drag2share: Amazon Just Launched A Box And Dropbox Killer â And It Really Needs One
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Amazon launched on Wednesday a challenger to Box and Dropbox: an enterprise cloud file storage service called Zocalo.
Zocalo allows you to access and share files on any type of device, Amazon says.
The service costs just $5 per user per month and comes with 200GB of storage and no other software requirements.
Companies that use Amazon WorkSpaces get free storage up to 50GB, or can elect to pay $2 a month per user for the entire 200GB. Amazon WorkSpaces gives employees access to Windows 7 in the cloud, which can be accessed on any device.
While Amazon is already popular with enterprises for its cloud-computing storage offerings, those are used mostly by IT professionals. Amazon hasn't exactly been a major player when it comes to enterprise apps used by ordinary workers. But Zocalo is a move in that direction.
As Janakiram MSV, principal analyst at Janakiram & Associates, says, "Zocalo is an indication of Amazon's ambitious plan to become the one-stop shop for enterprise IT."
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