Federated Cloud Sharing in ownCloud 8.1 (ownCloud blog)

The ownCloud blog has a post about federated file sharing between ownCloud instances in ownCloud 8.1, but it also looks at the wider view of federation between various kinds of cloud servers. ownCloud founder Frank Karlitschek has a series of posts (It is Time to Federate Our Clouds, The Next Generation File Sync and Share Technology, and The Federated Architecture of Next Generation File Sync and Share) on federation technology and has also proposed a cross-cloud-platform federation API:"In addition, today Frank proposed a draft of a Federated Cloud Sharing API to the Open Cloud Mesh working group with the goal of jump-starting a discussion about what is needed to enable federation between different file sharing implementations. Sharing among ownClouds is great, but the true power of a federated file cloud is available when you can share among different implementations seamlessly, because you all speak the same common language. This is the goal of the Open Cloud Mesh working group (of which ownCloud is a member as well), and outside of that, drafts have been shared with a number of well known standards organizations around web technologies and fellow open source file share and sync projects to get the work started."