Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
More Efficient Collaboration: ownCloud Server 10.11
ownCloud Server 10.11 introduces feature enhancements aimed at more efficient collaboration and better user experience.
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 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.
ownCloud development for the first two weeks of September
This is the ownCloud community update for the first two weeks of September. Covering activity from ownCloud development mailing lists, blogs, social media and of course our github code repositories, we hope to give you a good idea of what goes on in ownCloud. Tips are...
The Var Guy: ownCloud, Red Hat Partner on Open Source Storage
ownCloud Inc. and Red Hat(RHT) say they can deliver open source storage with lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and better compliance standards through a partnership that combines Red Hat Storage Server 3 with ownCloud's file syncing and sharing platform.
ownCloud in Beijing
From October 18 to 19, the openSUSE Asia Summit will take place in Beijing, China. ownCloud will be featured with both a lightning talk and a extensive workshop on developing ownCloud apps! openSUSE and ownCloud in Asia The openSUSE Summit will feature a wide range of...
Heading to IBM Enterprise2014 Next Week?
I’ll be there talking about how MSPs, Channel Partners, and other 3rd party ISVs can grow their businesses by offering their customers a way to better protect their data with ownCloud and IBM’s Elastic Storage.
ZDNet: Red Hat Storage Server 3: Not your usual software-defined storage
Remember when gigabyte drives were big? Recall when a terabyte of storage was enormous? Those days are long gone when your business is moving to petabytes. To manage that kind of storage you need a program that can handle "scale-out" file storage. For your colossal...
The Mukt: ownCloud, Red Hat join hands to bring secure cloud to enterprise customers
Red Hat is the largest Open Source company in the world. They registered impressive revenues of over $1.53 billion (yes, that’s a ‘b’) in 2014. Combine that with ownCloud, a company that originated with Germany and came out with one of the most important solutions in...