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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
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.
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 Server 8.2 Comes Tomorrow, Help Spread the Word!
Tomorrow we release ownCloud Server 8.2! This release brings a large number of improvements and new features and we want as many users, system administrators and developers to know about this release. More users means more help in making ownCloud better! How can you...
Reduce Your Attack Surface, Save $15 Million?
Every day we see new stats, new data about cyber security and cyber hacking. Today, a new study was published by HP Enterprise Security and Ponemon Institute – for the sixth year in a row – about the cost of a data breach in the US. Up 20% from last year, the total...
Data Residency, Data Sovereignty and the Mad Scramble
We’re a software company and our roots are in the open source community where, just four years ago, we started to believe there was a better option to file sync and share—a better option to cloud-based vendors like Dropbox and Box—and we put a stake in the ground. We...
ownCloud Contributor Conference Videos Coming Online!
A few weeks ago we went home after rocking a great ownCloud Contributor Conference in Berlin! The event kicked off with two great keynotes and a series of lightning talks and workshops. The keynotes and lightning talks were recorded and we promised to get them online...
ownCloud Android App 1.8 Now Available
Get ready for it guys…Today we have released the latest version of the ownCloud Android App, 1.8. I know, I know, it’s been a while. But what can I say? We didn’t want to offer you anything that was less than perfection! This latest version of the app has three major...
Datamation: Dropbox Alternatives for Linux Users
ownCloud – Unlike the other Dropbox alternatives listed here, ownCloud is more of a Google Apps replacement. Collaborate document editing, calendars, galleries and more – ownCloud is a full software suite designed to run on your own server. Like Google Drive, you can...
Material Design and File Copy in the Latest ownCloud Android App – a Tale of Community
We just made the ownCloud Android Client version 1.8 available on the Google Play Store and other stores, see our website. This new version introduced three major new features: Material Design, the file copy feature and a text file preview function. Besides that,...
Is the Future About Collaboration?
Today I noticed this article at The Verge. http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/22/9372563/dropbox-really-is-a-feature I usually don’t talk too much about other players in the file sync and share market. But this article raised a few interesting points about the market and...
ownCloud History
Earlier this year, ownCloud turned 5 and we published a blog with some highlights. Back in January when that blog was published, ownCloud had received contributions from over 550 people, a number now at well over 800! We've had more releases, events like the...
The Register: Storage silo unification from file sharer ownCloud
Interview We came across what seemed like just another file sync and sharer, and sighed. Yet checking ownCloud’s product out showed there was a lot more to it than that, which made us curious. So we asked Markus Rex, its CEO and co-founder, some questions to find out...
Desktop App FeedReader Gains ownCloud Backend
Integrating with applications on devices is important for ownCloud. We have, of course, our desktop and mobile clients, but there is also quite a bit of third-party support. Most prominently, the GNOME desktop for Linux has had ownCloud account support for some years...
OpenSource.com: Get your own cloud and reclaim your data
Frank Karlitschek founded ownCloud, a personal cloud platform that also happens to be open source, in 2011. Why open source? Frank has some strong opinions about how we host and share our data, and with the recent scrutiny on security and privacy, his thoughts are...
PCQuest: 8 Self-Hosted Cloud Storage Solutions
ownCloud It is a popular personal cloud solution and often referred as Dropbox replacement. It synchronizes your files to the private server. You can access your files globally from the ownCloud server via mobile and desktop apps. You can add external storage to your...
Softpedia: ownCloud Announces Ubuntu-Based Appliance with ownCloud Proxy
If you thought that the ownCloud Server/Client development was slow and boring, think again, as ownCloud has just announced the release of their first-ever appliance that lets users install ownCloud in virtual machines. Being based on the long-term supported Ubuntu...
8.1.3, 8.0.8 and 7.0.10 Updates Ready, ownCloud Appliance With ownCloud Proxy Out
After receiving some important last-minute scalability enhancements, ownCloud Server 8.1.3, 8.0.8 and 7.0.10 are now out. Users are urged to upgrade so they benefit from the stability, performance and security improvements. We're also proud to announce the release of...