ownCloud

How many of the storage providers can long afford this race to the bottom?

Canonical announced today their plan to shut down their Ubuntu One service.

Canonical today announced that they are shutting down their Ubuntu One file storage service. The services being discontinued are file storage, music store and music sync – other services that are offered by U1 will continue to exist. The landscape ... [More] has changed a lot lately with Dropbox, Google and Copy getting really aggressive with pricing and storage space. [Less]

And the question is who pays for all those free users?

Jos Poortvliet, the most friendly face of the openSUSE community, is joining ownCloud as Community Manager. ownCloud doesn’t need any introduction; it is one of the most promising Free Software technologies which lets users benefit from ‘cloud’ ... [More] without losing the ownership of data and computing – something that happens with public cloud services offered by players like Dropbox or Google Drive. We have been covering ownCloud from its early days so I was curious about Jos joining ownCloud. [Less]

Dear ownCloud community!As you might have read on the ownCloud Inc. blog by Frank, I'll be joining ownCloud Inc. as community manager tomorrow. Like in my previous gig at SUSE, I consider the 'manager' part of the title to be about helping out the ... [More] community wherever I can. To put it less graphically than Frank did: you get another person to talk to when you think we can improve things.I'm excited to get started and find out what should be done. Of course I have thoughts and ideas on that but I am not the type to have a strong opinion before I know what is going on and have heard a bunch of opinions about it. And although I've been around ownCloud a fair bit, having written and talked about it, used it and knowing many of you, I intend to take my time to get to know you all better. Of course, marketing is my thing, so I'm sure to be around in that area, helping spread the word on what ownCloud is doing and why it matters.Opinions, ideas and introductions are very welcome! I'm around on most social media but most actively on G+ and of course you can email me, ping me IRC and so on.I really look forward to getting my head in the clouds with you all! [Less]

So join me in welcoming Jos!

Webinar teaches how to deploy a fast and easy ownCloud proof of concept Lexington, MA – March 25, 2014 – ownCloud, Inc., the company behind the only fully self-hosted enterprise-ready file sync and share software, will demonstrate how easy it is to ... [More] implement, conduct, and measure a successful ownCloud Proof of Concept (PoC) Tuesday, April 1, noon ET. The latest ownCloud Enterprise Edition includes the first and only sophisticated file access rules engine to enhance control and govern access to files, enabling IT administrators to set sophisticated rules for user and device connections to the ownCloud server, preventing access if those rules are, or are not, met. Join ownCloud to learn how to best evaluate ownCloud enterprise file sync and share. Attendees will learn how to: Install the ownCloud appliance Integrate ownCloud into existing directories and infrastructure Scale for growing demands and users All attendees will also receive the free evaluation guide following the session. ownCloud Enterprise Edition — based on ownCloud Community Edition, the world’s most popular open source file sync and share project, with more than 1.3 million users — is deployed fully on premises, enabling integration into existing user management tools, governance processes, and security, monitoring, and read more … [Less]

Stay tuned for more meetups!

Last weekend Daniel, Arthur, Morris and me were in Chemnitz where the Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2014 took place. We drove a booth during the two days, the CLT host around 60 boothes of companies and FOSS projects. I like to go to the CLT because it is ... [More] perfectly organized with great enthusiasm of everybody involved from the organisation team. Food, schedules, the venue, everything is perfect. Even on saturday morning, short after opening of the event, somebody from the orga team was showing up on the booth with chocolate for the volunteers, saying hello and asking if everything is in place for a successful weekend. A small detail, which shows how much effort is put into organization of the event. As a result, visitors come to visit the event. It’s mostly a community centric event: Exhibitors are mostly representing FOSS projects such as openstreetmap.org, distributions like Fedora or openSUSE or companies from the free software market. Morris in action on the boothThe majority of visitors are mostly interested in private use of the software. But, no rule without exception, we also had a remarkable number of people from companies, either executives or people working in the IT departments, who were interested in ownCloud. Speaking about ownCloud, I want to say that it’s amazing to represent our project. People know it, people like it, people use it. In private, but also in professional space people work with ownCloud already or are planing to start with ownCloud. ownCloud already is the accepted solution for the problems that became so practical with the NSA scandal last year. My talk with title A private Cloud with ownCloud on Saturday morning was very well received and went smooth. The room was too small, lots of people had to stand or sit on the stairs. It was a very positive atmosphere. Something that changed compared to last year and the year before: Most discussions were around how ownCloud can be installed, integrated and used and not any more about which features are still missing or maybe also bugs. So it were two very exhausting days, but big fun! Thanks to Daniel, Arthur and Morris for the work and fun we had on the booth, and thanks to the CLT team for CLT. [Less]