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10/28/10

VMware Validates E-Mail Security Appliances for Zimbra
eWeek, Fahmida Y. Rashid, October 28, 2010
The VMware Ready Mail Security products offer Zimbra customers e-mail security software that has been pre-validated to work with the e-mail and collaboration platform.

 

 

 

 

10/12/10

Zimbra Desktop 2.0 Debuts With Offline Functionality And Twitter, Facebook Integration
TechCrunchIT, Leena Rao, October 12, 2010
Zimbra, the email and collaboration software that was sold by Yahoo to VMware earlier this year, is debuting the newest version of its SaaS-based email client today. Zimbra 2.0 includes desktop functionality, designed to give users offline access to their email, contacts, calendar and document management features in one place. You can also download Zimbra’s Zimlets, which are apps that create mash-ups of data from third party sources, to the desktop app.

 

 

 

 

10/12/10

Zimbra launches desktop version 2.0
ZDNet, Larry Dignan, October 12, 2010
VMware’s Zimbra launched a new version of its desktop email software that aggregates social media feeds from Facebook and Twitter as well as other email accounts such as Google Apps.

 

 

 

 

08/10/10

VMware Brings Zimbra into its Stack with a Portable Appliance
ReadWriteCloud, Alex Williams, August 10, 2010
Zimbra is marking its full integration with VMware in the form of a new virtual appliance designed for the data center and hosting markets. The new service combines VMware's vSphere with the Zimbra email client in one portable product that it calls the Zimbra Collaboration Suite Appliance.

 

 

 

 

08/10/10

VMware packs Zimbra into virtual appliance
The Register, Timothy Prickett Morgan, August 10, 2010
The main reason why VMware took open source core groupware software maker Zimbra off the hands of Yahoo back in January was to have yet one more piece of code to sell to SMB customers and hosting companies adopting its vSphere server virtualization stack. Today, a virtual appliance version of the Zimbra email, calendaring, and collaboration is available as a standalone offering.

 

 

 

 

06/17/10

5 Free and Open-Source Software Alternatives for Small Businesses
Mashable, Jolie O'Dell, June 17, 2010
If you’re part of a small business, chances are you’re always looking for ways to save money. What many business owners and managers don’t realize is that they can get all the software they need to run a business — quite literally all of it in most cases — 100% free of charge. That includes operating systems, word processing programs, accounting software, email servers, graphic design programs and more.

 

 

 

 

08/10/10

Can VMware put a dent in Microsoft Exchange?
Infoworld, Eric Knorr, 8/10/2010
I was always a fan of Zimbra, an email solution that combined an open source mail server with a wildly innovative, browser-based client that has all the features of a collaborative document management system. Zimbra, which has a client that can run offline, treats email as the hub of the user's worklife -- and throws in all sorts of XML goodies, including little Zimlet widgets for lightweight integration with other systems… With today's announcement of a Zimbra Collaboration Suite Appliance, VMware might have a bona fide Exchange killer on its hands.

 

 

 

 

08/10


VMware Zimbra Offers Business a Microsoft Exchange Alternative
Channel Insider, Jessica Davis, 8/10/2010
Zimbra is taking its email, messaging and collaboration suite embedded appliance to VMware’s channel organization – effectively growing from just 1,000 channel partners to 25,000 overnight. The move follows VMware’s acquisition of the corporate cloud email and collaboration vendor from Yahoo earlier this year, and poses an even more serious threat to entrenched players such as Microsoft with its Exchange email and collaboration. Zimbra is a direct competitor to Microsoft’s Exchange email and collaboration technology as well as to cloud-based email and collaboration services such as Google Apps and Zoho.

