The Future of Kolab Now: Part IV

Posted on: August 20th, 2020 by

With the new HKCCP, we are laying the groundwork for future improvements. It gives us a solid foundation to develop and deliver new features that would not have been possible or maintainable in the old system. One such feature is video conferencing.

We wanted to add a video conferencing to Kolab for a while, but we wanted to avoid the security and access issues seen elsewhere. COVID-19 has put it up in priority quite a bit. With our account management system overhaul reaching the final stages, we decided it was time to proceed working on it with more priority. The code can be found here.

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Interview with Safety Detectives

Posted on: July 24th, 2020 by

Kolab Now provides mail and groupware services for privacy and security minded customers around the world. With decades of experience under our belts, we have become a well established part of the Swiss cyber security community. We are dedicated to providing a transparent and ethical service to the highest standards and our security track record shows for it. Recently, our CTO, Jeroen van Meeuwen, was asked to share his insights with Safety Detectives. Their interview series with players in the community is well worth checking out. Here is the link to the interview with Jeroen:

https://www.safetydetectives.com/blog/interview-jeroen-van-meeuwen-kolab-now/

If you are interested in reading more of these kinds of personal perspectives on things, from the people behind Kolab Now, let us know at support@kolabnow.com.

The Future of Kolab Now: Part III

Posted on: July 16th, 2020 by

In this series, we take a look at upcoming changes and features for Kolab Now.  Part I gave a high level overview of our roadmap, Part II looked into changes to our payment system. In this post we are going to take a look at how users sign up for our service. We offer a 30 day money back guarantee for a while now. It has served us well in allowing potential customer to try our service without having commit to paying for a service that might not be a good fit for them in the end.

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The Future of Kolab Now: Part II

Posted on: July 12th, 2020 by

Kolab Now is a paid online service, where users can pay for their subscription and used resources via credit card, PayPal, bank transfer (and in the future, bitcoin). It is the task of a centerpiece module called the Hosted Kolab Customer Control Panel (HKCCP) to manage and administer the subscriptions and payments (among other tasks).

Over the years we have received feedback from users with constructive, honest criticism about the level of flexibility in the payment system. Users have wanted greater control of when to pay, and the actual services and resources paid for. As we always strive to improve the user experience, we listened and made accommodating changes to the payment system in the new updated HKCCP.

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The Future of Kolab Now: Part I

Posted on: July 7th, 2020 by

This is an introduction to the Kolab Now roadmap, and what the future is going to bring. I’ll give you a high-level overview of our future plans.

It’ll constitute the first in a series of blog posts, and different people will speak in more detail about individual topics.

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How Kolab Now Deals with SARS-Cov-2 (aka. Covid-19, Corona Virus)

Posted on: April 16th, 2020 by

There’s been four distinct aspects of the current pandemic we’ve needed to deal with, and I’ll attempt to state where they come from, and what the consequences are or have been or will be.

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Bleib sicher Zuhause mit Kolab Now

Posted on: March 22nd, 2020 by

Kolab Now unterstützt alle, die auf Homeoffice nicht vorbereitet sind, indem wir unseren Service für die Dauer der Krise gratis zur Verfügung stellen.

Email, Kalender, Office-Dokumente und mehr, helfen Ihnen Ihre Arbeitsabläufe auch Zuhause aufrecht zu erhalten.

Registriere dich jetzt mit dem Voucher Code KOLABFROMHOMENOW.

Dieses Angebot werden wir so lange wie möglich aufrechterhalten und nachdem sich die Lage beruhigt hat wieder entfernen.

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Stay Safe at Home with Kolab Now

Posted on: March 16th, 2020 by

Authorities and experts alike tell us physically staying at home is the safest thing to do for you and yours, and everyone else. Our experts want you to enjoy the same safety on the web.

We have decided to spread the burden and not the virus, and do the right thing by not opportunistically profiting off of our collective misery. We now provide a 100% discount to all new signups for as long as we can manage, or for as long as the crisis continues, whichever comes first. When things cool down, we’ll remove the discount.

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Incident Report: Storage Failure

Posted on: January 29th, 2020 by

At 10:23 UTC this morning, Wednesday January 29th, our environment experienced a catastrophic storage failure. The time to resolution for this underlying problem was approximately 80 minutes, and full service was restored approximately 60 minutes thereafter — 12:48 UTC.

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Our Annual Certificate Refresh

Posted on: January 16th, 2020 by

Our annual certificate refresh is upon us.

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