Rafael Laguna

Rafael Laguna
Co-founder and former CEO of Open-Xchange

Insights from Parallels on German SMB Cloud Market

Rafael Laguna on Aug 31, 2011

Parallels has released a detailed market research about Cloud demand of German small and medium businesses (SMBs), based on interviews with 400 German SMBs of different sizes and industries about their Cloud cons...

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Social Isn’t Over

Rafael Laguna on Aug 9, 2011

When Facebook investor Roger McNamee gives a talk and says that social is “done,” you might well wonder if he’s gone off the rails a bit.

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Open-Xchange is strengthening your position in the market

Rafael Laguna on Jul 21, 2011

Last week we saw a tremendous echo from CNET to New York Times on an Open-Xchange software tool that helps users to export Facebook contact info. As media reported later that Facebook unilaterally deactivated tha...

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Open Data is Back again!

Rafael Laguna on Jul 13, 2011

Most of you I’m sure have read about our lovely little tool that frees your Facebook contacts. You probably also followed the silly saga that followed: Facebook´s attempt to deactivate our tool unilaterally.

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Facebook Wrests Control Back from Users

Rafael Laguna on Jul 11, 2011

Honestly speaking, we were very much surprised to see that Facebook yesterday disabled the API key to the free tool we built last week that allows contact information of your friends to be exported our of Faceboo...

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Copying your networks? Meet Open Data

Rafael Laguna on Jul 7, 2011

The Cloud needs to be open – just as source code and data protocols needed to be open to create the Internet. With more and more data moving into and being created inside the cloud, this data needs to be owned by...

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Welcome to the Cloud STRATO

Rafael Laguna on Jul 5, 2011

Today I would like to extend a warm welcome to STRATO and all of their customers. I am excited to announce an agreement we have struck with STRATO, Europe’s second-largest web host and services provider to bring ...

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Welcome Scandinavia to business-class cloud email

Rafael Laguna on Jun 21, 2011

Today we announced an exciting deal with Surftown — the leader in domain name registration and web hosting in Scandinavia — to bring cloud-based communication and collaboration to more than 500,000 users.

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Software Assurance Doesn’t Work in the Cloud

Rafael Laguna on Jun 16, 2011

Many people want to believe in the notion that a company like Microsoft can come up with an effective cloud offering. But Microsoft’s own history demonstrates that being in the cloud is not in Microsoft’s DNA.

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Finding the Real Cloud News

Rafael Laguna on Jun 15, 2011

In the days before its Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple was surprisingly open (for Apple, at least) in leaking information about their iCloud offering. Various media reports indicated that Apple had wrapped ...

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