At the recent World Hosting Days, Julian Assange delivered a stark warning about the future of our data, and the ownership of our own digital content. “We’re losing control” was the message, and it is a real chal...
By Stijn Nijhuis, CEO, Voiceworks What’s happening in the telecom industry? The recent statement of Microsoft, during an Enterprise Connect panel on UC federation caused a big buzz in our industry. Albert Kooiman...
By Peter Ganten, CEO, Univention Thanks to the Heartbleed bug a growing number of people in the media claim a precarious situation of Open Source projects leading to problems like Heartbleed. I think this is not ...
Open source software is in the ascendency. Not only does it seem like every new hot start-up is releasing its source code, even the granddaddies of proprietary, Microsoft, are learning to loosen up and embrace th...
Much has been discussed about the importance of an open Internet and the need to keep the Internet Giants from closing us all into their ecosystems. At Open-Xchange, it’s a drum we have been beating for quite som...
A decade ago Google launched its webmail service and jaws dropped when they claimed that you would never have to delete an email with its 1GB inbox allowance. How could they afford to give away so much storage fo...
I’ve rarely been at an event full of so many contradictions as this year’s SXSW. The who’s who of the Geekerati and Intelligentsia have assembled in Austin for a full 10 days to discuss the advances of technology...
Twitter’s recent transparency report is an encouraging, and very public, call to arms. In much the same way Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church; Twitter predica...
California has a silicon valley; London even has a silicon roundabout. Germany’s Berlin is a thriving silicon city.
The threat of cloud providers closing is a very real one, and any business or indeed individual needs to be aware of the risks involved when purchasing cloud services. In theory, there is nothing stopping a cloud...
