ownCloud Enhances Private Cloud File Sharing for Android, iOS
June 12, 2013
Grazed from The Var Guy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.
What does it mean to have a cloud of one’s own? Most of us would probably be satisfied with just the basics: Automatic file syncing, easy sharing features and efficient, Web-based access to data. But ownCloud, the open source cloud infrastructure project with humble beginnings, now offers much more, as the slew of innovative features in the most recent release of its mobile Android and iOS apps shows.
By offering an open source platform that lets individuals and enterprises build file-syncing and sharing infrastructures on their own hardware or in a private cloud, ownCloud has always stood out in a competitive niche where most other products were proprietary or subscription-based. But in its early days—and even after the launch of a commercial entity, called ownCloud Inc., to provide services related to the open source ownCloud software—ownCloud’s feature set remained pretty basic…
Today, though, that’s all changed. The latest ownCloud product release includes an impressively comprehensive list of features—and these are only for the platform’s mobile apps, which are available for 99 cents in the Android and iOS app stores. The full feature list is available from ownCloud, but here are the highlights:…
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