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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.
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...
OwnCloud: An open-source cloud to call your own
"Many of aren't crazy about the fact that our files, music, and whatever are sitting on someone else's servers without our control. That's where ownCloud comes in. As a Linux geek, I already liked ownCloud. At the company releases mass-market ownCloud products and...
Owning Up to the Limitations of File Sharing
"No matter the reason, it's pretty clear that users across the spectrum have rebelled against the current limitations of file sharing in the enterprise, which is a problem that gets more acute everyday with the addition on any number of mobile computing devices. The...
OwnCloud showered with $820K in first funding round
"Boston-based nascent cloud storage and sharing startup ownCloud Inc. has taken in $820,000 of a planned $1.25 million funding round, according to federal documents."
Well we did it and happy Holidays
Well, we did it. After months of incredibly hard work, we launched a company. And people took notice! I've also received a lot of emails and phone calls from friends, colleagues and IT executives from companies large and small congratulating us and also asking how we...