Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Spaces: Boosting digital collaboration for remote teams of all sizes
Whether SME, large company, association or educational institution: digital collaboration poses new challenges, especially in remote teams. Spaces significantly simplifies digital collaboration with a revolutionary technical approach and optimized user experience.
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 Community Edition Hot Feature: Turning Private Clouds into Public Clouds
We launched ownCloud 7 Community Edition Beta last week and between now and the release of GA a few weeks from now, we’re going to be blogging on our community site about the important new features.
Dropbox – AND Box — labelled “security risk” by enterprise companies
Organizations are fast beginning to realize there is no such thing as security, privacy – and least of all – control in the public cloud.
ownCloud 7 Sneak Peek: Improved Sharing
In a few weeks, the final release of ownCloud 7 will hit the web. In this and a few upcoming articles you can learn about some of the upcoming features. This article will focus on an improvement to one of the most core capabilities of ownCloud: sharing. Sharing and...
eWeek: ownCloud 7 Aims to Advance Open-Source Cloud File Sharing
The open-source ownCloud project is releasing a new beta today, providing users with enhanced features that aim to make it easier and more secure to share files and content in the cloud. The ownCloud technology enables cloud file storage, sharing and synchronization...
The Var Guy: ownCloud 7 Unveils New Open Source Cloud File Sharing Features
ownCloud, the open source file sharing and syncing platform, is aiming to provide a “Dropbox-like” experience, in its own words—as well as to blur the line demarcating private from public clouds by letting users share file between ownCloud instances. That’s all part...
ZDnet: OwnCloud 7 beta released
Some companies need big public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Others are working on hybrid or private clouds with OpenStack. And, then there are small businesses and small office/home office (SOHO) companies that want a private cloud they can run in a...
Release of ownCloud 7 Community Edition, What it Means for Business
Today, we released the BETA of ownCloud 7 Community Edition, which provides even finer grain controls for protecting data while at the same time simplifying deployment, set up and use of ownCloud !
ownCloud 7 Community Edition Enhances, Extends and Simplifies Control of Sensitive Data
ownCloud today released the BETA of ownCloud 7 Community Edition, bringing even more granular control over data, while simplifying deployment, management and configuration for people and organizations concerned with data privacy and security.
ownCloud 7 Beta is out – help us test it!
We're happy to make ownCloud 7 Beta available for testing. This release brings a massive number of features and improvements. Performance, stability, ease of use but also better sharing, more management and control over your ownCloud and many features for developers...
ownCloud development week 23 and 24
This is the weekly ownCloud community development update for the period of June 2 to June 15. Two weeks this time, as I spent a week in the mountains of Austria! These updates pull together activities from development mailing lists, blogs, coding work and everything...
Linux.com: Why I Built OwnCloud and Made It Open Source
There I was, 4 years ago (this past January) at CampKDE in San Diego, giving a talk on data privacy, warning the audience about the risks to their privacy from cloud vendors – in particular, Dropbox. So, build it yourself they said. Sure, I’ve built things in the...
The Var Guy: ownCloud Private Cloud Platform Wins in Education Market
ownCloud and open source private cloud computing have received a major endorsement from an association of educational institutions in Germany, which has announced its adoption of ownCloud to bring file syncing and sharing to as many as 500,000 new users.
German Universities Choose ownCloud to Sync and Share Data among Half a Million Students and Employees
With up to 500,000 users Sync & Share NRW will be one of the largest cloud projects in Germany.
Muktware: ownCloud Contributor Conference to be held on Aug 26 in TU Berlin
The ownCloud Contributor Conference will take place at the TU Berlin, August 26-31 with an aim to give existing and prospective ownCloud contributors a platform to get together to get work done. Lightning talks, workshops and keynotes will give everyone the...
ownCloud development week 22
This is the weekly ownCloud community update for the week of May 25 to June 1st. 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...