April 27th, 2013

Economies Of Scale As A Service

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Credit where it’s definitely due: this post was inspired by a Twitter conversation with Box CEO Aaron Levie.

Don’t look now, but something remarkable is happening.

Instagram had twelve employees when it was purchased for $700 million; all of its actual computing power was outsourced to Amazon Web Services. Mighty ARM has only 2300 employees, but there are more than 35 billion ARM-based chips… → Read More

October 9th, 2012

As #BoxWorks 2012 Wraps Up, Here Are 10 Words With Box CEO Aaron Levie

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Attending this year’s #BoxWorks conference has been extremely interesting for me, as I’ve gotten to talk to a group of people that I rarely interact with, enterprise folks. There’s a nice mix of developers here, too, which makes it feel much more comfortable for those of us not working for a gigantic company. Well, I suppose I work for a gigantic company, but you know what I mean. → Read More

October 9th, 2012

Aaron Levie: Box Now Has 140K Active Businesses, 14M Users, 92% Of Fortune 500

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Aaron Levie took the stage at the second annual BoxWorks developer conference in San Francisco today to talk about how Box is faring against competition from the likes of Google Drive, Microsoft Sky Drive, Dropbox and Egnyte, among others.

After arriving on stage to Gangnam Style and dropping a few gems (“last week Oracle finally noticed the cloud. Larry Ellison joined Twitter, sent 1 tweet… → Read More

January 2nd, 2011

2011: The Enterprise Resets

On a recent call, an analyst shared a story about a company whose IT infrastructure was completely wiped out in a natural disaster. Forced to start from scratch, the company reinvented the spirit and composition of its enterprise IT strategy, and the set of solutions that emerged from the rubble made their organization inherently more mobile and efficient. Which begs the question: what would… → Read More