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Instant messaging interoperability - a first step in making the internet wh...

Vittorio Bertola on Sep 4, 2020

In a previous blog we discussed why it would be so important for internet users – and for a competitive industry – if instant messaging apps were required to be interoperable, allowing people to use any chat app ...

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Open-Xchange appoints Dirk Valbert as Chief Financial Officer

The Editorial Team on Sep 1, 2020

Open-Xchange, developer of secure and open communication and office productivity software, IMAP server software and DNS solutions, today announced Dirk Valbert as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Valbert, w...

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The Benefits of a Cloud-Native PowerDNS

Neil Cook on Aug 13, 2020

Many OX PowerDNS customers benefit from automation, which increases the speed of deployment, enhances efficiency and improves service reliability. Ultimately, this lets customers stay competitive and helps them m...

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

Benjamin Otterbach on Aug 5, 2020

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

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DNSdist 1.5.0 delivers enhancements for DoH and better performance

Alexander ter Haar on Jul 31, 2020

Open-Xchange has launched the latest version of DNSdist – our unique DNS proxy and load balancer that optimizes the internet experience of hundreds of millions of internet subscribers.

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Open-Xchange for open, interoperable messaging services in Europe

Vittorio Bertola on Jul 23, 2020

Sending an instant message or chatting over the internet is a very common experience for all of us. Every day, dozens of billions of messages are sent around the globe with apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger...

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The Importance of DNS and the Move to ‘Cloud-Native’

Oliver Michler on Jul 10, 2020

By Oliver Michler, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Open-Xchange DNS is one of the backbones of the internet, so it needs to be rock-solid, in terms of reliability, performance and scalability, and PowerDNS ha...

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Is Covid-19 the cause of the recent increase in email use?

Mike Ganson on Jun 23, 2020

Earlier this year, we described the effect of Covid-19 on the use of email within our data centers, and the impact it had on our customers (OX Blog Post). However, the effect of Covid-19 is now even more far-reac...

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Businesses demand protection from their providers

Alexander ter Haar on Jun 4, 2020

Keeping a company’s network secure is a challenge, especially when employees are working from home and without the physical control offered by the company’s IT security infrastructure. As a result, businesses are...

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Can a COVID-19 privacy app be privacy-centric and practical?

Vittorio Bertola on May 20, 2020

Over the last couple of weeks, GPS (in one way or another), has slowly but surely become the preferred option for many major governments as a way of tracking (and controlling) the spread of the coronavirus pandem...

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