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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
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.
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 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...
Blackfire and recent performance optimizations in ownCloud
A little under two weeks ago, a performance improvement in ownCloud was accompanied by a graph showing the difference in code execution time. The tool used to generate the graph was Blackfire, a powerful and easy to use PHP profiler. Since that first graph, many more...
ownCloud development over December
As the second half of December took many people on holiday the bi-weekly reports have been folded into a full December overview. Despite the holiday period, with over 1100 closed issues including no less than 395 merged pull requests, this was not a quiet time....
ownCloud at FOSDEM and SCALE
It's 2015 and a whole raft of trade shows and open source events will take place again. ownCloud plans on being at as many events as possible and kicking off the conference season in Europe and the US are FOSDEM and SCALE. FOSDEM 2015 In the words of the FOSDEM...
High Availability File Sync and Share – Deploying ownCloud with Galera Cluster for MySQL and GlusterFS
Did you catch the blog post, High Availability File Sync and Share – Deploying ownCloud with Galera Cluster for MySQL and GlusterFS, on SeveralNines Monday? “Cloud storage is hot,” according to the blog, and there are many options to choose from. But over all of those...
ownCloud is almost 5 – Celebrate with us
5 years ago -- on January the 17th 2010 to be exact -- Frank announced the ownCloud project as part of the Camp KDE keynote in San Diego. Over the next 5 years, we -- you and us -- have built a great way to safely share and sync files. We've also together built a...
Linux.com: 2015: To Ensure an Open Cloud, IT History has to Repeat Itself
I go back into technology’s past comparing the questions that were asked then to the questions being asked today to prove that the future of technology, especially in terms of the cloud world, remains in open source.
Wired: Private Cloud Storage: A Professional Document Management Solution
Did everyone see my article, Private Cloud Storage: A Professional Document Management Solution, published on Wired last Wednesday? If you haven’t already done so, make sure you check it out, I’m pretty proud of it. I write: “Document management is a challenge which...
ownCloud development in the second half of November
We're nearing the end of the year but with 191 merged pull requests in the last two weeks of November, development was nowhere near slow. For this report we have pulled together activities from development mailing lists, blogs, coding work and everything else...
And so it Begins: Now the FCC is Policy data Protection
That’s according to a recent Bloomberg piece: New Sheriff in Town: FCC Expands Its Reach to Data Security. According to the story: “The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) entered the data security enforcement field in October, levying a $10 million fine against...
Extend Your ownCloud With Apps
The ownCloud app store is one of the most important aspects of ownCloud. With dozens of apps available, it brings you access to a rich variety of functionality.
ownCloud is Raking in the Awards
ownCloud is on a roll this month! We started the month announcing that we ranked second in Linux Journal’s Readers’ Award for Best Cloud-Based File Storage as well as making top five for Best New Linux/Open-Source Product/Project. Well this week we have received...