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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Scalable, secure, faster and more efficient: ownCloud Infinite Scale is here
Nuremberg, Germany, December 6, 2022 – ownCloud has released ownCloud Infinite Scale, the next generation of its cloud collaboration platform for secure, enterprise-grade file sharing and collaboration.
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.
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...
Tech.co: Startups Share Their Tactics and Thoughts on Community Management
ownCloud “We have a completely open development process – which means we develop the software together with our community. This means that things like feature requests, roadmap planning, translation work, etc is done in the open with our community. We like to think of...
ownCloud 8.1 coming in June
With the release of ownCloud 8.0 we made some changes to our release cycle. We would move to time based releases every three months. With the focus of the 8.1 release on stability and performance and to align our schedule better to holiday periods, we've decided it...
ownCloud Enterprise Edition is Helion Ready
Have you heard? ownCloud and HP have partnered up and now ownCloud is a participant in the HP Helion Ready Program. This means that our enterprise solution is certified for use with HP Helion OpenStack® and HP Helion Development Platform. About HP Helion HP...
Linux.com: Community is More Important Than Code
The short answer to "What does it take to be a Linux/FOSS contributor, and why be one?" is dedication, and to change the world. You hear it all the time: Linux and Free/Open Source software depend on contributors. After all, someone has to make all that great...
ownCloud Enterprise works with IBM Spectrum Scale
Check out this awesome video from IBM about how ownCloud and IBM are working together to provide customers with a secure file sync and share solution. We are in Las Vegas all week for IBM Edge, so don’t miss Frank’s talk today during the 1pm session of the Executive...
ownCloud is Getting Ready for the Big Shows
‘Tis the season for ownCloud to attend conferences around the world. And boy do we have a busy schedule this month. So if we are in your area or if you would like to attend the events, even if they’re not local, be sure to register and then come visit us!...
Linux Insider: EMC’s ViPR Slithers Into Open Source
In a year’s time it will be very clear whether EMC’s decision to go open source met with success or failure, remarked Markus Rex, CEO of ownCloud. “I applaud EMC to add something as significant as ViPR” to the open source community, he told LinuxInsider. “As with any...
Foosball Break Anybody?
This week Luke, from our American sales team, visited our Nuremberg office. He claims he had a productive trip…yes, we can see that. Luke and Andrea from Sales, Carlos from Support, and Klaas from Desktop Development taking a well-deserved break with a game of...
ownCloud Contributor Conference Interviews
In August last year, 100 ownCloud enthusiasts gathered at our conference in Berlin to collaborate and make ownCloud even better. During the week of coding, designing, discussing and fun, a dozen participants were asked what they do in ownCloud and what is so awesome...
Files Drop Feature is Now Available, Get Excited!
We are excited to announce our newest feature available for Enterprise users, the write only upload addition to ownCloud we call Files Drop. Files Drop is what it sounds like – anonymous users can now drag a file into the upload only interface and drop it, and the...
ownCloud Announces Call for Papers for 2nd Annual Contributor Conference in August
ownCloud Opens Call for Papers for Its 2015 Contributor Conference at TU Berlin, August 28 – 3 September Berlin, Germany — 5 May, 2015 — ownCloud Inc., the company behind the world’s most popular open source enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) software, today...