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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Alternatives to Microsoft to be GDPR-compliant and keep your wallet happy
Although government data protection officials repeatedly point out the illegality of using Microsoft 365, companies continue to use it. However, there are full-fledged alternatives that ensure compliance without compromising on convenience or functionality, as ownCloud points out.
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.
WD Labs, Raspberry Pi, ownCloud and Ubuntu
Last year, we reported that WD Labs approached the ownCloud community to create something together. Since our last update, we've been at it and first test images built on Snappy Ubuntu Core 16.04 are available now. We're looking for help in the ownCloud, Ubuntu,...
Ostatic: From ownCloud to OpenStack: You Can Unlock the Cloud
In this post, you’ll find several of the best free guides to popular cloud-centric tools, ranging from several guides to getting going with a new version of ownCloud to how to deploy OpenStack. ownCloud. We covered the news that the extremely popular ownCloud open...
Linux Journal: Tighter Security in OwnCloud v9
ownCloud is a free Web-based app that provides Dropbox-style file hosting. With the release of version 9 on the horizon, it’s a good time to take a look at the improved security features. Storing your data in the cloud is highly convenient, but it does increase the...
EMEA IT Professionals Remain Cautious of the Cloud
This week Danielle Correa, of SC Magazine, published “IT pros in EMEA urged to be cautious about cloud” based on a report from Spiceworks, “Diving into Cloud Services.” The results of the report show that while cloud adoption is on the rise, the concern of IT...
ownCloud 9.0 for developers
The public developer API of ownCloud aims to be stable over different releases, which allows developers to have their applications work across ownCloud releases. To enable developers writing more diverse applications and to make their life easier, for this release...
OStatic: ownCloud 9.0 is a Must-Have Upgrade for the Popular Cloud Platform
The extremely popular ownCloud open source file-sharing and storage platform for building private clouds has just reached some remarkable new milestones. You can move beyond what services such as Dropbox and Box offer by leveraging ownCloud, and you don’t have to have...
Cloudwards: ownCloud 9 Release Includes New Features
Hailed as the biggest so far, the ownCloud 9.0 release comes with new features as well as performance improvements and fixes. The Community Edition is available already, with the Enterprise Edition scheduled for release in April.
Time to Upgrade to ownCloud 9.0!
ownCloud Server 9.0 was released yesterday, delivering new collaboration features like commenting and tags, big scalability improvements and more advanced federation capabilities. As promised, today we'll tell you how to upgrade to the latest and greatest from the...
ZDNet: Enterprise ready: ownCloud 9 handles petabytes of data
When you think of ownCloud, you think of a cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud you can run off a home server. ownCloud 9, which will be released tomorrow, March 8, is far more than that. True, you can still run ownCloud on a Linux or Windows server with as...
CIO: ownCloud 9.0 released, brings full federation for easy file sharing
ownCloud, the fully open source file sync and storage platform, has hit version 9.0 today.This release comes with many improvements, most notably full federation, which allows users on different servers to share directories and files.
ownCloud Server 9.0 Released With Improved Scalability, Federation and Collaboration Tools
ownCloud Server 9.0 is the biggest ownCloud release so far with major enhancements like the introducion of innovative collaboration features, improvements to scalability and bringing federation to a new level. Read on to find out what's new and watch our demo videos...
ownCloud 9.0 Enables Full Federation
For years, ownCloud has supported 'Federation'. The concept behind Federation is to allow users to have shared files and folders even when using different servers. ownCloud aims to enable super easy, global file sharing and collaboration with the 8 million ownCloud...
ownCloud 9.0 Boosts Team Collaboration
ownCloud has its roots in syncing and sharing files, making it easy for users to access their files on any device and share them with others. In particular, shared folders are a great productivity feature for teams. To enable users to follow what is happening with...
Code Signing in ownCloud 9.0
ownCloud provides a safe home for all your data. To improve the security and safety of the server, ownCloud 9.0 introduces Code Signing and Verification. This ensures that all the files of an ownCloud installation are in place unmodified since their release by the...
ownCloud 9 Community Edition Now Available
Today is the release of the long awaited ownCloud 9 Community Edition. ownCloud 9 Community Edition includes significant improvements for users, administrators and developers delivering innovative collaboration features like comments and tags, enabling ultimate...