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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.

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.

Docker, DevOps and ownCloud – a Dream Team!

Docker, DevOps and ownCloud – a Dream Team!

With the release of ownCloud X (10.0.x) we have published official Dockerfiles that are maintained by ownCloud developers. We have also added it as one of the recommended ways to install ownCloud into the documentation.  You are more than welcome to try this out and...

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IT-Awards 2017: ownCloud once again #1

IT-Awards 2017: ownCloud once again #1

At the prestigious industry award, which is awarded directly by the readers of Vogel IT-Verlag, the EFSS specialist has secured “Platinum” in the “Enterprise File Sharing” category for the second time. The trade visitors acknowledged the high focus that ownCloud places on guaranteeing maximum security standards in its technology. Second place went to Box. com, Nextcloud took third place. The IT Award is presented in 42 categories by the IT specialist portals BigData-Insider, CloudComputing Insider, DataCenter-Insider, DevInsider, IP-Insider, Security-Insider and Storage-Insider. The award ceremony took place last Thursday 12 October 2017 at the Steigenberger Hotel “Drei Mohren” in Augsburg.

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App of the Week: Activity

App of the Week: Activity

Welcome to the sixth entry of our ownCloud App of the Week blog series. Today we’d like to introduce the ownCloud Activity Application. It provides a comprehensive overview of all file and folder actions in ownCloud and is also able to trigger automatic Email...

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