The company is rolling out the latest version of its software and with the release is upping the ante when it comes to document classification, file protection and federated cloud sharing. In a move that will be welcomed by larger, more conservative enterprises, this new version has an all new policy and rules engine that allows administrators to set document classification rules based on system or user-applied tags, and take actions to enforce those rules. As a result, organizations can create and execute strategies to automatically protect, retain or delete file types based on their business needs and regulatory requirements.
European-U.S. data protection agreement: Yet another attempt, yet another failure
The recent agreement between the US and the EU is the third attempt to secure the transfer of personal data from Europe to the US. Holger Dyroff, co-founder and COO of ownCloud, does not see the new regulatory attempt as a satisfactory solution.
