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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.
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...
The marketplace is making some nice progress!
The marketplace is the new platform, where ownCloud apps are provided for downloading and upgrading. App developers upload their apps there, so ownCloud admins can automatically install them. The marketplace is currently still in beta, but is making progress! Our...
The ownCloud beta client is coming to the fdroid repository for easier testing!
Lots of you already installed the ownCloud desktop testing client, and are helping us finding the bugs we need to fix. The same is now coming for the android client, or better said, for the popular fdroid repository, where you can easily download open source apps (for...
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. Your Data is at risk. And thus,...
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...