Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
ownCloud Infinite Scale: A Safe Place for our Memories
Malina Freitag recounts how ownCloud Infinite Scale made it a breeze for her and her friends to organize, access and share photos taken during her school trip.
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.
Desktop Client 2.5.3 Release – Thanks for Your Feedback!
Client development is an ongoing process – driven by the community. Thanks to user feedback there is a new desktop release! Upgrade now to get the latest changes.
Office 365 fails on a large scale – and thus provides another argument for more decentralization in IT
As several news sites report, there was a widespread breakdown of the online services of Microsoft Office 365 on Thursday, January 25. The extent of the outage only became clear after individual companies reported to media representatives and described that IT had...
ownCloud Again With Record Result in 2018
The world's leading provider of open source software for secure file exchange once again significantly increased its revenue last year. This means that growth in 2018 reached a mid double-digit rate. The company identifies a significant increase in demand for secure...
Edit a Document With Collabora – Directly From a Public Link!
Did you know that you can share a document to easily edit it with others? The Collabora integration for ownCloud makes collaboration easy.
Eighty Percent ownCloud
Recently the German computer magazin C’t posted an article about file sync solutions (“Unter eigener Regie”, C’t 23, 2018) with native sync clients. The article was pretty positive about the FOSS solution of… Nextcloud! I was wondering why they had not chosen ownCloud’s client as my feeling is that ownCloud is way more busy and […]
ownCloud 2018: A Year of Setting the Course
What a year! With nearly every month a highlight we can look back at a very successful 2018.
ownCloud 2018: A Year of Setting the Course
2018 was not only ownCloud's most successful year to date in economic terms, but also brought numerous technical innovations that will have a decisive impact on the development of the largest open source file-sharing project worldwide in the coming years. Features...
Interview: How KDE Craft Improves the ownCloud Client Build Process
At ownCloud, there are many experiments with new technology. Dominik and Hannah did great work on the client build process recently. How did they do it and how can you use it?
Digital Sovereignty: Can Open Software Be The Solution To Europe’s Data Governance Challenge?
Data, processes and entire infrastructures are increasingly migrating to the cloud - and thus often to the USA or China. Does this endanger the right of European and German businesses, societies and governments to maintain digital autonomy? The German "Plattform...
The Holiday Season Just Got Brighter
Read how ownCloud wants to make your holiday season brighter than ever. All the warm feelings are just a few clicks away.
Switching To Semantic Versioning With ownCloud Server 10.1
In the future, the version numbers will say more about the upcoming improvements. What does this mean for admins?
ownCloud Enterprise Receives User-Friendly End-To-End Encryption with Hardware Support
ownCloud announces the second generation of End-To-End Encryption (E2EE) for ownCloud Enterprise. The plugin enables encryption and decryption by generating a "key pair" including a private key and public key, which takes place directly with the sender and recipient...
Linux Programs in Windows: Just Integrate UCS in Active Directory
Our Univention App Center offers many open source applications from all areas, which you can add to your UCS environment in just a few clicks. Whether groupware, CRM or backup solution – the list of apps is growing continuously. If you want to use these applications...
Opinion: You Can’t Have Open Source Progress Without Accessibility
Just as science, free software does contribute to open knowledge. The idea is that open source progress benefits everyone. But is this really true?
Closed Source, Closed Information: How the Microsoft Business Model Undermines GDPR
It's happened, and it can happen again at any time: According to a report by the Dutch government, Microsoft is the first major IT corporation to violate EU data protection regulations. According to the report, the company stored private data of Office users on a...