Everyone.net (News - Alert), which provides secure hosted messaging and collaboration solutions, has signed a partnership with Box.net to provide integrated online storage service to all of its web mail customers. Box.net, a leading provider of tools for managing and sharing data online, allows users to share, access, upload, edit and email files (documents, photos and videos) from any location with the help of a web browser.

 

The OpenBox platform, also on offer from Box.net, enables users to connect data to other web-based applications and services directly from their file, thus providing more flexibility to their data. The web mail feature has been added to the OpenBox platform by Everyone.net in order to allow customers to send their files from any folder via Everyone.net.

 

The Web mail users of Everyone.net will be able to access the features of Box.net via the email interface provided. Users will also be able to share large files by creating a direct URL to access documents. The service also includes collaboration tools to share folders, edit documents etc. online.

 

Karen Appleton, VP for Business Development at Box.net, said, “We are in the midst of a paradigm shift. Traditional computing is moving from the desktop to the web – and online storage and collaboration tools are at the heart of this trend. The addition of Box.net’s service to Everyone.net’s platform gives users the ability to permanently store and access their data in a safe and secure environment.” Mobile email, calendaring, shared address books, registered mail are offered to the users of Everyone.net on their Web Mail 2.0 platform by using Box.net’s services.

 

Everyone.net, a leading provider of Software as a Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) email and messaging, provides advanced services such as IMAP, comprehensive anti-spam and virus protection. According to Michel Rose, president and CEO of Everyone.net, “Enhancing our Web Mail 2.0 environment with integrated file storage continues our creation of an online experience that surpasses client-based email. Our partnership with box.net unchains the user from their desktop and allows them to store and share email attachments such as photos, videos and other large document types online, anywhere and anytime.”