Cloud collaboration company ownCloud has announced that it will make version 5 of its open source ownCloud Enterprise product available at the beginning of July. A release candidate for the software is now available for customers wanting to try out the new features. Building on ownCloud Community Edition 5, which appeared in March, the Enterprise Edition adds Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server backends, a provisioning API, mobile applications, anonymous uploads without an ownCloud account, and home directory mounting. Enterprise Edition customers will benefit from support for the platform, which has been tested explicitly for production use in enterprise deployments, and also from access to the ownCloud developers.

Europäisch-amerikanisches Datenschutzabkommen – Wieder versucht, wieder gescheitert
Das jüngst beschlossene Abkommen zwischen den USA und der EU ist bereits der dritte Versuch, einen sicheren Transfer personenbezogener Daten von Europa nach Amerika sicherzustellen. Holger Dyroff, Co-Founder und COO von ownCloud, sieht auch in dem neuen Regulierungsversuch keine zufriedenstellende Lösung.