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.
Ostatic: ownCloud’s Community Continues to Expand
Last week marked the release ofownCloud 7 Community Edition, the new version of the ever popular open source file-sharing and storage platform for building private clouds. As The Var Guy noted: “The biggest update that makes the software stand out from other cloud...
ZDNet: ownCloud 7 pulls in users and open source developers
Sure you could join everyone else and put your data on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud, or you could use the latest ownCloud 7 to run your own private cloud.
ownCloud Community Comes Up Big Delivering ownCloud 7 Community Edition
Lexington, MA – August 5, 2014 – On the heels of the release last week of ownCloud 7 Community Edition, founder and leader of the ownCloud project Frank Karlitschek today released some startling numbers on the ownCloud community, builders of the world’s most popular open source file sync and share software.
When I say we have the most awesome community, I mean it
Following our release last week of ownCloud 7 Community Edition, I sat down together with our community manager and just marveled at the amazing thing that we had built together with the community. I knew subjectively how awesome our community here is – and, by the...
How ownCloud Uses Encryption to Protect Your Data
Because ownCloud is all about protecting your privacy we often get questions about encryption of data. How and where does ownCloud use encryption? How does it help to keep your data safe?
The ownCloud Community in Numbers
Over at ownCloud Inc., Frank Karlitschek shared some impressive numbers about our community in a blog post. "Until we pulled all these numbers together, I just didn't realize just how massive and active the community is" He points out that ownCloud has a very active...
Watch Me on the Linux Action Show Sunday
That’s right, I’m making another appearance on the Linux Action Show this Sunday at (1-3 PM ET) talking about ownCloud 7.
Linux Pro Magazine: ownCloud: The Project That Became a Company
Many companies try to create a free software project around their products; however, ownCloud has taken the opposite approach, creating a company around a project. In four years, ownCloud has gone from a theoretical need to a small but steadily growing company run...
The Challenges of Secure Cloud Storage
Many big name cloud storage services have been under scrutiny of late; they don’t seem to be able to provide the secure cloud storage and privacy they promise (one of the most recent big offenders under fire is Dropbox). Investigations and studies are being performed...
The Var Guy: ownCloud 7 Release Enhances Open Source Private Clouds
ownCloud 7, the latest version of the open source file-sharing and storage service for building private clouds, debuted this week, bringing with it major end user experience updates and an innovative way to share files between clouds.
Fierce Enterprise Communications: Open source ownCloud innovates unique collaboration scheme
A very active community of open source contributors worked diligently to meet a Wednesday, July 23 deadline for adding an innovative, and technically extraordinary, feature to the document sharing and collaboration system called ownCloud. With public releases dating...
ownCloud 7 Community Edition: So you want Public Cloud flexibility in your Private Cloud?
You got it in ownCloud 7 Community Edition. Check out Frank’s blog here for details on this great feature – and all the other great additions and improvements in 7.
ownCloud 7 Released With more Sharing And Control
Dear contributors, friends and fans! The ownCloud community is proud to announce the release of ownCloud 7. Eight months of planning, coding, discussing and testing have brought massive improvements in sharing and collaboration while putting you even more firmly in...
Get Public Cloud Flexibility for Your Files with Self-Hosted ownCloud 7 Community Edition
Lexington, MA – July 23, 2014 – ownCloud, the world’s most popular open source file sync and share software, today released ownCloud 7 Community Edition, enhancing sharing and collaboration while maintaining security and privacy – and especially control — over files.
The Mukt: Take control of your ‘cloud’ with ownCloud 7
The best cloud is the one that you own. Once ownCloud was founded I never used public cloud offered and hosted by a company to keep my files. I do use Dropbox and Google Drive, but the primary purpose is to share files with a set of people. With each release ownCloud...