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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.
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...
Now you can test drive ownCloud free
That’s right, beginning today, you can test drive ownCloud free for 3 hours through a partnership with Standing Cloud. ownCloud powered by Standing Cloud gives companies the flexibility of ownCloud Business Edition, the functionality and ease of use of a hosted...
ownCloud Teams with Standing Cloud to Offer Simple, Cloud-based File Synch and Share
Standing Cloud gives customers a choice of leading public cloud providers August 29, 2012 - Boulder, CO and Boston, MA Standing Cloud, a leading provider of cloud application marketplace and management solutions, and ownCloud, the commercial entity behind the popular...
Watch me at LinuxCon – even if you can’t make it
Well, actually CloudOpen – co-located with LinuxCon. I’ll be speaking at 11:20PT on Thursday, August 30th on ownCloud -- The advantages of storing data in the cloud are many: ubiquitous access to data from multiple devices, social interaction and sharing with others...
The Verge: ownCloud – a different kind of file-sync service
With the emergence of Google Drive, Microsoft Skydrive and other Dropbox-like services, the synchronization-service products seem to have, at best, tiny differences: some exclusive app access, different APIs, different ecosystems, compatibility... all these seem to be...
Secure Cloud the Wrong Move?? I think not
Markus, about an author disagreeing with secure cloud
Security warnings?
Frank about security needs for cloud services.
IT World: ownCloud: The cloud sharing service you control
ownCloud was launched at Camp KDE in January 2010 by its founder, Frank Karlitschek. (Mr. Karlitschek is now the CTO of ownCloud, Inc.) The goals of ownCloud, as laid out at the KDE conference, are ambitious: easy cloud setup and management, and ubiquitous access to...
Update to the latest ownCloud Desktop clients
Matt about the Desktop Client 1.0.5 release.
Woz on Cloud: “I think it’s going to be horrendous”
A post by Barb Darrow at GigaOM caught my eye this week: "Woz worries about cloud computing” It caught my eye because, you may have guessed, his dire warnings are EXACTLY why I created ownCloud two years ago. So many people are giving away their rights – to privacy,...