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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Coming up soon: The CS3 conference including tech talks about ownCloud Infinite Scale and more!
The Cloud Storage, Synchronization and Sharing conference “CS3” will be held at the end of the month with lots of technical content.
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.
Partnership Brings Secure, Integrated File Synch and Share to Univention
Integration of ownCloud and Univention Corporate Server Directory Service to be previewed at CeBIT 2012 Boston, MA, U.S., Bremen, GER., February 22, 2012 - ownCloud Inc., the commercial entity behind the popular open source file sync and share project, announced today...
Univention, welcome to ownCloud
What a great fit! ownCloud VP Sales & Marketing Holger Dyroff is welcoming Univention as Technology Partner
Now THAT’S a community!
ownCloud Project Leader Frank Karlitschek “Now THAT’S a community!” – Report on our community progress.
Exclusive Interview With ownCloud Founder Frank Karlitschek
ownCloud is one of the most promising and important projects as we are heading towards cloud-centric computing. Free Software users fought a long battle to keep control over their computing, and cloud poses a threat to both -- the control over your computing and data....
Corporate Espionage in the Cloud Era
ownCloud VP Products Matt Richards about “Corporate Espionage in the Cloud Era” on Cloudtweaks
Welcome Google GDrive
ownCloud CEO Markus Rex about Google GDrive and how consumers will drive enterprise need and demand for file sync/share
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...