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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Digital resilience only exists together with digital sovereignty
Holger Dyroff, COO and co-founder of ownCloud, discusses the concept of digital resilience in relation to digital sovereignty.
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.
Web Upd8: ownCloud 8 (Server) Release With Usability Improvements, Favorites Support
ownCloud, a free software alternative to proprietary web services such as Dropbox, Google Drive and others that you can install on your own server, has reached version 8.0.0.
Self-hosted ownCloud Server 8 Offers Faster, Easier File Sync and Share with Federated Cloud Sharing
ownCloud Server 8 is available. This new release brings improved sharing and collaboration between clouds and introduces faster ways of getting at your files with favorites and improved search. Federated Cloud sharing In previous versions of ownCloud, users on...
Self-hosted ownCloud Server 8 Offers Faster, Easier File Sync and Share with Federated Cloud Sharing
New community release improves file handling and collaboration across clouds Lexington, MA – February 9, 2015 – The ownCloud community, developing the world’s most popular open source file sync and share software, today released ownCloud Server 8.0, speeding up...
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Help Promote ownCloud Server 8!
If everything goes to plan, Monday will see the release of ownCloud Server 8! This release brings a large number of improvements and new features to users, system administrators and developers. We published some teasers about what is coming already (click those...
Sciebo – Germany’s largest cloud project with up to 500,000 users – launches today
Congratulations to Sciebo, the project which goes live at noon today, enabling universal file accees for employees, teachers and students at more than 20 universities in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. Thanks to state funding, additional universities may follow...
What is coming in ownCloud Server 8.0 for system administrators?
The ownCloud Server 8.0 release is getting very close! Many changes will impact developers and users but we have not forgotten system administrators. If you run an ownCloud server or consider setting one up, read on to find out what is coming for you in ownCloud 8!...
ownCloud Initiates Global Interconnected Private Clouds for Universities and Researchers
Leading research organizations in the Americas, Europe and Asia/Pacific join to create world’s largest public private cloud mesh Lexington, MA – January 29, 2015 – ownCloud, Inc., the company behind the world’s most popular open source file sync and share software,...
ownCloud Server 8.0 for Users
The upcoming release of ownCloud Server 8.0 is not far off and we've already published a post with an overview of changes developers can expect in the upcoming release. In this post, we'd like to go into an important and core feature of ownCloud: working with your...
Campus Technology: OpenCloudMesh Project Connects Private Research Clouds To Facilitate Collaboration
ownCloud has initiated a project that connects private research clouds to facilitate collaboration, communication and testing, while maintaining the security of those private clouds.
OpenCloudMesh Ties Together Universities and Researchers
ownCloud, Inc. announced the OpenCloudMesh project today. This exciting initiative brings together universities and research institutions in the Americas, Europe and Asia/Pacific via a series of interconnected, secure private clouds. What is OpenCloudMesh From the...
ownCloud File Sync and Share Project Turns Five
Open source file sync and share project has exploded in popularity Lexington, MA – January 28, 2015 – ownCloud, the world’s most popular open source file sync and share project, turned five last weekend, marking a half decade of rapid adoption, thankful users and one...
ownCloud is five years old!
ownCloud turns 5 this year, marking half a decade of rapid adoption, thankful users and one of the most active and dedicated open source communities in the world. We are very proud of this milestone and want to thank all our loyal users and contributors for their...
TechRepublic: Break Away From Free Cloud Storage Providers by Using ownCloud
As concerns for privacy and data security accompany the use of free cloud services, users and small businesses might be better served by installing the open source package ownCloud.
ownCloud 8 for Application Developers
In the development update over December, a great many pull requests relevant for developers were described, including the fact that PHP 5.4 is required for ownCloud Server 8.0, the brand new dependency management for apps with the 'Intelligent container' that can...