We interviewed Thomas Mayer, the system administrator at a Bavarian secondary school and a facilitator for Information technology at Bavarian secondary schools at the Institute for School Quality and Educational Research in Munich. Thomas shared his experience of using and implementing Nextcloud in the schools, the multiple Nextcloud benefits, and … Continued
At a virtual presentation streamed worldwide, the Nextcloud team introduced the availability of Nextcloud Hub 21. Watch the live Nextcloud Hub 21 post-announcement Q&A on YouTube! Nextcloud Hub 21 brings a wide range of improvements in file handling performance with Files High Performance Back-end and important new collaboration features in … Continued
At a virtual presentation streamed worldwide, the Nextcloud team introduced the availability of Nextcloud Hub 21. Nextcloud Hub 21 brings a wide range of improvements in file handling performance with Files High Performance Back-end and important new collaboration features in Text, Talk, Groupware and Files. In this blog, we go … Continued
Nextcloud is a content collaboration platform. That means is an integrated set of tools to collaborate on ‘content’, documents for example. We focus here on the user experience and the process of getting work done. To achieve an efficient work flow, Nextcloud has developed and integrated a number of technologies, … Continued
Nextcloud is not only a great collaboration platform. It is also an effective tool against ransomware! Ransomware is rapidly becoming more dangerous, with targeted and untargeted attacks rising 7 times compared to 2019, as ZDnet recently reported. Each attack can require payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars, but besides … Continued
Mozilla announced that due to a stronger product focus they will be shutting down Firefox Send and Firefox Notes. Unfortunately Send has been abused to distribute malware and was shut down. It will not be coming back… Firefox Notes was designed to easily sync notes between devices. The android app … Continued
How to get help when you’re dealing with a Nextcloud issue The purpose of this blog is to direct everyone to ask for help at the right channel. Nextcloud 😊 nextcloud 😞 Next cloud 😞 next cloud 😞 NextCloud 😞 nextCloud 😞 Are you using Nextcloud and need help with … Continued
Nextcloud GmbH, the company behind the most deployed on-premises content collaboration platform Nextcloud Hub, only offers its services to customers on a (per user) subscription model. Some customers ask us during the sales conversation why they can not just get access to our engineers on an hourly basis like they … Continued
Collabora Online is a powerful LibreOffice-based online office suite with collaborative editing, which supports all major documents, spreadsheets, and presentation file formats and works in all modern browsers. The recent release of Nextcloud Hub v19 introduced an easier way to install Collabora Online without Docker or proxy configuration in your … Continued
IVZ, Germany’s public radio and television deploys Nextcloud for efficient file exchange and online content collaboration through ONLYOFFICE. Nextcloud presents an open source, easy to use self hosted solution that handles the required performance needed for exchanging large amounts of data, offering support and professional services for developing new features … Continued
The North-West University (NWU) in South Africa has implemented Nextcloud and ONLYOFFICE as a combined solution to ensure secure data exchange and safe collaboration on research documents. Hans Erasmus, a junior infrastructure architect at the NWU, shares the university experience with us! Keep reading for a summary of this use … Continued
If you want to share a file or a group of files with somebody, there is a number of options. In this blog, we’ll go over them and explain how you can share and what the different ways mean. Link sharing The most basic way of sharing is using a … Continued
Password managers for Nextcloud Recently some of our users pointed us to password manager Enpass, which recently added Nextcloud support to their choice of cloud hosting solutions. As some of our users are probably aware, for the popular Keepass password manager there is an integration app named Keeweb and Nextcloud … Continued
The Covid-19 crisis is putting a lot of pressure on organizations to enable remote working and collaboration. The ease of deploying cloud solutions means this is a route often taken, but it comes with significant data protection risks. The Data Protection Officer of the German state Baden-Württemberg recently published an … Continued
If tech sites would write about every individual data leak, they’d have no time to cover anything else. Generally, only email-and-password leaks numbered in the millions get covered. LinkedIn: 164 million. Adobe: 38 million. MySpace: 359 million. Facebook: 200 to 600 million. It should be painfully clear that you can’t … Continued
For users who use Outlook as their mail client, the Nextcloud Add-in provides a convenient tool that makes it easy for users to make files available via Nextcloud and send only the URL to these files to the mail recipients. But what if you use HCL Notes (formerly IBM Notes … Continued
In a validation of Nextcloud’s hybrid and on-premises product strategy, Vanson Bourne has found in their yearly survey of over 2650 IT decision makers at large enterprises that 73% of respondents are migrating applications away from the public cloud back to on-premises infrastructures. With security cited by 60% as the … Continued
What takes better pictures, a DSLR or a mobile phone? What has better sound, a HiFi stereo or a phone? How does a phone compare to an agenda? How well can you type on a phone compared to a desktop keyboard? Still, in your pocket you have a phone and … Continued
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