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Google Teams Up With Cloud Company Box To Sell More Google Apps For Work (recode.net)

Posted by msmash on from the big-shark,-small-shark dept.

Two big giants in the cloud storage race are joining hands. Box, which leads enterprise content platform, on Wednesday announced a partnership with Google. The companies say they will collaborate on several initiatives to transform work in the cloud, including integrations between Box, Google Docs and Google Springboard, to deliver a seamless experience for working and collaborating on content in the cloud. Recode reports: Google and Box will also, per a press release, "work together to develop and deliver next-generation intelligence to Box users searching for content on Google Springboard" -- Google's new search-like function for all its enterprise apps. Is this a precursor to a Google acquisition of Box? Maybe. Box has a market cap of around $1.8 billion and Google has some $73 billion laying around.

9 comments

  1. cloud company box by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Cloud companies come in boxes?

  2. I can't wait by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    to tell all my Google Wave peeps about this, I'll write it down in Google Notebook

    What will Google Labs think of next. Maybe it's on Google Answers already

  3. info by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    just hope that this does not mean google can now sift through your enterprise Box account for generating ads. considering after all the BS, google is an advertising-company nothing more or less. they do other things but the reason they have XX billions is because of advertising and advertising alone.

  4. No Google takeoever by jmkaza · · Score: 1

    Box just announced a new partnership with IBM to use their workflow engine. I think Box is just trying to build as many partnerships as they can to build relevance. They don't really have anything the Google could stand up on their own.

  5. and Google is missing the point by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ad revenue down through apps and closed networks like fb

    Unable to sell SaaS because they don't have a business mind (long term product stability and full lifecycle - such as inactive users for $1 pm anyone? chromebooks with an EOL more than a few years? android, abandoned projects etc etc etc)

    Google is ageing fast now

  6. Except... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No one want's shitty half baked Google products in an area where productivity and reliability actually matter.

  7. Tried using Box at work, got mixed results by davide+marney · · Score: 1

    It might just the way we're set up at work, but getting Box to sync on a Mac has always been problematic. I almost always wind up going to the web site and manually downloading and uploading the files I want to work on.

    By contrast, Dropbox sync has always worked very well for me. I've used the Dropbox software on an amazing variety of devices, and it works perfectly every time.

    --
    "We receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us" - Faraday
    1. Re:Tried using Box at work, got mixed results by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I've used Dropbox (4 yrs), Box (2 yrs) and now Google Drive/Apps (1yr) at work. Dropbox is effortless and a pleasure to use. Google Drive and Apps are pretty decent. I have been incredibly frustrated by Box's UX. We had a training by the Box team several years ago. At the time, although they offered sync, they preferred that we work through the browser since there are many features via Box apps/plug-ins that aren't available if you just work through your computer's file system. However, just going through their web interface felt like death by 10,000 cuts. Sync was hit or miss on the Mac at the time depending on which version of OS X each user had running.

  8. Google your box? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ladies, I'd be worried.