ownCloud was launched at Camp KDE in January 2010 by its founder, Frank Karlitschek. (Mr. Karlitschek is now the CTO of ownCloud, Inc.) The goals of ownCloud, as laid out at the KDE conference, are ambitious: easy cloud setup and management, and ubiquitous access to your data from multiple devices wherever that data may be — on local storage, hosted storage, or even on social networks. ownCloud also wants to give us the ability to mash up and connect data from different providers, while maintaining privacy and security. While they’re at it, I’d like them to provide pink unicorns and rainbows too, which seem about as probable as everything else ownCloud is promising.
2023: The year of digitally sovereign clouds
This year, companies are sure to rethink their cloud strategies and increasingly rely on European clouds. In doing so, they will reclaim their digital sovereignty, implement sustainable data strategies and take the issue of green IT into their own hands.
By Holger Dyroff, Co-Founder and COO, ownCloud
