Digital Ecosystem
Feature "Cloud Native"
Cooperation with Cloud Natives as a Time Machine for System Integrators
Dr. Nils Kaufmann, Bernd Krakau, and Felix Höger talk to Thomas Sprenger about how system integrators and cloud natives complement each other.
Feature "Digital Policy"
Revolutionizing B2B Marketplaces: The Potential Role of Embedded Finance
Discover how embedded finance is revolutionizing B2B marketplaces in this insightful interview with Mr. Marcus Nasarek, Co-Founder & CEO of eTonec GmbH. Learn about the opportunities for banks, the role of automation in corporate services, and what it takes to succeed in a rapidly evolving digital ecosystem.
Feature "Gaia-X"
Does Europe need another Cloud?
Andreas Weiss and Thomas Sprenger analyze how Gaia-X next-generation cloud infrastructure could provide a sustainable boost to the data economy in Europe.
Feature "Domains"
The Top 10 ccTLDs Powering the European Domain Market
Discover the top ccTLDs dominating the domain market share in Europe in 2024, as presented by Simone Catania from InterNetX.
Feature "Digital Policy"
Steering Digital Policies and Compliance in Federated Cloud-Edge Ecosystems: How FACIS is Paving the Way for Agile Governance
What does it truly take to reshape digital contracting and Service Level Agreements? As Lauresha Memeti Toska explains, over the next two years, FACIS will tackle this challenge head-on, collaborating with providers and experts from diverse industries to craft forward-thinking solutions.
Industry Insights "Digital Policy"
Decoding GDPR’s Impact on WHOIS Data and Spam Emails
Revolutionizing B2B Marketplaces: The Potential Role of Embedded Finance
Feature "Digital Ecosystem"
Building successful ecosystems: a strategic advantage for MSPs
In this article, Thomas Amberg, DACH market sales lead, explores the concept of business ecosystems, their significance, and emphasizes the need for efficient collaboration.
Feature "Sustainability"
Tech’s Next Revolution: How the Circular Economy is Shaping the Future
In today’s rising tide of e-waste, a pathway towards sustainability is essential: As Rafael Dada from Janado explains, shifting towards a Circular Economy which embraces refurbished tech is a highly tangible strategy.
Feature "Gaia-X"
Sea of Data: Marispace-X Connects Ecosystems
Nils Klute from EuroCloud Germany on slowing climate change, exploring digital opportunities for wind power and clearing old munitions from the ocean through a Gaia-X project.
Feature "IoT"
INSYS icom Case Study: Empowering IIoT Giant Expansion from Europe to Asia (China）
To unlock Asia’s IIoT potential, Serve Bunnik from CITIC Telecom CPC showcases how INSYS icom partnered with his company to master seamless global service.
Feature "Digital Ecosystem"
Balancing Digital Ecosystems
What makes a healthy digital ecosystem? Balance and a diversity of stakeholders, answers Maria Barros-Weiss from IONOS
Feature "Digital Ecosystem"
Digital transformation in business: opportunities and challenges in the digital economy
Jasmin Jabbarpour, Project Manager and Research Associate at the Lisbon Council, outlines the opportunities and challenges faced by businesses during digital transformation. She highlights how TANGO supports businesses in executing this process and creating value for their customers.
Feature "Diversity"
Women in Tech: How a Digital Ecosystem Can Come Full Circle
Promoting women in tech should not be about fixing women – it means fixing structures in a way that will benefit everyone, reports Lucia Falkenberg from eco.
Feature "Gaia-X"
Gaia-X: “This Governance Process Is Unique in the World”
Why initiatives like Gaia-X represent a new form of international technopolitics. Andreas Baur reveals how political concepts are embedded in technology.
Feature "Artificial Intelligence"
The Potential of AI in the Life Sciences
Saskia Steinacker, Senior VP Strategy at Bayer AG, reveals how Bayer is using AI and provides practical examples from the life sciences sector.
Feature "Digital Ecosystem"
Transforming IT Infrastructure: Embracing the Circular Economy Model
Thomas Amberg from ynvolve dives into the principles of the circular economy, exploring how IT professionals can adapt and benefit from this sustainable model.
Feature "FinTech"
The Digital Bank: Why Innovative Financial Institutions Urgently Need an Interconnection Strategy
Dr. Thomas King, CTO at DE-CIX, shows why interconnection via an Internet Exchange is so important for the future of banking.
Feature "Digital Ecosystem"
From Discovery to Defense: Mastering API Security in Modern Digital Ecosystems
Lisa Fröhlich, Corporate Communications at Link11, dives into the critical importance of API security, outlines common threats, and shares actionable best practices to protect sensitive data and ensure business continuity.
Feature "Digital Ecosystem"
Transforming Business Models in the Platform Economy
Digital economist Holger Schmidt explains the three waves of digital transformation and how platform-based business models evolve.
Feature "Digital Ecosystem"
Paradigm Shift: Ecosystems and How to Rock them!
