Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Infinite Scale: Decomposed FS Functionality for Unprecedented Scaling
More recent versions of ownCloud make use of a functionality called Decomposed FS. This file system is designed to bring Infinite Scale to arbitrary storage backends, and also scalable ones.
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.
Major update of the News app coming!
Last week, the News app was updated to 3.0. This new version is a major rewrite, bringing major improvements to the user interface. In this blog we'll highlight some of them. User Interaction A major theme for changes in version 3 has been a more flexible user...
Join Me Tomorrow at the DeIC Conference 2014
Tomorrow I will be opening the DeIC Conference 2014 talking about the dangers of consolidation of data.
ownCloud development in August Part II
Yesterday we covered what happened in core and apps in part I of our ownCloud development in August. Today, we will highlight some cool, upcoming projects and give you a taste of the activities in the ownCloud app store and on our mailing lists. Upcoming awesome Let's...
ownCloud development in August Part I
Today and tomorrow we cover a full month of ownCloud development activities, giving you an overview of what was going on in August. It was a crazy month, with a massive amount of activity resulting in a long report, so we've split it up in two! If you have any tips or...
Linux.com: Open Source ownCloud Seeks to Combine Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds
Over the past two years IT managers at the public research universities in Germany’s most populous state, Northrhine-Westfalia, have been researching how to build a private inter-university cloud. It will provide about 6 Petabytes of free-to-use storage to 500,000...
ownCloud Community or Enterprise: What’s Right for Your Business
Learn which ownCloud version works best for your needs in our webinar and find out which features and support options we provide.
ownCloud Contributor Conference Was Awesome
Sunday September 1 concluded the last day of the very first ownCloud Contributor Conference and it was our biggest, best event ever. With more than 100 participants from 20 countries, we attracted twice as many people compared to the hackathon last year. We introduced...
The Register: OwnCloud: Fiddly but secure host-from-home sync ‘n’ share
Review Phones in our pockets, tablets down our sofas, and laptops in our bags. Never have we had so many devices in our possession. It makes sense to start syncing and sharing folders and data between them – not just for the sake of convenience, but for our...
The Customer is the thing
Please welcome Mark Viens — our new VP of Customer Experience — who will be responsible for making sure we always do what’s right for our customers. Marks says that Customer eXperience (CX) is a focus on ensuring that ownCloud is maniacally attentive to the mission of...
ownCloud Continues Hiring Surge, Adds Vice President of Customer Experience
ownCloud hires Mark Viens as vice president, Customer Experience Lexington, MA – September 8, 2014 – ownCloud, the company behind the world’s most popular open source file sync and share software, announced the addition of Mark Viens as vice president, Customer...
ownCloud Review Contest Winners
Two weeks ago we announced a review contest for ownCloud 7 and today we present you with the winners! Volkan 'vgezer' Gezer, Efstathios 'Stathis' Iosifidis and Nico 'Nighoo' Suhl. The Banana Pi devices are on their way! Nico was first to share his review over twitter,...
IT Business Edge: A Private Cloud Server for Small Businesses
OwnCloud is an excellent, open source personal cloud server for individuals, small businesses, and large enterprises. It’s a remarkable bit of software engineering that wraps complex technologies into a friendly interface. OwnCloud’s core function is file sharing, and...
Don’t be caught naked in the cloud – decentralization protects our data
Over on the ownCloud Inc. blog, Frank talks about the theft of data from iCloud in the wake of all those naked celebs, and argues that our data should not be stored in a few centralized services. It's why we all are doing what we do at, for and with ownCloud – our...
Is your data naked in the Cloud too
By now you’ve seen the reports — hackers infiltrated iCloud, found and posted nude photos of dozens of celebrities. Why should you care? Well, what’s to stop them from doing the same at Google? Dropbox? Box? How can you protect your private photos and other personal...
The race to the bottom of the Public Cloud just got faster
Wow – did you see the news and here? Public cloud providers are taking a hammering from industry behemoths Google and Amazon and are responding by – you guessed it – lowering their prices (Dropbox Pro will now provide 1TB of capacity for $9.99 a month, the same price...