February 24th, 2013

Meet ownCloud 5, The Open Source Dropbox

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ownCloud is a free software suite, written in PHP, that provides file storage, synchronization, and sharing. It provides the same basic features of Dropbox or Box.net. It also provides a whole lot more. → Read More

November 26th, 2012

On-Premise Cloud Storage/Sharing Startup, OwnCloud, Closes $2.5M Second Seed Round, Led By General Catalyst Partners

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OwnCloud Inc — the business built on the back of widely used (650,000+ users worldwide) open source file sync and share software ownCloud — has closed $2.5 million in second seed round funding. The round was led by current investor General Catalyst Partners, a growth equity and VC firm, with new investors also signing up. General Catalyst MD, Larry Bohn, will now join ownCloud’s board. → Read More

April 3rd, 2012

Self-Hosted File Sync Solution ownCloud Goes Commercial

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People love Dropbox and similar services, but companies — especially large enterprises in regulated industries — have an understandable aversion to file sync services: they allow company data on servers “out there” in the cloud, no longer under company control. ownCloud, essentially an open source, self-hosted Dropbox, has a unique advantage here as it’s strictly a software solution, not a… → Read More