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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Living Roadmap: Join the Conversation
With the Living Roadmap, we invite you to come forward with your valuable opinions, feedback and suggestions regarding ownCloud Infinite Scale features and future plans, to help us further enhance the experience.
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 and Android Client Updates
Today, we published an update to the ownCloud Android client which introduces improved file upload handling and UI improvements; and an update to the ownCloud Desktop client bringing updated HiDPI support, networking improvements and better syncing. Get your updates...
Thinking About File Access
Gartner thinks Enterprise file sync and share is dead, or will be soon. We agree, it is an incomplete solution to a complex problem and it is being subsumed by adjacent markets. That is why ownCloud provides much more, a single pane of glass over all enterprise files ...
New Yorkers: Join me at the NY LUG on February 9!
Next Tuesday, February 9th, I will be presenting ownCloud at the venerable New York Linux User Group. I am excited for the opportunity to speak to this group as I’ve heard great things about this LUG and its audience! I’ll be speaking about ownCloud as a project and...
Ostatic: ownCloud Hits New Milestones: How You Can Get Going With It
The ever popular ownCloud open source file-sharing and storage platform for building private clouds has 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 your...
Computerwoche.de reports how Deutsche Bahn is using ownCloud
Computerwoche.de, the German equivalent of Computer World, reported on how Deutsche Bahn is using ownCloud. Deutsche Bahn is one of the world’s leading passenger and logistics companies operating in 130 countries worldwide. “The DB Systel GmbH, the internal...
CIO: ownCloud passes 8 million users
The humble open source project that started in Germany has grew tremendously in the last few years. Yesterday, ownCloud announced that they estimate the number of users has exceeded the 8 million mark. In addition, the company achieved 100% year-over-year growth in...
5 FAQs Answered by ownCloud
Interested in an ownCloud deployment, but have a few lingering questions? ownCloud has just published a list of frequently asked questions that have been answered for your benefit. Here are a few of the top questions we receive frequently and that may also be on your...
6 ownCloud User Interaction Design Principles
At ownCloud, design and user experience ("UX") are a core part of our mission. If ownCloud is not usable for everybody, it has failed! We've talked to the lead of the ownCloud design team, Jan-Christoph Borchardt, about what makes design 'ownCloud' and how an open...
ownCloud Grows to 8 Million Users
Today, ownCloud, Inc. released a press release covering the growth of the ownCloud community over 2015. Having doubled the bookings last year, the company estimates the number of ownCloud users at businesses, universities and research institutions as well as the many...
ownCloud grows over 100% in 2015
Talk about a great year! In 2015 ownCloud grew over 100%. The secret? Universal File Access. This past year ownCloud has evolved into more than just a file sync and share company, and Universal File Access has become the ideal solution to those global companies...
ownCloud Achieves More Than 100% Year-Over-Year Growth in 2015
Fueled by Demand for Universal File Access and Flexible Integration, ownCloud is On Track to Double YOY Growth Again in 2016 Lexington, MA.—January 26, 2016 — ownCloud, Inc., the company behind the world’s most popular open source enterprise file access software,...
ownCloud Rocked the CS3 in Zürich
Last week I flew to Zürich to attend the second annual CS3 event at ETH University and to talk about the future of Federated Cloud Sharing. And I must say, overall this was an incredibly impressive and interesting event in the education/research space. Last year a few...
ownCloud Supports the FSFE as Bronze Sponsor
ownCloud is an Open Source project, and as such, we’re part of a wider ecosystem. While we first and foremost focus on creating great software for our users and customers, we also actively participate in building and maintaining this Open Source ecosystem at large. We...
ZDNet: What’s the best cloud storage for you?
ownCloud What’s that you say? You don’t like trusting your data to Apple, Google, Microsoft or anyone else? Well, try the do-it-yourself way: You can use ownCloud to set up your own cloud storage either on an office server or off your own external service. The...
Open Source and Community: An Example from ownCloud and Android
The development and evolution of the Android client for ownCloud is a good example of how the collaboration between an open source community and a company’s engineering team can grow through the years. It can also illustrate some of the challenges and benefits of...