Boxing clever: The technology strategy behind Box's growth

Stuart Sumner
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Sam Schillace, SVP engineering at Box, explains the firm's approach to the CAP theorem, and reveals that it is considering opening its first European data centre

Every firm that needs to store data, which in essence means just about every company on the planet, has the same problem. That problem is defined by the CAP theorem. CAP theorem states that it's...

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