 

 

 

 

08/10/10

VMware Takes Zimbra to the Cloud
internet.com, Amy Newman, 8/18/2010
When VMware announced its intent to purchase Zimbra from Yahoo back in January there was some concern Zimbra might be "going from one company that had no idea what to do with it to another." And that seemed to be the last anyone heard from the open source collaboration company. Until Tuesday, when VMware announced Zimbra's assimilation into its new parent company is now complete. This means VMware's sales team now sells Zimbra and vice versa; VMware's Global Support Services support Zimbra customers; Zimbra fully supports VMware; and VMware customers and partners have full access to Zimbra’s email and collaboration product suite, Zimbra General Manager Jim Morisroe told ServerWatch.

 

 

 

 

01/15/2010

Zimbra Customers Applaud VMware Acquisition
IDG, Juan Carlos Perez, 01/15/2010
Zimbra customers, on an emotional roller-coaster ride since it was acquired by Yahoo, welcome VMware's plans to buy the open-source e-mail, calendar and collaboration software vendor. Many of them were vexed when Yahoo snapped up Zimbra for US$350 million in September 2007, concerned that the Zimbra suite might wilt and disappear due to Yahoo's inexperience in the enterprise software market.

 

 

 

 

01/13/2010

Zimbra Helps VMware Gird for Battle with Microsoft
Eweek, Darryl Taft, 01/13/2010
VMware's acquisition of Zimbra brings the virtualization specialist a step closer to providing a varied set of IT services for its growing number of customers. With the agreed-upon acquisition of Zimbra from Yahoo, VMware gains a provider of e-mail and collaboration software provider that boasts a customer base of "over 55 million mailboxes," said a VMware news release Jan. 12.

 

 

 

 

01/12/2010

VMware Takes On Microsoft With Zimbra
The Street, James Rogers, 01/12/2010
VMware's deal with Yahoo! to acquire email specialist Zimbra looks set to boost the virtualization giant's cloud story, while ramping up competition with arch-rival Microsoft. Previously an independent division within Yahoo!, Zimbra makes email and collaboration software that will now be built into VMware's vSphere cloud technology. An alternative to Microsoft's SharePoint and IBM's Lotus Notes, Zimbra's open source software is already used in more than 55 million mailboxes.

 

 

 

 

04/30/2009

Zimbra Desktop Brings Webmail to the Desktop
Appscout, Alan Henry, 04/30/2009
One of the great things about Webmail is that you can access it anywhere you have an Internet connection. And one of the great things about a desktop e-mail client is that you can view multiple e-mail accounts and addresses in the same interface, and easily manage a calendar, tasks, and other tools in the same app.

 

 

 

 

03/05/2009

Zimbra tops 40M paid users: More popular than Gmail?
VentureBeat, Anthony Ha, 03/05/2009
We’ve written glowingly about Yahoo-owned email and collaboration software Zimbra before, but it looks like we’re far from being the only fans. In fact, Zimbra announced that has crossed the 40 million user mark. And those are paid mailboxes, not free accounts.

 

 

 

 

02/17/2009

Business Solutions
Wall Street Journal, Ben Worthen, 02/17/2009
Ben Worthen of the Wall Street Journal talks to Bruce Maas, CIO at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, about the institution's implementation of Zimbra. Maas calls the service "lean and efficient," and notes the usefulness of the calendar integration functionality for students.

 

 

 

 

01/19/2009

Zimbra hits 20 million paid mailboxes
CNET, Matt Asay, 01/19/2009
Matt Asay, CNET, writes about Zimbra's jump to 20 million paid inboxes, a "massive increase in roughly seven months."

 

 

 

 

02/5/08 Zimbra Launches Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0
Latest release features innovative enterprise-class services, including BlackBerry and Outlook 2007 support, plus new Web 2.0 IM and Task Applications - extending EtomicMail's leadership in e-mail services

 

 

 

 

09/17/07

Yahoo! Announces Agreement to Acquire Zimbra
Acquisition of Innovative E-mail Company Bolsters Leadership in Communications;  Extends Expertise to Universities, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses and Service Provider Partners

 

 

 

 

07/12/07
Serverwatch
A New Option for Zimbra Users
Advanced Search is done through a visual search builder. Search criteria include senders, recipients, dates, attachment types and content, and searches can extend to inside attachments. Zimbra Archiving & Discovery recognizes and supports more than 200 types of indexed attachments.

