Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Syncing Faster: ownCloud Server 10.9 released
ownCloud Server 10.9 brings several major enhancements, among them speeding up initial sync, adding more control to file locking, version control and public sharing. Many of our applications such as Media Viewer, PDF Viewer, Windows Network Drive and ownCloud Web have received updates.
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.
Gartner gets it!
I just got my hands on a Gartner report by Jay Heiser and Lawrence Pingree that recognizes the "huge potential for data leakage" by consumer-grade personal file synch services (in other words - DropBox and their copycats). Gartner is singing from own very own hymnal,...
The Mobile Cat is out of the Bag. It’s Time for a Leash.
A customer made a very amusing statement the other day, and while names will be left out to protect the innocent, I wanted to share. "This is my Nightmare: More than 500 million mobile devices were sold last year, then all those people brought their devices to work."...
Knightcast Podcast: Building your own ownCloud
50+ minutes Podcast about ownCloud. "This week we give you the lowdown on installing own cloud. Your own personal cloud storage server to access your files via Webdav or a dedicated client on any system. We have a good friend of the show Mr Gadgets who sends in an...
Watch out Box and Dropbox!
It's official, I have decided to join my partners Markus Rex and Frank Karlitschek, at ownCloud as vice president sales & marketing. Why? Frankly, for the same reason Frank built ownCloud - to help fill the need for a secure, inexpensive cloud storage solution for...
Welcome to an old friend
Today is yet another exciting day for me as CEO of ownCloud. Today, ownCloud co-founder and a personal dear friend joins the company. Long time open source expert Holger Dyroff officially joins the company as vice president of Sales and Marketing. With Holger joining,...
Long Time SUSE Executive Joins Open Source File Sharing Company
ownCloud co-founder Holger Dyroff joins as vice president, sales and marketing Boston, MA - February 2, 2012 - ownCloud Inc., the commercial entity behind the popular open source file sync and share project, announced today that former SUSE executive and ownCloud...
Megaupload customers — Picking a Service Provider is Like Real Estate: Pay attention to the neighbors!
I was hunting for a house not too long ago, and my real estate agent and I were all about three things: location, location, location. This made sense to me at the time, this is where you will live after all. And the neighbors, they would either be friendly or not. So...
Round of applause for the ownCloud community
Once again the ownCloud community has risen to the task and launched another amazing product - Version 3 of ownCloud Community edition. All the information you need is here and here, so I won't go into the details, except to say that, as a long time participant in the...
ownCloud 3 released
Our labor of love is out today and I know you will share my excitement when you spend a little time with Version 3 of ownCloud. What's so exciting? Well, let me start with the extensive polishing the community has done to the look and feel - and the performance - of...
Open Source File, Sync and Share Project Adds Cloud Text Editing and More
ownCloud Version 3 introduces online editing, photo gallery, PDF viewer, application store and improvements to existing functionality Internet - January 30, 2012 - ownCloud, the popular open source file, sync and share project, today announced improvements to its...
More mobile, more data, more trouble for IT — Greater opportunities too
Not sure most of you saw this from the Wall Street Journal covering a Forrester report on the growth of mobile devices being used by employees. Want proof? Go to the airport. You can't walk through an airport these days without seeing smartphones, tablets and other...
The Core Of ownCloud Will ALWAYS Remain Free And Open Source
"The ownCloud project recently announce its evolution as a company. We reached out to the ownCloud team to understand the evolution of the project into a company. Here is an exclusive interview with Markus Rex, the new CEO, CTO of ownCloud and Frank Karlitschek the...
OwnCloud Emerges As Open Source Competitor to Dropbox, Box.net
"In the past few days, though, an open source competitor to them, dubbed OwnCloud, has been getting a lot of attention. It's a Linux-based way to set up your own cloud computing instance, which means you don't have to have your files sitting on servers that you don't...
Former SUSE Exec Joins Open Source ownCloud, Launches Commercial Entity
"ownCloud has a lot of ground to cover before it catches up to Box and Dropbox. Of course, ownCloud does have the open source community on its side. With Rex at the helm, the new ownCloud commercial effort will be a project to watch in 2012."
owncloud Open Source Storage Launches Commercial Entity
"Again, the cloud-storage channel is already pretty saturated. But ownCloud stands out not only as one of the only fully open source offerings in this space, but also because (unlike competitors such as Dropbox) it's not a hosted service and has no plans to become...