Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Digital sovereignty is not a label you buy from a hyperscaler
Digital sovereignty is not a data center location. It’s control.
Why the hyperscalers’ “sovereign cloud” branding fails the test, and how oCIS doesn’t.
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.
3 Advantages of a Futuristic Data Strategy
Cloud – but how? A question that should be discussed at the beginning of any cloud strategy to find a sovereign and sustainable model. Digital collaboration expert ownCloud presents three benefits that companies can expect from a sovereign cloud environment.
ownCloud Infinite Scale: Green IT and Sustainable Data Strategy
At it-sa 2022 in Nuremberg, ownCloud presented its contribution to Green IT and the concept of sustainable data strategy. This article takes a closer look at how we want to support climate-neutral IT in a sustainable way.
Expert Talk: Data Strategy for the Future
In this Expert Talk, Holger Dyroff, COO and Co-Founder of ownCloud, explains how a well-rounded data strategy has the potential to boost efficiency, increase productivity and ensure data protection and compliance at your enterprise.
Microsoft 365 to be banned in schools: Data protection officers warn
Baden-Württemberg’s data protection officer underpins his appeal to schools to ban Microsoft’s cloud office, with reference to claims for damages.
ownCloud Sprint Review: Tiles view in Infinite Scale, Scoped Storage and more
Over the last two weeks, developers at ownCloud worked towards substantially improving the platform, and also fixed existing bugs. Among these, the most significant improvement is the support for a tiles view in ownCloud Infinite Scale. Furthermore, the new clients for Android and Apple devices now come equipped with interesting features. What’s more, Infinite Scale will now receive user notifications in the web UI and an automatic server detection. An event log and history service with notifications are in the development stage.
First Infinite Scale Sprint of 2023 improves Administration of Spaces
The ownCloud Infinite Scale January sprint review showed the fast development of Infinite Scale. The fact that Spaces administrators can now administrate Spaces without having access to the content itself is a huge step towards data protection and security rules needed for compliance in many scenarios.
More speed with Go instead of PHP: ownCloud Infinite Scale is ready for use
Infinite Scale is a complete modernization of ownCloud 10, which has replaced PHP with Go for greater speed and efficiency.
2023: The year of digitally sovereign clouds
This year, companies are sure to rethink their cloud strategies and increasingly rely on European clouds. In doing so, they will reclaim their digital sovereignty, implement sustainable data strategies and take the issue of green IT into their own hands.
By Holger Dyroff, Co-Founder and COO, ownCloud
ownCloud Infinite Scale in the Press
Various publications have been reporting on ownCloud Infinite Scale, long before the final version was released end of 2022. Find a complete list here – some of them dive in deep in the technology at its core.
Digital life goes on even without Microsoft 365
The Conference of the Independent Data Protection Authorities of Germany (Datenschutzkonferenz or DSK) has judged that it is not possible to use Microsoft Office 365 in accordance with German and EU data protection regulations. However, this in no way implies that digital life will come to a sudden halt. Full-fledged alternatives are readily available.
Scalable, secure, faster and more efficient: ownCloud Infinite Scale is here
Nuremberg, Germany, December 6, 2022 – ownCloud has released ownCloud Infinite Scale, the next generation of its cloud collaboration platform for secure, enterprise-grade file sharing and collaboration.
ownCloud Infinite Scale is released for general availability
ownCloud Infinite Scale is now released for general availability. Infinite Scale is a complete modernization of ownCloud 10 with a new and modern 3-tier architecture, which promises improved workflows and collaboration, optimized usability and lower costs.
Digital Sovereignty: Shared Values of OSB Alliance, ownCloud
ownCloud is a member of the OSB Alliance, and stands for building a digitally sovereign society on the pillars of Open Source and Open Standard.
Data security and user control: Public vs. private cloud
In this interview with IT-Zoom, Tobias Gerlinger, CEO and Managing Director of ownCloud, discusses why public cloud is not the right place for sensitive data, and what measures enterprises can implement to protect data and exercise full user control.
ownCloud and Auctores partnership give control of data back to schools
Thanks to the strategic partnership of ownCloud and Auctores, ownCloud users can now integrate Visavid with ownCloud to enjoy a safe, secure and efficient virtual communication solution.