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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
ownCloud is now climate neutral
Now climate neutral. We are pushing ahead with our new sustainability initiative. The CO₂ emissions of our employees will be neutralized in cooperation with PLANTED.
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.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Sync and Share: Cutting Through the Noise around “Enterprise DropBox”
Looking around, it seems that every day brings more news about someone offering "DropBox for the Enterprise." Given all the attention, it's not surprising Kathleen Reidy of the451 Group recently labeled this new space the "Mobile File Sharing and Sync Platforms"...
What We Enterprise Users Need is More CRUD
The truth is, file sync and share is here to stay. What enterprises need is a way to take back corporate data from the public cloud, while providing a simple, secure solution for their users. What enterprise users need is a granular level of control over their data in...
The New Smart is Not Dumb
Telcos, their move to the cloud and why file sync and share is a smart service.
Wait, your counter changed!
ownCloud commercial launch confirmed for April 3rd
Bridging the Cloud and BYOD Gap ownCloud Commercial Venture
ownCloud is an open source project that enables users to access their data pretty much from any web browser on any device, no matter where it sits. The file and data sync application was put together by Frank Karlitschek and is nominally part of the KDE ecosystem.
ownCloud Names Co-founder and Community Manager as CTO
Creator Frank Karlitschek leads community and enterprise development efforts for file synch and share company Boston, MA – March 6, 2012 – ownCloud Inc., the commercial entity behind the popular open source enterprise file sync and share project, announced today that...
Look out CeBIT, here comes ownCloud
ownCloud at Cebit 2012, with presentation schedule. Visit us next week, Hanover Germany, March 6-1, Hall 2, Booth D 48
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."...