Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Go, Cloud, Go!
ownCloud Infinite Scale ensures better performance and scalability. This is made possible by the new implementation in Go, a microservice architecture and the high-performance file system EoS developed at CERN.
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 Statement Concerning the Formation of Nextcloud
Today's announcement by our former colleague Frank Karlitschek, that he intends to launch a competitive product to ownCloud into the market using recently poached developers, has both surprised us and - admittedly - disappointed us. In the past, Frank has made a...
ownCloud Engineering Team Week
Hello ownCloud Community! Every 4 months the ownCloud engineering team schedules a “Team Week”. During a team week, engineers choose to experiment and develop unscheduled projects of their own (yes, it is scheduled time to be unscheduled ). The team is free to...
Adding Two-Factor Auth to ownCloud
Two-Factor Authentication greatly enhances security – Christoph Wurst brought the first generation of 2FA and token authentication into ownCloud. Here is how he did it:
ownCloud 9.1 Beta offers Token Based Authentication
Today I am thrilled to announce the release of ownCloud 9.1 beta. In addition to a few new features, we are also pleased to say we have reduced the open pull requests to under 100! That is huge, and a big thank you to the team that made all that happen. Take the trial...
Introducing the ownCloud Foundation
Today we are excited to announce the formation of the ownCloud Foundation. The Foundation is a non-profit entity created to oversee the entirety of the ownCloud ecosystem and to keep the future of ownCloud intact. The Foundation is also a means of being more open with...
ownCloud Announces Formation of the ownCloud Foundation
Foundation Board will consist of members of open source community, contributors, users and commercial entities, all dedicated to the success and continuity of the ownCloud open source file sync and share project. LEXINGTON, Mass., – May 31, 2016 – ownCloud, Inc. today...
Announcing the ownCloud Foundation
Today we announce the creation of the ownCloud Foundation. The Foundation is a not-for-profit organization with the charter of stewarding the ownCloud ecosystem, and guaranteeing the viability and availability of free ownCloud now and in the future. I have had an...
Dropbox Up in Users’ Kernel
Did you hear the news? Yesterday Dropbox gave an overview of Project Infinite, which was officially released last month. According to the Dropbox blog, “Project Infinite is designed to enable you to access all of the content in your Dropbox—no matter how small the...
Enterprise Appliance for Production- For Linux and Non-Linux Experts
Interested in using ownCloud Enterprise Edition, but don’t know a lot about Linux? Do you have a small IT staff, or are you the IT staff in your spare time? The ownCloud Enterprise Edition Appliance is the answer to your need! The Appliance provides a pre-packaged,...
Dropbox Up in Users’ Kernel
Did you hear the news? Yesterday Dropbox gave an overview of Project Infinite, which was officially released last month. According to the Dropbox blog, “Project Infinite is designed to enable you to access all of the content in your Dropbox—no matter how small the...
Planning Process of ownCloud, Inc. is Now Open to All
For quite some time now, the ownCloud release planning and definition process has been largely hidden behind a curtain. On behalf of the entire ownCloud company, we are pleased to announce that as of today, this is changing. We are opening the planning process to all,...
ownCloud Contributor Community Grows 80% in One Year!
Wow, do we have a great community here at ownCloud. And I mean really great! In 2015, 5 years after the initial inception of ownCloud, we had a grand total of 550 contributors, which is awesome. However, in just over a year since that number was recognized, we are...
ownCloud Reaches 1000 Code Contributors, Grows 80% In One Year
Over the six years of ownCloud history, over 1000 different individuals contributed to our code! This amazing milestone was reached in the last few days and we're super proud of it. But not only did we add contributions from 450 people in the last year, our ecosystem...
MediaElement Vulnerability Prompts ownCloud Security Update
Last Friday WordPress published it's 4.5.2 security release. Our security team took a look at the fixed issues to determine whether ownCloud is affected by a similar vulnerability. Users with Flash enabled on releases older than ownCloud 9 are vulnerable to...
ownCloud Desktop Client 2.2.0 Available
Today the desktop team has made available version 2.2.0 which will notify you of server events and sync issues, while also introducing many performance and reliability improvements. Read on to learn what is new!