Almost everyone gets too much email.  Important messages can get lost in the clutter of a busy inbox. As part of the focus on the user interface that I wrote about in a previous post (Zimbra 8 User Interface: The Changes That You Don't See), Zimbra 8 includes two enhancements to help you handle large volumes of email: improved conversation views and activity streams. Following the conversation Conversations are a great way to group and manage related emails. The Zimbra 8 web interface has significant improvements to how it handles email conversations. To try the conversation view, choose By Conversation from the View menu.… Read more »

Zimbra users will notice major changes to the user interface in Zimbra 8. What you cannot see is the 'behind the scenes' work that went into those changes.  Zimbra 8 reflects process and methodology changes that will improve the user experience not only in Zimbra 8 but all releases moving forward.   Usability doesn't just happen Until now, the Zimbra user interface has been an organic byproduct of how features were added.  And as each new version added more great features, the user interface started to become cluttered. Simplicity is hard to add incrementally. But starting with Zimbra 8, a dedicated user experience team has focused on the user experience.… Read more »

It’s my pleasure to announce that today Zimbra 8 is now available to the public! With the release of Zimbra 8, VMware takes another step forward in providing users and IT organizations with a new way to collaborate in a post-PC world. Based on feedback from our customers, the goals of Zimbra 8 were to invest in unified communications, to deliver on the simplicity of the private and public cloud and to continue to make the user experience easier to access while on the go.  Zimbra 8 was a community effort and the VMware team thanks all of our customers and partners for their input and help over the last 2 years of planning and execution. New to Zimbra 8.0, VMware has partnered with Cisco and Mitel to offer unified communications capabilities embedded within Zimbra. These deep integration capabilities allow users to connect their voice and message systems in a unified inbox, enabling Click2Call, voicemail, presence, and chat all from within the Zimbra Web app. Zimbra 8.… Read more »

Last Wednesday we held an analyst webinar on how to find the right email system for your organization. During the webinar, Michael Osterman of Osterman Research performed an in-depth analysis on Zimbra and other email providers such as Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Novell. During the hour-long session, Osterman walked through the key considerations to think about when selecting an email provider, such as TCO, deployment, user experience, and IT management. Although there were many great points brought up during the webinar, one in particular stuck with me throughout the Labor day weekend, how the wrong email system can dramatically increase the total cost of ownership. The Osterman team’s research showed how for a 500-user organization there is a 163 percent difference in TCO between the least and the most expensive email platforms. To dive further, this difference is increased to 325 percent when looking at a 20,000-user organization. This huge cost savings can be realized just by selecting the right email provider. And with Zimbra having one of the lowest TCO’s for organizations of all sizes - including cloud services - a switch to Zimbra could save you 3X while delivering all the benefits of a next generation email system.… Read more »

Join us August 29th for a webinar with Michael Osterman from the Osterman Group to talk about the email landscape and how to find the right email solution to improve collaboration, enable mobile workers and lower TCO. This webinar will cover an overview of Zimbra’s core features and functionality and a side-by-side comparison of Zimbra’s features vs. other enterprise email systems, including Microsoft Exchange, Google Apps, IBM Lotus Domino and Novell Groupwise. We'll have two live webinars featuring the Osterman Group and product experts from Zimbra to answer all your questions: 10:00 AM ET / 7:00 AM PT 1:00 PM ET / 10:… Read more »

Join Zimbra this year at VMworld 2012, one of the top IT and tech conferences in world. Some of the world’s best and brightest cloud experts are coming together to bring you 100s of world-class breakout sessions. They will walk you through not only how to turn THE cloud into YOUR cloud, but also how you can implement Zimbra as a private cloud solutions. But if you want more on Zimbra feel free to meet up with us at our booth, or join the conversation on VMworld’s very own community built on Socialcast. VMworld 2012 will surely be 4 days that you won’t soon forget, and we’re looking forward to meeting all of you in person! Here’s a little teaser from VMworld 2011 for everyone that wasn’t fortunate enough to attend. http://www.… Read more »