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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.
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...
Want to add a feature to the ownCloud iOS app? Now you can!
Today ownCloud Inc. announced that the development of the ownCloud iOS Mobile App would be opened for contributions! While still bound by Apple's rules, you can look at the source code, hack on it, compile it and test it on your devices under Apple's iOS Developer...
ZDNet: Open-source IaaS: OwnCloud 7 Enterprise Edition arrives
If your office is like mine, you already have a lot of storage. Over the years, it's probably become quite a mix of storage-area networks (SAN), network-attached storage (NAS), and servers. More recently, your staff has started to use tablets, smartphones, and...
Linux Journal: Synchronize Your Life with ownCloud
Like most families these days, our family is extremely busy. We have four boys who have activities and appointments. My wife and I both have our own businesses as well as outside activities. For years, we've been using eGroupware to help coordinate our schedules and...
Did we mention? Check out the new 1.7.0 desktop client!
This release marks the next big step in open source file synchronization technology with overlay icons, selective sync and more.
Fierce Enterprise Communications: Enterprise file store service ownCloud adds access to others’ clouds
Last July, I introduced you to a service called ownCloud whose premise is to enable a comprehensive, Dropbox-like file and object store to be rapidly deployed by enterprises on-premise. In order to produce a service that resembles what public storage cloud services...
The Var Guy: ownCloud Enterprise 7 Adds Object Storage, Broader File Sharing for Personal Cloud
Making data sharing and syncing available no matter where the data lives—on private clouds, in apps or in public clouds such as AWSand Dropbox—is the headline feature inownCloud Enterprise 7, the newest version of the cloud and data storage platform built on top of...
LinuxVeda: ownCloud 7 Enterprise Edition comes with unique features for enterprise customers
ownCloud, the company, has announced the release of ownCloud 7 Enterprise Edition. One of the most notable features that make ownCloud unique and better than competitors is its Server-to-Server Sharing capabilities. What it means is that an organization can set-up...
Programmable Web: ownCloud Extends Reach of File-Sharing API into the Cloud
As an open source file-sharing and synchronization application,ownCloud has gained a fair amount of traction inside enterprise IT organizations. Now it's is taking advantage of public APIs to connect deployments of ownCloud with external cloud services that in effect...