Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
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.
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.
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...
Google improves support for ODF
The Open Document Format, published November 2006, aimed to make complex documents more future proof. Most competing document formats were non standardized, complex, binary formats which would make their contents hard or impossible to read in contemporary applications...
Wired: Private Cloud Storage: A Professional Document Management Solution
Document management is a challenge which many companies of all shapes and sizes face today because files are created daily on a massive scale, and many of them need to be stored for later use or reference. Technology has allowed us to move far beyond the old heavy...
Three Ways to Block Dropbox in the Workplace
Lately there has been a lot of hubbub about employees using personal clouds in the work place causing data leaks so this article by Neeraj Periwal — on MSPMentor entitled “Three Ways to Block Dropbox in the Workplace” – caught our attention. Periwal writes: “Given the...
Opensource.com: Top 10 open source projects of 2014
Every year we collect the best of the best open source projects covered on Opensource.com. Last year's list of 10 projects guided people working and interested in tech throughout 2014. Now, we're setting you up for 2015 with a brand new list of accomplished open...