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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
oCIS “Curie” is complete and you should update to 8.0.3 now
If you’re running any oCIS (ownCloud Infinite Scale) version, please update to 8.0.3; The latest patch, released on May 11th 2026, contains security fixes.
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.
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.
Content collaboration is subject to GDPR
To reliably protect sensitive data in content collaboration, companies need a comprehensive strategy – and the right technical support. ownCloud explains the most important factors.
Expert Talk: Handling ownCloud Spaces
Spaces, an elementary feature of Infinite Scale, has the potential to significantly boost collaboration and increase productivity across enterprises, while improving compliance, control and security.
ownCloud Infinite Scale with Microservice Architecture
Infinite Scale is a complete modernization of ownCloud in Go. With Infinite Scale, ownCloud promises to push the performance limits of its platform, having made a huge change in its data distribution platform. The geo-distributed and federated approach is modern and up-to-date. The partnerships – especially with CERN – lend the product additional credibility in terms of security and interoperability.
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.
ownCloud Sprint Review: Android 4.0, Notifications and Configurable Roles
The Sprint Review from 10th March 2023 delivered several enhancements and developments. The version 4.0 beta of our Android client is now available, with many useful new features, including Spaces for ownCloud Infinite Scale users. Plus, it is now possible to receive notifications in its web client, and there is now the provision to apply configurable roles with separate permissions.
Better user experience for Spaces on mobile, filters and improved batch jobs in admin GUI
The second sprint of February significantly improved the mobile apps of ownCloud Infinite Scale and the way they handle Spaces. Moreover, the Administration UI in the web interface underwent significant changes that would make the administrators’ lives easier.
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