Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Share Without Losing Control: Collabora’s Secure View Now Available in Infinite Scale
Secure View lets you share important data with anyone via the browser, even if they’re not fully trusted. How does it work?
Kiteworks Open Source Program Office (ownCloud)
Kiteworks empowers organizations to manage risk in every send, share, receive, and save of sensitive content, protecting over 200 million end users across thosuands of global enterprises and government agencies. The Kiteworks Open Source Program Office is the steward of ownCloud, the open-source platform for sovereign secure data exchange, file synchronization, and collaboration. Built from the ground up in Go with zero database dependency, ownCloud Infinite Scale scales from a single binary to million-user deployments. Guided by a published governance charter and Apache 2.0 licensing, the OSPO ensures ownCloud remains a transparent, community-driven digital commons.
Now available: OpenID Connect for ownCloud
With integrating OpenID Connect (OIDC), ownCloud unifies a lightweight authentication with a rich ecosystem of security features.
Standing on the shoulders of giants: Vue.js, the Framework with a View.
For our upcoming new file platform ownCloud Infinite Scale, we are standing on the shoulders of giants. This is a series to introduce you to the projects and people that, through their contributions to the open-source landscape, make ownCloud Infinite Scale possible. We start with Vue.js.
Ok, Go: New language, new partners
In September, we presented cool new partnerships that will make our upcoming ownCloud Infinite Scale work nicely with key open-source productivity suites. We explained our reasoning in switching to Go and how to get started with ownCloud using a virtual machine appliance.
ownCloud and VNC announce strategic partnership
Open source software developers VNC and ownCloud have agreed to integrate their digital collaboration and communication platforms, creating a comprehensive software basis for digital sovereigny.
How to get started, Part 8: Mail links instead of attachments
This is the eighth post in a series meant to get you up to speed. You’ll learn how to send emails that contain ownCloud links instead of attachments – it is safer and supports large files.
Remote education: Choose these 3 tools for distance learning
Call it virtual classroom, remote education or distance learning – if you want to teach partly or completely remote, you’ll need the right tools. We recommend three helpful open-source platforms that can help educators avoid high costs, data privacy nightmares and vendor lock-ins.
Coming up: The new Desktop Client 2.7. Help us make it even better!
Curious to see what the upcoming ownCloud Desktop Client 2.7 has to offer? Join our beta and testing program to find out!
Crust integrates ownCloud into its open source Salesforce alternative
The ecosystem for ownCloud’s new digital collaboration platform is growing: Crust Technology is developing an integration with ownCloud Infinite Scale for its open-source CRM and low-code platform.
Privacy Shield ruled invalid: The way forward for organizations
With the legal basis for transferring personal data from the EU to the U.S. gone after the ECJ’s Privacy Shield ruling, organizations have only a few options to ensure GDPR compliance.
Enabling organizations to control the lifecycle of files
Automatically archive and then delete files that are no longer needed, ensuring data protection and compliance with regulations.
ONLYOFFICE supports ownCloud’s new digital collaboration platform
Ascensio System SIA integrates its open-source office suite ONLYOFFICE into the new digital collaboration platform ownCloud Infinite Scale.
How to get started, Part 7: Install the Appliance
This is the seventh post in a series meant to get you up to speed. You’ll learn how to get started with ownCloud as a virtual machine appliance.
Ready, steady, Go
PHP has long been the tool of choice for ownCloud. But the scripting language no longer meets ownCloud’s requirements for developing a modern content collaboration application. Time for a change and a switch to the programming language Go.
With ownCloud for iOS, 3.8 + 1.3 really is 11.4, trust us
To make iOS app version numbers unambiguous, ownCloud takes a numerical giant leap.
ownCloud for iOS 11.4 significantly upgrades your sovereign mobile workspace
At ownCloud, we strive to give you a straightforward, secure and efficient work experience. With the new version 11.4 of the ownCloud iOS app, we bring a host of improvements and new tricks for more efficiency and ease-of-use. And a long awaited upgrade for our branding customers.