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January 24, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Huddle Fights to Gain Viral Uptake

By Ben Kepes

  In a world where new entrants are trying to break the near-hegemony that Microsoft SharePoint has in enterprise content management, the new generation of vendors is painfully aware that they are in a death race to build momentum. Revenue comes secondary to increasing the viral spread of their products

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November 15, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Syncplicity moves to Document Lifecycle and Workflow

By Ben Kepes

I use a bunch of document and file synchronization, backup and collaboration tools. From SugarSync to Box.net, from Dropbox to Syncplicity I’ve pretty much used, and currently use, them all. One of the things that interests me from a business strategy perspective, is how companies that primarily sit in the

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October 21, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Box Raises $81M and Raises the Stakes at the Same Time

By Ben Kepes

Big news last week was the confirmation of a massive new funding round for perennial crowd favorite box.net. For those that didn’t see the news, Box snagged $81M from existing and new investors including salesforce and SAP ventures. While others carried news of the funding, I wanted to spend some

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October 5, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Huddle Riding a Wave–Collaboration to the World (of Enterprise)

By Ben Kepes

Reflecting on the recent BoxWorks conference that I was unfortunately not able to attend, Krish commented on Box’s increasing adoption by enterprise saying that; I am convinced about the traction Box is getting in this space. Starting with companies like P&G to Six Flags, the companies were completely confident about

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October 28, 2010 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Sometimes Box Size Does Matter

By Ben Kepes

(ummm – any double entendre taken from that title was unintentional, sort of!) Box.net, the cloud content management vendor, is today upping the ante in the war of storage space. They’re moving all plans to a much greater storage allocation, the free edition moves from 1GB to 5GB while the

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September 23, 2010 Posted in Business 10 Comments

On Keeping Up – Box.net and Dropbox and the New Arms Race

By Ben Kepes

Watching competing technology companies and their product developments is sometimes like watching the arms race of the later part of last century. Despite having enough fire power to split our planet in two, The US and the USSR would compete to develop ever more powerful nukes, with no real expectation

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July 19, 2010 Posted in Business 2 Comments

OxygenCloud Opens the Kimono

By Ben Kepes

I recently spent some time talking with OxygenCloud. I’ve spent a bit of time talking with these guys over the past year, first meeting them when they called themselves LeapFile. OxygenCloud sells itself as a "secure virtual file system platform, featuring native desktop collaboration and cloud storage for business users".

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June 25, 2010 Posted in altitude2010, Just for fun Leave a comment

T Shirt Friday #48 – Altitude 2010

By Ben Kepes

Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with  [...]

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June 10, 2010 Posted in enterprise, Strategy 3 Comments

Box Takes on Desktop Sync, the Space Gets Ever More Crowded

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about a number of desktop sync products I use – these products help me to keep my life organized across multiple devices (see my Syncplicity posts for example). The fact is that, for me at least, I live on three different laptops, a desktop from time-to-time and one or two mobile devices [...]

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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