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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
The digitization of schools must continue at full speed – but with digital sovereignty
A funding gap in the Digital Pact for Schools or even a withdrawal of the federal government would be fatal. Holger Dyroff, co-founder and COO of ownCloud, believes that the states also have a duty to ensure that the digitalization of schools succeeds. They have to guarantee digital sovereignty in the implementation.
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.
Why you should attend the ownCloud Contributors Conference 2016 in Berlin
Connect with the ownCloud Ecosystem The ownCloud Conference is the yearly main event for community & business users, customers, partners, developers and the ownCloud ecosystem as a whole. It connects ownClouders from around the world, offers customers &...
Why Contributor License Agreements are Important for Legal Certainty
Let me start out by naming just a few of the important Open Source Projects that are using the Contributor License Agreements in order to assure legal certainty on a variety of levels: Apache Foundation FSF / GNU Ubuntu / Canonical Elastic and many, many more Like the...
Bring Your App to the ownCloud Marketplace
Today we are excited to announce the inception of the ownCloud Marketplace, which will be available in early 2017! Developers from the community have been approaching us for a marketing platform, so the idea of the marketplace is to give developers and partners what...
ownCloud Announces New Marketplace
ownCloud plans to expand its ecosystem around ownCloud Server, community apps and enterprise apps with its own marketplace Nuremberg, August 24, 2016 – ownCloud intends to set-up its own marketplace in order to expand its ecosystem around ownCloud server, community...
Justify my trip to ownCloud Contributors Conference 2016 in Berlin
Justify My Trip Be Up-to-date and up-to-speed The ownCloud Conference is the must-attend for users, sysadmins, developers and open source enthusiasts. It provides developers with the opportunity to share their expertise, listen to the best in the field, learn best...
ownCloud, AGPLv3 and the ownCloud Commercial License
I am often asked to explain the reasoning behind the ownCloud licensing, the ownCloud Enterprise Modules, as well as any derivative work. However, this is not that easy to explain, so I will try to be as clear as possible in this blog post, but I also expect a couple...
Android Community: ownCloud Android client updated, new features in tow
or those who don’t like the idea of a very public and seemingly unsecure idea of cloud storage, you can actually make your own cloud-based file server. This is the argument for ownCloud, who markets their services to individuals and businesses alike. You sync your...
Government of India Banks on ownCloud for DigiLocker Project
Every Indian citizen should have the opportunity to store their official papers on a central server – the project that allows this is based entirely on open source, including ownCloud. Nuremberg/New Delhi (India), August 17, 2016 – Along with the support of several...
Government of India Chooses ownCloud for DigiLocker Project
Today we announced some very exciting news. The Indian government has chosen ownCloud to be part of the DigiLocker Project! The idea behind DigiLocker is to provide every Indian citizen with a safe, digital storage space for all of their personal documents in the form...
ownCloud Android Client 2.1 Improves Access to Data
Last week we published a new update of the ownCloud Android App, version 2.1. This latest release has some new features that deserve a special mention. Multiple selection No more handling files one by one. Long press a file in the list and enjoy the contextual mode,...
owncloud @FrOSCon11
ownCloud will be at the FrOSCon 11! Free Software and Open Source - these are the topics of FrOSCon (Free and Open Source Software Conference). This year in August the computer science department of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, supported by the...
Linux Journal: Better Cloud Storage with ownCloud 9.1
A new version of ownCloud community edition has been released, and it brings a number of important updates, new features and security improvements. The result is a more useful and safe environment for collaboration and cloud storage. OwnCloud is an open-source...
Softpedia: ownCloud 9.1 Community Edition Cloud Server Adds Innovative Security Features
ownCloud has recently announced the availability of the first major release for the 9.x series of the open-source self-hosting cloud server software aimed at GNU/Linux operating systems. ownCloud 9.1 Community Edition is now the latest stable and most advanced release...
Computacenter is named ownCloud Gold Partner delivering Infinite File Services together with Red Hat and ownCloud
Today we have announced that Computacenter has chosen to work with ownCloud and Red Hat to deliver Infinite File Service (IFS). IFS includes the ownCloud Enterprise Edition, object storage using Red Hat Ceph Storage, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to create...
Infinite File Service – The Cloud Inside Your Datacenter With No Known Scalability Boundaries
Computacenter collaborates with ownCloud and Red Hat to present a robust solution that goes beyond traditional file servers. The Infinite File Service (IFS) unifies scalability, performance and increased security. Munich / Nuremberg, July 26, 2016 – Computacenter has...