Belgacom, Belgium’s largest telecommunications company, recently announced the launch of Zimbra Appliance for its business customers. Zimbra Appliance will be offered to Belgacom customers in both public and private cloud configurations, enabling customers to run Zimbra Appliance either within their own datacenter or via the Belgacom datacenter, where the application is hosted as a service. The addition of Zimbra Appliance to the Belgacom public and private cloud offering brings small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as larger organizations, a leading, high qualitative email, calendaring and collaboration service. The launch of this new solution fits in the cloud strategy of Belgacom datacenter services by providing an alternative for outdated mail environments at a cheaper price. Belgacom’s customers join over 60 million Zimbra users at over 150,000 organizations around the world. To learn more about Zimbra Appliance click on the links below: http://www.… Read more »

Telenet, one of the largest internet providers in Belgium, recently announced the rollout of a new webmail platform developed in collaboration with Zimbra. Since April 2010, Telenet has been providing access to the new system for over 1 million residential internet subscribers and will continue the migration through August 1st. The updated email suite – which is free to Telenet customers – provides 5 GB of storage, a built-in calendar and address book, many advanced tools like sharing, automated importing of external mail accounts, plus more features to come. Previously, Telenet internet customers had a basic mail utility and minuscule quota space of 50 MB. The new interface, powered by Zimbra, is extremely user friendly and is supported by 100x more storage. Other improved features include the ability to set up rules for filtering incoming mail and access to a mobile browser version. Several factors, including lower disk costs and the broadening availability of both virtualization and cloud applications made it possible for Telenet to make this update available to its customers. (One such distributed object storage framework is from Bizanga/Scality, who developed a connector for Zimbra, and has a video on Telenet's strategy here.… Read more »