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Novell challenging Box, Dropbox with Filr enterprise file sharing service
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Excerpt: Now infrastructure software provider Novell is getting into the enterprise file sharing business. Meet Filr, described by company reps that it will challenge Dropbox (and by extension likely Box, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive, and more). Novell posits that its entry into this seemingly crowded market is that it is bringing its experience in managing the "pain points" of the enterprise -- specifically those around security and networking. Filr is designed to be deployed as an on-premise solution, with files stored on a company's internal network. At the same time, Novell touts global search capabilities across the enterprise -- at least based on users’ access rights defined by IT managers.... read the full post.
Tags: Box, Cloud Storage, Dropbox, Enterprise, Novell
With HIPAA Compliance, Cloud Storage Platform Box Makes A Big Push Into Healthcare; Invests In Drchrono
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Excerpt: Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was.... read the full post.
Tags: Box, Healthcare
Disrupt NY's Hackathon API Workshops To Feature AWS, Box, Evernote, Facebook, Foursquare And The NYT
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Excerpt: Hackathons are to developers what state championship games are to high school quarterbacks. The pressure is on, time is running out, and in the case of the Disrupt NY Hackathon, there’s never been a better audience of peers, judges, and media to impress. That’s why we’re incredibly lucky to have some of the best platforms in the industry coming to New York to run workshops on how you can stand on the shoulders of their giant APIs and build something truly awesome. More Hackathon spots are now available. Register here. If you participate in the Hackathon (that is – you make a hack and present it on stage), you’re granted a general admission ticket to Disrupt.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, AWS, Box, Disrupt, Event, Evernote, Facebook, Foursquare, New York Times, Techcrunch
Box Sees 70 Percent Growth in Legal Services Cloud Adoption
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Excerpt: Box today announced new integrations with IntApp and Clio to make it easier for the company's growing legal customer base to securely manage and collaborate on content in the cloud. Box's momentum in the legal industry accelerated in 2012 as law firm sales increased by 70 percent driven by the growing need to access and share information across devices. Box also unveiled its preferred Box OneCloud apps for legal customers focused on improving productivity for lawyers. "Legal IT leaders are using cloud technologies to centralize client information, making it readily available to attorneys and easily sharable with clients," said Whitney Bouck, GM of enterprise at Box.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Beat, Box, Documents, Googlereader, Ifttt, Marketwire, personal, Storage
Temboo: APIs The Easy Way
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Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Automation, Box, Document, Documents, Interoperability, Publishing, Reciprocity, Temboo
Opening Up the Box API
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Excerpt: This guest post comes from Ronnie Mitra, Principal API Architect at Layer 7 based in London and working in European and Asian markets. You can find Ronnie on Twitter or the Layer 7 blog. Humans are great at observational learning. As children we learn by observing the goals, actions and outcomes of others. Many programmers have applied this style of learning to improve their craft by studying and understanding code written by their peers. The same is true for our API design world. Reviewing and dissecting the web APIs that are available on the web can provide us with enormous insight into the design of APIs in general. In this post, we will look into the Box API and see what we can learn.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Box
Box upgrades API to make it simpler, more powerful
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Excerpt: IDG News Service - Box has given its API (application programming interface) a makeover so that developers will have an easier time building and integrating applications with its software, and have those applications do more than is currently possible. Version 2 of the API for the Box cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration and content management software is now in beta, but is expected to reach final release form soon, according to company officials. Box plans to keep the original API active at least through the end of this year, and maybe longer if it deems it necessary to avoid disrupting the third-party applications that rely on it. Eventually, existing applications will need to be migrated over to version 2 of the API.... read the full post.
Tags: APIs, Box, Cloud Storage
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