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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
ownCloud Server 10.13 released: Kerberos authentication and enforceable 2-Factor-Authentication
We are happy to announce the immediate release of ownCloud Server 10.13 with many new features requested by our customers. Among them, most important is the new enforcement of Two-Factor Authentification (2FA) via Time-based One-Time Passwords (TOTP) – a feature many customers need to comply with security policies.
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.
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...
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...