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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
“We are not dependent on hyperscalers in Germany”
The BayernBox is an open-source solution for secure data exchange in around 1,000 Bavarian municipalities. Holger Dyroff, COO and co-founder of ownCloud, explains the background of the project in an interview.
Kiteworks Open Source Program Office (ownCloud)
Kiteworks empowers organizations to manage risk in every send, share, receive, and save of sensitive content, protecting over 100 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.
Infinite Scale: When will the stable version be released?
ownCloud Infinite Scale is in the beta phase currently, as you probably know. The current beta is Beta 5. It has already come a long way and received a lot of bugfixes and improvements and is worth a try for all open source enthusiasts and Gophers Of course, we're...
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.
ownCloud Document Classification: A holistic solution to data protection
The ownCloud Document Classification feature was designed to empower organizations to restrict access to files based on their content and/or meta-data, to secure the process of file sharing and prevent unauthorized access to documents and consequent data breach.
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.
5 filesharing methods that promise ultimate data security
Management involvement, hybrid cloud, version control, end-to-end encryption and document classification are five foolproof ways to securely share files and ensure a high level of data protection.
“Security is not a privilege”
We spoke with Thomas Haak, CEO, Lywand Software, about his enterprise’s mission of making cybersecurity available easily for SMEs. Alongside, he also shared his experience regarding data security at ownCloud.
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.
Infinite Scale is not Server and Web only!
We recently released the beta for Infinite Scale. And, there’s more: The alpha releases of the desktop clients and the iOS client.
Tech Talk: ownCloud Integration with Microsoft Teams
In this Tech Talk, Tobias Baader (Product Manager, ownCloud) walks us through the integration of Microsoft Teams for ownCloud. This integration provides a quick and simple way of collaborating on Word, Powerpoint and Excel files via Microsoft Teams, while maintaining full user control and a high level of data security.