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.
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.
Secure and privacy-compliant work from home office
"Hands off public cloud services" Italy is already under lockdown, while Germany is threatened with similarly drastic measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus. At the beginning of the week, the European Central Bank (ECB) already sent part of its staff to the...
Making file sharing projects a success
Five decisive success factors for efficient and secure file exchange in companies. Central file sharing solutions promise companies fast, simple and device-independent file exchange. Employees can easily access, synchronize and share all necessary files both in the...
ownCloud Server 10.4 makes sharing even more granular
New version delivers more clarity, ephemeral user and group shares, culls PHP 7.0.
Open-source software delivers added value for companies
Open-source software is part of every software developer's toolbox - but what role does open source play for companies? Last week Bitkom published the Open Source Monitor 2019 in which 800 companies with 100 or more employees in Germany were surveyed. We took a close...
ownCloud records rapid customer growth
In 2019, ownCloud was able to win 120 new customers worldwide for the Business Edition of the file-sharing open source platform of the same name. This represents an increase of one hundred percent compared to the previous year. The company sees the rapidly growing...