Cloud storage market calls for suppliers to break protection barriers

In the network age, many files are stored in the cloud, the enterprise wants to be able to access them on the mobile device, and through these devices to edit the file back into the cloud. Although this is not an easy thing, there is no solution. Recently, Cloud collaborator Box is exploring ways to overcome this problem.

"It is not easy to manipulate files stored in the cloud directly on a mobile device. "But we're also trying to explore it," said Chris Ye, a company that provides cloud storage and file-sharing services to the Enterprise box, Chrisyeh. "Box on the original box Web home page announced that the new four business process applications to the Boxone cloud services, including mobile users of the document editing and operation." In addition, the company allows users to have more choices in 30 other optimized applications.
　　
Box will work with four application development companies to develop new applications. As part of the Boxone cloud service, it contains applications for editable files, secure electronic signatures, digital notes, and PDF annotations. It also includes quickoffice--, a Microsoft Office (microsoftoffice) tool that runs on iOS, a tool for handling signed documents Echosignadobe, a PDF expert who allows annotations in PDFs and PaperPort bonds- -This is a note-taking application with dictation capabilities.
　　
Altimeter Silva, a mobile-communications industry analyst at the Group, said the box's move was just to attract corporate customers and could not really solve the problem. We cannot avoid the limitations of mobile devices, which are powerful in demonstrating and consuming data, but they are hard to break through in creating and editing files.
　　
Silva said that to enable these mobile devices to meet the needs of the enterprise need to expand the capabilities of these devices. In a PC environment, files can be edited, saved to the desktop, or saved to a cloud or other folder that the user wants to save. It is not easy to manipulate files stored in the cloud directly on a mobile device, but it is possible to edit the files on a personal computer to the user's will and let us see the possibility of moving this series of work to a mobile device.

Box finds that the number of customers accessing their services with mobile devices is now about 30 times times higher than in 2011, Chris Ye said, "but accessing files stored in the cloud still has its limitations." Chrisyeh First, when the box app is installed on iOS or Android OS, if the file is opened with another application, the edited results are not automatically saved back to clouds. Second, the user can make changes to the file on the cloud, but the effect of the change cannot be placed in the cloud.

To address the list of issues above, Box has released a set of applications that can be created, which makes the box cloud easier to consolidate and use on mobile devices, and to develop programming and allow changes.

as Dropbox and Sugarsynch, the box's competitor, say, implementing the streamlining of cloud storage on mobile devices requires a common effort, putting down the protection barriers of various enterprises and allowing compatibility between the various devices and operating systems to be effective.