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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Fresh design: The new Web UI sees the light of day (and night)
We redesigned the frontend of ownCloud. With a whole range of new features the navigation is now clearer and more concise, and we simplified typical workflows. New accessibility features make ownCloud easier to work with for all users.
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.
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...
ownCloud’s New Group Admin Feature, What’s it all About?
You've probably noticed that the latest ownCloud now includes a Group Admin feature. We added this feature so admins could create users to manage the membership in one or many groups. Now, group admins have the same user management rights as administrators over a...
Facebook and Dropbox? There will be blood
So what a great announcement by Facebook and Dropbox (http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/facebook-adds-dropbox-to-groups/) this week – No privacy has met no security!! In my mind this partnership tells me two very important things. First, file sync and share is...
The Var Guy: ownCloud Announces New Partnership, Software
If you follow the open source channel regularly, you’ve probably heard a lot in recent months about ownCloud, the open source cloud platform. Expect to read even more about the project and the company behind it, which is pushing out yet more features and announcing...
Datamation: What’s Next for OwnCloud?
Over the course of the last two years, the open source ownCloud project has emerged as a leader in cloud storage. What ownCloud provides is an open source alternative to proprietary cloud storage systems like Dropbox and Box. With ownCloud, a user can setup cloud...
The Whir: Cloud File Sharing Software ownCloud Launches Beta of Updated Community Version
Cloud file sharing software ownCloud has made several updates to the community edition of its open source file sync and share project. The latest version of ownCloud, released in beta on Tuesday, features the ability to assign a sub-adminisrator to a group to handle...
ownCloud Releases Beta of Latest Community Edition
Faster, easier and more robust – with enhanced control options for data sync and share Boston,MA – September 4,2012 – Significantly faster uploading, downloading and syncing of files – even very large files, greater and more granular administrative control and even a...