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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
ownCloud Infinite Scale is released for general availability
ownCloud Infinite Scale is now released for general availability. Infinite Scale is a complete modernization of ownCloud 10 with a new and modern 3-tier architecture, which promises improved workflows and collaboration, optimized usability and lower costs.
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.
Protecting the World’s Data with Datto and ownCloud [Webinar]
The word of Datto’s new partnership with ownCloud has spread, and boy are people excited! And so are we, because now we get to show you the cool stuff, what Datto and ownCloud, together, can do. Join the upcoming webinar, Protecting the World’s Data with Datto and...
ownCloud 8.1 Coming Soon, First Release Candidate Ready for Testing
The first release candidate of ownCloud 8.1 is ready for testing. This release will bring many performance improvements, Encryption 2.0 and much more. If you're an avid ownCloud user, this is the time to test the upcoming release and make sure it can deal with your...
MSP Mentor: Datto Expands Beyond BDR Roots to Offer Router Designed for MSPs
Also new this week: a new partnership with ownCloud, the company behind the popular open-source enterprise file sync and share software. Under terms of the arrangement, MSPs will be able to offer ownCloud secure file sync and share capabilities on all new and existing...
BetaNews: Datto launches new solutions to protect data wherever it’s stored
Datto has recently partnered with ownCloud to offer secure file sync and share capabilities on all new and existing Datto SIRIS 1 and Datto SIRIS 2 devices. There's also a new Datto Linux Agent to deliver business continuity to Linux-based environments. MSPs working...
Channel Buzz: Cloud enhancements highlight five new Datto product enhancements
These include a ‘born in the cloud’ router, a sync and share partnership with ownCloud, a new Backupify for Office 365 solution, a new Linux agent and an enhanced partner portal.
TechTarget: Datto partner network gets Office 365 backup
Datto Inc. today rolled out a series of product line upgrades aimed at the backup technology vendor's managed service provider (MSP) allies. Developments geared toward the Datto partner base include support forOffice 365 backup, support for Linux server backup and a...
Introducing Our Newest Best Friends, Datto
By now I’m sure you’ve heard the news about ownCloud’s partnership with Datto. Ben Kepes wrote an awesome article about us at Forbes on Friday that pre-announced our new partnership and received a lot of attention. And today Datto officially announced our partnership...
Compare the Cloud: My Open Source Journey
They say that a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. But the part they don’t tell you is that the direction that first step is taken in will have a drastic impact on the path you take. That’s why I’m glad that, back in 1992, the first step in my...
Clark Tomlinson Presents at SouthEast LinuxFest
Check out our very own Clark Tomlinson presenting Open Source, Safe and Secure; A case for leaving data where it is at SouthEast LinuxFest yesterday. This was Clark’s first time presenting at a conference and, in our opinion, he’s a natural. Way to go Clark!
Forbes.com: ownCloud And Datto Partner To Secure Private File Sharing
Datto is a vendor that offers data backup, recovery and business continuity solutions. The company claims some five million customers with 8,000 partners worldwide. For its part, ownCloud offers an open source file synchronization and sharing solution (think an open...
Students Beware
Students, do your colleges and universities use a cloud-based system that allows students to access your files anywhere? Do you work on your laptop in your dorm room, save the file to the cloud, and then access it in the library to print? I know I did. It was such a...
Online Banking- Is Your Personal Information at Risk?
Jack refuses to do his banking online. Living in a digital world he sure does get some odd looks to which he simply says, “Well, do YOU know who has access to your personal information? I don’t know where it will be stored and how secured it is. And I don’t want to...
The Preventable Costs of Data Breaches
These days, it’s nearly impossible to turn on your TV or browse the Internet without being inundated with news of the latest data breach and the resulting financial fallout. Whether it’s retailers like Target, healthcare providers like Anthem and Premera Blue Cross or...
Pirates after Your Treasure? Keep it Safe with ownCloud
I’m sure by now you’ve heard about the latest data breach in a string of data breaches, the cyber-attacks on the IRS compromising the personal information of over 100,000 people. The IRS has announced that the “criminals used taxpayer-specific data acquired from...
Let ownCloud Protect your Healthcare Organization from the Growing Number of Data Breaches
Did you happen to catch Jeff Goldman’s article “91 Percent of Healthcare Organizations Suffered Data Breaches in the Past Two Years” on eSecurityPlanet? Goldman states that, according to a study by the Poneman Institute, “39 percent have experienced two to five data...