Fola Yahaya
Jan 6, 2021
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Infrastructure as a ServiceWhat is Box?
The Box API gives you access to the content management features you see in our web app and lets you extend them for use in your own app. It strives to be RESTful and is organized around the main resources you’re familiar with from the Box web interface.
Box is a tool in the Infrastructure as a Service category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Enterprise-grade file sharingNative mobile appsFile sharing linksDesktop AppVersion HistoryShare foldersSecure Sockets Layer (SSL) and AES-256 bit encryptionPassword protected sharingFull-text searchSDK's for iOS, Android, Python, Ruby, Java, OS X (thrid party: C# .NET, PHP, JS, Nodejs, Perl)API/SDK's allow for: Reading and writing files, sharing, search, comments, and restoring files to past revisions
Box Pros & Cons
Pros of Box
- ✓Easy to work with
- ✓Great API
- ✓Shared file hosting
- ✓Ability to see who has downloaded the file you sent
- ✓Integration with external services
- ✓No brainer
- ✓Great web UI
- ✓Popular
- ✓Custom branding
- ✓Secure
Cons of Box
No cons listed yet.
Box Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Box?
Google Drive
Keep photos, stories, designs, drawings, recordings, videos, and more. Your first 15 GB of storage are free with a Google Account. Your files in Drive can be reached from any smartphone, tablet, or computer.
Ubuntu
Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