 

 

 

 

07/12/07
SearchStorage.com
Unorthodox ISPs Jump on Storage SaaS Trend
Zimbra's new software, which will become generally available July 23, has most of the items on the email/archiving checklist, including automatic .pst file discovery and migration, and the ability to index, search and export messages or mailboxes for e-discovery and compliance purposes.

 

 

 

 

07/12/07
Byte and Switch
Zimbra Zips Up Email Archives
AirCanopy has been using Zimbra's archiving and e-discovery software for about 90 days, according to Kenyon. "What I like about this is the integration -- we want to give [school districts] not only archiving, but also easy retrieval of the data.

 

 

 

 

07/11/07
InternetNews.com
Zimbra's Latest Add Covers Your E-Mail Backs
For storage, Zimbra has included a Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) and automated content aging system, which is similar in practice to an Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) approach for keeping older data on less expensive media.

 

 

 

 

07/02/2007
Linux World,
Medical Institute Prescribes Open Source Zimbra
Zimbra made a name for itself by being one of only a handful of open source, Linux-based providers of enterprise groupware software. The company offers an open source version for free and a full-featured network professional edition for a paid subscription.

 

 

 

 

07/01/2007
Campus
Technology
How Secure is Open Source
In addition to security considerations, "A key factor in our choice of an e-mail and calendaring product was the ability to cost-effectively deploy the technology campuswide," says Greg DeYoung, EIU's associate director for campus infrastructure technology. Other eager Zimbra adopters include Delaware State University and Florida International University's College of Business Administration.

 

 

 

 

eWeek The 7th Annual eWEEK Excellence Awards
Zimbra impressed us with the options they've cooked up for enabling workers to "live" inside their e-mail and calendar interfaces by giving companies the tools to build customized mash-ups that roll typically separate application functions such as flight tracking, Skype-based phone dialing and purchase order approvals into Zimbra's browser-based interface.

 

 

 

 

05/14/2007
Network
Computing
Can Ubuntu + Zimbra Take On Exchange/Outlook?
Zimbra's approach is innovative, and in the long term could be a viable competitor to Outlook in the enterprise, while Ubuntu looks like an attractive platform to run it on.

 

 

 

 

05/10/2007
ServerWatch
Zimbra Expands Its Reach
Details on Zimbra's role are still sketchy, as Smartzone is still being fleshed out. Initially, Zimbra Communication Suite will provide the e-mail back end.Down the road, Zimbra's AJAX-based front end may also have a role on the client side, according to Zimbra.

 

 

 

 

05/07/2007
AJAX Magazine
Zimbra and Comcast, New communication center is born
This going to add twelve million new users to the current six million paid mailboxes of Zimbra and let Comcast Triple Play consumers easily manages their communication needs from one portal.

 

 

 

 

05/07/2007
PRNewswire
Comcast Announces Plans to Launch Interactive SmartZone(TM) Communications Center
Zimbra, the award-winning provider of next-generation unified messaging and collaboration software, was chosen by Comcast for SmartZone.

 

 

 

 

05/07/2007
Reuters

Comcast to integrate e-mail and voicemail online
Comcast created SmartZone in partnership with Hewlett-Packard Co., Zimbra, a specialist in messaging software and Plaxo, an online address book service.

 

 

 

 

05/07/2007
IDG News Service
Zimbra Helps Comcast with SmartZone
SmartZone users will be able to send and receive e-mail, listen to their voicemail messages online and forward that information via e-mail to others, send instant messages and video instant messages and merge their contacts into one address book. Zimbra is providing the necessary unified messaging and collaboration software...

 

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