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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
How ownCloud Audit App ensures Data Security and Compliance
The ownCloud Audit App provides a secure data protection and compliance system by enabling enterprises to enjoy full control and access to actions performed on its platform, thereby preventing loss and abuse of sensitive data.
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.
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...
Another Major Milestone for ownCloud
I’ve been doing software development for more years than I want to tell you and yet, every time we give birth to another product I go through the same phases of software development. First: We can rule the world Second: Panic, how can we get this done in time? Third:...
Another great community effort, meet ownCloud 4.5
Well – we did it, another ownCloud hit the world today, and maybe I can return to a semi-normal sleep pattern once again ( : What’s new and special about 4.5? Well to start, we did a lot of bug fixing, made things much more stable, fixed some interfaces and generally...
Gigaom: Cloud storage wars rage on with OwnCloud’s new release
OwnCloud released its community edition and updated the business version of its service which lets IT store employee files in its cloud of choice. Cloud storage for business is a white hot market at least in terms of vendor activity.
ZD Net: OwnCloud: Build your own or manage your public cloud storage services
If you want a cloud of your own, ownCloud makes it easier than ever to build a private cloud of your own and you can also use it to manage your use of public cloud storage services, such as Amazon S3, Box, and DropBox.
Datamation: OwnCloud 4.5 Mounts Open Source Storage Alongside Amazon, Dropbox
The ownCloud effort is moving forward today with new community and enterprise releases. OwnCloud is an open source file sharing and synchronization technology that has often been compared to Dropbox.
ownCloud Releases Latest Enterprise Sync and Share Alternative
Enhanced scalability, performance and integration give corporate IT greater control over data Boston, MA – October 11, 2012 – ownCloud Inc., the company behind the world's most popular open source file sync and share alternative, released its latest version today,...
ownCloud’s Latest Community Edition Adds Video Streaming, and Easy Mounting of Third-Party Storage
Popular open source file sync and share project also becomes faster, easier and more robust Boston, MA – October 11, 2012 – ownCloud, the popular open source file sync and share project, released its latest free community edition today, adding cool new features like...
Linux.com: How To Synchronize Dropbox and ownCloud on Linux
The ownCloud personal cloud server bundles a lot of big-time cloud technologies into an elegant, simple interface. As founder and CTO Frank Karlitschek outlined at the January 2010 Camp KDE, the goals of ownCloud include easy setup and management, access to your data...
Small Business Computing: OwnCloud Makes Personal Cloud Easy & Affordable for SMBs
OwnCloud is the amazing new open source cloud upstart that makes it easy to set up your own private cloud server. This lets you and your employees share files and calendars -- and access the data files from anywhere -- while you maintain control over the server upon...