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Box Updates
New Features, Interface Help Badgers Organize Content On Box
Effective Mar 17, people who use UW–Madison Box may notice a new web interface and a new organization feature called Collections.
New Box FAQ available now
In response to questions around the future of the UW-Madison Box service, we compiled an extensive UW-Madison Box: Contract & Quota FAQ.
New storage quotas for Box after unexpected contract changes
Beginning Jun 15, 2020, UW–Madison Box accounts will no longer have unlimited storage and all accounts will be subject to a storage quota.
Box Evaluation Project Findings
In late 2019, Box announced changes to their pricing model for educational institutions that eliminates unlimited file storage with Box at our current annual spend. In response to this announcement, a task force was assembled and charged with developing short-term and long-term strategies to reduce the campus storage footprint in Box and contain costs to address the contract changes that Box presented to the university.
Attend a Box cloud storage discovery session (Update: postponed)
Update: The last 2 sessions, 3/12 & 3/16, have been postponed.
Box evaluation project underway
Box notified us of a change in pricing structure that may result in a significant cost increase as of Jan 2021. We’re assembling a task force to evaluate our storage in Box and to address the licensing changes.