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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.
ownCloud 8.1 Enterprise Edition is Here!
Over the past few weeks we have been teasing you with new features and updates in ownCloud 8.1 following the release of ownCloud Server 8.1. But today is the day that we are announcing the release of ownCloud 8.1 Enterprise Edition! With this release, ownCloud has...
ownCloud Server 8.1.1, 8.0.6 and 7.0.8, Enterprise Subscription for 8.1 Available
Today, we release the first minor update to ownCloud Server 8.1 as well as updates to ownCloud Server 8 and 7. ownCloud, Inc. announces availability of the ownCloud subscriptions for 8.1, both Standard and Enterprise. We would like to remind you that ownCloud 6 is...
Help Test the Upcoming 2.0 Desktop Client Release!
After the web interface, the ownCloud desktop client is probably the most important tool for using ownCloud. Unobtrusively running the background, many users rely on it to sync their files. There is a big new release coming: the ownCloud Desktop Client 2.0,...
Announcing the Federated Cloud Sharing API
Over the last few weeks have written a series of blogs on Federated Cloud Sharing. First, I wrote that it was Time to Federate our Clouds and then discussed The Next Generation File Sync and Share Technology, ending the series with a description of The Federated...
Federated Cloud Sharing in ownCloud 8.1
Over the few last weeks, ownCloud founder and company co-founder Frank Karlitschek has published a short series of blogs on the topic of Federated Cloud Sharing, discussing what it is and why it is important. Today, he published a draft of a open API for sharing...
Mount Options for External Storage
ownCloud has always provided options when mounting remote folders inside of ownCloud, but ownCloud 8.1 has taken this to the next level with added and expanded mount options for external storage. These additional mount options enable administrators to configure...
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...