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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
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.
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.
OpenSource.com: 6 open source tools to help educators stay organized
ownCloud is a file sync and share server. It lets you create and store files, folders, photo galleries, and contacts to this service and keep them synchronized amongst your devices. Teachers can keep and share lectures, make notes and even create and collaborate on...
PCQuest: 15 Open Source Tools to Accelerate and Manage Your Cloud Infrastructure
ownCloud: It is very popular file hosting cloud storage software and accessible via the mobile and desktop apps.
ownCloud Server Development First Half of August
Now that the ownCloud Contributor Conference is over (read this overview of the event with pictures!) we can return to covering ownCloud development. Last time, we covered the second half of July so now we’ll look at the first two weeks of August! By the way, we...
Storage Switzerland: ownCloud 8.1 Extends Beyond File Sync and Share
ownCloud entered the marketplace with a solution that provided IT with a simple to deploy and use file sync and share service combined with critical security features to properly control, manage and protect an organization’s valuable data. As we detailed in a previous...
ownCloud is Headed Back to School
It’s that time of year again; back to school. And ownCloud has its book bag all packed and ready to go too. ownCloud allows educational institutions of all sizes to securely provide students and faculty access to the files they need anytime, anywhere and from any...
ZDNet: User data manifesto seeks to give people control of their data
Frank Karlitschek, founder of the open-source ownCloud program, has been seeking to define the “basic rights for people to control their own data in the Internet age.” Karlitschek and his colleagues have been working on this idea since 2012. Now, in Berlin at the...
Network World: Kicking Google out of my life, Part 8: Will I ever go back?
I left Gmail and began using Kolab Now during this wacky little experiment. You know what? I have no intention on returning to Gmail. Even though Kolab Now is a paid service, I find it to be well worth the few dollars I pay per month. The simple fact that I am not...
OpenSource.com: Back to school: 5 open source programs for students and teachers
A win-win for schools is ownCloud, an open source file sharing server that helps schools take back control of their data. Files are available via sync clients for nearly all major operating systems, as well as a web interface. ownCloud also includes a browser-based...
Fierce CIO: User Data Manifesto 2.0 targets tech industry data practices
Frank Karlitschek started the idea for a data manifesto in 2012, and he’s been working on the document in concert with his open-source ownCloud platform since. The User Data Manifesto 2.0, which Karlitschek debuted this weekend at the ownCloud Contributor Conference,...
Opensource.com: Back to school: 5 open source programs for students and teachers
Educators need convenient digital lockers to stash student projects and teacher work, but protecting student data privacy is a growing concern. With rampant data mining, surveillance, and third party sharing of sensitive data by commercial cloud and application...
ownCloud Contributor Conference Rocked!
The ownCloud Contributor Conference started Friday the 28th of August with ownCloud contributors gathering in the hacking rooms at the TU Berlin. Saturday saw some exciting keynotes and announcements, as well as a series of lightning talks, workshops and our live...
The Practical ownCloud Conference Guide
Participating in the ownCloud Conference? In this blog you can find all the practical information you need to know. If you can't make it - check out our live stream! The ownCloud Contributor Conference is just a couple of days away and we’re excited to welcome all of...
Softpedia: ownCloud Desktop Client 2.0 Arrives with Support for Multiple Accounts, More
ownCloud, a software company known for developing and deploying the most popular self-hosting cloud server solution on the market, announced today, August 25, the immediate availability for download of ownCloud Desktop Client 2.0. According to the announcement,...
Datanami: Five Reasons for Leaving Your Data Where It Is
As cloud adoption continues its meteoric ascent, the number of access points to enterprise data also increases. And while keeping data on premise is no guarantee of security, it does drastically reduce the number of access points. But the case for keeping data on...
Desktop Client 2.0 – Offering Multi-Account and Large Folder Sync
Today ownCloud has released the newest version of the Desktop Client, 2.0. With this release comes the resolution of numerous bugs, as well as two brand new features: multi-account and large folder sync thresholds. One of the most consistent requests we have had for...