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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Stewardship is not the same as control: A governance charter for people who’ve been burned before.
Kiteworks controls ownCloud’s roadmap. Why we are being highly visible about this and what it means.
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 Infinite Scale with Microservice Architecture
Infinite Scale is a complete modernization of ownCloud in Go. With Infinite Scale, ownCloud promises to push the performance limits of its platform, having made a huge change in its data distribution platform. The geo-distributed and federated approach is modern and up-to-date. The partnerships – especially with CERN – lend the product additional credibility in terms of security and interoperability.
Living Roadmap: Join the Conversation
With the Living Roadmap, we invite you to come forward with your valuable opinions, feedback and suggestions regarding ownCloud Infinite Scale features and future plans, to help us further enhance the experience.
ownCloud Sprint Review: Android 4.0, Notifications and Configurable Roles
The Sprint Review from 10th March 2023 delivered several enhancements and developments. The version 4.0 beta of our Android client is now available, with many useful new features, including Spaces for ownCloud Infinite Scale users. Plus, it is now possible to receive notifications in its web client, and there is now the provision to apply configurable roles with separate permissions.
Better user experience for Spaces on mobile, filters and improved batch jobs in admin GUI
The second sprint of February significantly improved the mobile apps of ownCloud Infinite Scale and the way they handle Spaces. Moreover, the Administration UI in the web interface underwent significant changes that would make the administrators’ lives easier.
3 Advantages of a Futuristic Data Strategy
Cloud – but how? A question that should be discussed at the beginning of any cloud strategy to find a sovereign and sustainable model. Digital collaboration expert ownCloud presents three benefits that companies can expect from a sovereign cloud environment.
ownCloud Infinite Scale: Green IT and Sustainable Data Strategy
At it-sa 2022 in Nuremberg, ownCloud presented its contribution to Green IT and the concept of sustainable data strategy. This article takes a closer look at how we want to support climate-neutral IT in a sustainable way.
Expert Talk: Data Strategy for the Future
In this Expert Talk, Holger Dyroff, COO and Co-Founder of ownCloud, explains how a well-rounded data strategy has the potential to boost efficiency, increase productivity and ensure data protection and compliance at your enterprise.
Microsoft 365 to be banned in schools: Data protection officers warn
Baden-Württemberg’s data protection officer underpins his appeal to schools to ban Microsoft’s cloud office, with reference to claims for damages.
ownCloud Sprint Review: Tiles view in Infinite Scale, Scoped Storage and more
Over the last two weeks, developers at ownCloud worked towards substantially improving the platform, and also fixed existing bugs. Among these, the most significant improvement is the support for a tiles view in ownCloud Infinite Scale. Furthermore, the new clients for Android and Apple devices now come equipped with interesting features. What’s more, Infinite Scale will now receive user notifications in the web UI and an automatic server detection. An event log and history service with notifications are in the development stage.