Soeren von Varchmin is CEO of CloudFest and Namescon, the largest series of events for the cloud and hosting industry in the world. Alongside this position, he is also lead guitarist and singer in the rock band “Lords of Uptime”. He is an investor and adviser of several successful start-ups and he supports the non-profit...

Jürgen Seeger, born in 1953, gained his initial journalistic experience at a weekly newspaper in Hanover. Since 1984, the certified pedagogue has worked for Heise, initially for “Input 64”, a magazine for the Commodore 64. In 1988, Seeger was involved in the development of the idea and concept for iX, and he has been...

Since 2015, Dana Heide has been a correspondent for the Handelsblatt in Berlin, with reporting focusing on: the German Federal Ministry for the Economy, digital policy, cyber-security, SMEs, and the FDP. In 2016, she became an Arthur F. Burns-Fellow at The Wall Street Journal in San Francisco. Prior to this, she was...

The draft for an immigration act introduced by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior last week could entice more specialists to move to Germany.

Hessian state government appoints Harald Summa, DE-CIX CEO and CEO of eco, to its newly-founded Council for Digital Ethics. As voice of the Internet industry, eco Association takes on social responsibility for an ethically-oriented digitalization.

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Frankfurt has one of the densest data networks in the world and is an established location hub for Data Centers and Connectivity. While Germany as a whole, has rapidly modernised with advanced technology driving its place as one of Europe’s largest telecom markets. These merging sectors coupled with high demand from our top-level clients e.g. DCs, Network Operators, Service Providers and ICT players who wish to explore new opportunities in the region has resulted in the Draleo Group returning to Frankfurt for its second annual event in the city.

Whilst welcoming the German federal government's new Digital Council's first meeting today, Chair of eco Oliver Süme also emphasizes that: “The time for talking is over. The government must now provide long overdue answers to pressing questions about the future of Germany as a digital location.”

Klaus Dudda has been at home in the media and publication industry since his time as an advertising specialist. With Medienhaus Verlag, arising from a management buyout in the nineties, he started the development of IT journals and successively expanded this target market. Today, Medienhaus, with its print, digital and...

Andreas Gauger has been heavily involved in the shaping of the cloud and hosting market in Germany since the 1990s. As early as his time at school, he founded his first software company. In 1995, he was co-founder of the German hosting pioneer Schlund+Partner. From 2000 to 2008, as the board spokesperson, Gauger drove forward...