TelecomX Chooses ownCloud

ownCloud Inc., in open source file sync and share software, announced that South Africa-based TelecomX Ltd will use ownCloud’s secure, private on-premises alternative for file sync and share to provide African customers with a storage as a service offering.

TelecomX provides services which they either develop in house or source from providers like ownCloud to telecommunications providers and their customers. TelecomX will offer ownCloud Enterprise Edition as a key component of their cloud-based storage offering to consumers, SMBs, and enterprise customers.

TelecomX has been using the Community Edition of ownCloud to test the application for more than a year and will now proceed to commercial launch with the ownCloud Enterprise Edition.

With more than 1.6 million users wolrdwide, ownCloud offers flexibility, sophistication, privacy and security. It installs on a web server, enabling users to host their own file sync and share, using their own storage (or the cloud storage they choose), instead of relying on third parties outside of their control.

“Mobile devices are such an important part of life for the African consumer, and only ownCloud offered us an open, secure and private way for our customers to share files and sync files across devices,” said Gordon Edwards TelecomX CEO. “ownCloud’s Community Edition gave us a great testing ground to see just how powerful ownCloud is, but with the Enterprise Edition we can offer customers the most robust and cutting edge user interface for cloud applications – especially storage.“

“TelecomX is doing great things in Africa – really working to connect the Continent,” said Holger Dyroff, co-founder and VP of strategic partners, ownCloud. “ownCloud gives TelecomX customers a safe, secure and easy way to manage their personal and business critical data.“