Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
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.
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 Development in the First Half of July
Welcome to the ownCloud community update for the first half of July - covering a crazy month! We released ownCloud 8.1 and published many blogs and videos about what's new and improved. In coding news, work on 8.2 has started with work towards moving the Files app to...
LDAP Wizard– Faster and More Scalable Than Ever
We first introduced the Active Directory/LDAP Wizard with the release of ownCloud 6 to make integration with existing user directories easier. With the release of ownCloud 8.1 we have made improvements to the wizard and the backend connector that now make it even more...
ownCloud Contributor Conference Program
At the ownCloud Contributor Conference ownClouders will get together for a week of discussion and coding on ownCloud. The talk program will kick off on Saturday, August the 29th, with a keynote by Angela Richter. Today, we announce our exciting program of talks and...
Announcing the ownCloud Contributor Conference Keynote Speaker: Angela Richter
The ownCloud Contributor Conference is coming to Berlin from August 28 to September 3. The 2 day talk program will kick off on August 29 with a keynote speech given by Angela Richter, house director at the Cologne National Theater and director of the interactive...
Spreedbox: Open-source videoconferencing
ITWorld: Move over Skype, Facetime, Hangouts. Here comes Spreedbox, a fully open source, secure videoconferencing solution
The Federated Architecture of Next Generation File Sync and Share
In my last blog I introduced the concept of federation as the solution to the biggest limitation that second generation clouds suffer from: the difficulty of cross-cloud collaboration. In this blog I will describe the architecture of a federated file sync and share...
ownCloud development in April, May and June
The busy time leading up to the ownCloud release has made it hard to keep up with development. As the value of outdated reports is minimal, this report will merely summarize work done over the last three months, after which we'll put renewed effort in keeping up by...
The Next Generation File Sync and Share Technology
In my previous blog I discussed the evolution from public, consumer-oriented file sync and share cloud-based technologies to secure and flexible on-premise clouds. I closed the blog by pointing out that the second generation cloud file sync and share technologies has...
Encryption 2.0 in ownCloud Server 8.1
Two years ago ownCloud introduced server-side Encryption and now ownCloud 8.1 introduces a reworked version, dealing with many of the downsides of the initial Encryption implementation and introducing new capabilities. Read on to learn why these changes were made and...
Making ownCloud Faster Through Caching
Some operations an ownCloud server executes take a lot of time to complete, such as expensive calculations or communication with a remote storage server. Some other operations don't take particularly long - but are needed many, many times per second. To improve...
It is time to Federate our Clouds
ownCloud is at the forefront of new technologies being developed in the cloud file sync and share area. I’ve been having conversations with researchers working in this area like the W3C, CERN and even had a very good discussion with Tim Berners Lee about this topic...
CERN, Smashbox and ownCloud Collaboration
CERN is one of those ownCloud customers who challenges our product continuously. The number of and variety of demanding users, the dazzling amounts of data and the unique setup ownCloud has to integrate with has provided us with an inspiring and educational use case....
datto Announcement of ownCloud Partnership with Demo at dattocon 2015 [Video]
Check out this video from the keynote address at dattocon 2015 where Austin McChord, the CEO of datto, announced their partnership with ownCloud and the fact that ownCloud would immediately be available on every SIRIS system ever sold. Philipp Heckel then demonstrates...
Datto: Introducing ownCloud on SIRIS
Enterprise file sync and share is changing how businesses use and control their data. Hear from ownCloud, Datto’s newest technology partner, about how this new SIRIS feature will impact both MSPs and businesses. Rob Rae, Datto VP of Business Development, is the...
ownCloud 8.1 Brings Massively Improved API for Developers
ownCloud Server 8.1 delivers the result of a strong focus on code quality and testing. A big part of that has been improvements to the API. ownCloud 8.1 introduces over 190 new public API functions and deprecates over 50 old functions. We will discuss the ownCloud API...