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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.
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.
EnterpriseTech: Secure Cloud Transitions Start with Infrastructure Reviews
There’s a temptation to view the many flavors of cloud as the solution to all an enterprise’s network, storage, and infrastructure challenges. But simply transitioning existing processes to the cloud without scrutinizing every element from a security perspective...
ownCloud Server Does Not Support Windows as Server Platform Natively
We want to enable users to fully control their own data; after much deliberation with our team, an analysis of the pros and cons of this move – we have decided to stop support for Windows as an ownCloud application server.
ownCloud and sabre/dav part II
This is part two of a conversation with ownCloud core developers Thomas Müller, Robin Appelman and Vincent Petry, where we explored sabre/dav and how it is used within ownCloud. We discussed WebDAV and sabre/dav in the previous post, ending with how it ended up in...
Edit your ownCloud Documents with iOS apps
The ownCloud iOS app has recently been updated with some major new features including Instant upload and the ability to function as Document provider. This not only makes the photos taken with your iPhone available on your ownCloud, but also brings ownCloud files to...
ownCloud development in March
Where February topped the first month of this year with 362 pull requests merged, March broke the 400 pull request barrier, in no small part, thanks to the very active hackathon in Nuremberg. As always, the following will summarize some of the happenings in ownCloud...
The Hackathon in Nuremberg was Awesome!
Early last month we noted that the ownCloud office in Nuremberg would be hosting a hackathon! Over 20 developers joined and made a big impact on the ownCloud code base. The next 'hackathon' will be the ownCloud Contributor Conference in Berlin, where you'll have a...
ownCloud Contributor Conference 2015 Dates Announced, Registration Open
It is 2015 and you all must have been waiting for it--the announcement of the dates for the ownCloud Contributor Conference! Well, here goes: The ownCloud Contributor Conference 2015 will take place from Friday August 28 until Thursday September 3 at the TU Berlin...
ownCloud and sabre/dav
sabre/dav (or SabreDAV) is the most popular WebDAV/CardDAV/CalDAV framework for PHP. It is open source and developed by fruux, a German company developing a unified contacts/calendaring system that works across platforms and devices. ownCloud builds on sabre/dav for...
ownCloud development in February
February is the month that ownCloud development picked up steam, following the holiday period and the release freeze. ownCloud 8.0 was released on the 9th so code was free to flow in again, resulting in over 362 pull requests getting merged – almost 100 more than in...
Why Enterprise Organizations Should Care About Open Source’d Applications
Over on the .org blog, we published an article about contributing to our mobile apps. The ownCloud Android app has been open source since its inception and we made the source code of the ownCloud iOS app available under the GPL this past November. Having the source of...
Contributing to the ownCloud mobile apps
The source code of the ownCloud iOS app was made available under the GPL this past November. The Android app has been open source for a while and managed to build up a healthy community. Unfortunately, there have yet to be many contributions to the iOS app, but there...