OwnCloud foreclosure 5.0 version of the open source cloud storage service

Frank Karlitschek launched the development of the open source version of its file storage, synchronization and shareCloud ownCloud in order to provide a free alternative to users. Until now, the package has been officially released in four versions, supporting a total of 42 languages. And with Dropbox or Box.net have the basic functions, ownCloud also supports contacts, calendars and other functions. Recently, ownCloud has released a beta version of 5.0, is expected to be officially launched in a few weeks.

Users can use ownCloud to build a cloud server that can be completely controlled by themselves. Packages can be installed anywhere user-specified, and their access control policies are completely user-defined. After installing the client of ownCloud, the content of documents, photos, etc. of users in the mobile, desktop and other clients can be automatically synchronized to the private cloud built by users, which is safe and convenient.

In addition, ownCloud can also be connected with third-party storage services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, etc., to establish a read-write connection to help users back up their data in the public cloud, or ownCloud for all their storage services SSO (Single sign-on) site.

The new version of ownCloud 5.0 offers several enhancements to its features and interface, further improving integration, performance and availability.

Interface, the new ownCloud compressed control area, leaving more space for the user's data display. In addition, the new ownCloud also offers a library feature that rivals rival offerings for more sharing options. Contacts and calendar apps are also updated during this upgrade. ownCloud will also provide rich browsing capabilities for stored documents, including video playback applications, PDF browsers and more.

ownCloud administrator can connect to the installation instance and multiple sets of background account database. Including UNIX user accounts, LDAP, and built-in ownCloud account system. The upcoming version 5.0 also supports multiple back-office systems, allowing users to work with both UNIX, LDAP and ownCloud at the same time, enabling ownCloud to easily integrate into existing infrastructure.

In addition, the user can choose to replace the account name with the display name. For example, LDAP users with account number "cn = scott, ou = people, dc = abc, dc = com" can use "Zhangsan" as the display name, which improves the usability.

OwnCloud also modified the file cache mechanism, improved to reduce the number of client trips to and from the server, in some cases the cache speed can be increased to 5 times the original.

The 5.0 version of ownCloud also built Lucene full-text search function, this feature does not even have some patent software. Full-text search allows users to find files based on content rather than just filenames, which is very useful.

ownCloud now has version control that lets users keep track of file changes. The new version of ownCloud 5 will be introduced "trash" to provide file deletion recovery mechanism.

OwnCloud's goal is to support all major platforms, for the previously discovered Windows platform "UTF8" file name caused the problem, ownCloud 5.0 for Windows developed a file system abstraction layer, completely solve this problem.

In addition to the free open-source version, ownCloud also used for business users to provide commercial, commercial version of ownCloud

Also supports MS SQL, Oracle and other databases, accessible groupware, directory service applications. According to its founder, Karlitschek, there are currently about 800,000 active users of ownCloud, which does not include the purchase of a commercial version of its corporate customers from ownCloud.com.

ownCloud supports HTML5 applications, so its scalability is very strong. There are already dozens of applications on the ownCloud app directory, which is the most versatile in such open source solutions.

Karlitschek's future plans to integrate more products, including SharePoint and Atlassian. Apple and Android users currently use iCloud and Google Drive, from the user point of view is only a relatively open cloud, Karlitschek insisted that ownCloud need to integrate all the cloud services come in, far more than Dropbox, Box.net, etc. , Allowing users to truly get rid of the limitations of a variety of cloud solutions.