Blogs
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.
ownCloud Mail Update
ownCloud Mail is making rapid progress. We talked to some of its main contributors to get an idea of the why and how behind this app and of course - how to get involved! Why ownCloud Mail Asked about the goal of the ownCloud Mail app and why it matters, the...
The Formation of ownCloud
As everyone knows, I love ownCloud. I have loved it from its conception and am in awe of what it has grown into. It makes me feel great to be able to go home each day and say “I have helped to solve a problem for someone today.” But how did ownCloud get to this point?...
Team Week: Undirected Innovation in a Commercial Open Source Setting
ownCloud is a company with a core and a philosophy that is centered around open source and strives for the role of community stewardship and commercial success. At the same time, we deliver a scalable, world-class, secure, silo-breaking platform for our customers,...
New App Approval Process
With ownCloud 8.1, we introduced changes to the app store and a new app review process for developers. We set up a form and a mailing list to handle reviewing apps. Unfortunately, this process didn't go very smooth and now, we've got another solution which is working...
The Business Card Case
Imagine you are a German company who exhibited at a security show in Nuremberg, Germany. 1) People came to your booth and handed in their business card in order to receive further information (legally, that is a consent). 2) You scan the business card, together with...
PCWorld: Why ownCloud’s CEO isn’t worried about the death of Safe Harbor
Data sovereignty has become a hot-button issue ever since the EU’s top court struck down the Safe Harbor agreement in October, and for many users of file-synchronization and sharing services, it poses a considerable problem. OwnCloud CEO Markus Rex sees it as more of...
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...