United States: 2022 Saw Box Inc. Spend $15m More on Cloud & $5m Less on Data Centers

Box's financial report for 2022, which details the company's plans to transfer operations to public cloud infrastructure, was just published. The report indicates that in 2022, the corporation increased its spending on public cloud infrastructure by $15.2 million while decreasing its expenditures on data centers by $4.9 million. According to the company's report, this constituted an overall rise in the cost of revenue from $249.5 million to $252.5 million; however, it was required for their cloud shift. The company mentioned receiving leases [including offices] for $228 million and data center equipment valued at $353.5 million. 

Box is a well-known user of Google Cloud; in 2020, the two firms announced that Google Cloud would serve as Box's primary worldwide infrastructure and storage provider. It is unknown whether Box utilizes Azure, AWS, or other cloud services. The company acknowledged that this would raise the risk of operational and technical setbacks. Box hosts numerous ‘Box Zones’ in colocation centers situated in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia; Montreal and Toronto, Canada; Tokyo and Osaka, Japan; Paris and Marseilles, France; Frankfurt, Germany; London and Cardiff, UK; Singapore; Dublin, Ireland; and across the US. The corporation will probably leave these data centers once it transitions to the public cloud. 

Compared to the January 2022 report of $874.3 million, the company's entire sales increased by 13% to $990 million. The company highlighted the possible negative impact on sales in the upcoming year of the rising economic uncertainties brought on by inflation, higher interest rates, slower growth, and currency rates. Box Inc. was established in 2005 and offers enterprises a cloud-based document management solution. Dropbox, a rival, declared in 2016 that it was abandoning its shift to a hybrid cloud model and choosing to stay on-premises fully.