Box, Microsoft to sell file sharing service on Microsoft Azure | Latest News

Box Inc. And Microsoft Corp. Will sell a version of Boxing services for file sharing and storage using the Azure cloud platform of Microsoft to extend their partnership in an attempt to reach large corporate customers.

Box will be thinking about using some of Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence based on the task cloud, such as video indexing and text translation into files.

Microsoft based in Seattle is trying to reduce the considerable advantage of Amazon Web services on Azure Box and wants to expand its sales after reaching a significant milestone in the cash flow profitability early this year. Both companies have many customers in common, but at the same time the product is competing with Microsoft one drive and Box also uses AWS Amazon.com Inc. to make a backup of the stored data.

"While we overlay and compete in some areas, we are completing 10 times more," said co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie, noting that most of the big boxwood guests, the city of Redwood City, also use the cloud Microsoft Office products.

For its main product, Box currently uses a combination of their own data centers and Amazon to store data. Box also offers a service called zones, which allows customers to choose where to store your data from eight local areas. This service is based on Amazon and International Business Machines Corp. Box as it operates international data centers. Eventually, Box wants to expand the service areas to provide all 40 different azure regions, Levie said.

Companies have refused to call potential customers for the new service, but Levie said the box has spent the last few quarters mentioning the idea of ​​customers and evaluate the interest it says is important.

For Microsoft, Box is the latest advertising software provider on Azure, a list that also includes Adobe Systems Inc. and DocuSign Inc., as it tries to add partners and products to match the long list of Amazon And meet customer demand for a variety of cloud offers.

"While companies are looking to make the journey to the cloud really look for solutions that work from start to finish," said Microsoft cloud leader Scott Guthrie. "Companies want to integrate everything. "