We are looking forward to seeing everyone at this year’s EDUCAUSE 2011 Conference in Philadelphia!  We have a lot to share with you this year as we continue in our mission to deliver technologies and infrastructure that enhance the way people work in the post-PC era. We’re especially excited to show you a sneak peek of what is coming in ZCS 8.0 and an early preview of our new file sharing application, Project Octopus.  And, we’d like to invite you to our VMware Cocktail Reception on Tuesday evening.  This year we’ll be in historic downtown Philadelphia at Del Frisco’s.  Also, please stop by and see us in booth #1439. VMware Zimbra Roadmap Presentation on Tuesday, 10/18 at 2:… Read more »

Gartner Email Security 2011 Magic Quadrant We’re pleased today Proofpoint, an industry leader in security and compliance solutions for enterprise messaging, announced they've integrated their Enterprise Protection™ and Enterprise Privacy™ solutions with VMware Zimbra Collaboration Server v7 .  This integration offers Zimbra customers access to advanced anti-spam, regulatory compliance, email encryption and data loss prevention capabilities. Proofpoint worked with the Zimbra team to custom-engineer the integration of its solutions to provide users with maximum protection.  Features include: An virtual appliance with machine learning technology that delivers 99.8%+ anti-spam effectiveness against all types of spam and phishing attacks Direct integration within the Zimbra UI- users may mark messages "spam" or "not spam" and the feedback provides additional tuning to the Proofpoint service in real-time Securely send encrypted messages within Zimbra through a Proofpoint Zimlet extension (available in Zimbra 7.1.3) Administrators may enable robust outbound filtering in Zimbra on messages for data loss prevention and privacy compliance Special Introductory Offers As part of the launch, Proofpoint is offering qualified Zimbra Network Edition customers a free one-year subscription to its Proofpoint Enterprise Protection virtual appliance.… Read more »

As we continue in our mission to develop technologies and infrastructure that improve the way people work in this post-PC era, we are previewing at VMworld Las Vegas a new file sharing app – Project Octopus – that advances our vision for combining end-user freedom with IT control. Project Octopus will enable users to access files from any device and share them with people both inside (other colleagues) and outside (vendors, customers, partners) their companies in a completely safe and secure way.  Additionally, IT leaders will have control to apply access and security policies and intelligently manage data that is old or out of date. In our research, we found that 80 percent of files in a collaboration system are not accessed after more than two years. Octopus will automatically identify these orphaned files, warn their owners, and if it never hears back, it expires those files and deletes them. Project Octopus promises to be super easy to deploy; it plugs in to your existing infrastructure and will come with a wide range of extensibility options that can integrate with your existing business applications. Also Octopus will work with other products within the VMware End-user Computing portfolio including VMware Zimbra, VMware View, VMware Horizon and Project AppBlast.… Read more »

CeBIT 2011, the largest tech industry event in the world, is just around the corner (March 1st - 5th) in Hannover, Germany.  This year VMware and Zimbra are exhibiting together and you will be able to learn firsthand about Zimbra virtualization and the all-new Zimbra Collaboration Server 7. Please stop by for a personal demo: VMware Stand Halle 2, Stand A 30 Visit our CeBIT web page to learn more about the speaking schedule and/or receive a free exhibition pass.… Read more »

Tomorrow the VMware and Zimbra team will be hosting a live webinar covering some key differences between Zimbra and Google Apps.   It will be quite informative and an opportunity to ask questions of the Zimbra team; here is the webinar information from the Zimbra Webinar Series: Zimbra Collaboration Suite vs. Google Apps There are significant benefits of placing business critical applications such as email and collaboration in the cloud. Invest 45 minutes and learn what the key differentiators are when it comes to secure, cloud-based email and collaboration. Topics covered in the LIVE webinar include: Key feature &… Read more »

Zimbra partner Irontec of Spain recently posted a new Zimlet integration for SugarCRM in the Zimbra Gallery called "zSugar".  This is allows end users to attach email correspondences to an Account, Contact, Opportunity or Project. Feel free to try it out and provide your feedback, the Irontec team has deployed this with several customers already and plans on releasing an RC candidate shortly.  (Note the screen capture on the right is Spanish, but the UI is localized in English and Catalan as well). For those less familiar with the category of CRM <---> email integrations, zSugar is similar to the Salesforce Zimlet currently available for Salesforce.com in the Zimbra Gallery which allows end users to manage their leads and customers more efficiently by not making them log in to the CRM each time records need to be updated.… Read more »