Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
ownCloud Infinite Scale in the Press
Various publications have been reporting on ownCloud Infinite Scale, long before the final version was released end of 2022. Find a complete list here – some of them dive in deep in the technology at its core.
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.
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 As the value of outdated reports is minimal, this report will merely summarize work done over the last three months, after which we'll put renewed effort in keeping up by...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...
New version of the Android ownCloud app
In between all the release excitement, we published a new version of the Android ownCloud app to the app stores of Amazon, Blackberry and Google Play. Version 1.7.2 introduces some cool improvements: New navigation drawer Improved Passcode Automatic grid view just for...
Documents Update in 8.1
ownCloud 8.1 delivers many improvements to ownCloud, including an update to Documents, the collaborative document editing app. Introducing Documents Documents allows ownCloud users to directly edit files stored in the Open Document Format, the first and most widely...
MSP Mentor: When No Cost Means More Value
One of the key goals in the release of Datto’s new enterprise file sync and share utility, ownCloud on SIRIS, is that it deliver value to MSPs. And it does. The value comes in the form of a rich feature set, the ability to better serve MSPs' business customers, and...
Upgrading to ownCloud Server 8.1
ownCloud Server 8.1 was released yesterday! It is time to start thinking about upgrading and this blog post aims to tell you everything you need to know. Why Should I Upgrade? ownCloud Server 8.1 introduces many smaller and larger improvements all over ownCloud, from...