Box and IBM team up on new data capture and sharing tools

IBM StoredIQ with Box helps companies make more informed business decisions by providing them with an in-depth assessment of unstructured data across Box and on-premise environments, including where it resides.

Box demonstrated the tool in action by showing a film trailer and a music video, giving two examples of the sorts of industries that could benefit from being able to share and collaborate on video files within its environment. The Box Platform Enterprise plan is for those customers building apps that are generally available or in production.

“The last decade of IT has focused on driving innovation and productivity inside organizations, but cloud and mobile are also completely redefining how businesses can deliver new services and experiences to customers and partners”, said Box co-founder Aaron Levie [pictured].

The four new solutions that can help enable advanced collaboration, data classification, enterprise search and enhanced analytics across content and digital business processes, and are created to help address the needs of enterprises. By integrating technologies for enterprise-class data security, access control, threat detection and secure mobility, IBM and Box plan to enable secure enterprise collaboration.

New updates to Box Governance have brought support for legal holds to the service, which allows companies to extend legal and compliance proceedings to Box-based content, putting a hold on content for discovery purposes. In addition to Document Watermarking, we’ll add support for Device Trust to provide intelligent control over sensitive content without impacting the simple user experience you expect.

The company also showcased expanded cloud infrastructure offerings that provide Box customers with more choice and control for their content across platforms. It also announced Device Trust, coming later this year, for enterprises to certify a device’s security posture before it lets a user access Box content from that device.

Finally, Box is bundling all of these services in the new Box Platform, which was introduced on the BoxWorks stage by Jeetu Patel, who left EMC to join Box several months ago. The announcements make clear that Box realizes it needs to add features that will draw in more paying business users. He said the Box Platform lets a business power any application, for any user, without requiring the user to log into a Box account.

Box Capture will be available on the App Store starting today.

Legal Holds expected in 2016. The ultimate aim is to help usher enterprises into the cloud era of content management. Box is headquartered in Los Altos, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe and Asia.

Box users now have access to a new Capture app for the iPhone that lets people take photos and share them with other users of the cloud storage solution.