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OX Summit 2019: Privacy and Openness in the Spanish Capital

John Broomfield on Jun 24, 2019

It’s that time of year again! After a tremendous OXS 2018 in Rome last year, Open-Xchange is excited to announce that we will be hosting our 11th European Summit in the Spanish capital of Madrid. Here - as always...

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The Huawei situation: the legal and intellectual property implications for ...

Rafael Laguna on Jun 17, 2019

What are the legal and intellectual property implications of the Huawei ban — and is the ban based on genuine security concerns or political strategy? Will the US's ban of Huawei cause the biggest ever trade war ...

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Maximize Your Email Deliverability

Florian Steps on Jun 13, 2019

Your email deliverability determines if your newsletter campaigns hit your recipients' inboxes or redirect to the spam folder — or worse still, bounce back! Building a strong sender reputation takes time and effo...

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DNS latency in a 5G network

Neil Cook on Jun 3, 2019

With an estimated 1.5 billion of us expected to be connected to 5G networks by 2024, there’s no doubt that this next generation of wireless technology will have a profound effect on the future of technology and c...

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Dovecot Pro v2.3.6: Highlights

Michael Slusarz on May 23, 2019

Dovecot Pro v2.3.6 was released on 7 May 2019. Two new features in this version are described below; additional features and fixes can be found in the Release Notes. New obox Index Merge Algorithm This release in...

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Sicherheit privater Daten - den Nutzern egal?

Rafael Laguna on May 18, 2019

Das Datenanalyse-Unternehmen Cambridge Analytica erhielt von 2010 bis 2015 Zugang zu den Informationen von bis zu 87 Millionen Facebook-Nutzern , das wurde im März 2018 bekannt. Im Oktober 2018 beschafften sich H...

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New versions of OX App Suite, OX Documents and OX Guard available

Benjamin Otterbach on May 15, 2019

We are happy to announce that Open-Xchange has just released new versions for three of its products: Both the messaging and collaboration platform OX App Suite and the office suite OX Documents now ship as versio...

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Email firm runs millions of mailboxes with Scality object storage

Stephan Martin on May 14, 2019

Germany-based web mailbox provider Open Xchange has deployed around 13PB (petabytes) of Scality object storage to store more than 10 million mailboxes. Scality’s Ring object storage has replaced OpenStack Swift i...

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Despite this week’s quasi-competitive shift, Slack won’t replace email - he...

Rafael Laguna on May 9, 2019

Slack announced this week that it is adding email conversations and calendar integration functions to its app, including the option for non-Slack users to receive messages via email. Is this a game changer for th...

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PRIVACY INSIGHT: Shoot the Messenger

Rafael Laguna on Apr 30, 2019

In March, Mark Zuckerberg published a blog post titled “A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking”, outlining Facebook’s latest goals and addressing the company’s plans to integrate Messenger, Instagram and ...

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