ownCloud, Inc. today announced the formation of the ownCloud Foundation, a not-for-profit entity with the charter of stewarding the ownCloud ecosystem, and guaranteeing the viability and availability of free ownCloud now and in the future.

The ownCloud Foundation governs and drives the vision, direction and development of the ownCloud ecosystem as a fully open source, community-based project. The Foundation is intended to increase global participation in the development and adoption of ownCloud for all users – from individuals to small and medium businesses and large enterprises. It also ensures the continuity of the ownCloud project, irrespective of any commercial entities.

Learn more about how to get involved: https://foundation.owncloud.org/

@scottalanmiller Datto is trying to provide a service for small and midsized businesses that they can afford. The CEO, Austin McChord, is quoted in the Press Release saying: “Anyone who’s paying hundreds or thousands of dollars every month for FSS will immediately see Datto Drive as a welcome alternative. Priced at just $10 per terabyte per month for an unlimited number of users in an organization, Datto Drive is just one of many ways we’re empowering our partners to help small businesses run more efficiently and cost effectively. Better yet, we’re going to give away the first one million instances for Datto Drive for the first year for free.”

Today ownCloud partner, Datto, has announced the launch of Datto Drive, a FSS service that targets SMBs. Datto Drive is a cheaper FSS alternative to the likes of Dropbox, Box, and Google for smaller companies.

Datto Drive is built on ownCloud! Because Datto chose to build on ownCloud they have the benefited support from the ownCloud community. That means that based on community feedback, Datto will be able to adjust the features roapmap to make an even stronger product.

Learn more here: https://owncloud.com/blog-datto-drive-built-on-owncloud/

Today ownCloud is excited to announce the long awaited ownCloud 9 Enterprise Edition. And as promised, this release is a great step forward.

With the release of ownCloud 9, we have become the first federated universal file access solution with extensive file controls! What does this mean? This means that with new policies and rules, ownCloud gives admins the ability to set document classification rules based on system or user-applied tags and to automatically take action to enforce those rules.

Learn more about the new version of ownCloud 9 Enterprise Edition:
https://owncloud.com/blog-introducing-owncloud-9-enterprise-edition/

Interested in an ownCloud deployment, but have a few lingering questions? ownCloud has just published a list of frequently asked questions that have been answered for your benefit. Read More: https://owncloud.com/faq/

ownCloud, Inc., the company behind the world’s most popular open source enterprise file access software, today announced that is has achieved 100% year-over-year growth in 2015 and is on track to double that growth again in 2016. By moving beyond file sync and share to Universal File Access, ownCloud is rapidly becoming the vendor of choice for global enterprises, many of whom are concerned about complying with the European Union data privacy regulations and recent Safe Harbor changes.

Read More: https://owncloud.com/owncloud-achieves-more-than-100-year-over-year-growth-in-2015/

ownCloud Co-Founder, Frank Karlitschek, wrote this new blog about open innovation:

"I started ownCloud as an open source project nearly 6 years ago and in open source it is very natural that all the information is public. Otherwise, no contributors can actually understand what is going on to get involved. This is how KDE and most other open source projects I was involved with work. So when we founded ownCloud Inc. as the company that helps bigger enterprises to be successful, it was very natural for us to keep on working out in the open. Actually, we would have killed our community if we had changed that."

https://owncloud.com/blog-open-innovation-what-companies-can-learn-from-open-source-communities/

ownCloud introduced a new hybrid cloud EFSS model, the first in the industry to allow customers to choose their cloud storage service, and still deliver on-premise security and control.

https://owncloud.com/owncloud-unveils-first-and-only-hybrid-cloud-enterprise-file-sync-share-solution-with-on-premise-control-plane/

ownCloud is hosting a webinar on October 28th. "6 Reasons to Choose On-Premise File Sync & Share; Building a Business Case"

Join to hear the top six reasons why you should consider on-premise EFSS including:

• Optimize your investment in current (and future) infrastructure

• Maintain compliant and secure processes

• Let IT do its job, don’t outsource it to the cloud

• and more

ownCloud just published a new whitepaper on Cloud Security & Encryption 2.0 https://owncloud.com/lp/owncloud-security-encryption-technical-overview/