Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Microsoft fails to live up to its key role as hyperscaler
Stolen master keys, lack of transparency and questionable technological solutions: The scandal surrounding the latest security breach at Microsoft is not abating. For Holger Dyroff, co-founder and COO of ownCloud, this is a prime example of why the big players in the market have long had a problem when it comes to data protection and digital sovereignty.
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.
ownCloud Combats WannaCry, Petya & Co: Announcement of More Ransomware Protection
After the current waves of attack of ransomware WannaCry in May and its successor Petya a few days ago, agitation prevails in many IT departments: How can you protect your company against these attacks, which have the potential to destroy all files? The economic...
Guest Post: What End-to-End Encryption in Enterprise Cloud environments needs
Cornelius Kölbel is Managing Director at NetKnights GmbH and has more than 20 years experience in IT services. Since 2003 he focused on IT security. His expertise is in the area of content security, encryption and strong authentication.
Good Bye apps.owncloud.com
After so many years it’s time to say good bye to our old appstore. Instead, we have a new Marketplace! Download apps with just one click.
4 Easy Steps to Set up End-to-End-Encryption With Cryptomator
Cryptomator is a very convenient Open Source tool to protect your data with end-to-end encryption. Combined with ownCloud, it is one of the most secure ways to back up important files in the cloud.
Walmart vs Amazon: The Competition is On, But Where’s Your Data?
There are many reasons to run your own Cloud! The latest reason? The Walmart versus Amazon battle that has just commenced—simply put, competition. According to Barb Darrow’s article Walmart Gears Up Anti-Amazon Stance in Wake of Whole Foods Deal on Fortune, Amazon’s...
Product Management in Open Source Projects – Need, Pain or Useless?
Some weeks ago Holger Dyroff (COO at ownCloud) and Patrick Maier (Product Manager at ownCloud) gave a talk about the role of product management between open source projects and derived products at openSUSE Conference 2017 at Z-Bau, Nuremberg. As this topic obviously...
Cryptomator: we talked to Christian Schmickler
Emil: Who are you and what do you do? What is your role at Cryptomator. Christian Schmickler: We are Skymatic, a German startup with a founding team of four privacy-passionate enthusiasts. We develop Cryptomator, the open source software that helps everyone protect...
We’re coming to windows 10 mobile devices – with the new universal client, directly from the community!
As ownCloud is an open source project, the community is contributing important work to the software you all use and love. New features, and sometimes whole new software is made directly by the people who use ownCloud - from the community, for the community. All of...
Extended Party: ownCloud X Launch Event a Full Success
May 23 was the day we were all waiting for--ownCloud celebrated the launch of the latest enterprise edition of its file sync and share solution, ownCloud 10.0.2, at the KOMED event center in Cologne. As of now, ownCloud X is fully available to enterprise customers. In...
Stay up to date – get rid of your old version!
Some people are still running an ownCloud 8.2 - and we can't blame the nostalgia. Version 8.2 marked a big step in user experience. Maybe you can still remember how it was released more than one and a half years ago. But all good things come to an end - when the...
ownCloud 10.0.2 is out with some small marketplace fixes
Upgrade now, ownCloud 10.0.2 is out! The community and our developers are working hard to improve ownCloud every day. Today we release ownCloud 10.0.2 . As we already released 10.0.1 last week, this version only added some small bugfixes which arose in context of app...
ownCloud Conference 2017 announced
The ownCloud conference is going to happen for the 4th time in 2017. We are expecting 200 attendees from all over the world to join us for two days of conference and three days of hacking and hands-on. The oCCon17 is held at TH Nürnberg from September, 20th - 23rd The...
Released: new ownCloud Android & iOS mobile clients today!
Next to the testpilot version of our new desktop client, new versions of ownCloud mobile client apps are now officially available: ownCloud Android app 2.4.0 and ownCloud iOS app 3.6.0. These releases will enable you to enjoy all the power of ownCloud X in your mobile...
Brand new stuff. Play with our new testing client!
Our community works continuously to improve the ownCloud software. The client is an important part of it, it makes the syncing of files as easy as moving files on your own computer. The cloud becomes a part of your file system. ownCloud always promised "file sync...
A word about ownCloud appliances – and a request for your input
A word about appliances: ownCloud offers appliances in various VM-versions. The main target is to give our users a quick and seamless possibility to evaluate ownCloud out of the box. Also appliances may help to run ownCloud on host systems that do not support the...