It's easy to talk about how new communication channels will marginalize email – even in the business world. Yet simply checking your inbox on a Monday morning, it's obvious that email is not dead and plays and important role in communication. Osterman Research recently published a survey of corporate email users on their use of email. The results show that email is still a critical part of the work environment for many people. We’re not cutting back on email at work Despite social media channels and other means of communications, we still rely on email at work.  90 percent of the survey respondents use email as much or more today than a year ago:   Source:… Read more »

One of the major changes coming up in a future version of Zimbra is a rethinking of the offline experience – how do you use Zimbra when you're not connected to a network, or when your connection cuts in and out during the day? As we all become more mobile, this is an important concern. Today, Zimbra Desktop is the way to use Zimbra when offline – and it's done a good job at providing consistency between the online and offline experience. But we think we can deliver a faster, smoother and more efficient offline experience by re-architecting Zimbra Desktop from the ground up. This change describes the work that we are doing for supporting the offline experience – to be available in a future version of Zimbra. On a side note: Nothing discussed here affects third-party client support – such as Microsoft Outlook or Apple Mail, iCal and Address Book and standards-based clients (POP, IMAP, iCal, CalDAV, etc.) Background The concept behind the Zimbra Desktop was to create a consistent experience whether you're offline or online.… Read more »

VMware Zimbra is the only enterprise cloud email solution based on open source standards that is now available as-a-service to US federal, state and local government organizations through GSA contracts. Watch the on demand webinar as we discuss how Zimbra is uniquely built for the highest security environments and is ideal for government organizations with our special guest from General Dynamics IT. VMware Zimbra supports two-way SSL Smartcard authentication, including support for Department of Defense (DoD), Common Access Cards (CAC), and S/MIME encryption, ensuring messages can only be read by the intended recipient. IT admins also have full control of their deployments through an easy-to-use browser-based admin console, further ensuring data and device security. The on demand 45-minute webinar will include: Challenges and requirements of the Government Sector Special guest GDIT on why the Zimbra Cloud is ideal for Government Organizations A live demo of Zimbra's email and collaboration solution View Webinar Now… Read more »

Utah's first ISP, XMission has grown into a leading provider of hosted services to customers in Utah and around the globe. Today, XMission offers Unified Email & Collaboration, a secure, hosted communication service built on VMWare Zimbra Collaboration Suite, that provides email, remote storage, calendaring, collaboration, and task management, all in one economical solution. The Challenge As a hosting provider, XMission started out offering email-only solutions to customers. The company soon realized this was not sufficient. XMission's email customers were managing third-party applications for contacts, and maintaining separate calendaring applications, and they had to support each of these applications themselves. XMission saw those customers really needed a whole communications suite, rather than having to maintain multiple, siloed tools. “We try to be proactive on the services that we offer, and we realized email alone is simply not enough,” explains John Webster, XMission VP of Business Development and Zimbra Product Manager.… Read more »

Founded in 1997 AINEO Networks was built to provide turnkey IT solutions to meet the needs of companies of all sizes around the world. Today AINEO’s products include three distinct offerings, hosted email, IT support and hosted phone systems. The cornerstone of their business is hosted email, which they first offered in 2008 with a hosted Exchange solution that raised awareness of the benefits of cloud email. The interest in cloud email was high, but with Exchange they quickly ran into stability, scalability and cost issues that threatened their growing business. Because they provided hosted Exchange to their customers and used it internally, AINEO’s team quickly became familiar with the limitations of Exchange from a technical and usability standpoint and it was clear this approach was holding them back. As a partner selling and servicing both Zimbra and Microsoft Exchange, AINEO was at a difficult crossroads between which platform would support their aggressive growth plans for hosted email. They had to decide whether or not to push through the expensive pains of Microsoft Exchange, or decide to go with another solution such as Zimbra. Through thorough analysis they finally reached an internal agreement that it was time to put Microsoft Exchange behind them - both internally and for their customers - and find a solution that was built for the post-PC era.… Read more »

mxHero, the open source email enhancement platform, has just released a Zimbra specific edition designed to meet the needs of service providers. Released as, "mxHero: Zimbra Service Provider Edition", the platform aims to assist providers in increasing revenues and reducing costs. Inova Tecnologias, a leading Latin American Zimbra service provider, attributes 35% of its Zimbra growth to the addition of mxHero in its service portfolio. Inova deployed mxHero last year and offers mxHero value added services, such as, Hero Attach, which allows clients to send 200Mb or larger emails to anyone, to attract additional business. mxHero's rich layer of value added capabilities, brings to Inova's Zimbra business a competitive differential that has helped it win business from Gmail and other competitors. "mxHero has really been an ace up the sleeve in our sales negotiations", says Marcelo Correa, Inova CEO. "We use it regularly to tip the balance in our favor, whether to keep out competitors or to preserve our price point.… Read more »