Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Digital Sovereignty: Shared Values of OSB Alliance, ownCloud
ownCloud is a member of the OSB Alliance, and stands for building a digitally sovereign society on the pillars of Open Source and Open Standard.
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.
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...
ownCloud Contributor Conference 2015 Call for Papers
On August 28, we plan to kick off the ownCloud Contributor Conference 2015 at the TU Berlin. The second edition of this event (and the third time we gather at the TU) consists, once again, of an extensive hackathon where we will be working on making ownCloud even more...
Crushing It at LinuxFest Northwest
Last weekend I attended the LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham, WA for the first time and I was really impressed by the overall organization and quality of the talks. While I was there I took the opportunity to talk about crushing data silos with ownCloud. The main...
ownCloud events coming in May
The month of May features a number of events to do with ownCloud. There will be ownCloud talks, workshops and/or booths in the Netherlands, Finland and Croatia, as well as the monthly meetups in Berlin and Munich. Here is a quick note on where and when you can find...
Storage Newsletter: ownCloud Offers New Support Subscriptions
ownCloud Inc., an open source enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) company, announced support offerings including a support subscription for its open source community edition.