85 Universities Adopt Box’s Cloud

Box, Inc. announced that more than 85 higher education institutions have adopted
Box’s cloud collaboration service to help their communities of students,
faculty, and staff access, share and manage content online and from mobile
devices.

In the past year alone, the number of Box customers in the education sector has
doubled, with some of the nation’s leading universities adopting Box. To
support its university-focused initiative, Box also partnered with Internet2,
a networking consortium, to provide top
institutions, including Cornell, Notre Dame, Stanford and University of
Michigan, with a simple way to deploy Box across their entire campuses.

"No
group of people are more savvy and comfortable with web and mobile technologies
than students," said Whitney Bouck, GM of enterprise at Box. "Universities are moving away from legacy
systems and pushing aggressively towards software that’s built for a post-PC
world and meets the expectations of their students. We’re thrilled to be
working with a growing group of higher education institutions that are making
it easy for their communities to work, learn and collaborate together in new
ways."

Box partnered with Internet2 to offer U.S.
universities a secure and simple way to deploy Box across their entire campus
communities. Since the launch of the Internet2 NET+ Box program in April 2012,
more than 1 million Box accounts have been purchased across the 32
participating universities. Early University adopters in process of rolling out
the service campus-wide include, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan, Notre Dame, Stanford and UC Berkeley.

"At
Cornell University, we are always looking for technology tools that will
enhance our community’s innovation, productivity and academic success. Box
helps us meet these goals," said Ted Dodds, CIO and VP at Cornell.
"As an early adopter of the
Internet2 NET+ Box program, we were able to bring a secure cloud storage and
collaboration service to Cornell faster than if we rolled Box out on our own.
Now, our faculty, staff and students can access and share content from any
device, whether at Cornell or traveling abroad – Box helps our community stay
connected."

"Notre
Dame faculty and students consistently were asking for more storage and the
ability to easily access and share information anytime, with anyone, from
anywhere and on any device," said Ron Kraemer, VP of IT and CIO at
Notre Dame. "Through Box, we were
able to address that request quickly and securely, and in the process, better
serve teaching, learning, research and University operations."

"We
understand the cloud’s potential to increase collaboration throughout our
community, enable faster innovation and cut down on IT costs," said
Laura McCain Patterson, CIO at University of Michigan. "In line with our long-term strategy for
improving our campus IT environment, U-M recently became the first university
to roll out Box campus-wide through our partnership with Internet2."

The Internet2 NET+ Box program enables
users to securely share, store and collaborate on content with anyone from any
device, while providing for the needs of higher education institutions. These
requirements include campus single sign-on, integration with campus account
provisioning systems, and compliance with rigorous security requirements.

"Higher
education is going through massive changes. With the shift in financial models
and globalization, past technology acquisition models no longer work. There are
too many costs, too much overhead and too much administration," said
Shelton Waggener, SVP at Internet2. "The
technology available to our community today gives us the opportunity to
customize systems to meet our needs. Cloud technologies, like Box, deliver on
the vision of seamless and lightweight applications that can be easily deployed
and quickly adopted to enable the next generation of education."

In addition to the Internet2 universities
that have purchased Box for their entire campus, others implement Box for a
diverse range of use cases in various departments, including Northwestern
University’s School of Education and Social Policy, Hunter College CUNY’s
Rehabilitation research group and Emory University’s Office of Business
Practice Improvement. For example, Emory University’s Office of Business
Practice Improvement uses Box to optimize workflow management and to access and
share critical content from mobile devices internally and externally
with partners all over the country.

"We
literally have hundreds of files per project, and with a team spread all over
the country, our biggest challenge was not only giving them access to content,
but also knowing how to keep them organized and focused," said Jamie
Smith, manager for strategic business solutions, innovations and process improvement
at Emory University. "I’m a big
believer in cloud-based solutions that you can access anywhere, anytime. With
Box, we’re able to optimize our workflow and keep everybody on track and
working from the most current documents. By leveraging the Box admin tools,
we’re also able to know who’s doing what and track user participation."