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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Go for Enterprise: ownCloud Infinite Scale
Tim Schürmann, a seasoned IT journalist from Germany, specializes in open source and programming languages. Over the last several years, he has authored many articles on Go, including several related to ownCloud. We sought his expert insights on Go in the context of ownCloud Infinite Scale. Here is his op-ed.
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.
Back to School: Where is Your Child’s Information Stored?
It’s that time of year again. The kids are packing their backpacks and getting ready to head back to school. And while all parents worry about their child’s physical well-being, have they stopped to consider the well-being of their child’s personal information? With...
Google Summer of Code: Security and Storage Integration – ownCloud looks back on successful participation
Thank you to our Google Summer of Code Students! They, together with their mentors did a great Job on improving security and the integration of external storages. From the community, for the community: Our GSoC Students help to improve ownCloud as a sustainable platform for secure file, sync and share.
Guests 0.4.2 released!
With ownCloud X we introduced the Guests app to extend ownCloud's sharing capabilities and make it a breeze to share files with externals who do not yet have a user account at your ownCloud. Instead of using public share links that are rather useful for quick sharing...
Download the new Android Beta Client at the Google Play Store today!
After we brought the Android Beta Client to the popular Open Source appstore F-Droid already, we now put it into the Google Play Store too, so more of you can help us testing. The app is free of course, both in license and in price. Also you should notice that this is...
Google Summer of Code: Security and Storage Integration – ownCloud looks back on successful participation
Google's "Summer of Code" is over and ownCloud takes stock. The file sync and share specialist took part in the international open source scholarship as a mentoring organization for the second time this year and supervised three student projects. All results received...
Strong Growth for ownCloud Business in the first half of 2017
Dear ownClouders, you might ask yourself why the business side of ownCloud is of interest for you, so here are some reasons. The company makes it possible for many developers to work full time on ownCloud, organize ownCloud events, promote ownCloud to a...
The new ownCloud Desktop Client 2.3.3 is released today!
Thanks to our testers, who solved the last bugs through our testing program, we could release the 2.3.3 client today. Testers are ensuring that you have the most stable, most reliable software out there and your data is safe. But of course there is always one last bug...
Private Cloud Trend Brings Strong Growth to ownCloud in First Half of 2017
Nuremberg, September 01, 2017 - With its innovative solution, ownCloud is one of the leading providers of software for secure data exchange (Enterprise File Sync & Share) and is progressively gaining market share. Today, the company announces that in the first...
App of the Week: Announcement Center
Welcome to the fifth entry of our ownCloud App of the Week blog series. Today’s topic is the ownCloud Announcement Center, a small and lightweight way for administrators to communicate individual announcements to all users of an ownCloud instance. We all can agree...
CIO Agenda – Increase Productivity – everywhere for everybody!
One of the key challenges in companies today is the need for seamless digital collaboration across devices, storage systems and geographical locations with internal and external users. The increasing mobile workforce needs enterprise-grade tools for secure...
Update: Google and Microsoft Cases: Know Where Your Data Is!
All the way back in February (where has the time gone?) I posted a blog, Threats to your Data in the Trump Age, where I outlined possible threats to your data, including a recent ruling against Google and a Microsoft case that was still in the court system. In early...
App of the Week: Custom Groups
Welcome to the fourth entry of our ownCloud App of the Week blog series. Today we’d like to introduce a small yet important application for ownCloud called Custom Groups and show why it makes the collaboration of users so much more efficient. When working in larger...
We talked to Andrea Pfundmeier from Boxcryptor about End-to-End-Encryption
Boxcryptor is a tool to end-to-end encrypt files in the cloud, so you don’t have to trust the admin. What is it useful for? We asked the CEO.
This year‘s FrOSCon was awesome!
As we already announced, we have been at the FrOSCon 2017. We had an exciting weekend with the versatile open source community. When we were still on our way to Bonn, we received the first notice about the ownCloud booth. Cornelius Kölbel from NetKnights had already...
App of the Week: Auditing
Welcome to the third part of our ownCloud App of the Week blog series. In this entry we would like to introduce the ownCloud Auditing application and showcase why logging and auditing of user events & activities is crucial for secure enterprise filesharing...