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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Integrate ownCloud & Microsoft 365 to protect sensitive data
Whether it’s files containing personal data (GDPR), intellectual property or sensitive corporate data from HR, finance or M&A, companies and organizations strive for seamless and easy-to-use digital collaboration even in those areas – both internally and externally. However, the special level of protection of certain data prohibits their processing in the public cloud. ownCloud can now be seamlessly integrated into Microsoft 365 as a “safehouse” for particularly sensitive data, keeping them out of the Azure Cloud.
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.
BostInno: ownCloud Collects $6.3M in Series A, Led By General Catalyst
Lexington, Mass.-based ownCloud announced it has raised $6.3 million in a Series A round, led by General Catalyst Partners with participation from Boston-based Devonshire Investors, reports theBoston Business Journal.
Boston Business Journal: OwnCloud raises $6.3M Series A to ramp up marketing efforts
OwnCloud Inc., which offers a commercial version of the open-source file sync and share community project of the same name, announced Tuesday it has raised a $6.3 million Series A funding round, led in part by General Catalyst Partners.
GigaOm: OwnCloud adds $6.3M to its marketing war chest
For some tech companies, Edward Snowden is good for business. Take ownCloud for instance. The company paints its service as a secure way to share documents which also lets companies use whatever repositories they like — Egnyte, Amazon, Dropbox.
When You Pay for Cloud Storage, You’re Only Paying for Convenience
So writes Wired magazine’s Richard Baguley.
Wired: When You Pay for Cloud Storage, You’re Only Paying for Convenience
Modern hunters of cloud-related bliss have an overwhelming number of solutions, ranging from basic and cheap to feature-rich and expensive. We chose two to look at here: the open-source system ownCloud, and the commercial service Dropbox. We tested ownCloud running on...
Consumer-Grade File Sync and Share Not Ready for Business
Don’t let your company become a victim of the Dropbox problem.
Hey Boston, Join our Meetup
In our Lexington, Ma headquarters on March 19th.
New on the ownCloud mobile clients: Share Link
Take a look and have fun!
Libraries SHOULD be Free, and Public, Shouldn’t They?
That’s why today we announced we are releasing our mobile libraries under the MIT license. We are always talking about how extensible ownCloud is – how easy it is to extend ownCloud to do what you need to do with it, well, opening up these libraries is a great...
ownCloud Open Sources Mobile Libraries
Now, easier than ever to build, test and run Android and iOS apps that incorporate file storage and share Lexington, MA – February 20, 2014 – ownCloud, Inc., the company behind the only fully self-hosted enterprise-ready file sync and share, today released its mobile...
Swiss Universities turn to ownCloud for File Sync and Share
Pretty cool huh?
It’s 9am, do you know where your important business files are?
Is BYO cloud a threat to your business?
What do Angry Birds and Corporate Espionage have in Common?
Why make it easier for governments or hackers to take your data?
It’s National Privacy Day!
In Europe, where it originated, it’s known as Data Protection Day.
The Enterprise File Sync and Share Race to the Bottom Continues: But Someone has to Foot the Bill
So, who’s paying for all this “free” storage?