Box turns to Platform Equinix as the foundational component for Box Accelerator, its global data transfer network
Box turns to Platform Equinix as the foundational component for Box Accelerator, its global data transfer network
2 Pageswww.equinix.com The Current Environment Headquartered in Los Altos, Calif., privately held Box provides a secure content-sharing platform. Content on Box can be shared internally and externally; accessed through iPad, iPhone, Android, TouchPad and PlayBook applications; and extended to partner applications such as Google Apps, NetSuite and Salesforce. In its earliest days as a small start-up, Box’s infrastructure was hosted in a data center in Emeryville, Calif., and had limited scalability and redundancy. With its application maturing and its customer base expanding globally, Box sought a top-tier, global data center provider with the network density that could enable lower latency and higher throughput for its cloud services. The Solution Equinix worked closely with Box to develop
