Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
ownCloud Appoints David Walter as CXO
ownCloud, provider of the open source content collaboration platform of the same name, is strengthening its strategic focus on customers and sending a clear signal: With the newly created position of Chief Experience Officer (CXO), the company aims to continuously improve the customer experience and promote consistent communication with all stakeholders.
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.
ownCloud App in Review Heaven
How did we get from 2-3 to 4-5 stars ratings? David Gonzalez, lead app developer at ownCloud, talks about how we managed to increase the ownCloud app development quality.
More flexibility for the two-factor authentication in ownCloud
Today the privacyIDEA ownCloud app version 2.4 was released. Besides Configuration improvements, we included an important feature that makes it easier for the Administrator allows some users to be excluded from the two-factor authentication.
New Report Finds EFSS Market is Expected to Grow from 2018-2022
Recently Radiant Insights published a report, Global Enterprise File Sync and Share Market 2018-2022, that found that the Enterprise File Sync and Share market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 14.17% during 2018-2022. The press release following the results states...
We are GSoC!
In a collaboration between HSR and CERN ownCloud senior architect Thomas Müller will co-mentor the Google Summer of Code project “Petabyte-Scale Cloud Storage File Manager”.
ownCloud Server 10.0.8 Release
It is our pleasure to announce the release of ownCloud Server 10.0.8, today! 100+ BugFixes, minor tweaks, and a bunch of new Features prove our path to building high-quality Software. ownCloud is the performant, robust and future-proof Open Source file sync and share solution that you trust your files with.
ownCloud Partner, Collabora, Releases Collabora Online 3.2
Our partners at Collabora have just announced their latest release, Collabora Online 3.2. Updates include: Implemented Chart creation Data Validation in Calc Context menu spell checking Column Formatting ownCloud has been partnering with Collabora for the past several...
4 small steps to try Enterprise features in your ownCloud appliance!
While ownCloud is entirely free to use, you might consider the ownCloud Enterprise features, too. A lot of professional features wait to be tested and implemented. In part 3 of our appliance how-to series we show you how you set up your 30 days Enterprise Trial.
Android App 2.7.0 Release – Features, Features, Features!
Beautiful apps don’t write themselves – people do it. They brought you many new features. Learn about all of the improvements!
1.5 Billion Files Exposed, ownCloud Users are Not Among Them
Last week Digital Shadows announced the results of a report, Too Much Information, which found that over 1.5 Billion files were exposed through misconfigured services including: Amazon S3 buckets, rsync, SMB, FTP, NAS drives, and misconfigured websites. According to...
CLOUD Act Passed by US Congress
Last month Utah Senator Orrin Hatch and Georgia Representative Doug Collins introduced The CLOUD (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data) Act to the United States Congress in an attempt to change how data is collected from tech companies stored outside of the U.S. by...
The first 4 steps after you installed the ownCloud appliance
Installing the ownCloud appliance leaves you with a recommended setup. But you can get much more out of your appliance. Part 2 of our appliance series focuses on small steps which deliver big improvements.
ownCloud receives a new user interface
With “Phoenix” ownCloud integrates a completely redesigned frontend into its software. In the future, the interface should only contain HTML, JavaScript and CSS files and be completely independent from the server. The new WebUI creates a clearer and easier to understand code structure. The modular setup results in a design pattern that can be used without further modifications of the CSS files.
ownCloud Phoenix – rebirth of the ownCloud user interface
We proudly announce the birth of ownCloud Phoenix! Following our path of modularisation, we introduce a true web client which holds only HTML, JavaScript and CSS files. The WebUI is unbundled from the ownCloud Backend-Server. The Goal is to have a clean and easy to understand code structure.
Pierpaolo Fantuzzi about ownCloud – a user’s success story
Usually it’s none of our business what’s going on in the heads of our users – Pierpaolo explicitly told us though. And we liked what he said!
Goodbye ownCloud 9.1 – Welcome ownCloud LTS
With the ownCloud 9.1.8 release we reach the end of the ownCloud 9.1 version. Ensure to upgrade to ownCloud X soon! With the EOL of ownCloud 9.1 we introduce ownCloud LTS for Version 10.0 .