy in a computer or mobile device to create a file will be an additional copy of storage to the server rented from Amazon. This means that users can work offline, then on-line synchronization. The Dropbox to select a single folder mode is very wise. Venture company currently has more than 50 million users, but did not disclose the specific proportion of paying customers - to get more than 2GB of space, you need to pay the costs.
due to fears of a price war with Google and Microsoft Box, Levy did not focus on the consumer market, but rather focus on workplace users. His decision is very wise. Pay $ 15 per person per month, companies can use the service, the convenience of staff PowerPoint presentation is issued Burberry Bags Online, promotional photos, and legal texts stored in the cloud. Box tool can also be a designated colleagues, customers and partners access, and collaborative editing the document.

more innovation on party in Manhattan, Levy trumpeted the innovation of the Box Innovation Network. The platform can support third-party software, user-Box service store files or collaborate. For example, the iPad version Quickoffice to adjust the document is completed font, can be directly connected to Box nike shox, the modified document for distribution to colleagues or LinkedIn connections, without having to turn sent via e-mail.
Levi is very optimistic about the The 27-year-old college dropout, by virtue of the close integration of mobile and desktop devices, this more flexible product can replace Microsoft, IBM (microblogging) and Oracle (microblogging) and other classic commercial software for established businesses. There is a saying: for the corporate purchasing department employees will not be dismissed because the procurement of IBM products. But Levy was released rhetoric: The companies have refused to mergers and acquisitions offer - Citrix Systems, had bid more than 500 million U.S. dollars acquisition Box unsuccessful - and expressed hope to remain independent, and the final IPO (initial public offering). This ambition also contributed to the star of the storage industry must strive to surpass the old giant, to provide better service. Dropbox is currently only offers 2GB of free storage space, while Google and Microsoft free space of 5GB and 7GB extra space charges are slightly lower.
start-up companies want users to not only focus on storage space. For example, the Box on the provision of much enterprise-winning security features and collaboration tools. Dropbox is also concerned about the usability issues. Replace the choice of the services. (Book Yu)
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