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Irony: Dropbox saved 75 million by moving away from cloud hosting

Dropbox, in its S1-statement last Friday, showed it reduced its operating costs by nearly 75 million over the next two years by moving storage away from Amazon onto its own infrastructure. Cost savings are only one part of why moving away from cloud storage can...

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Nextcloud will check passwords against database of HaveIBeenPwned

Users tend to use the same passwords in multiple locations, which poses a significant risk in case passwords are stolen. Last Thursday, Security researcher Troy Hunt, known from his site HaveIBeenPwned, expanded his existing dataset of 306 million leaked passwords with another 200 million, bringing...

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Valentine’s day: we love Free Software!

It is that time of the year again, a day to profess love. And we’d like to join in. As community, we’re collaborating and producing privacy protecting software under a set of licenses which lets us work together in a transparent, open and efficient way!...

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Android app 3.0 with end-to-end encryption, Oreo, login wall detection and more

The Nextcloud Android app v3 delivers Android 8 Oreo support, End-to-end Encryption, much better handling of local and remote files, many fixes for the auto-upload and much more in over 180 pull requests reviewed and merged over the last months. It is now available on...

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The issue with SaaS and the Public Cloud

We are often asked: Is it a bad idea to store corporate data on Dropbox? Or: Should I store my organization’s data on consumer grade SaaS clouds like Dropbox, Google Drive or Microsoft Office 365? As businesses have, on average, enterprise data floating around on...

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Nextcloud 13 Brings Improved UI, Video and Text Chat, End-to-end Encryption, Improved performance and more

Nextcloud 13 is out after 9 months of development and testing. This release brings improvements to the core File Sync and Share like easier moving of files and a tech preview of our end-to-end encryption for the ultimate protection of your data. It also introduces...

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Data encryption methods in Nextcloud

Providing strong protection of data is the biggest benefit Nextcloud has over public clouds. Self-hosting means you are in control over your data. Of course, un-authorized access has to be stopped and this is where encryption comes in. In this blog post we’ll discuss the...

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Guest post: Federated Blockchains and the Financecloud API, by Matthias Klees

Finance Cloud API develops a protocol to launch financial and crypto services, and is using Nextcloud for the cloud part. Discover the presentation of the Finance Cloud API Idea, by Matthias Klees! Finance Cloud API, by Matthias Klees Since last year, we have been developing...

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ActivityPub: the new standard for decentralized networks

Today, the World Wide Web gained a new standard: ActivityPub. The recommendation has been published by the responsible W3C workgroup after 3 years of work, started in no small part by Christopher Lemmer Webber, founder of the Mediagoblin project. Nextcloud uses ActivityPub, implementing it to...

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