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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
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.
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 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...
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...