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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
ownCloud Sprint Review: Tiles view in Infinite Scale, Scoped Storage and more
Over the last two weeks, developers at ownCloud worked towards substantially improving the platform, and also fixed existing bugs. Among these, the most significant improvement is the support for a tiles view in ownCloud Infinite Scale. Furthermore, the new clients for Android and Apple devices now come equipped with interesting features. What’s more, Infinite Scale will now receive user notifications in the web UI and an automatic server detection. An event log and history service with notifications are in the development stage.
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.
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...
Launching new encryption framework
Enterprise Mobility Exchange: New Modular Approach to Security Allows Organisations to Secure, Manage and Control Sensitive Data
IT World: ownCloud 8.1 comes with Encryption 2.0
As we hurtle towards the cloud, it is becoming increasingly crucial that we remain in charge of our data, of our cloud. And that's where ownCloud comes in. This Open Source project, which was founded in Germany, is now a well funded, full-fledged company headquartered...
eWeek: ownCloud Launches Encryption 2.0 Platform
Open-source enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) software developer ownCloud has announced a modular framework for encryption, Encryption 2.0, part of ownCloud 8.1, the latest version of the company's EFSS solution. Encryption 2.0 features a new set of encryption...
PCWorld: ownCloud’s new encryption framework gives enterprises more flexibility
It’s no secret that security has been a tripping point for enterprises considering cloud storage, but ownCloud on Tuesday took a fresh step toward alleviating such concerns with the addition of a new encryption framework. ownCloud’s file, sync and share service offers...
TechRepublic: 10 compelling reasons to consider open source for your enterprise storage needs
Enterprise needs are a different beast from those of SMBs. Few areas define this as clearly as storage. Instead of storing a few hundred gigabytes, you're looking at terabytes and maybe even petabytes. Failover, redundancy, security, backups—all essential when it...