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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
How ownCloud Audit App ensures Data Security and Compliance
The ownCloud Audit App provides a secure data protection and compliance system by enabling enterprises to enjoy full control and access to actions performed on its platform, thereby preventing loss and abuse of sensitive data.
Kiteworks Open Source Program Office (ownCloud)
Kiteworks empowers organizations to manage risk in every send, share, receive, and save of sensitive content, protecting over 200 million end users across thosuands of global enterprises and government agencies. The Kiteworks Open Source Program Office is the steward of ownCloud, the open-source platform for sovereign secure data exchange, file synchronization, and collaboration. Built from the ground up in Go with zero database dependency, ownCloud Infinite Scale scales from a single binary to million-user deployments. Guided by a published governance charter and Apache 2.0 licensing, the OSPO ensures ownCloud remains a transparent, community-driven digital commons.
The Enterprise is cool again. Yes.
Great story this week from ReadWriteWeb’s new Editor Dan Lyons (of Fake Steve Jobs fame)
Boston Business Journal: OwnCloud announces second seed round with General Catalyst
Boston-area open-source sync and share startup ownCloud Inc. announced Monday it has closed a $2.5 million financing, its second seed round of venture capital, led by General Catalyst Partners, a Cambridge, Mass. VC firm.
Tech Crunch: On-Premise Cloud Storage/Sharing Startup, OwnCloud, Closes $2.5M Second Seed Round, Led By General Catalyst Partners
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...
Venture Beat: OwnCloud, the open-source challenger to Box, nets $2.5M
If you use popular cloud storage and sharing services like Box and Dropbox, you trust your sensitive information to third party data centers. OwnCloud, the startup that positions itself as the open-source alternative to Box, is the newest contender in the cloud...
Venture Beat: Funding Daily: Emerging from hibernation
It is Cyber Monday. In my opinion, an infinitely preferable alternative to the mayhem that occurred on Black Friday when all I want to do is hide in a cave from the rabid crowds. I prefer the things that money can’t buy, like love, happiness, and the cloud, although...
Web Host Industry Review: File Sync Software Provider ownCloud Secures $2.5M Funding Round to Grow Partner Channel
Open source file sync and share software developer ownCloud announced on Monday that it has closed a second seed round of $2.5 million, led by existing investor General Catalyst Partners.
InfoStor: ownCloud Raises $2.5M for Open Source File Syncing
Lexington, Mass.-based ownCloud announced today that it had closed on a second round of seed financing worth $2.5 million.
Boston Herald: Lexington-based ownCloud raises $2.5M
Lexington-based open source file sync and share software company ownCloud Inc. said today it has closed a second seed round of $2.5 million, led by current investor General Catalyst Partners.
Aggressively Expanding
Seed round expanded by $2.5 million – led by General Catalyst Partners once again.
Popular Open Source Sync and Share Start-up ownCloud Closes $2.5 Million Seed Round
General Catalyst Partners leads round with current and new investors Lexington, MA – November 26, 2012 – ownCloud Inc., the company behind the world's most popular open source file sync and share software, announced today the closing of a second seed round, led by...
How did you ownCloud?
As promised – here are some of the ways YOU told us you are using ownCloud
Mass High Tech: Funding pours for Boston startup ownCloud
OwnCloud Inc., a Boston-based nascent cloud storage and sharing startup with an office in Germany, has secured $2.5 million in funding, according to federal documents.
Xconomy: Boston Deals: Swoop, OwnCloud, Lookout Gaming, Streetwise Media
OwnCloud, a business data software company, has filed paperwork indicating that it’s raised about $2.5 million. OwnCloud’s Joseph Eckert says previous investor General Catalyst Partners led the round, joined by “a few new angels and a few of us old...
Integration is the sincerest form of flattery
Well, there are a whole lot of people and companies out there proving us right every day.
From Hip to Sexy – but not Crunchy
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