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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Interview: How Sovereign Cloud Stack ensures data sovereignty
Manuela Urban (COO, Sovereign Cloud Stack) explains how Sovereign Cloud Stack, a federated cloud technology built with Open Source Software, promises data sovereignty and full user control.
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.
GigaOm: Would-be Box killers queue up new file share features and functions
Accellion, InfraScale offer new services to take on Box, the would-be-Dropbox of the enterprise. When it comes to cloud storage, file share and sync, we’re still in the “land grab” stage with companies jockeying for business customers more than profit.
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...
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...
The Var Guy: ownCloud Enhances Mobile Cloud Apps
Managing cloud data from mobile devices via ownCloud, the open source file-syncing platform, became easier this week with feature updates to ownCloud’s Android and iOS clients. Read on for a look at the enhancements, which include improvements to the interface,...
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...
Muktware: New ownCloud App For Android Bring Major Enhancements
ownCloud users now have greater control and security over their data with more intuitive, feature-rich apps for their Android devices.
Best ownCloud Developer Meeting yet
More than 30 developers got together to help make ownCloud the best file sync and share available.
ownCloud’s Latest Android and iOS Apps Increase Security and Control
ownCloud's Latest Android and iOS Apps Increase Security and Control Enhancements give mobile users more intuitive tools, greater control and security of data Boston, MA – November 5, 2012 – ownCloud users now have greater control and security over their data with...
ownCloud – not the “millionth cloud company providing exactly the same proprietary service”
Hopefully you’ve heard by now that we are hosting a contest asking users how they ownCloud. You haven’t? owncloud.com/share-your-owncloud-experience. You have but haven’t responded yet? You are missing out on telling YOUR story and winning a FABULOUS prize! Three days...
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...
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...
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...
Linux Magazine: Community Edition of ownCloud Released
ownCloud Inc. releases a new free community edition of its popular open source file sync and share project, with enhanced syncing, third-party storage mounting, and new content sharing.ownCloud Inc. releases a new free community edition of its popular open source file...
The Var Guy: ownCloud Debuts New Community, Commercial Editions
ownCloud, the open source data syncing platform, gained a string of enhancements with new releases of both its community and enterprise editions. Read on for a detailed look at the updates, and how they position ownCloud to continue competing effectively in a fierce...
InfoTech Spotlight: ownCloud 4.5 Release Engineered to Earn ownCloud Better Reputation
ownCloud, an open source file sharing and synchronization technology that has been compared to Dropbox (News - Alert), made an effort to move forward with the release of new community and enterprise services. All these will be in the ownCloud 4.5 release which is the...