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.
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...
ownCloud Desktop Client 1.8 released
The ownCloud Desktop Client is what brings the files from your cloud seamless to your desktop. You can pick any number of local and remote folders and keep them in sync, ensuring you always have the latest version at hand. The previous desktop client release...
ownCloud and PHP
PHP, as a language, is at the heart of the web. In 2013 almost 40% of websites ran on PHP. Major sites such as Wikipedia and Facebook are built on it and numerous other sites are deployed on a PHP based framework like Drupal, WordPress or Joomla. ownCloud is built on...
ownCloud releases updates for supported series
The latest updates to supported ownCloud releases have been made available. ownCloud 8.0.2 (not 8.0.1) is the first update in the stable 8.0 series and brings fixes for a number of compatibility and update problems. If you have not upgraded to ownCloud 8, please refer...
LinuxVeda: ownCloud gets new release cycle
ownCloud is a popular private cloud option within the FOSS community, now they’ve announced a series of changes that will affect enterprise and home users quite drastically. These changes include: a faster release cycle, new enterprise support options and a smaller...
Virtualization Review: Controlling and Managing Universal File Access With ownCloud
Matt Richard, VP of products for ownCloud, and his colleague, Diane Clary, director of product marketing, came by to discuss the data and file access problems enterprises face and a potential solution their company offers. Providing local and remote access to...
ownCloud development in January
January was a month of preparation for ownCloud 8 (and recovery from the holidays!). Most of the activity was aimed at fixing bugs - but there were also some interesting new developments. In this post we'll pull together activity from development lists, blogs, GitHub...
ownCloud 8 Offers New Subscription Plans and Features
Have you heard the big news? Today we announced the release of ownCloud 8 Enterprise and the new ownCloud Subscriptions. These new subscriptions enable our end customers to choose the ownCloud offering that is right for them, from the community edition, through...
ownCloud Offers New Support Subscriptions for Its Open Source Enterprise File Sync and Share
New functionality also enables Enterprise users greater usability and control of data Lexington, MA.—March 11, 2015 — ownCloud Inc., the company behind the world’s most popular open source enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) software, today announced new support...
ownCloud Release Model Changes
ownCloud Server 8 introduces some changes to the release model of ownCloud, including a smaller installation package and a faster release cycle. ownCloud, Inc. has announced a support option for ownCloud Server 8 that brings more choice to professional ownCloud users...
ownCloud 8.0.1 snafu
Last week, packages for a beta of the upcoming ownCloud 8.0.1 update hit some mirrors accidentally, and some of our users have updated to this version already. It still had some problems and we'll release the update in the coming days as ownCloud 8.0.2 to make sure to...
ownCloud hackathon in Nuremberg
In the week from March 23 to 27, ownCloud developers get together in the ownCloud office in Nuremberg to work on infusing more awesome in ownCloud. We'd like to invite anybody interested in helping and hanging out with us to join! Practicalities The office has limited...