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The Nextcloud mission and principles

Nextcloud is more than 3 years old. For the founding team, including myself, it was very important to create a company and open source project that has some principles, some moral standard and goals. This should not be just another company which only exists to...

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German data protection organization: use of Office 365 in schools is illegal

The data protection officer of the German federal state of Hessen has warned that the cloud-based Office 365 solution is not a compliant solution for use in schools when student information is being stored on it. This fits with earlier, similar conclusions by the Swedish...

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In a world with rising ransomware costs, Nextcloud saves your business millions

Can your company afford to pay $600.000 to recover its data and put its employees back to work? What does it cost if your employees can’t work for a week? $50.000? $100.000? At what point will you decide to pay those who keep your data...

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EU and US government agencies converge on conclusion: US cloud platforms not GDPR compliant

We have covered the risks of public clouds frequently and governments seem to take notice. While the German Federal Government has already decided to rely on a Nextcloud-provided, private cloud solution, other governments are still searching. Many rely on US cloud services and, like the...

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What happens to your data when a user account is deleted?

This post was originally written in German by the German Federal Youth Council. Nextcloud is free software for sharing and collaboratively working with files, appointments, tasks, chatting, video conferencing, collaborating and much more. Nextcloud scales from small teams to many thousands of users – and...

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Controlling file retention on files uploaded with the Outlook Add-in

One of the more powerful features in Nextcloud is the auto-tagging feature combined with files retention control. This enables admins to control the life cycle of data. For example, you could delete files replacing email attachments using the latest version of the Nextcloud Secure Sharing...

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5 tips to protect your business from a data breach

Businesses increasingly feel the effects of a data breach. The results range from compromise of client or customer data to third-party control over the entire business operation. The direct costs can be significant and when legal liabilities and the cost of cleanup, lost productivity and...

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Simple Signup great win for decentralization with nearly 250 users/day signing up

2018 has been a hard year for public clouds. From Dropbox sharing data from over 400.000 academic users over for research to the fascinating news that Microsoft gave up on a more secure, German-hosted Office 365. Did you know you can’t upload a document with...

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Case Study: North-West University in South Africa using Nextcloud and Collabora

North-West University features three locations, with the furthest over 200Km away from Potchefstroom where IT maintains their servers in two data centers. In October 2017, the university introduced a successor to the once-innovative network drive: a modern collaboration platform consisting of Nextcloud and Collabora Online....

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