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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Infinite Scale: Performance, scalability, security and governance
Infinite Scale is a multi-purpose Data Platform with a focus on performance, scalability, security and governance. It helps organizations to bring data under control while significantly reducing complexity and cost to manage data.
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.
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...
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...