Box, Inc. announced the launch of a new UK in-country zone which will enable organizations to keep their content completely and securely in the United Kingdom. This new Box Zone has a primary datacentre in London and secondary in Cardiff, expanding the global network of Box's Box Zones offering to eight zones spread across the world. Now British companies and multinational organizations operating in the UK will be able to have more control over their data residency needs while ensuring a seamless collaboration experience for their users. Box Zones, introduced in 2016, gives enterprises the power to manage and store data in the region of their choice without sacrificing productivity. This announcement provides Box customers with advanced enterprise capabilities to flexibly address changing data protection regulations. The UK Zone allows customers to keep encrypted, at-rest-content in the UK, with in-country upload and download processing delivering a superior end-user experience. Pricing and availability: The UK Zone is part of the Box Zones offering and is available as a standalone, single zone or as part of a multizone configuration where customers are able to select between one to eight zones.
Box, Inc. provides a cloud content management platform that enables organizations of all sizes to securely manage cloud content while allowing easy, secure access and sharing of this content from anywhere, on any device. The Companyâs Software-as-a-Service platform, users can work with their content as they need from secure external collaboration and sharing, to workspaces and portals, to e-signature processes and content workflows improving employee productivity and accelerating business processes. It offers Web, mobile and desktop applications for the Content Cloud on a single platform, as well as the ability to develop custom applications. Its offerings include Box Sign, Box Shield, Box Relay, Box Zones, Box KeySafe, Box Governance, Box Notes, and Box Shuttle. Box Shield is an advanced security offering that helps customers reduce the risk of accidental content leakage and protect their business from insider threats and account compromise, as well as threat detection.