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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.
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...
Meet our Team for the FrOSCon 2017!
Again, we go to FrOSCon this year! We hope to meet a lot of nice people, consume tremendous amounts of Mate and get to know the currently most active open source projects. If you have questions around ownCloud, take your chance and ask us! You can find us at our...
CIO Agenda – Step out of the Shadows: How to provide a user accepted EFSS solution under your control
The introduction of consumer cloud services has marked a notably dramatic change in working and sharing habits, as well as increased flexibility and productivity. All of a sudden, users were able to sync, share and access all of their files from everywhere across...
Learn the ownCloud essentials and get a certificate!
Join the ownCloud essentials training! ownCloud is a very diverse software and rich in opportunities. ownCloud is used under very different circumstances and does far more than only file sync & share, if you combine the right apps. To make the most of your...
App of the Week: LDAP Home Connector
Welcome to the second part of our ownCloud App of the Week blog series. In this post we would like to introduce the ownCloud LDAP Home Connector application, shed light on how it works and of course explain why it is so useful. The LDAP Home Connector is not to be...
We need testers for an important linux client update!
Our Community is making progress with the linux client. We are adapting to better foundations. With the move from the system‘s Qt to shipping our own qt5.6.2, the client will rely on less unpredictable libraries in the future. This will fix a lot of underlying...
CIO Agenda – Digitalization vs. Data Silos: Consolidate Unstructured Data Now!
The IT landscape in many enterprises today consists of a variety of storage types and locations that have grown consistently over the years. Critical company data is scattered across servers, datacenters, devices or even cloud storages. These so-called data silos pose...
DSSI forms a new partnership with ownCloud to extend security for EFSS
Powerful Enterprise File Sync and Share with ownCloud X Enterprise Edition DSSI, a Value Added distributor in the area of information technology, signed a new partnership during June 2017 with ownCloud, a German company specialized in providing an enterprise file sync...
App of the Week: Market
Welcome to our first of our new blog series, App of the Week. Each week we will feature a different ownCloud App that can be found in the ownCloud Marketplace. The first app on our list is: The Market App is now included in all versions of ownCloud X (10.x.x.)...
CIO Agenda: Facing Challenges in the Era of Digital Transformation
In the past years the role of IT professionals got shifted towards a more strategic dimension and often comes with the term of „transformation“. Especially CIOs are facing more and more challenges in an environment of digital disruption. In the next five years, CIOs...
Univention and ownCloud: A Docker (Love) Story
This is a guest blog post by our partner Univention. Docker has been one of the buzzwords in recent years. Containers in itself are nothing new in the Linux world, and anyone using a shared web space is almost certainly using some container implementation. Docker,...
Notification: YOU are giving a talk at the ownCloud Conference 2017!
From 20th-23rd of September we are hosting the ownCloud Conference 2017 in Nuremberg. To make this a great experience for everyone, we need your help! We are giving you the platform to hold a talk. Give a talk! The event is all about you, the ownCloud community!...
ownCloud Marketplace Now Contains Full Enterprise Trial Version
ownCloud is bringing its full set of Enterprise functionalities to the ownCloud Marketplace. This is another big step towards making ownCloud more modular and flexible. In the future you will be able to choose from a variety of apps directly from the ownCloud...