Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Comprehensive Encryption: Keeping sensitive data safe from prying eyes
Cyber security is an area of burgeoning concern across the digital world. Over the last several years, companies, governments and individual users are grappling with an alarming increase in the variety and frequency of cybercrimes and threats. This calls for enhanced cybersecurity initiatives and high-end automation efforts to safeguard sensitive data from being illegally accessed, disrupted or disabled.
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.
Latest Desktop Client Available, Come and Get It
The ownCloud community and development teams have just released our latest Desktop Client and once again, a job well done.
The Var Guy: On First Anniversary, ownCloud Boasts Strong Growth
It’s now been a full year since ownCloud, the open source data syncing platform, launched as a commercial entity.
Service Provider Partnerships
One of the biggest areas of growth for ownCloud lately has been our partnerships. We’re fortunate to have worked with experts around the globe, and we look forward to many more technology and go-to-market opportunities in the coming years through working with these...
What a Year! ownCloud Inc. Turns One, ownCloud.org Turns Three!
In all the excitement of closing out our first full year as a company and preparing to dive into our second, I realized I missed reporting a very important milestone. Then I realized, you know, we had a LOT of cool achievements in 2012. So, stand back a little further...
More to Security than Encryption
We were having some debates internally here a few months back over when you could call something secure. Is it ok to call something secure, for instance, if it lacks encryption? My answer to this is actually a (qualified) yes. Having server side encryption is great ...
One Server Per Person? A HIGHLY Decentralized Cloud
Interesting piece from over the holidays that I ran across while catching up on my reading. Jon Buys of OSTATIC dreams of a world where every household has a server - a truly open and distributed cloud. Think about that for a moment. Some of the biggest issues hitting...
The Enterprise is cool again. Yes.
Great story this week from ReadWriteWeb’s new Editor Dan Lyons (of Fake Steve Jobs fame)
Boston Business Journal: OwnCloud announces second seed round with General Catalyst
Boston-area open-source sync and share startup ownCloud Inc. announced Monday it has closed a $2.5 million financing, its second seed round of venture capital, led by General Catalyst Partners, a Cambridge, Mass. VC firm.
Tech Crunch: On-Premise Cloud Storage/Sharing Startup, OwnCloud, Closes $2.5M Second Seed Round, Led By General Catalyst Partners
OwnCloud Inc – the business built on the back of widely used (650,000+ users worldwide) open source file sync and share software ownCloud – has closed $2.5 million in second seed round funding. The round was led by current investor General Catalyst Partners, a growth...
Venture Beat: OwnCloud, the open-source challenger to Box, nets $2.5M
If you use popular cloud storage and sharing services like Box and Dropbox, you trust your sensitive information to third party data centers. OwnCloud, the startup that positions itself as the open-source alternative to Box, is the newest contender in the cloud...
Venture Beat: Funding Daily: Emerging from hibernation
It is Cyber Monday. In my opinion, an infinitely preferable alternative to the mayhem that occurred on Black Friday when all I want to do is hide in a cave from the rabid crowds. I prefer the things that money can’t buy, like love, happiness, and the cloud, although...
Web Host Industry Review: File Sync Software Provider ownCloud Secures $2.5M Funding Round to Grow Partner Channel
Open source file sync and share software developer ownCloud announced on Monday that it has closed a second seed round of $2.5 million, led by existing investor General Catalyst Partners.
InfoStor: ownCloud Raises $2.5M for Open Source File Syncing
Lexington, Mass.-based ownCloud announced today that it had closed on a second round of seed financing worth $2.5 million.
Boston Herald: Lexington-based ownCloud raises $2.5M
Lexington-based open source file sync and share software company ownCloud Inc. said today it has closed a second seed round of $2.5 million, led by current investor General Catalyst Partners.
Aggressively Expanding
Seed round expanded by $2.5 million – led by General Catalyst Partners once again.