ownCloud is a software suite that provides a location-independent storage area for data (cloud storage). The project was launched in January 2010 by KDE developer Frank Karlitschek to create a Free software alternative to commercial cloud providers. In contrast to commercial storage services, ownCloud can be installed on a private server at no additional cost.
The project is based on PHP and a SQLite, MySQL, Oracle or PostgreSQL database, so ownCloud can run on all platforms that meet these requirements. ownCloud can be operated via a web interface and is thus not tied to a particular operating system. However, native applications, such as File Manager or Group Wares can interact with ownCloud via an interface and provide data and files locally.
Features
- File storage in conventional directory structures (also via WebDAV)
- Cryptography
- Synchronization of personal computers
- Calendar (also as CalDAV)
- Task scheduler
- Address book (also as CardDAV)
- Music streaming (through Ampache)
- User and group administration (via OpenID or LDAP)
- Sharing of content across groups or public URLs
- Online text editor with syntax highlighting and code folding
- Bookmarking
- URL shortening Suite
- Photo gallery
- PDF viewer (using pdf.js)
- Viewer for ODF Files (.odt, .odp, .ods)
Planned services
So that ownCloud justifies the term cloud, synchronization between different ownCloud servers is being worked on.[citation needed] In addition, the platform will be expanded to include the following services:
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- App Engine
- GreenQloud
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- Windows Azure
- Engine Yard
- Force.com
- Heroku
- OrangeScape
- RightScale
- Cloud Foundry
- Mendix
- OpenShift
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- Abiquo Enterprise Edition
- CloudStack
- Eucalyptus
- GoGrid
- Lunacloud
- Google Storage
- GreenButton
- GreenQloud
- IBM SmartCloud
- iland
- Joyent
- Nimbula
- Nimbus
- OpenNebula
- OpenStack
- Rackspace Cloud
- Zadara Storage
- OVirt
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