A screenshot of the Open-Xchange calendaring application, from the company's website
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Luxembourg-based Reseller cloud services provider LuxCloud has partnered with open-source communications software developer Open-Xchange, in order to provide resellers with a hosted, white-labeled version of the tool, according to an announcement made Thursday by the companies.
LuxCloud is a cloud computing service provider that is designed to provide service providers in Europe with a quick way to introduce cloud tools into their product lineups. Hosted from LuxCloud facilities around Europe (the company was built out of the Datacenter Luxembourg business), it offers a set of infrastructure as a service offerings, as well as a SaaS distribution platform, in which the Open-Xchange service will be included.
According to LuxCloud, its white-label cloud services are a means for smaller service providers to defend against the threat to their business posed by the larger public cloud providers.
“With the rise of the cloud, traditional resellers and system integrators find it hard to retain customer loyalty as cloud giants Amazon, Google, Apple and Microsoft go after their customers,” says Marco Houwen, CEO of LuxCloud. “Business-class email is a killer application for small and midsized businesses and Open-Xchange is the proven category leader in cloud email and collaboration. The partnership between Open-Xchange and LuxCloud helps resellers generate new business in the under-served SMB market and remain visible in front of customers with individually branded services.”
LuxCloud says its service includes automation for back-office tasks, including order placement, service provisioning and billing management. The company says its automation tools are flexible, scalable and secure.
Open-Xchange says its tools will also be offered in a white-label version by LuxCloud. The groupware product includes email, calendar, contact, task management and collaboration tools. It also includes some advanced social-media integration tools that enable the platform to incorporate contact information from outside resources. It also enables users to consolidate webmail accounts with services like Gmail and Yahoo.
Open-Xchange demonstrated a work-in-progress user interface upgrade (due sometime in mid-2012) in a presentation earlier this month at its partner summit in Cologne, Germany.
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