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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
ownCloud to play key role in implementation of European Open Science Cloud
ownCloud GmbH, A Kiteworks Company, is proud to announce that it has won the European Commission’s “Managed Services for the European Open Science Cloud Platform (EOSC)” tender as part of a consortium of providers.
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.
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.
How to get started, Part 1: Personal Settings
This is the first post in a series meant to get you up to speed. You’ll learn how to personalize your account, where to set a profile picture and where to change your password.
Corona makes it all too clear: we urgently need a European data infrastructure
The mass work from home exacerbates a problem that we have been struggling with in Germany and Europe for some time.
Proud to help: Remote learning platform for all schools and universities across Europe
ownCloud partners with Up2U, GÉANT, CERN and many more to provide cloud solution for European schools.
Remote made even easier: Introducing ownCloud.Online, our SaaS Solution.
Currently, organizations need a fast way to spin up remote work environments for their staff. Imagine you could use ownCloud, the market-leading enterprise share and sync, without it staff on your payroll or servers in your basement. Now you can: With ownCloud.Online,...
Switching to remote: Our best practices using open-source software
As many organizations around the world are now learning the hard way, sending your staff home to work remotely takes some preparation and tools but also some cultural adjustments.
Switching to remote: Our best practices using open-source software
As many organizations around the world are now learning the hard way, sending your staff home to work remotely takes some preparation and tools but also some cultural adjustments. We at ownCloud are remote-friendly from way back. We have set up our procedures in such...
Secure and privacy-compliant work from home office
These days, more and more organizations and companies are gearing up for large-scale home working. If the worst comes to the worst, it is the only way to maintain business operations and limit the economic damage as far as possible.