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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
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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.
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...
Do You Want Your OwnCloud?
"One service OwnCloud will not be providing is an actual hosted cloud storage service. Unlike DropBox, which only has a cloud service, OwnCloud is all about enabling users to build their own cloud storage, independent of a specific cloud vendor. "We are a software...
OwnCloud: Open Source File Sync Tool Hits the Cloud Market
"But a completely open source solution that's available to the channel is well worth keeping an eye on, if only if it keeps the aforementioned big guns of this market segment from resting on their laurels."
Zero to ownCloud in Minutes!
How can I try out ownCloud quickly? Was the most asked question since last week. Here is an exciting report from one of you, which we do want to share in order to make it easiest for everybody: Yesterday, I was trying to figure out how to backup my home files to a...
Open Source Challenger to Dropbox and Box.net: ownCloud
"ownCloud lets you choose where your files are going to be hosted. You can use Amazon S3, you can use Google, or you can drop in your own server. For casual users, ownCloud is probably a bit more maintenance than the average user is going to want to deal with. Folks...
The technology behind ownCloud
I will blog here regularly about interesting aspects of ownCloud and the technology behind it. This first entry is about the general architecture and a few of our main design decisions. The goal: The goal of ownCloud is to bring the convenience and benefits of cloud...