Amazon has unveiled an enterprise storage and collaboration service designed to compete with Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. The service, Amazon Zocalo, allows users to save, send, and collaborate on documents stored in the cloud.
Zocalo users will be able to access the platform via PCs, Macs and most tablet devices, including iPad, Kindle Fire, and Android tablets.
Competition
Amazon's main competition in the field is Dropbox, which has been a step ahead of everyone in the enterprise cloud storage space.
In April, Dropbox made its storage offering more attractive by providing users with a means of working together on Office documents including Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
Earlier in the month, Dropbox made Dropbox for Business available to all users, and it also enabled users to access two different online storage compartments: one for personal use, and one for professional.
Box
Box is on the verge of an initial public offering. The company just announced an additional $150 million (around £87.6 million, AU$160 million) in funding, a revenue increase of 94% in the first quarter for 2014 from the same period in 2013.
However, it also reported having lost $38 million (around £22.2 million, AU$40.5 million) for the quarter an increase of $4 million (around £2.3 million, AU$4.26 million) compared with the same quarter the year before.
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