Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Data security and user control: Public vs. private cloud
In this interview with IT-Zoom, Tobias Gerlinger, CEO and Managing Director of ownCloud, discusses why public cloud is not the right place for sensitive data, and what measures enterprises can implement to protect data and exercise full user control.
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.
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...
Scaling with ownCloud
ownCloud was designed from the beginning to operate in nearly every enterprise environment from single server to high performance set-ups.
NetworkWorld: New products of the week 03.23.2015
New features make it easier to access, control and use of data. ownCloud 8 EFFS offers new subscription packages too. More info.
CMSWire: Build Your Own Dropbox-Like File Server with ownCloud 8
In recent months, Dropbox added administration features that business users require to help protect intellectual property and maintain distribution rights. But in the meantime, the developers of an open source project called ownCloud (with a small “o”) have been...
ownCloud and PHP Interview on Community Site
Check out this interview I gave with ownCloud’s Server Development Team Lead Thomas Müller on the community blog. Together we talked the language of PHP, a central part of the ownCloud infrastructure that makes it easy to deploy on a wide range of platforms and...