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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.

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.

The Var Guy: ownCloud Targets Education Market

Open Source Relevant for the Cloud – Yes, more than Ever

A recent article in Forbes got me thinking. Is open source still relevant in the cloud age? I mean, everyone is going to the cloud, right, so who cares what is behind the cloud – all you want is the function of the cloud, the rest is unnecessary, right? The cloud...

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The Var Guy: ownCloud Targets Education Market

Oops there goes another Cloud service

MobileMe died a quiet death last week, with Apple transferring all the data to its iCloud service. Sure, this marks a significant increase in  the cloud by Apple but it should also serve as a cautionary tale to users of cloud storage services – especially data synch...

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The Var Guy: ownCloud Targets Education Market

Getting down to business

When we launched ownCloud last December, some people (and you know who you are) shouted Dropbox this, Box that, crowded market everywhere. But we knew we had something different, something businesses and services providers not just wanted, but needed. And we knew we...

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