Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
ownCloud and plusserver a new Partnership for Digital Sovereignty
ownCloud the open source-based collaboration platform and plusserver, Germany’s leading multi-cloud data service provider, are entering into a strategic technology partnership. Offering companies and public administrations cloud solutions that meet the highest requirements for data protection and digital sovereignty.
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.
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...
Popular Open Source File Sharing Project Creates Commercial Entity and Taps Former SUSE Exec as CEO and CTO
ownCloud combines consumer ease-of-use with enterprise security Boston, MA - December 14, 2011 - Joining the red hot market for secure, manageable and easily accessible and sharable storage, ownCloud, the popular open source file-sharing project, announced that it has...
ownCloud Inc. and the ownCloud community
The ownCloud project is 2 years old next month!! Today is an exciting day because today we announce a company as an addition to the open source project to push ownCloud forward. ownCloud Inc. will offer ownCloud services and support to enterprises in addition to to...
Welcome to ownCloud, Inc.
So hopefully you are here because you heard the news today. ownCloud has been an extremely successful open source project - generating more than 350,000 users. We thought it was time to take ownCloud to the next level - offering businesses a truly flexible,...