Look! Another storage vendor jumped into the fray offering free storage in an attempt to unseat DropBox from its place as king of the file sync and share universe. And hey, what could be wrong with free? Anybody can walk down to the river \u2013 or lake, or ocean \u2013 and catch himself a free fish. But what if the person giving you the fish (storage) is a person who sells fish?<\/p>\n
Make no mistake, DropBox et al aren\u2019t selling file sync and share tools \u2013 they are selling fish, um, storage. So they are giving away some storage in order to get you hooked (get it? Hooked? Fish?) so that they will eventually sell you large amounts of storage.<\/p>\n
Listen, your data is already on your servers (or even your PCs) so why do you need \u201cfree storage\u201d? Why not just use the storage you must have anyway? You already have security and other oversight in place for that storage, so why not just extend those parameters into the file sync and share arena?<\/p>\n
We believe that if you teach a man to fish, you can sell him a wicked cool fishing pole and tackle. Then he can catch all the fish, um storage, he needs.<\/p>\n
IT departments can now give users the tools they need to access, sync and share their critical business files, from the device of their choice — within the security parameters set by IT. And users can also incorporate THEIR favorite personal sync and share tool within the corporate ownCloud instance. And they can use their own storage, or, by the way, from a storage vendor of THEIR choice.<\/p>\n
You see, we\u2019re not selling storage, we\u2019re selling tools. We\u2019re not competing with the industry, we\u2019re providing the flexibility IT managers need to recapture and control company data, while giving end users the flexibility and ease of use they need to do their job from anywhere. And for those who want a local company to host the storage \u2013 we have partners all over the world to help.<\/p>\n
The difference is that our partners offer local, trusted environments. They offer a face, a voice, a throat to choke \u2013 not just a website offering free storage. And with ownCloud — with open source and open standards \u2013 you data can be moved somewhere else \u2013 somewhere YOU define, including your own server. If you trust a particular location and provider, or not.<\/p>\n
So don\u2019t get sucked in by an offering just because someone is offering you free fish. Markus about fish, storage and the flexibility to catch in Your Way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":78665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIt\u2019s YOUR data, YOUR cloud \u2013 have it YOUR way.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"