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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Your PR was written by an AI. We don’t care. (But we do have rules.)
We don’t care if an AI wrote your pull request. Last year a community member shipped two oCIS extensions that way. Here are the four rules that make it work.
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.
First Infinite Scale Sprint of 2023 improves Administration of Spaces
The ownCloud Infinite Scale January sprint review showed the fast development of Infinite Scale. The fact that Spaces administrators can now administrate Spaces without having access to the content itself is a huge step towards data protection and security rules needed for compliance in many scenarios.
More speed with Go instead of PHP: ownCloud Infinite Scale is ready for use
Infinite Scale is a complete modernization of ownCloud 10, which has replaced PHP with Go for greater speed and efficiency.
2023: The year of digitally sovereign clouds
This year, companies are sure to rethink their cloud strategies and increasingly rely on European clouds. In doing so, they will reclaim their digital sovereignty, implement sustainable data strategies and take the issue of green IT into their own hands.
By Holger Dyroff, Co-Founder and COO, ownCloud
ownCloud Infinite Scale in the Press
Various publications have been reporting on ownCloud Infinite Scale, long before the final version was released end of 2022. Find a complete list here – some of them dive in deep in the technology at its core.
Digital life goes on even without Microsoft 365
The Conference of the Independent Data Protection Authorities of Germany (Datenschutzkonferenz or DSK) has judged that it is not possible to use Microsoft Office 365 in accordance with German and EU data protection regulations. However, this in no way implies that digital life will come to a sudden halt. Full-fledged alternatives are readily available.
Scalable, secure, faster and more efficient: ownCloud Infinite Scale is here
Nuremberg, Germany, December 6, 2022 – ownCloud has released ownCloud Infinite Scale, the next generation of its cloud collaboration platform for secure, enterprise-grade file sharing and collaboration.
ownCloud Infinite Scale is released for general availability
ownCloud Infinite Scale is now released for general availability. Infinite Scale is a complete modernization of ownCloud 10 with a new and modern 3-tier architecture, which promises improved workflows and collaboration, optimized usability and lower costs.
Digital Sovereignty: Shared Values of OSB Alliance, ownCloud
ownCloud is a member of the OSB Alliance, and stands for building a digitally sovereign society on the pillars of Open Source and Open Standard.
Data security and user control: Public vs. private cloud
In this interview with IT-Zoom, Tobias Gerlinger, CEO and Managing Director of ownCloud, discusses why public cloud is not the right place for sensitive data, and what measures enterprises can implement to protect data and exercise full user control.