Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Interview with Alex Wallner, CEO of plusserver
Topics: Data sovereignty, hybrid clouds and the interplay of open source & commercial
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 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,...
LXer: ownCloud Invades More Distros, Apple AppStore, and Google Play
I've been using ownCloud for several months and have come to like it a lot. ownCloud is the fastest and easiest way to set up and control your own personal cloud. It has a good Web interface, and you can dig into the configuration files as much as you like, which are...
The Cult of Mac: ownCloud Lets Companies Roll Their Own Google Drive or Dropbox
We’ve taken a couple of looks at ownCloud over the past few months. The company launched its signature cloud server software in April and issued a major update about a month ago. Today, ownCloud announced its iOS and Android apps, making the product a serious option...
The Var Guy: ownCloud Releases Mobile Apps for Andoid, iOS
If one of the major selling points of the cloud is that it makes data available from anywhere at anytime, it’s only natural for users to expect to be able to access it from mobile devices as well as traditional PCs. For users of ownCloud, the open source data-sharing...
Softpedia: Fedora 18 Adopts ownCloud
ownCloud, the popular open source enterprise file sync and share project, will be available on Fedora 18, completing an impressive list of other important Linux distributions.
Softpedia: ownCloud Launches Clients for Android and iOS
ownCloud Inc, the developers of the open source file sync and share project, has announced the availability of iOS and Android apps specifically designed for the ownCloud cloud storageservice.