Luisa Kruse from TechQuartier offers insights on choreographing ecosystems from an ecosystem orchestrator.
Feature "Mobility"
Mobility Data Ecosystems as an Opportunity for the Transport Revolution: How Wolfsburg Is Preparing for the Digital Future
Giovanni Coppa from WOBCOM offers a vision of secure, legally compliant, rule-controlled data exchange enabling mobility services and smart city solutions.
Feature "Digital Ecosystem"
Technologies and Business Models Posing Industry Challenges for System Integrators
Tailoring IT architectures to business models, having customers benefit from ecosystems, and opening up additional revenues with as-a-service offers – these types of market trends were the focus of the German IDG “Systemhauskongress”, which took place virtually this year.
Feature "Interconnection"
Re-evaluating Location Strategies for the Digital Economy: Why the Iberian Peninsula is a Prime Choice
Where once the choice of headquarters locations was limited to a few historically strategic cities, new regions and hubs are offering strong economic and geographical advantages. Theresa Bobis from DE-CIX, on why companies should be putting Iberia at the top of the list for location strategies in 2025.
Feature "Digital Ecosystem"
Shaping Digital Ecosystems
Andreas Weiss, Managing Director of the eco Association, explores the progress in designing digital ecosystems, the role of sovereign digital identities, and the opportunities and challenges for the EU in asserting digital sovereignty.
Feature "Digital Ecosystem"
The Smart Digital Ecosystem
Digital ecosystems are redefining how companies interact and generate value. Andreas Weiss from the eco Association looks at how to become part of a smart ecosystem in order to find your place in the digital economy.
Industry Insights "Digital Ecosystem"
Prototyping IoT Products and Services
Social Business’s Disruptive Potential to Improve the World
Feature "Digital Business Models"
Trust and Collaboration: The Enablers of Digital Business Models and Ecosystems
eco’s Emma Wehrwein and Lauresha Memeti argue that the key to unlocking the power of digital ecosystems lies in building trust and collaboration; technically, legally, and socially.
Feature "Digital Ecosystem"
Driving Expansion of the Digital Ecosystem at All Levels in Europe and Germany
Dr. Béla Waldhauser from the Alliance for the Strengthening of Digital Infrastructures highlights the essential role of strong infrastructures in driving Europe’s and Germany’s digital transformation, calling for streamlined investments, reduced bureaucracy, and enhanced funding to optimize data centers and support economic growth.
Feature "Digital Transformation"
Digitalizing Hotels – New Six-Star Hospitality in the Post-Pandemic World
While digitalizing travel will help keep workers and travellers safe as borders re-open, the future holds much more promise for the digital hotel, reports Ivo Ivanov from DE-CIX.
Feature "Cloud Native"
20 Years of CloudFest: The World’s Largest Cloud Conference
Twenty years of innovation & collaboration have been celebrated at CloudFest, with EuroCloud’s Michael Hase catching up on the event's significance with its organizers.
Feature "Multi Cloud"
Optimizing Cloud Connectivity for Business Success
With multi-cloud gaining ground as a strategic advantage for companies, the lack of interoperability between cloud providers poses a challenge for cloud architects. Dr. Christoph Dietzel from DE-CIX, on optimizing connectivity between clouds to ensure seamless interoperability.
Feature "Digital Ecosystem"
System Integrators as Trusted Advisors for Transformation
Unless systems integrators develop new skills and move up into the cloud, their role as advisors could become obsolete, fears EuroCloud Chair Felix Höger.
Feature "Networks"
New Hope from Space
Ivo Ivanov from DE-CIX, on how satellite infrastructure will support bringing the digital universe of services to the user – wherever necessary.
Industry Insights "Networks"
SCS – “Stacking sovereignty” for Gaia-X applications
Edge: Counter-Revolution or Evolution?
Feature "Interconnection"
How Digital Ecosystems Power AI Strategies
Ivo Ivanov, CEO of DE-CIX, on how companies can maximize the value out of AI, how data center and carrier-neutral Internet Exchanges support the evolution of AI-driven business, and how New York is leading the way with AI-ready connectivity infrastructure.
Industry Insights "Interconnection"
Understanding AI Application Architecture
Feature "Gaia-X"
Marispace-X Creates the Data Ecosystem for Oceans
Marispace-X is exploring the data spaces in our oceans. Jann Wendt talks to Andreas Weiss and Thomas Sprenger about the maritime data ecosystem.
Industry Insights "Gaia-X"
More Sustainable with Cloud: Economies of Scale for the Environment and Climate
Feature "Digital Infrastructure"
Leveraging Digital Ecosystems in the New Normal
Ivo Ivanov from DE-CIX, on how data gravity and diversity in ecosystems, together with secure interconnection, provide the ideal breeding ground for digital business.
Feature "Gaia-X"
Gaia-X: A European Ecosystem for Creating Value from Data
Andreas Weiss from EuroCloud and writer Thomas Sprenger, on why no cloud platform is big enough to handle digitalisation in Europe alone.
