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.
Countering the Dropbox.com Security Menace
Open source technologies such as ownCloud present the channel with a unique opportunity to simultaneously address security and productivity issues.
Self-Hosted File Sync Solution ownCloud Goes Commercial
Compliance with legal regulation is likely to be one of ownCloud’s strongest selling points to enterprise subscribers, but I have a suspicion that the open source underpinnings will prove to be extremely useful in the long term, too.
BLASTOFF — It’s finally here!
Markus about the ownCloud 2012 launch.
ownCloud Launches Commercial Offering with Easy-to-Use Desktop Clients and Mobile Apps
ownCloud 2012 file sync and share builds on popular open source project to bring security and flexibility to business data sharing Boston, MA – April 3, 2012 – ownCloud Inc., the commercial entity behind the popular open source enterprise file sync and share project,...
Welcome new partners!
Holger welcomes our first set of 15 partners into the ownCloud partner program.
ownCloud Launches Partner Program, Announces Partnerships Across the Globe
Program provides incentives for hardware, technology and solution partners Boston, MA – March 28, 2012 – ownCloud Inc., the commercial entity behind the popular open source, hybrid cloud file sync and share project, today launched a partner program that offers...
IT Managers, no need to replace DropBox, extend it — flexibly
Markus Rex advise to IT Managers: no need to replace DropBox, extend it – flexibly.
Who will be the ‘Dropbox of the enterprise?’ The race is on
"There are dozens of smaller, more nimble cloud storage providers that want to replicate the success Dropbox has had with consumers in the business world."
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Sync and Share: Cutting Through the Noise around “Enterprise DropBox”
Looking around, it seems that every day brings more news about someone offering "DropBox for the Enterprise." Given all the attention, it's not surprising Kathleen Reidy of the451 Group recently labeled this new space the "Mobile File Sharing and Sync Platforms"...
What We Enterprise Users Need is More CRUD
The truth is, file sync and share is here to stay. What enterprises need is a way to take back corporate data from the public cloud, while providing a simple, secure solution for their users. What enterprise users need is a granular level of control over their data in...
The New Smart is Not Dumb
Telcos, their move to the cloud and why file sync and share is a smart service.
Wait, your counter changed!
ownCloud commercial launch confirmed for April 3rd
Bridging the Cloud and BYOD Gap ownCloud Commercial Venture
ownCloud is an open source project that enables users to access their data pretty much from any web browser on any device, no matter where it sits. The file and data sync application was put together by Frank Karlitschek and is nominally part of the KDE ecosystem.
ownCloud Names Co-founder and Community Manager as CTO
Creator Frank Karlitschek leads community and enterprise development efforts for file synch and share company Boston, MA – March 6, 2012 – ownCloud Inc., the commercial entity behind the popular open source enterprise file sync and share project, announced today that...
Look out CeBIT, here comes ownCloud
ownCloud at Cebit 2012, with presentation schedule. Visit us next week, Hanover Germany, March 6-1, Hall 2, Booth D 48