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.
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...
Announcing ownCloud Community Statistics Provided by Bitergia
Shortly after the ownCloud 7 release we made statistics available showing the healthy growth of the ownCloud community. This is important for contributors, users and customers in choosing a project to work with. Numbers say something about the health and relative size...
Lots of warning signs
A ton of troubling news on data privacy this weekend. Each story would have merited a blog of its own, but with so many coming as they did in just the last few days….
BetaNews: Public cloud security flaws: who’s viewing your files?
Secure cloud storage is a challenge facing many professionals today, especially small and mid-sized businesses. It’s clear that the cloud is going to stick around for a long time, and so everyone is looking for a way to get on board with it while still protecting...
ownCloud Webinar: ownCloud and Red Hat, the New Alternative to Enterprise File Sync and Share
I’m sure you’ve heard about last week’s announcement that ownCloud is now collaborating with Red Hat to offer more secure enterprise file sync and share by combining our ownCloud Enterprise Edition with Red Hat Storage Server 3. What makes this news so exciting?
TelecomX Chooses ownCloud to “Connect Africa”
South Africa-based TelecomX will use ownCloud’s secure, private on-premises alternative for file sync and share to provide African customers with the very latest storage as a service offering.