According to Forrester Research File Sync and Share Platforms[1] of July, 2013, services of storage and file sharing like Dropbox purchase the increasing value in corporate environment. Most services of cloud storage are so simple that users with ease treat them that creates for IT services of complexity regarding control of use of similar services.
Forrester Research, 2013
It agrees to the research conducted by Forrester, in the market of similar services as of the middle of 2013 Box.net, IBM Connections and EMC Syncplicity were in the lead. The Segment of the players with rather strong positions but who are falling short of leaders is provided by rather large number of the companies: here both Citrix, and Dropbox Cloud service of file sharing, and Salesforce.com, and Microsoft, and Google and also WatchDox, Accellion, AirWatch, Acronis, Alfresco, Hightail. Only one company – Novell got to a segment of applicants.
The market leader, Box service, received from investors more than $300 million investments, including Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Andreessen Horowitz. Service has more than 150 thousand clients and 15 million end users, and its users is among 90% of the companies of the list of Fortune 500.
Analysts of Forrester estimate the market of services of storage and file sharing as very active so most vendors act on it quite aggressively. And products differ so the service, proceeding from a set of initial requirements and premises separately will be suitable for each specific company.