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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
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Now: governance, a manifesto, and a codebase that’s yours.
The Kiteworks OSPO for ownCloud launches May 5.
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 Infinite Scale in the Press
Various publications have been reporting on ownCloud Infinite Scale, long before the final version was released end of 2022. Find a complete list here – some of them dive in deep in the technology at its core.
Digital life goes on even without Microsoft 365
The Conference of the Independent Data Protection Authorities of Germany (Datenschutzkonferenz or DSK) has judged that it is not possible to use Microsoft Office 365 in accordance with German and EU data protection regulations. However, this in no way implies that digital life will come to a sudden halt. Full-fledged alternatives are readily available.
Scalable, secure, faster and more efficient: ownCloud Infinite Scale is here
Nuremberg, Germany, December 6, 2022 – ownCloud has released ownCloud Infinite Scale, the next generation of its cloud collaboration platform for secure, enterprise-grade file sharing and collaboration.
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.
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.
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.
ownCloud and Auctores partnership give control of data back to schools
Thanks to the strategic partnership of ownCloud and Auctores, ownCloud users can now integrate Visavid with ownCloud to enjoy a safe, secure and efficient virtual communication solution.
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.
Data security also includes metadata, not only files
When it comes to digital collaboration, protecting only the files is not enough. Protecting the metadata is equally important for data security.
More Efficient Collaboration: ownCloud Server 10.11
ownCloud Server 10.11 introduces feature enhancements aimed at more efficient collaboration and better user experience.
Data sovereignty, data protection and the future of open source
Data sovereignty is currently one of the most discussed digital policy issues. Tobias Gerlinger, CEO, ownCloud, discusses in detail the growing importance of data sovereignty, measures that companies can implement to protect intellectual property, open source alternatives, the future of open source ecosystems in the European economy, and more.
Infinite Scale Spaces: A Quantum Leap for Enterprise Collaboration
Senior Product Manager Patrick Maier explains how Spaces comes as nothing less than a revolutionary new way of collaboration in modern companies, institutions or organizations. As an elementary feature of ownCloud Infinite Scale, the new cloud-native platform from ownCloud, Spaces boost collaboration, save money and significantly reduce administrative overhead while improving compliance, control and security.
Infinite Scale: Decomposed FS Functionality for Unprecedented Scaling
More recent versions of ownCloud make use of a functionality called Decomposed FS. This file system is designed to bring Infinite Scale to arbitrary storage backends, and also scalable ones.
Infinite Scale: When will the stable version be released?
ownCloud Infinite Scale is in the beta phase currently, as you probably know. The current beta is Beta 5. It has already come a long way and received a lot of bugfixes and improvements and is worth a try for all open source enthusiasts and Gophers Of course, we're...
Infinite Scale: Performance, scalability, security and governance
Infinite Scale is a multi-purpose Data Platform with a focus on performance, scalability, security and governance. It helps organizations to bring data under control while significantly reducing complexity and cost to manage data.