Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
What two forks and a Lessons Learned document can teach you about trust
Most open source projects bury their history. Ours is published.
What two forks can teach you about how trust actually works.
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.
Integrate ownCloud with Microsoft: 100% control, secure data, full compliance
In times of heightened data privacy and security concerns around Microsoft, integrating ownCloud with Microsoft empowers users to opt for secure, compliant, efficient file sharing in a familiar environment.
European-U.S. data protection agreement: Yet another attempt, yet another failure
The recent agreement between the US and the EU is the third attempt to secure the transfer of personal data from Europe to the US. Holger Dyroff, co-founder and COO of ownCloud, does not see the new regulatory attempt as a satisfactory solution.
The digitization of schools must continue at full speed – but with digital sovereignty
A funding gap in the Digital Pact for Schools or even a withdrawal of the federal government would be fatal. Holger Dyroff, co-founder and COO of ownCloud, believes that the states also have a duty to ensure that the digitalization of schools succeeds. They have to guarantee digital sovereignty in the implementation.
Go, Cloud, Go!
ownCloud Infinite Scale ensures better performance and scalability. This is made possible by the new implementation in Go, a microservice architecture and the high-performance file system EoS developed at CERN.
Expert Talk: Introducing ownCloud Infinite Scale 3.0
Tobias Baader, Product Manager at ownCloud, talks about the immense potential of Infinite Scale 3.0 to revolutionize collaboration in real time.
ownCloud presents Infinite Scale 3.0: The new and most secure version of its real-time content collaboration platform
ownCloud has released ownCloud Infinite Scale 3.0, the third version of its leading content collaboration platform for secure, real-time, enterprise-grade file sharing, written in Go with a future-proof cloud-ready microservices architecture. The new release further improves the Spaces feature for modern teamwork experience, offers even more security, is accessible and makes administration easier than ever.
New Features in Infinite Scale 3.0
The highly anticipated third edition of Infinite Scale is a major release that packs a range of enhancements, bug fixes, and exciting new features.
Digital sovereignty also includes self-determination
In a position paper, Germany’s top data protection officials outline how they envision sovereign clouds. Their demands are welcome, but do not go far enough, laments Holger Dyroff, Co-Founder and COO of ownCloud.
Coming Soon: ownCloud Infinite Scale 3.0
Accessibility (WCAG 2.1) and compliance, notable enhancements to the Spaces feature, a much faster and more flexible webUI, improved administration and much more: Stay tuned for Infinite Scale 3!