TERENA and ownCloud, Inc., the open source-based, on-premises file sync and share provider, have agreed on a favoured-pricing scheme for TERENA members and their constituencies. This agreement serves to facilitate the desire of various national research and education networking organisations (NRENs) to introduce services based on ownCloud technology and / or to offer the technology to their constituencies.

Under the agreement, TERENA’s national and international members and their users and members can purchase ownCloud licences for a discount, with further reductions possible in future, depending on the level of aggregated demand. TERENA non-European peers are also eligible, subject to separate bilateral agreements with TERENA.

ownCloud installs easily on a web server, enabling institutions to host their own file sync and share, giving IT complete control of their data whether using on-premises or cloud storage. It has more than a million users worldwide.

SURFnet and SWITCH are the first TERENA member organisations to incorporate ownCloud into the services offered to their members and users.

"TERENA's task force on data storage solutions (TF-Storage) looked at many alternatives of which ownCloud offered the unique combination of on-premises, integrated software (for compliance, control and privacy), open source (for openness and extensibility) and storage agnosticism (for flexibility and cost savings)," said Péter Szegedi, Project Development Officer at TERENA. "With the favoured pricing negotiated with ownCloud, TERENA's national and international members, including universities and other institutes within their constituencies, get a cost-effective, secure, compliant way to share their data world-wide and deploy private cloud infrastructure based on ownCloud technology."

"ownCloud is rapidly becoming the favoured file sync and share solution for research and education," said Steve Green, ownCloud’s Vice President of sales. "Research and educational institutions face many regulatory and legal hurdles and have incredibly sensitive data. Only by controlling how end users share that data can they leap those hurdles."

Further information

More about TF-Storage.

About ownCloud Inc.

Based on the popular ownCloud open source file sync and share community project, ownCloud Inc. was founded in 2011 to give corporate IT greater control of their data - combining greater flexibility, openness and extensibility with on-premise servers and storage. Company headquarters are in Lexington, MA, with European headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany: ownCloud.