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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.
You can soon be fined up to 4% of your annual revenue for any data protection violation!
The 3 major law making bodies in the European Union (EU parliament, EU commission and the EU council) have just this Tuesday agreed on the final terms of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). After some more formalism, which shall happen in early 2016,...
Update about the Western Digital and ownCloud Pi Project
After our blog post where we asked your help equipping a Western Digital device with ownCloud, we're very happy to see so many great proposals and ideas come in, with over a dozen and counting! We will talk to WD to make sure no good proposal goes without a PI. We're...
Collabora brings LibreOffice Online to ownCloud
What’s a privacy-friendly and high quality replacement for Google Docs? Look into LibreOffice Online brought to you by Collabora and ownCloud. This blogpost explains what it is and how you can use it.
Western Digital And ownCloud Team Up To Bring ownCloud to Home Users
We want to provide people with a safe home for their data and self hosting is key. When WDLABS, a division of Western Digital focused on accelerating new solutions, approached Frank with an idea for collaboration, we kicked off a project. We will create a self-hosted...
Compare the Cloud: Federated Cloud: The Next Generation of Cloud Services
It’s hard to argue the impact the cloud has had on IT and business over the past decade. It’s made the world smaller by making collaboration easier. The consumer cloud file sharing services that have made our personal lives easier – Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud,...
Save the Date: ownCloud Contributor Conference 2016 Takes Place September 9-15
The date and location for the third annual get-together of ownCloud contributors, the ownCloud Contributor Conference, are fixed! You can join us for a code frenzy at the TU Berlin from September 9 to 15. We have updated our website with some basic information and...
PHP 7 Is Here And ownCloud Is Ready
Today is a big day for the web: the programming language which powers most websites on the internet has released a major new version. ownCloud has been working for months to be ready for this new release as it delivers many benefits to users, not the least of which is...
Big Day of Releases
Today we are announcing not one, not even two, but three releases. That’s right; today the updated versions of the Desktop Client, Android App, and iOS App are now available! The desktop, Android, and iOS clients have all received a major update, support to directly...
Sharing Taken To The Next Level: Clients Introduce Sharing With ownCloud Users and Groups
Today ownCloud users on all platforms will find a new version of their sync client in the app store. The desktop, Android, and iOS clients have all received a major update with support to directly share with other users or groups on your ownCloud server. In addition...
ETC News: Top 10 Open Source Developments of 2015
Open source is driving an ever-expanding market. The notion of community-driven development is a growing disruption to proprietary software controlled by commercial vendors, and the free open source software concept has become a major disruption in industry and...
A Message on Safe Harbor
Since the recent decisions made about Safe Harbor the questions have been flying. How does this effect my company? Depends on the file sharing server you’re using. What about ownCloud, can I still continue to share my files cross continentally with ownCloud? Yes,...
OpenSource.com: 6 creative ways to use ownCloud
ownCloud is a self-hosted open source file sync and share server. Like “big boys” Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, and others, ownCloud lets you access your files, calendar, contacts, and other data. You can synchronize everything (or part of it) between your devices and...
Datamation: Build Your Own Linux Cloud Alternative
ownCloud (Google Drive) – We’ve all experienced the thrill that comes from using Google Drive. But did you know you can run your own? By installing ownCloud on a local server within your LAN, you’re able to utilize many of the same features found with Google Drive...
Softpedia: ownCloud 8.2 Gets Its First Point Release with over 100 Improvements
On November 18, ownCloud announced the immediate availability for download of the first maintenance release of their open-source ownCloud 8.2 self-hosting cloud server solution for GNU/Linux operating systems. According to the release notes, which have been attached...
ownCloud Admin Training in Nürnberg December 1-2!
ownCloud, Inc. organizes an ownCloud Training at the ownCloud office in Nürnberg to help you ensure a successful ownCloud implementation with ownCloud Server! The two-day training, in German, takes place from December 1 to 2. The training provides you with...