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has launched Zimbra
Collaboration Suite Appliance, which is an enterprise-class e-mail
and collaboration solution. Designed to run on the VMware vSphere
platform, the Zimbra Appliance helps to reduce the cost and
complexity of infrastructure management.
In addition, VMware announced that
Zimbra, which it acquired in February 2010, is now fully integrated
within VMware. All Zimbra products are now available via VMware's
extensive sales and channel partner ecosystem, providing VMware's
1,90,000 customers and 25,000 partners full access to Zimbra's
e-mail and collaboration product suite. Zimbra customers are also now
supported by VMware's Global Support Services, the world's
largest virtualization support organization.
Advancing Enterprise-Class
Collaboration in the Cloud
Zimbra Collaboration Suite Appliance is
a next generation e-mail and collaboration solution that is designed
to run on VMware vSphere, VMware's award-winning virtualization
platform. Customers have the flexibility to run Zimbra Appliance
either within their own datacenter, or via one of VMware's more
than 2,000 VMware vCloud partners who host the application as a
service. Because it is delivered as a virtual appliance, customers
can deploy the application faster than traditional software
deployments — within minutes instead of hours. As a result of this
simplified virtual appliance model, customers and partners can manage
their e-mail and collaboration needs with fewer resources, less costs
and lower risk. The Zimbra Appliance provides a personal and team
cloud for the end user, administrator and datacenter.
The Zimbra Appliance leverages the
best-of-breed virtualization capabilities of the VMware vSphere
platform to enable dynamic provisioning and scalability, high
availability, backup, and disaster recovery. As a result, customers
can improve service levels by reducing the impact of planned and
unplanned hardware downtime. The Zimbra Appliance also features
integrated security technologies including a firewall, anti-virus and
anti-spam solutions.
“We're excited about the
opportunity to provide VMware customers worldwide with Zimbra's
best-in-class e-mail and collaboration solution paired with VMware
vSphere's leading virtualization platform,” said Jim Morrisroe,
GM, Zimbra. “The Zimbra Collaboration Suite Appliance delivers
customers secure e-mail with the assurance that their data is
protected on our VMware vSphere virtualization platform, and a
collaboration solution that they can fully deploy in a matter of
minutes — literally going from install to inbox in less than ten
minutes,” he added.
“Zimbra Collaboration Suite combined
with VMware vSphere enables us to offer our customers the best of
both worlds-a leading e-mail and collaboration solution, running on
the industry's most complete and widely deployed virtualization
platform,” said Craig McLellan, CTO at Hosting.com. “With the
addition of the Zimbra Appliance, we are able to provide additional
e-mail and collaboration options for our 30,000 clients who count on
us for their critical infrastructure services,” he expained.
Zimbra Appliance Simplifies IT and
Administration
The Zimbra Collaboration Suite
Appliance delivers enterprise-class email and collaboration features,
including:
· Zimbra Email and
Collaboration Server - Complete enterprise class email and
collaboration solution that includes email, contacts/address book,
calendaring, document management, file sharing, tasks, and
comprehensive search and indexing.
· Zimbra Advanced Web Client -
multiple-browser, multiple-platform web-client with a rich AJAX
interface delivers a robust desktop-like experience for end users.
· Zimbra Mobile - Native
“over-the-air” synchronization to iPhone, Windows, Palm and
Symbian OS Smartphones with customizable mobile security policies
including remote device wipe, PINs and device management features on
user accounts.
· Easy Migration and
Interoperability — Zimbra Appliance Migration Wizard allows
customers to rapidly and easily migrate from Microsoft Exchange and
Domino environments; interoperability with Microsoft Exchange and
other leading email clients including shared enterprise calendars and
Global Address List (GAL) for mixed environments.
· Simplified and Anywhere,
Web-based Administration - Simplified task-oriented web-based
administration console enables “anywhere administration”.
· Zimbra Appliance Integrated
Application Stack — Rapid deployment of integrated operating system
and application stack, combined with firewall, anti-virus and
anti-spam filtering.
· Zimbra Appliance Automated
Software Updates — Software and security updates are combined into
a single lifecycle management policy, configurable from the anywhere
access, web-based administration console.
· Open Virtualization Format
(OVF) packaged Virtual Appliance — Open formats reduce the cost and
complexity of provisioning and lifecycle management.