Data sovereignty has become a hot-button issue ever since the EU’s top court struck down the Safe Harbor agreement in October, and for many users of file-synchronization and sharing services, it poses a considerable problem. OwnCloud CEO Markus Rex sees it as more of an opportunity.
That’s because OwnCloud — which in many ways competes with the likes of Dropbox and Google Drive — does file sync and share a bit differently from many of the better-known contenders. Most notably, it doesn’t provide the storage: Customers can use whatever they want for that part of the equation.
