Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Swiss data protection law to be modernised for the digital age
With the entry into force of the revised Data Protection Act, Switzerland is focusing on greater transparency and strengthening the rights of those affected by data breaches. Holger Dyroff, co-founder and COO of ownCloud, sees the convergence with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a positive and important development.
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.
Don’t Get Locked Out of Your Personal Account with ownCloud
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you’ve probably heard about the Google Docs glitch that locked users out of their accounts. This latest security issues further underscores the fact that users’ do not have full control over their data. Users...
How to Integrate SAML Single Sign-On in ownCloud App
How to integrate single sign on with ownCloud SAML SSO: Make your users happy by providing single sign on for your ownCloud instance.
ownCloud Delivers Secure Authentication and Authorization with the Integration of OAuth2
The open industrial standard OAuth2 is now available for all ownCloud users. OAuth2 ensures a secure and simplified login process for ownCloud clients, as well as a significantly higher security level when embedding ownCloud into third party applications and web...
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...
Introducing OAuth2 Secure Authorization Flow
ownCloud introduces the industry standard for an secure authentication flow: oAuth2! Protect your data, on your clients and on your server.
ownCloud Server 10.0.4 beta1 and ownCloud client 2.4.0 alpha released. Please help testing!
Please help testing the ownCloud Core beta 10.0.4 beta1 and the ownCloud Client alpha 2.4.0. Tons of new features, Enhanced Security and new Sharing options. Please help testing!
Meet fellow ownClouders online with video
Join Fellow ownClouders from all around the world. In a weekly online meetup we hang out with each other and enjoy bringing this project forward.
ownCloud got Platinum – thanks for voting!
The professional audience of the Vogel IT Press awarded ownCloud again with Platinum for the Category: ” Enterprise File Sharing”
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.
ownCloud Android 2.5.0 release. Now with oAuth2 support.
The brandnew ownCloud Android app 2.5.0 is released, with OAuth2 support. Protect your data and upgrade now!
Win a free T-Shirt by contributing to open source!
Win a free T-Shirt by contributing to opensource! Join Hacktoberfest, do a few pull requests an improve the software we all love!
New app release: How to connect your Dropbox with api v2 as external storage to ownCloud
ownCloud Drop Box app v2. Keep your Dropbox in sync with your ownCloud. Google Summer of Code Student Hemant provides you with the Dropbox integration app.
Join the ownCloud Meetup in Thessaloniki!
Meet fellow ownClouders at the ownCloud meetup in Thessaloniki. Learn best practices, have a chat and checkout what is going on at the Thessaloniki meetup.
ownCloud Conference 2017 was a blast!
ownCloud Conference 2017 was a blast! A week full of best practices, hacking, talks, solutions, awesome conversations and ownCloud!
ownCloud 10.0.3 Release
With 10.0.3 we introduce over 400 improvements to deliver one of the most sophisticated ownCloud releases so far. Lots of new features make ownCloud smoother than it has ever been, and the enormous performance improvements support this feeling. Next to optimizations...