Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Expert View by Alexander Schmieden: “The digital school of the future does not end with the procurement and management of technology and infrastructure”
ownCloud has a long history in supporting educational and research institutions. The digital school is one of today’s greatest challenges.
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.
You think BYOD is Causing IT Headaches Now, Just Wait Until it’s Mandated
That's right, according to Forrester Research, within three years "most companies will make any customer-provided technology the norm, and purge rules forbidding personal devices to the point that self-purchasing may become a requirement for new employees."...
ownCloud partner making some noise!
Wow, check out ownCloud partner Artisan Infrastructure and their bad selves: Artisan Plans Tier 4 Data Center, Dropbox Alternative To quote MSP Mentor: “One of Artisan Infrastructure’s new ISV offerings will come in the form of ownCloud, a DropBox alternative that...
PCWorld: 10 Questions for OwnCloud CFO Dan Curtis
CFO Dan Curtis manages finances for OwnCloud, which manages the open-source project of the same name. Client firms can host their own cloud storage on the premises or remotely, for data and file syncing, sharing, and viewing.
Businessweek: A Cloud for Hipsters
"with ownCloud you own your data. Your information is not living on servers managed by Dropbox or Google (GOOG) or Microsoft (MSFT). It’s living on your computers, which are now helpfully synced together."
BYOD, the Cloud: IT Paranoia Strikes Deep, Employees go Underground
BYOD — IT versus employee, Markus has an idea
Romney Dropbox gets hacked – It’s just the beginning
Matt about the security to run and control your own … cloud service that is.
Yep, we’re hip
Markus about beeing hip.
Linux Journal: June 2012 Issue of Linux Journal: Cool Projects
Keeping It Cool... Three days ago here in northern Michigan, we had a heavy frost overnight. Those gardeners who ambitiously planted their plants early had to cover them with tarps or tents to make sure they didn't die in the frigid night. Yesterday, the temperature...
The Sygnal Group: Advances in Cloud Computing: OwnCloud 4
Many businesses are now using the cloud as a cost-effective way of servicing their needs. Cloud computing is also known as an on-demand or hosted model. With this type of telecom solution, an application is licensed by a provider and is hosted at a remote location...
Wired Cloudline: Time for Your Own Personal Private-Cloud?
If you are the type who fears Facebook owning your personal data, and maybe considered switching over to Diaspora, you may be just the target for ownCloud.
ownCloud Growing Into Its Own With Versioning, APIs and Collaboration
RWW about ownCloud 4
ZDNet: Build your own open-source cloud with ownCloud 4
Big businesses use cloud services. You and I use cloud storage services like DropBox, Google Drive, and Amazon Cloud Drive every day. But, with each you have to trust your data on other people's systems. With ownCloud, an open source file sync and share project, which...
Datamation: ownCloud 4 Advances Open Source Storage
The open source ownCloud project is advancing today with version 4 of the popular file sharing and synchronization technology. What ownCloud provides is an open source take on a Dropbox model where users can share and save files in a cloud environment. With ownCloud,...
ITBusinessEdge: Setting up a Compliance Amnesty Program
The problem that most organizations have with insecure cloud services such as Dropbox.com is that not only is the data stored in these services at risk, there’s no easy way to get their data out of those services and into something more secure.
Another ownCloud milestone
Frank about the ownCloud 4 release