Just over two years ago on June 2, a dozen engineers started a new journey: Building a better private cloud. One that delivered on the needs of users and customers, providing ultimate protection for their data while empowering them to share, collaborate and be productive in a fun and efficient way.
Today, 732 days later, we have shown our ability to execute on that vision! Nextcloud is widely recognized as one of the most innovative, forward-looking projects in the open source world, pushing boundaries in the areas of security, collaboration and communication.
Fast growth
Nextcloud is a counter model to the typical cloud offerings of large US providers such as Microsoft.
Our company has more than tripled to about 40 people and almost 150 customers trust us to provide them first-class services. Some are public organizations like the German Federal Government or Wikipedia. Others are universities and research institutes like the TU Berlin or the Max Planck Institute, financial services or manufacturing like Raiffeisen or SIEMENS, airlines like Germania and dozens more – Nextcloud keeps data under control everywhere.
Innovation
We’ve pioneered new collaboration technologies with Nextcloud Talk and Collabora Online and we’ve designed an unique-in-the-industry End-to-end Encryption technology, maturing fast. We also pushed the technological limits of a private cloud: With Global Scale, Nextcloud can scale to tens of millions of users. We’re not just claiming that: We have live customers using this technology at multi-million user scale. No other self-hosted file sync and share company has anything like it!
Quality and satisfaction
We didn’t just introduce new features. Our Android and iOS clients are rated better than nearly all our competition, our desktop client is under heavy development (stay tuned: the next release will be awesome) and we solved many long standing quality issues in the Nextcloud server.
Upgrading is one area where our improvement stand out: this was a promise when we started, and we kept it. Within a week of the Nextcloud 13, over 10.000 servers had already successfully upgraded, showing the progress we made. Security is another highlight. Our security bug bounty program is showing an average response time of under one hour over the last three months. In two years, we paid nearly USD 8K to security experts, resolving almost 100 reports and dealing with hundreds more. And of course our End-to-end Encryption technology, available in our mobile clients and coming soon to the desktop client, has changed the state-of-art of encryption technology for private clouds.
Community
Of course, we can’t forget to mention how our community has grown since we got started. You might remember our press release early January, throwing nice growth numbers around. We’ve kept growing since then, hitting well over 10K newsletter subscribers. Our forums our forums grew by 40% since January and now hit well over 1.1 million page views per month. Almost 2000 users were active in the last week, 124 of whom are new to Nextcloud. And yes, we continue to be the most searched-for self-hosted cloud technology, just check google trends. That bright blue line jumping over the other players – that is us!
The future
We are proud of what we accomplished. No doubt. But we wouldn’t be who we are if we weren’t looking ahead – at far bigger challenges than those we’ve mounted already. The world is changing quick and the introduction of the GDPR has impressed on many how privacy is not something to be ignored. We offer a uniquely suitable solution for enterprises in following the law, just as we empower home users to take back control over their data. The vast majority of data is still held by a small number of very large companies, and there is a lot of decentralization left to do.
The landing page for our upcoming Nextcloud Hub release is now live! On September 27, 2025, at 10AM (CEST), we will present the latest Nextcloud Hub live from the Nextcloud Community Conference in Berlin, Germany. And you can be part of it, too, by signing up for the online launch! While you’re registering, you might […]
Passionate about data privacy and Nextcloud? We invite you speak at the Nextcloud Community Conference to share your experience, knowledge and news with the community!
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In the Nextcloud 2024 wrap-up, we want to take a moment to celebrate this year's achievements. Join us as we continue to reimagine what’s possible - shaping a world where open source, privacy and connection come together and drive progress for the greater good.
Organisations, small and large, need a way to ensure the resiliency and digital sovereignty of their operations – an open-source, privacy-respecting alternative to Teams. And today, we present that solution - Nextcloud Talk.
Nextcloud has been recognized with the World Summit Award Germany that selects and promotes local digital innovation improving society, aiming to contribute to the United Nations' agenda of sustainable development goals.
DIE ZEIT, a prominent German outlet, interviewed Nextcloud’s founder Frank Karlitschek for an article on Microsoft’s anti-competitive behaviour on the European office software market. Read for a recap of the article and the key takeaways.
MagentaCLOUD’s migration to Nextcloud in 2021 resulted in a fully equipped Online Storage with an integrated online office suite that further improves the user experience, flexibility and security for customers.
We bring you a major update to the Nextcloud AI Assistant, plus the news we work with several big hosting providers like IONOS and OVHcloud to bring AI-as-a-Service options to you!
Bechtle and Nextcloud announce today a complete managed collaboration platform for the public sector that requires no tender and can be deployed immediately.
Discover how to make the switch from ownCloud to Nextcloud. Our quick guide provides insights into the migration process, helping you make the transition smoothly.
Today, US-based file sync & share vendor Kiteworks announced their acquisition of ownCloud and Dracoon. Kiteworks points out that their customers now have access to their file-sharing application. It is to be expected they will not maintain 3 similar products, but customers will have to migrate to the US firms’ platform or look for another […]
As part of Schleswig-Holstein's state digitization strategy, the state chancellery has announced they will work with Nextcloud to develop AI for working with government documents. This comes just after we announced the first private AI assistant last weekend with Hub 6. The German state already uses Nextcloud and their AI strategy aligns with our work on ethical, local AI technologies.
Over the last year, AI has become a popular topic. Some is hype, some is substance. Some is good, some is bad. We want to give you the good, not the bad, and ignore the hype! AI has a ton of opportunity – but also risk. So we put you in control – off by […]
With the Nextcloud Community Conference, we are bringing together contributors, fans, and first-time attendees for two days of talks, workshops, and sharing experiences on 27 and 28 September in Berlin, Germany. But the event doesn’t stop there! We will continue our ventures during the Nextcloud Contributor Week from 29 September to 2 October with our […]
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