Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Powerful File Management Platforms for Digital Collaboration
If you are developing a new software application and need functionality for managing unstructured data, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. A representative of ownCloud explains why it is worth integrating an existing file management platform instead.
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.
Pioneer our ownCloud Pi Drives!
As promised a little over a week ago, we are ready with our first batch of devices. These are unique and special--only a few of this model will be made before we move to a newer form factor. Read on to find out how you can get your hands on one! What we have for you...
ownCloud Hackathon at the openSUSE Conference 2016
June 22 - 26 the openSUSE community will gather in Nuremberg for their annual event. This year, ownCloud will join with a hackathon to get some good coding done and introduce newcomers to the awesome that is ownCloud! Read on to see what we've got in store. Hackathon...
Healthcare Cloud Security Concerns? Not with ownCloud
This week Elizabeth Snell, of Healthcare IT Security, published an article addressing security concerns healthcare organizations should have when it comes to the cloud. Snell states that “One of the top healthcare cloud security concerns is sensitive information, such...
Dropbox has Their Own Cloud – You Should have Your ownCloud!
Last week Dropbox announced that they have created their own cloud system and were no longer using Amazon AWS. It is great news that they are taking responsibility for their users’ data, but there is still one glaring fact—it’s still kept in the cloud and out of your...
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...