Blogs
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.
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...
ownCloud 7.0.4 is here!
It is time to update your ownCloud server! The fourth update for ownCloud 7 Community Edition has been made available. The most important enhancements from the changelog: Added XMLWriter check Better deleted outdated previews Store storage credential in session only...
Linux Journal Readers Again Name ownCloud Among Top Open Source Projects and Best Cloud-Based File Storage
Only Dropbox scores higher in file storage category Lexington, MA – December 9, 2014 – Readers of Linux Journal, the original magazine for the Linux community, have once again named ownCloud, the world’s most popular open source file sync and share project, among...
ownCloud love from Linux Journal readers
You've shown again what a community can do, building and standing behind a great product! Thanks to your support and votes, ownCloud looks great in the Linux Journal's Readers Choice Awards. Frank just blogged about ownCloud sharing fourth place as Best New...
OpenSource.com: Using ownCloud to integrate Dropbox, Google Drive, and more in Gnome
I was looking for an easy way how to have all my online storage services, such as Google Drive and Dropbox, integrated with my Linux desktop without using some nasty hack, and I finally have a solution that works. I'm here to share it with you. This is not rocket...
Linux Journal’s Readers Love ownCloud
ownCloud has made top five in Linux Journal’s Readers’ Choice Awards for Best New Linux/Open-Source Product/Project
Linux Journal: Readers’ Choice Awards 2014- Best Cloud-Based File Storage
In a category that used to have few options, Dropbox still takes top spot, but the margin is closing. It's hard to argue against Dropbox's convenience and stability, but hosting your own data on ownCloud gives it quite a boost into the second-place spot. Dropbox 30.5%...
ownCloud development in the first half of November – and how you can help
This is the bi-weekly ownCloud community update for the first weeks of November. These updates pull together activities from development mailing lists, blogs, coding work and everything else community members share with us. Tips are very much welcome! Ping Jos with...
Join us for a bug hunt and cleanup!
As our bitergia statistics show, testing before and after the ownCloud 7 release resulted in a lot of reported issues in github. We have fixed many but it isn't easy for the core contributors to handle this big flood of incoming reports! We're asking for your help to...
ownCloud development in the second half of October
Welcome to the ownCloud development update from the second half of October! This overview is put together from activities on github, the mailing lists, blogs and whatever else is shared in the ownCloud community. Tips are welcome, ping Jos with your input! The biggest...
Help ownCloud Grow!
Less than four-and-a-half years since the release of 1.0, two-and-a-half-million people took back control over their data with ownCloud. That is an immense achievement! At the same time, Terra is inhabited by well over 7 billion people, so there's still a lot of work...
Thanks to our Community and our Users!
Following our launch last week of ownCloud 7 Enterprise Edition and the latest desktop app, we did a quick check and found that we had sold more than 250,000 mobile apps (Android and iOS) in the various app stores! Now, considering this does not include ownCloud...