Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Understanding Web Applications in oCIS
In today’s fast-paced digital world, web applications play a crucial role in enhancing user experience and functionality. Infinite Scale comes with a world-class web interface to manage file resources, but it can be extended by utilizing ownCloud Infinite Scale (oCIS) as a construction set for custom web apps.
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.
Gartner includes ownCloud in 2020 Content Collaboration Market Guide
Gartner lists ownCloud in its 2020 Market Guide for Content Collaboration Tools, as the only open-source competitor.
Promises and perils of sudden digitization
GDPR, Education, Framework Accessibility, untouched iPads
Use ownCloud to create local-first Alternatives to Cloud Apps
Have you ever wondered how to work remotely while retaining data ownership and a sense of being in control instead of being locked in and depending on the whims of tech companies? You might need software that is designed to store data local-first, it turns out.
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Cloud Computing Insider-Award: Vote now!
ownCloud is the defending champion at the Cloud Computing Insider Award 2020 in the category File Sharing & Collaboration. Share your Love for your preferred File sharing & Collaboration Tool Four-time winner, ownCloud has been nominated for the CloudComputing...
Happy 2nd Birthday, GDPR! Now, reduce legal uncertainty.
On may 25th, the GDPR is in effect for exactly 2 years. Yet there still is no clear guidance from data protection commissioners on which platforms, products and services can be safely used or not, says Tobias Gerlinger, CEO of ownCloud.
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.
Accessibility and Frameworks: Working it out upstream with Vue.js
Accessibility should be the default, not an optional extra. That is easier said than done in contemporary JavaScript frameworks. For our new web frontend, built in Vue.js, we are glad to have obtained the services of web developer and accessibility consultant Marcus Herrmann to make ownCloud even more accessible.
Keep teaching with ownCloud.online for the education sector
ownCloud.online for the education sector allows teachers to safely distribute files as links with passwords and expiry dates, integrated office functionality lets students collaborate in real time. It’s hosted (certified secure) so schools don’t need it staff.
Laying accessibility groundwork in ownCloud’s new web interface
Web accessibility is a complex topic, especially in the context of JavaScript-based web applications. With its new web interface, ownCloud starts to tackle this topic to create a front-end usable for and accessible to everyone, regardless of their circumstances, abilities or technologies used.
How to get started, Part 4: Mobile Apps
This is the fourth post in a series meant to get you up to speed. You’ll learn how to use ownCloud’s Mobile App to access your data on the go.
How ransomware attacks can be successfully fended off with file sharing systems
File sharing solutions not only enable efficient file exchange. They can also be an extremely effective defence against ransomware.
How to get started, Part 3: The Desktop App
This is the third post in a series meant to get you up to speed. You’ll learn how to use ownCloud’s Desktop App to clone your data in the cloud to your computer, and vice versa, and keep both places updated – automagically.
Learning continues in secure clouds
The Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Göttingen (GWDG) and ownCloud offer an open cloud platform for schools in partnership
How to get started, Part 2: The Web App
This is the second post in a series meant to get you up to speed. You’ll learn how to use ownCloud right in your browser.
Of Mice and Mobile devices: Implementing Mouse Interaction in iPadOS 13.4
Recently, Apple thoroughly improved mouse and trackpad support for the iPad. ownCloud for iOS is one of the first major Apps to support this feature, and we proudly publish the implementation for others to get up to speed quickly.