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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.

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.

Interview: How Sovereign Cloud Stack ensures data sovereignty

ownCloud Calendar Improvements – What’s it all about?

The calendar app changed a lot in ownCloud 4.5, but you won't be able to tell just by looking at it; because we made the changes to its very core. We completely rewrote import and export, solving a lot of compatibility bugs and vastly improving your experience. The...

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Interview: How Sovereign Cloud Stack ensures data sovereignty

And it’s Over

That's right, it's too late to tell us how you ownCloud. Well, not really, you can always give us feedback, tell us how great we are and even tell us what you'd like to see us doing here (moc.duolcnwo@ofni). But what is over is our contest and the ability to win...

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Interview: How Sovereign Cloud Stack ensures data sovereignty

How to Avoid Oversharing with ownCloud

In ownCloud 4.5, we released a new feature we like to call CRUDS, a granular permission structure for sharing files and folders. In this blog, I wanted to take a minute to explain why this really matters. Today, if you want to share a file on a lot of online cloud...

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Interview: How Sovereign Cloud Stack ensures data sovereignty

ownCloud reflected in Gartner 2013 predictions

At the recently ended Gartner Symposium, the very smart folks at Gartner issued a press release on the top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013. One of those trends is “Personal Cloud,” the other “Hybrid IT and Cloud Computing.” According to Gartner: “Personal...

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Interview: How Sovereign Cloud Stack ensures data sovereignty

Outage in the Cloud?

It happens all the time – or at least it seems that way. Amazon goes down, Google Mail and Google Docs goes away for a while. The list is endless. Last week it happened to Dropbox. Remember, when third party cloud storage goes down, all you can do it grit your teeth...

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Interview: How Sovereign Cloud Stack ensures data sovereignty

Big ownCloud Reception in Brazil

I was recently asked to keynote at Latinoware 2012 -- the premier Latin American Free Software Conference. After some bad weather, causing some return flight challenges, I have arrived back in Germany. So I have to say, ownCloud is BIG in Latin America, not just with...

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