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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
ownCloud Document Classification: A holistic solution to data protection
The ownCloud Document Classification feature was designed to empower organizations to restrict access to files based on their content and/or meta-data, to secure the process of file sharing and prevent unauthorized access to documents and consequent data breach.
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.
Sneak Preview: Admins get more control and better performance with 7
Check out our latest blog on ownCloud 7 Community Edition, all about the greater control and performance ownCloud 7 gives to admins.
Learn How to Scale ownCloud Like a Public Cloud for Large Enterprise File Sharing
LEXINGTON, Mass., July 15, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Why lose the control, privacy and security of your files and data to a public cloud when ownCloud, Inc., the company behind the world’s most popular open source file sync and share software, can show you how to give end users the speed, flexibility and scalability of a public cloud provider.
ownCloud 7 sneak peek: ownCloud 7 for admins
The ownCloud 7 release is near and we have been doing a series of articles on the features introduced in it. Today, our focus is on changes that benefit ownCloud administrators. More control A major theme for ownCloud is control over your data and the people using it....
ownCloud 7 Sneak Peek: Online collaboration with Documents
ownCloud 7 is coming and in this series of articles I provide a preview of some of the most awesome features! It is the turn of the Documents app today. Introducing Documents The documents app was introduced in ownCloud 6 and brought collaborative editing of Open...
Linux.com: Building an Inter-University Private Cloud with Open Source ownCloud
In late 2011, a lively discussion (we enjoy lively discussions here in Germany) among the IT managers of the publicly-funded research universities in Northrhine-Westfalia (NRW), Germany’s most populous federal state, started over a set of interrelated topics:
Tech Times: OwnCloud arrives on Gartner’s Magic Quandrant for file sync, share capabilities
Gartner’s first Magic Quadrant for the Enterprise File Sync and Share market has a new addition to its litany of companies. It is the smallest and youngest, as well as the only open source-based file sync and share product to make the cut.
How are Red Hat, ownCloud and HP making file sharing secure in the cloud?
“Find out how ownCloud with Red Hat Storage Server on HP ProLiant SL4540 servers provides a scalable high-performance solution that lets users collaborate effectively while allowing IT staff to stay in control of the data.”
ownCloud 7 Sneak Peek: Performance and Ease of use
ownCloud 7 Community Edition is coming next week and we're featuring some of its awesomeness in a series of sneak peeks. The last two were about sharing so I thought I'd cover ownCloud 7's better performance and improvements in the user interface. Better performance...
ownCloud 7- Faster Performance, Easier to Use
With the release of ownCloud 7 just a little more than a week away, I thought I’d discuss just how much faster and easier it is.
ownCloud development week 25 and 26
This is the weekly ownCloud community update for the week of June 16 to June 29. 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...
ownCloud 7 Release Meetup
ownCloud is getting ready to release ownCloud 7 Community Edition and what better way to celebrate than with a Meetup?
More Sharing Features in ownCloud 7
I wrote about our new Server-to-Server sharing feature earlier this week, but I wanted to go into more detail on the other sharing improvements in ownCloud 7.
ownCloud 7 Sneak Peek: More Sharing!
With the release of ownCloud 7 Community Edition just a few weeks away, I started a series of posts about what is coming in this release. I published a blog about the new server to server sharing feature in ownCloud and today, I will cover improvements in other...
Dropbox Adds View-Only Shared Folders To Seduce Stiff Enterprises
We sometimes get cautioned by commenters on this blog to not be too hard on our competition. That’s why, after seeing this announcement in TechCrunch, I wanted to congratulate Dropbox.
Muktware: WebODF meets ownCloud to fix what’s wrong with Google Docs
Google Docs is a great resource for collaborative editing and online document editing, however it has one of the greatest problems of all – it doesn’t support the ISO approved document standard ODF. Which leaves governments, businesses and individuals locked into...