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.
The Three ownCloud Development Priorities
We recently blogged about the 6 ownCloud user interaction design principles from a conversation with ownCloud designer Jan. In this blog, we talked to ownCloud project lead Frank to cover the priorities underlying technical development: keeping data safe, being easy...
Note From the CTO- The ownCloud Vision!
This is the first post in a regular blog series called ’Notes from the CTO’ where I share our strategic and longer term plans for ownCloud. I’ll cover current challenges and interesting trends in the market. I believe this will give you some interesting, valuable...
ownCloud 9 Spoilers
As many of you know we are currently working on the latest version of ownCloud, ownCloud 9, which is due to release very soon. While I don’t want to give too much away, in this video I discuss a few features and updates that I am most excited about with the upcoming...
Spreed Brings Private Video Calls to ownCloud
Meet the Spreedbox: an aluminum cube with 4.5" (11.1 cm) sides, slightly tilted on a plastic base and weighting over 2.5 pounds (1.1 kg). In it, you can find an oDroid C1+ board as well as a custom PCB with a RNG and microSD storage. On the storage youwill find the...
Beta 2 is Here, Help Test the Upcoming Release!
The ownCloud contributors have started the end sprint to ownCloud 9.0. Feature freeze went into effect last week and the focus is now on stabilizing the code base for release. Do you want to guarantee a smooth 9.0 upgrade for yourself and 8 million others? This is the...
Box Keysafe Not So Safe
This month Box announced its KeySafe service, a service that should give organizations control over their encryption keys. The ultimate goal of the service is that an organization’s content may reside in the cloud, while allowing them to keep control over their...
New Yorkers Love ownCloud
Last week I attended the New York Linux User Group meeting in Manhattan. What a great meeting! Over 200 people attended the event, people who use and love ownCloud. While I was there I gave a talk about upcoming ownCloud features and Federated Cloud Sharing. The...
ownCloud Featured in HostAdvice Interview
If there is one thing I like to talk about it’s ownCloud. So when I was approached by HostAdvice to talk about ownCloud, how could I pass up that opportunity? Yesterday Tamar Weinberg published our interview, prefacing that everyone should know about ownCloud because...
HostAdvice: ownCloud Gives Users File Access Wherever They Need
If you’re not familiar with ownCloud, well, you should be! ownCloud is a fantastic tool for businesses that need to access data across multiple locations. We dive into exactly what this means when we sat down with ownCloud’s CEO and founder, Markus Rex, who tells us...
ownCloud Earned Members Choice Award From Linux Questions
Many people are looking for a safe home for their data and ownCloud provides this for millions of users! The yearly Linux Questions Members Choice Awards 2015 vote for the fresh new Open Source Cloud Solution of the Year category reflected this fact in a massive win...
Softpedia: ownCloud Desktop Client Updated with HiDPI Improvements, Better Syncing
ownCloud Inc. was proud to announce the release and general availability of new versions for its ownCloud Desktop and ownCloud Android clients. Looking at the release notes for both clients, it would appear that the ownCloud developers managed to implement a great...
GÉANT, in Collaboration with ownCloud, Announces First Key Milestone for OpenCloudMesh
Today GÉANT has announced, in collaboration with ownCloud, the achievement of OpenCloudMesh Project’s first key milestone. The accomplishment was reached during CERN’s Cloud Services for Synchronization and Sharing (CS3) workshop back in January, where OpenCloudMesh...
The Register: Three storage upstarts hit back at doom, gloom ‘n’ layoffs news
ownCloud is an open source file sync and sharer with a focus on providing universal file access to mobile device users. It tells us it had 100 per cent revenue growth from 2014 to 2015, scoring $8m in 2015 bookings. In 2014 there were 3.6 million downloads of its...
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 ...