Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Welcome to the Infinite Scale Beta!
What a moment for ownCloud and our community! The very first beta version of Infinite Scale, the new cloud-native data platform developed by ownCloud, is available as of today!
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.
ZDNet: Want a cloud where you call the shots? Consider ownCloud
Summary: If you want an easy-to-use, private open-source cloud for your needs, the new ownCloud may just be what the CIO ordered. Nervous about the NSA, PRISM and your public cloud? Not sure you want to put all your data eggs in one Amazon Web Services zone basket?...
ReadWrite: Locking Down Enterprise Storage With ownCloud
ownCloud has gotten a lot of attention of late, no doubt helped by concerns over the potential vulnerability of cloud storage services to government spying on corporate data. While the private cloud storage vendor didn't leap to take advantage of the fallout from...
The H: Upcoming ownCloud Enterprise 5 improves authentication speed
Cloud collaboration company ownCloud has announced that it will make version 5 of its open source ownCloud Enterprise product available at the beginning of July. A release candidate for the software is now available for customers wanting to try out the new features....
The Server Side: Are consumer cloud services or a BYOD mindset a bigger security threat?
If chief security officers are worried about the proliferation of the bring your own device (BYOD) trend, they should be hysterical over the inevitable data breaches that will occur as a result of employees bringing their own cloud computing software into the...
eWeek: ownCloud Updates Enterprise Edition of File-Sync, File-Sharing App
ownCloud is releasing an updated version of its ownCloud Enterprise Edition file-sync and file-sharing software, which includes a host of new features such as improved Active Directory and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) integration to enhance user...
ownCloud Enterprise 5 – More Secure, Easier to Use, Extend and Integrate
Will be available early next month.
Enterprise File Sync and Share Now More Secure and Easier to Integrate and Extend with Latest On-Premise ownCloud Enterprise Edition
ownCloud offers enterprises a secure, on-premise, easy-to-integrate and extend file sync and share.
ownCloud Desktop Client 1.3 Beta
ownCloud is continuously evolving, as seen recently with our mobile apps update, as well as ongoing Community and Enterprise Edition server updates. Of course the ownCloud Desktop Client needs it's due too, and here it is -- ownCloud Desktop Client 1.3 Beta -- which...
ownCloud community continues to flex ownCloud’s flexibility
REALLY delayed in pointing this out, so my apologies, but how cool is this? We wrote a while back about the community replacing Google reader with an ownCloud option – within days of Google dropping Reader. Well, now the community is working together to preemptively...
ReadWriteWeb: PRISM Fallout Part 2: Companies Will Store More Data Behind The Firewall
Great piece by Brian Proffitt on RWW on the controversive FISA court orders and projects like PRISM.
The Var Guy: ownCloud: Private Cloud DropBox Alternative Enhances Android, iOS Support
What does it mean to have a cloud of one's own? Most of us would probably be satisfied with just the basics: Automatic file syncing, easy sharing features and efficient, Web-based access to data. But ownCloud (the open source cloud infrastructure project and potential...
The Var Guy; ownCloud: Private Cloud DropBox Alternative Enhances Android, iOS Support
What does it mean to have a cloud of one's own? Most of us would probably be satisfied with just the basics: Automatic file syncing, easy sharing features and efficient, Web-based access to data. But ownCloud (the open source cloud infrastructure project and potential...
Enterprise File Sync and Share Easier Than Ever
More Features, Greater Usability for Latest ownCloud Apps, Make Secure, Enterprise File Sync and Share Easier Than Ever
ReadWrite: PRISM Fallout Part 2: Companies Will Store More Data Behind The Firewall
The controversy surrounding the U.S. government's reported monitoring of online data via FISA court orders and projects like PRISM may have far-reaching implications for users of public cloud computing. Specifically, it could drive more enterprise customers towards...
Read Write Web: PRISM Fallout Part 2: Companies Will Store More Data Behind The Firewall
Behind-the-firewall enterprise storage solutions like ownCloud become more attractive in this new PRISM world.