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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
European-U.S. data protection agreement: Yet another attempt, yet another failure
The recent agreement between the US and the EU is the third attempt to secure the transfer of personal data from Europe to the US. Holger Dyroff, co-founder and COO of ownCloud, does not see the new regulatory attempt as a satisfactory solution.
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 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...
ownCloud Server 9.1 Now Available
Today we proudly announced the availability of ownCloud Server 9.1 https://archive.owncloud.com/owncloud-9-1-comes-integrated-two-factor-authentication/ , offering a number of improvements and new features making this new version even faster as well as more stable and...
New in owncloud 9.1
Today is the release of the long awaited ownCloud 9.1 Community Edition. It includes significant improvements for users, administrators and developers. Authentication – ownCloud is delivering innovative security features like pluggable authentication and token based...
ownCloud 9.0.4, 8.2.7, 8.1.9, 8.0.14 released
We have released ownCloud server versions 9.0.4, 8.2.7, 8.1.9 and 8.0.14, which contain several bug fixes as well as security-related issues. A third party component called "Guzzle" is affected by HTTPoxy vulnerability (as filed as CVE-2016-5385 for PHP). This...
Introducing myself
Hello ownClouders! My name is Tobias Gerlinger, and I am happy to introduce myself to the ownCloud community today. I'm a graduate in business administration and mechanical engineering and I started my career as a sales and marketing manager in the software industry...
ownCloud Welcomes Tobias Gerlinger as Managing Director and CEO
TODAY I AM PLEASED TO WELCOME TOBIAS GERLINGER AS OWNCLOUD’S NEW MANAGING DIRECTOR AND CEO. Tobias is a graduate in business administration and mechanical engineering. He started his career as a sales and marketing manager in the software industry before he co-founded...
ownCloud Secures Financing and Expands its Management Team
Frankfurt-based investor group leads financing round; Tobias Gerlinger appointed Managing Director and CEO Nuremberg/Frankfurt, Germany, July 14, 2016 – ownCloud, provider of the world’s most widely used open source software for enterprise file access, secures...
ownCloud Conference 2016: Call for Papers
We are proud and happy to announce that our annual ownCloud Contributors Conference 2016 will take place from September 9th to 15th in Berlin, kindly hosted by the Technische Universität Berlin. On September 10 and 11, we will have a track of presentations about all...
ownCloud 9.0.3 and 8.2.6 Now Available
ownCloud Article Data Security in International Business Published in CloudComputing-Insider
Just in case you missed it, yesterday I had an article published in German language publication, CloudComputing-Insider, “Data Security in International Business.” Since the Safe Harbor decision last October and the inception of the new European Privacy Regulations,...