Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Data sovereignty, data protection and the future of open source
Data sovereignty is currently one of the most discussed digital policy issues. Tobias Gerlinger, CEO, ownCloud, discusses in detail the growing importance of data sovereignty, measures that companies can implement to protect intellectual property, open source alternatives, the future of open source ecosystems in the European economy, and more.
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.
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...
eWeek: ownCloud Enables True Universal File Access via Cloud Service
ownCloud uses its own server-to-server sharing capability to bypass all the Web interfaces that trip up seamless file sharing across silos. Anybody who says there's nothing new under the sun--or clouds--ought to read this story. Cloud storage and collaboration service...
ownCloud development for the first 2 weeks of October
This is the bi-weekly ownCloud community update for week 40-42, from October 1st to 19. We put this 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! Biggest...
Taking ownCloud beyond file sync and share
We call this Universal File Access.
ownCloud Extends Secure File Access and Control Across Enterprise Data Silos
Lexington, MA – November 11, 2014 – ownCloud, Inc., today released ownCloud 7 Enterprise Edition, for the first time giving organizations the ability to access, control and manage files across corporate data silos (application, storage and even cloud) keeping them where they are and leveraging existing data management, security and governance tools and processes.
New ownCloud 7 Enterprise Edition Extends Data Access across Storage, Application and Cloud Data Silos
ownCloud Inc. has just announced the availability of the ownCloud 7 Enterprise Edition. This release introduces Universal File Access, a common file access layer across an organization. Enterprise and Community Edition While built from a common core, the Enterprise...
LinuxCon Europe Keynote and Panel Discussion
Now, the full video is available!
Understanding the ownCloud/Ubuntu Kerfuffle
Bottom line is Canonical and ownCloud want the best, most secure experience for our users and we are working hard to get there.
Linux Distributions and Open Source projects
Some recent articles such as "ownCloud Asks Canonical to Remove Their Software from Ubuntu Repos, Sparks Fly", and "ownCloud Ubuntu package affected by multiple critical security issues, nobody to fix it" got published and caused a stir in social media. The issue was...
ownCloud development in the second half of September
This is the bi-weekly ownCloud community update for the second half of September. We have brought together activity from development mailing lists, blogs, coding work and everything else community members share with us into an overview for your reading pleasure! Tips...
Introducing Bounty Source for ownCloud
Thanks to the efforts of Michael scalability-junk Grosser, a Bountysource page has been up and running for ownCloud. Bounties allow users to contribute to their favorite ownCloud features while showing code contributors where users' priorities lie and allowing them to...
BetaNews: Don’t overlook the most important cloud storage feature: Security
The craze in the world of cloud storage today seems to be rolling out lists of additional features that match the features of every competitor out there, and presenting them as new and improved. Every company strives to be appear as the best possible cloud option on...