Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
End-to-end encryption: Why you need it to keep your data safe
ownCloud end-to-end encryption is a user-friendly, highly-reliable solution aimed at providing the highest level of security for sensitive and valuable data and communications.
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.
Does Your Company Have a “Dropbox Problem”? ownCloud announces Webinar to Help
Webinar will demonstrate how to use your internal servers, storage as well as security and governance policies, to create a secure enterprise file sync and share service
Solving the “Dropbox” Problem
Come hear ownCloud CTO and founder Frank Karlitschek talk you through the “Dropbox” problem, and show you how you can easily solve this problem with ownCloud.
Information Week: Dropbox Alternative OwnCloud Uses Your Own Storage
If you're leery of trusting your data to a third-party cloud-storage service, and have a web server of your own that you'd rather use, ownCloud may be the answer. It's free software that installs on most web servers and transforms it into your own private Dropbox...
NY Times: Where Apps Meet Work, Secret Data Is at Risk
For readers of this blog, or for any IT manager this New York Times story will come as no surprise. But now it’s hit the mainstream.
Beta 2 of ownCloud 5 now up
Thanks as always to a great community effort, we expect to launch GA in the next couple weeks.
Techcrunch.com: Meet ownCloud 5, The Open Source Dropbox
The first beta release of ownCloud 5 was just announced, with a release candidate due in the next week or so. I spoke with Karlitschek about the upcoming release of the latest open source offering from the project. According to him, there are three major elements of...
Check This Out — More Community Fun with ownCloud
Leif Lodahl has created a demo video of how to use LibreOffice with WebDAV using ownCloud server on a Raspberry Pi.
Pizza, Beer, Bugs and Polishing – Welcome to the Latest ownCloud Developers Meeting
Another great community gathering in preparation to our next release.
Replacing FTP, or, FTP? We Don’t Need No Stinking FTP
Design firms using ownCloud have already forgotten how bad FTP was.
How’s this?
Our Apps are FLYING off the Shelves – Virtually of Course
New Board for ownCloud
Extremely happy to announce today the official formation of the ownCloud Board of Directions.
Linux.com: ownCloud Rides High on the Wings of FOSS
If ever there was any doubt about the business value of free and open source software, a quick glance at the Linux Foundation's list of supporting members will surely suffice to lay any remaining questions to rest.
Securing Rogue Clouds
How CIOs found their companies (big companies!) were spending millions on AWS cloud services paid by personal credit cards and the parallel between the AWS “rogue cloud” and the now “rogue” Dropbox.
The Boston Business Journal: Firm offers clients secure way to share their data
While the concept of the “cloud” is one of the hottest topics in IT right now, many companies still have misgivings about how safe and secure it is — and how much control they really have over their own data.
Yes, it DOES Matter Where Your Data Is
Great story coming out of the UK last week: ” Toxic Cloud Computing, and How Open Source Can Help” by Glyn Moody.