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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
ownCloud joins IT-Sicherheitscluster e.V.
We are pleased to announce that ownCloud is an official member of IT-Sicherheitscluster e.V., which is based in Regensburg.
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.
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.
Following Hack, Dropbox Adds Security Already Found in Most Enterprises
I’m sure most of you spotted the news a couple weeks back about the spam attack on Dropbox users. Now, an internal Dropbox investigation reveals that indeed user accounts were hijacked and they are adding new security features. "Dropbox is taking a number of steps,...
CiteWorld: Now offering iOS and Android apps, ownCloud becomes a viable cloud solution for business
One point that is often made when discussing IT and data security concerns around personal cloud services like iCloud, Dropbox, or Google Drive is that most people turn to personal cloud options for storing and sharing work-related documents because IT departments...
ownCloud Apps Now Available for Android and iOS
Available today in Apple AppStore and Google Play Boston, MA – August 1, 2012 – ownCloud Inc., the commercial entity behind the popular open source file sync and share project, today announced the availability of iOS and Android apps specifically designed for...
Now use ownCloud on your iPad, iPhone or Android!
That’s right, available today for the first time are ownCloud apps in the Apple AppStore and Google Play. So now your customers and employees can quickly, easily and inexpensively (they are only 99 cents) access ownCloud from the world’s most popular mobile devices....
Third Major Distro Embraces ownCloud
Frank about adding ownCloud to Fedora 18
Make it simple, they will come
We were pointed to an excellent study: The 2012 Confidential Documents at Risk Study by Ponemon Institute, by a terrific piece in Informationweek. Terrific because it really validates everything we’ve been saying. Like: “The key to adoption, says Kalember, is ease of...