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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 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.
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...