As promised here’s an update on a few of the major projects we are working on for the JudasPriest release of Zimbra. Overall, our goal for the release is to innovate around our web app using HTML5 capabilities that run on any desktop, tablet, and mobile device while providing support for native clients using sync protocols. Here’s what we’re working on. HTML5 Offline Web App With our mission to drive advancements in Zimbra into the browser as our primary client experience, so goes Zimbra Desktop. ZD was essentially an offline HTML experience using SQL lite to store data, Jetty to serve our web app locally, and Prism (Firefox) to render the client UI. HTML5 enables us to cache our web app in local storage and provide SQL services, via IndexedDB embedded within Chrome, IE, and FireFox, to store and retrieve a local cache of your mailbox data. Initially we will support mail, calendar, and contacts and we’re taking the approach of syncing your current working set of data up to 30 days similar to a mobile experience where you typically don’t sync your entire 30GB mailbox. For those that must have their entire 30GB mailbox locally with them at all times, we are continuing to make advancements in the sync protocols and Desktop clients we support…keep reading.… Read more »

On Wednesday, December 12th join me for a live webinar discussing how an increasingly mobile workforce coupled with BYOD environments have created a more complex environment with unique security challenges for email administrators. Surprisingly, one of the best ways to combat complexity is through simplicity. To this end, we’ve devoted significant resources to making sure Zimbra 8 has straightforward yet powerful administration while meeting the strictest of governance and compliance regulations. During this 45-min webinar with live Q&A we will cover topics that include: Complete IT management control through an easy-to-use browser-based email console, further ensuring data and device security Two-way SSL Smartcard authentication and S/MIME encryption, ensuring messages can only be read by the intended recipient Integrated Archiving and Discovery for SOX, HIPAA, FRCP, and corporate governance requirements Our customers come from some of the most regulated industries and demand email security second to none that meets their governance and compliance needs. So join us as we show you exactly how these companies have used Zimbra to meet these standards while simplifying IT administration and giving their employees a platform they can access from anywhere at any time. Register today and join us on:… Read more »

Exciting news! We've just release VMware Zimbra Collaboration Server 7.1 and I thought I'd take a few minutes to explain the details behind the release. Some may have been expecting a typical maintenance release (i.e. 7.0.2), and 7.… Read more »

Recently we updated our listing on VMware's Virtual Appliance Marketplace with a trial version of ZCS Network Edition 6.0.6. We packaged it up in two formats - traditional VMX/VMDK and the Open Virtualization Format, OVF for short, using VMware Studio. The traditional VMX/VMDK package can be use with VMware's desktop products like Workstation for Linux/Windows and Fusion for MAC. You can also go grab VMware Player for FREE and test drive the ZCS trial on either Linux or Windows. The OVF package can be used "out-of-the-box" with VMware vSphere or imported to other VMware desktop and server products using the standalone OVF Tool 1.0 or vCenter Converter.… Read more »