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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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Deutsche Agentur Fuer Sprunginnovationen Braucht Noch Zeit

Rafael Laguna on Apr 29, 2019

Die Bundesregierung will mit einer Milliarde Euro Fördergelder über eine Agentur für SprunginnovationenStart-ups fördern. Zwölf Experten aus Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft zurren gerade die Rahmenbedingungen fest. D...

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Open-Xchange Inc. now certified under the EU US Privacy Shield

The Editorial Team on Apr 18, 2019

We are happy to announce that from March 26th, 2019 Open-Xchange, Inc. has been listed under the EU US Privacy Shield Framework with the US Federal Trade Commission. This continues the push we are making to drive...

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PowerDNS: Network-based security - changing the game for telcos and ISPs

Neil Cook on Apr 13, 2019

Consumer awareness of cybersecurity is at an all-time high. In fact, one in five respondents to a recent survey explained that they had become personal victims of a data breach, affecting their trust of certain c...

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CloudFest 2019 – A Recap

Robert Virkus on Apr 10, 2019

With over 7000 participants from all over the world, this year’s CloudFest, in the Europa Park amusement park, was a party we at Open-Xchange really can´t miss out on. For me this was my very first "Work Hard, Pl...

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The ‘four commandments’ for choosing an [open] service provider

Rafael Laguna on Apr 3, 2019

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team this month spoke to Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange on the ‘four commandments’ to follow when choosing a service provider. With a heavy emphasis on open platforms a...

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