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VMware 8 Messaging and Collaboration for the Post-PC Era

AT A GLANCE What Is VMware Zimbra? VMware Zimbra is a complete , address book, , files and tasks solution that can be accessed from VMware Zimbra® is a messaging and collaboration solution built the Zimbra Web client, the Zimbra Desktop™ offline client, for the post-PC era. Zimbra enables users to connect to their Outlook, and a variety of other standards-based email clients personal cloud and sync across multiple devices with a smart and mobile devices. You can deploy it as a traditional binary that efficiently handles their activity streams from email, install on Linux or as a software virtual appliance, commonly voice and social networks. The Zimbra browser-based interface referred to as Zimbra appliance. integrates seamlessly with other applications and delivers a simplified unified communications experience. Zimbra, built with Key Benefits VMware virtualization and cloud expertise, can be deployed in a private cloud as a virtual appliance or hosted in the public Complete Email and Collaboration Solution with High cloud—making it easy for IT to deploy, manage and scale as Availability business needs evolve. Zimbra appliance has all the features of Zimbra Collaboration Server but is deployed as a software virtual appliance. With the Zimbra appliance, you can instantly BENEFITS deploy your own private email and collaboration cloud on top of VMware vSphere® without complex installation and configuration workflows. Zimbra appliance is built for Full-featured email, calendar, address book and tasks virtualization and is integrated with vSphere High Availability Rich and consistent Web and offline user experience (VMware HA) to provide heartbeat monitoring of all critical across multiple platforms Zimbra application services, ensuring high availability for the overall Zimbra solution. Simple and powerful Web-based administration Simplified and Integrated Unified Communications Secure/Multipurpose Extensions (S/MIME) for digital signatures and IT administrators can easily connect Zimbra to a unified communication (UC) solution to provide integrated click-to- Smartcard , including support for Department call, voicemail, chat and presence for users. Zimbra includes of Defense Common Access Card (CAC) out-of-the-box integration for both Cisco and Mitel, with Support for unified communications, with out-of-the-box support for other UC solutions through an open API. integration for Cisco and Mitel Superior End-User Experience Support for a variety of mobile devices (tablets and By providing a rich, consistent user experience on all major smartphones), including policy management platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux)—online through a Web Zimbra Outlook Connector for users browser (Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Chrome) and offline with Zimbra Desktop—Zimbra increases end-user Extensibility with Zimlets for adding additional features satisfaction and reduces support costs and user training needs. Users can easily manage and search large inboxes Flexible deployment choice between a traditional install on of email and voicemail messages, multiple calendars, Linux or as a software virtual appliance numerous contacts, documents or files and task lists.

Reduced Administration and Maintenance ______Zimbra has an easy-to-use Web-based administration console enabling IT administrators to securely access the “VMware Zimbra is the perfect collaboration platform for the application anywhere, anytime. Through the console, cloud: a proven, scalable, cost-effective solution, administrators can easily manage access and policies for a VMware Zimbra has simplified our IT and significantly improved the productivity of our users.” diverse set of users in a large organization. Zimbra appliance further reduces IT administration and — Joe Trifoglio, CIO, ZipRealty maintenance overhead by providing a single lifecycle ______management policy for the application stack, including

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VMware Zimbra 8 Messaging and Collaboration for the Post-PC Era

security technologies (including firewall and antivirus and Flexible Deployment Options antispam filtering), operating system, middleware and the • Full support for multi-tenancy and delegated administration Zimbra application. for hosting service providers • Management of end-user features, quotas and storage Key Features policies via the Class-of-Service feature Advanced Web Client • Option to deploy as a traditional binary install on Linux or as a software virtual appliance • Rich browser-based Ajax interface with application features such as drag and drop, tagging, and conversation views Zimbra Desktop • Ability to send and receive authenticated and encrypted email messages • Enables offline access from Mac, Windows, and Linux desktops • Upload, collaborate and share documents and files • Aggregates Yahoo! Mail, , AOL, Hotmail, and other • Innovative calendar wizard that finds the optimal time and Post Office Protocol (POP) and Internet message access place for meetings within seconds; interoperable with protocol (IMAP) accounts Microsoft Exchange • Innovative “hub” of communications that integrates third- Support for Other Desktop Email Clients party services as mashups or application tabs • Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) Web-Based Administration synchronization to Outlook 2003/2007/2010 • Support for all POP3, IMAP4, Calendaring Extensions to • Real-time mailbox backup and restore; native hierarchical Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (CalDAV), and storage management vCard Extensions to Web Distributed Authoring and • Cross-mailbox discovery and archiving for regulatory Versioning (CardDAV) clients compliance • Hierarchical storage management optimizes storage costs Mobile Access through tiered storage • Synchronization with iOS (iPhone, iPad), Blackberry, • Integrated antispam, antivirus and directory services Windows and Android-based smartphones and tablets (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, Active Directory) • Ability to set mobile security policies including device wipe, • Open Web service APIs and representational state transfer PINs and device-management features on user accounts (REST) interfaces Find Out More Integrated Unified Communications For information or to purchase VMware Zimbra, call 1-877-4- • Out-of-the-box integration with Cisco and Mitel for click-to- VMWARE (outside of North America, +1-650-427-5000), call, visual voicemail, call record history, presence and visit http://www.vmware.com/products or search online for an instant messaging authorized reseller. For detailed product specifications and • Support through the Zimbra SDK for extending Zimbra to systems requirements, refer to the Zimbra product work with other third-party unified communications solutions documentation.

The intuitive, extensible Zimbra interface lets end users take email and collaboration to the next level

PRODUCT DATASHEET VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto CA 94304 USA Tel 877-486-9273 Fax 650-427-5001 www.vmware.com Copyright © 2012 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws. VMware products are covered by one or more patents listed at http://www.vmware.com/go/patents. VMware is a registered trademark or trademark of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Item No. VMW-DS-ZIMBRA-8-USLET-101