Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Infinite Scale Spaces: A Quantum Leap for Enterprise Collaboration
Senior Product Manager Patrick Maier explains how Spaces comes as nothing less than a revolutionary new way of collaboration in modern companies, institutions or organizations. As an elementary feature of ownCloud Infinite Scale, the new cloud-native platform from ownCloud, Spaces boost collaboration, save money and significantly reduce administrative overhead while improving compliance, control and security.
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.
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...
The Mukt: ownCloud to organize Developer Conference in Berlin
ownCloud is one of the most important free software projects around because we all are moving to the cloud for easy access to our data anywhere, anytime. The ‘so-called’ cloud has it’s own advantages, but it also compromises one’s ownership and control of the data....
TechRepublic: Retreating from the cloud: Why its silver lining may be losing its lustre
What the revelations from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have done, says Frank Karlitschek, is to put the issue of knowing where data is stored and who has access to it at the forefront of businesses’ minds. Karlitschek is founder and leader of the ownCloud project....
ownCloud Contributor Conference takes shape – adds more than 30 lightning talks and workshops
Yesterday we announced conference keynotes from ownCloud's Frank Karlitschek and Mozilla's Dan Callahan. Today, we'll give you a more detailed look at the events' schedule. The hackathon The Contributor Conference kicks off with a hackathon next week - on Tuesday,...
ownCloud’s Karlitschek and Mozilla’s Callahan to headline ownCloud’s Contributor Conference
The ownCloud Contributor Conference kicks off in just about a week. Following some code crunching on from Tuesday to Friday, Dan Callahan, Senior Software Engineer at Mozilla and ownCloud's founder Frank Karlitschek will keynote the event's Conference Day on Saturday....
On the Road Again! ownCloud is Heading to LinuxCon in Chicago
Last week ownCloud was having fun in the sun down in San Diego for the Gartner Catalyst Conference, talking to businesses on how they can have secure file access, sync and control. Now we are headed to Chicago for LinuxCon, and boy do we have a busy week scheduled!...
ownCloud 7 Review Contest: Win a Banana Pi!
ownCloud 7 has now been out for a few weeks and many of you have been using the new release. We would like to hear about your experiences with ownCloud 7 so we're inviting you to take part in the review contest we are announcing today. There are prizes: we will raffle...
Gartner’s Catalyst Conference: Managing, Storing, and Safeguarding Unstructured Data in a Cloudy Regulated World
We had a great turnout for a panel discussion yesterday at Gartner’s Catalyst Conference in San Diego. More than 50 people wanted to hear about “Managing, Storing, and Safeguarding Unstructured Data in a Cloudy Regulated World.” Chris Preimesberger, Editor-in Chief of...
Gartner Catalyst: Biggest issues in Mobile Collaboration
Spending this week at the Catalyst Conference here in San Diego, talking to customers and analysts, sitting in on sessions (Bill Nye – yep, the Science Guy – was amazing) and seeing the excitement at the event. One presentation I got to catch was by Gartner Analyst...
ownCloud development week 29 and 30
This is the bi-weekly ownCloud community update for the weeks of July 14 to 27. These updates pull together activities from development mailing lists, blogs, coding work and everything else community members share with us. Tips are very much welcome! Ping Jos with...
No surprise, Cloud companies ARE scanning your email
A disturbing story hit recently when a Texas man was turned in by Google for storing child pornography in his Google Mail account. The story has gained national infamy in the US as the country tries to come to grips with either defending a monster, or defending...
See you at Gartner’s Catalyst Show Next Week
Will you be heading out to San Diego next week to catch Gartner’s Catalyst conference? Stop by booth #108. We’ll be running demos of ownCloud 7 Community Edition, with previews of ownCloud 7 Enterprise Edition. So stop by and take a look.