Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Expert Talk: Introducing ownCloud Infinite Scale 3.0
Tobias Baader, Product Manager at ownCloud, talks about the immense potential of Infinite Scale 3.0 to revolutionize collaboration in real time.
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 Desktop Client 2.2.0 Available
Today we have released the latest version of the Desktop Client, 2.2.0. This release includes changes to the default chunk size (10MB) and refactored overlay icons for performance, improved error handling, improved UI, translation fixes and countless other bug fixes....
ownCloud and Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code is a program which enables students to spend their summer holiday working on an open source project, getting paid by Google. Unofficially, ownCloud has participated a few times in the GSOC program through other organizations including KDE and...
New Maintenance Releases Out, Time to Upgrade
We just made ownCloud 9.0.2, 8.2.4, 8.1.7, 8.0.12 and 7.0.14 available. These bring improvements to sharing, stability, performance and security. We recommended an upgrade as soon as possible! changelog The 9.0.2, 8.2.4, 8.1.7, 8.0.12 and 7.0.14 releases include the...
iOS Client Update
Today, we published version 3.4.9 of the iOS client. This release introduces an improved user experience with sorting options and remote thumbnails as well as sharing improvements with auto completion for Federation support and the ability to make publicly editable...
ImageTragick: Dangerous for ownCloud Users?
ImageTragick, the fancy nickname for a series of recent critical security vulnerabilities in the ImageMagick library, has gotten some attention in the press already. ImageMagick is a widely used library for image processing. If it is installed on the ownCloud server,...
Accellion’s Open Back Door to Facebook Helps Illustrate Open-Source’s Worth
Companies open-sourcing their code often incur delays while they ‘clean up the code’ and the argument of ‘poor or not acceptable quality code’ is given as reason not to make it available to the public in the first place. Customers may want to ask themselves how they...
ownCloud Connects Business Users on June 1st – Get Insight into Customer Use Cases
On June 1st in Frankfurt, Germany, ownCloud will be hosting an event for ownCloud Community Edition business users, Enterprise Edition customers and anyone else who is interested in using ownCloud for their business. The goal of this event is to connect businesses...
Softpedia: ownCloud 9.0.2 Released with Lower-Severity Security Patches and Hardenings
ownCloud Inc. announced the general availability of multiple maintenance releases for all of its supported branches of the ownCloud self-hosting cloud server. ownCloud 9.0.2, 8.2.4, 8.1.7, 8.0.12, and 7.0.14 were made available for download for existing users, who are...
ownCloud 9.0.2, 8.2.4, 8.1.7, 8.0.12 and 7.0.14 Available
The latest version of ownCloud 9, 9.0.2, is now available. In addition, ownCloud 8.2.4, 8.1.7, 8.0.12, and 7.0.14 are also all now available. The updates include a number of lower severity security patches and hardenings. Updating to the latest version is recommended,...
CMS Wire:Datto Seeks to Shake-Up the EFSS Space
Datto wants to shake-up the mid-market. “Datto is always looking for opportunities to disrupt large, legacy markets, specifically where the needs of SMBs are underserved. We view EFSS as a very large, highly commoditized, yet extremely expensive space where we can...
Datto Drive is Built on ownCloud
Today our partner, Datto, has announced the launch of Datto Drive, a FSS service that targets SMBs. Datto Drive is a cheaper FSS alternative to the likes of Dropbox, Box, and Google for smaller companies. And according to Mark Calzone, president of Ash Creek...
Enterprise Times: Datto delivers cut price File Sync and Share
Backup and recovery vendor Datto has entered the Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) market with the launch of Datto Drive. The data will be stored in the Datto ownCloud which consists of 200 petabytes of storage space. The target market is SMBs who are struggling...
BetaNews: New service helps small businesses sync and share files
Backup and storage specialist Datto is launching a new inexpensive yet powerful file sync and share (FSS) service leveraging the low cost basis of the company’s 200 petabyte (PB) private cloud, coupled with a global license agreement with ownCloud, an established...
V3.co.uk: Datto unveils affordable cloud-hosted file sync and share service for SMBs
The platform is apparently based on the open source ownCloud file sync and share software running on Datto’s infrastructure. “Datto Drive was built leveraging ownCloud, a powerful FSS solution for businesses, and through Datto’s partnership with ownCloud, and we’re...
SiliconAngle: Datto says it lets SMBs keep things in synch for less
The company is distinguishing its offering from competitors by doing away with per-user pricing and providing administration, security and management services through ownCloud, an open source file sync and application sharing platform that has amassed a base of more...