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.
ownCloud Collaborates with Red Hat to Offer Secure Enterprise File Sync and Share
ownCloud, Inc. announced today an offering to give organizations a secure, private on-premises alternative for file sync and share by combining Red Hat Storage Server 3 with ownCloud’s Enterprise Edition.
ownCloud Partners with Red Hat to Offer Integrated Enterprise Storage and Secure File Sync and Share
Between now and the end of the year, Red Hat and ownCloud are partnering on a joint offering to give organizations a secure, private, on-premises alternative for file sync and share combining software defined storage using Red Hat Storage Server 3.0 with our on-premises enterprise file sync and share.
Welcome IIS to Red Hat, ownCloud partnership
Welcome to IIS, a top 100 big data technology solution provider, who will be the first ownCloud-authorized partner to offer a turn-key, Red Hat, HP and ownCloud bundle named Fortifile.
Secure File Sharing: Why ownCloud Makes Sense in Today’s Data Breached World
File sharing is a major challenge for professionals today, because there is a major lack of security and privacy in most of the methods available. Cloud storage through popular companies that use public servers continues to fail in ways that appear all over the...
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,...