Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
A (re-)introduction to the ownCloud Community
An update from the community team to the users, contributors, tinkerers, developers, customers, and the entire ownCloud community.
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.
How to get started, Part 6: File Drop Folders
This is the sixth post in a series meant to get you up to speed. You’ll learn how to create public upload folders for outside contacts to save files and folders to.
This is how we would shape Gaia-X
The planned European Cloud stack Gaia-X inspires dreams of digital sovereignty. Christian Schmitz, our Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, contributes a few policy ideas.
How to get started, Part 5: Public links
This is the fifth post in a series meant to get you up to speed. You’ll learn how to create public links to files and folders.
Berlin’s Data Protection Chief urges data withdrawal from US Clouds
In Berlin, the first tangible consequence of the ECJ’s ruling against the EU-US Privacy Shield puts organizations on the spot. There is a way out – best-of-breed open-souce software hosted on-premises or in private clouds.
Microsoft, will you provide solutions that comply with European law?
ownCloud COO Holger Dyroff answers the blog post by Microsoft’s Julie Brill, trying to assure customers about cross-border data flows after last week’s ruling of the European Court of Justice.
Privacy Shield: ownCloud welcomes ECJ ruling
Bye, Privacy Shield: The ECJ today declared the data transfer agreement between the EU and the USA invalid. This means that organizations are no longer allowed to store the personal data of EU citizens with US cloud providers.
Receive files the safe way with File Drop Folders in ownCloud
Collect bids, proposals, homework, feedback and anonymous tips, efficiently.
Digitization initiatives, boosting efficiency and lessons learned in lockdown
In the July issue of ownCloud monthly, we talk about digitization initiatives, boosting efficiency and lessons learned in lockdown.
ownCloud wins Compuwave as distribution partner
ownCloud, specialist for digital collaboration, has signed a distribution agreement with Compuwave. Within the framework of the partnership, the software distributor will market the ownCloud solutions throughout Europe with immediate effect.
Peace of mind through open source
Because ownCloud is open source, users can see for themselves that it works as advertised and can be trusted.
Become more efficient with the Shortcuts App and its ownCloud Actions
The iOS Shortcuts App has a huge potential to automate and thereby speed up recurring tasks that take place on your iPhone or iPad. In the series of blog posts, we explain what the Shortcuts App can do in connection with the ownCloud App.
Keyboard Shortcuts on iPadOS: Some love for the power users.
ownCloud is the only content collaboration platform out there to let iPad enthusiasts use keyboard shortcuts.
Checklist for secure cloud providers
More and more companies are turning to cloud services in their everyday lives that were actually developed for consumers. But do these solutions really offer sufficient protection for sensitive data?
How Germany can steer digitalization in the right direction
The corona crisis has provided a real boost to digitalization. This momentum must be carried along when Germany takes over the EU Council Presidency in July – and steer it in the right direction.
How to get started, Part 4a: Special features on iPhone and iPad
This is the fourth post in a series meant to get you up to speed. You’ll learn how to reap the benefits of ownCloud’s Mobile App for iPhone and iPad.