Cloud storage wars rage on with OwnCloud’s new release
October 11, 2012
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
OwnCloud released its community edition and updated the business version of its service which lets IT store employee files in its cloud of choice. Cloud storage for business is a white hot market at least in terms of vendor activity.
The battle for corporate cloud storage continues. OwnCloud, which positions itself as a business-focused, open-source alternative to Box and other file-sync-store-and-share services, released its community edition Thursday and updated its commercial version with faster sync speeds and more finely tuned file access controls…
The news comes just days after Box, which claims 14 million users of its corporate file share and sync service, announced Box Embed, a new tool to enable third-party SaaS providers to integrate Box with their own applications. These companies and others are all vying to combine secure storage to suit IT needs for compliance and safety with a drop-dead easy way for users to store, share and access files. After all, if it’s not easy, they won’t use it and all the security in the world won’t help…
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