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Zimbra: Attend Technology Exchange for Developers @VMworld 2010. We have some great sessions on Zimbra ADD-05, ADD-06. - http://bit.ly/9ntWt9

Zimbra: RT @aantigua Installing Zimbra Desktop on the laptop... can't live without it!

Zimbra: Want to connect ZCS to BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0? Join the beta: http://bit.ly/zcb65b #zimbra #bes

We are looking for individuals and companies to join the Zimbra Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server 6.5 Beta Program! The Beta Program gives you the opportunity to try great new software and your feedback enables us to make ZCB 6.5 the best it can be. ZCB 6.5 includes support for BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 5.0.

Involvement in beta testing ZCB 6.5 product is an important part of the release process. Your timely and thorough feedback is critical to the success of this Program and to the release.

By participating in the Program, you will be given access to ZCB 6.5 Beta and you receive periodic contact from the Zimbra Team with questions about your experience.

Please contact us at beta@zimbra.com with your name, company name, email address and phone number (designate your preferred contact method & time AM/PM).

When selected for the Beta Program, a member of the Zimbra Team will contact you with more information.

Thank you for your continued support.

We have two exciting announcements about our Zimbra Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server (ZCB)!

First, we just released ZCB 6.0. This new release works with Zimbra Collaboration Suite 6.0 and includes some cool enhancements:

• Better calendar synchronization
• Removes runtime dependency on Microsoft Outlook processes
• Improved performance and stability

But we didn’t stop there: Today we are also announcing plans for ZCB 6.5 Beta and are looking for Beta testers. ZCB 6.5 will add support for BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0. This is a terrific step forward for the Zimbra products and supports our commitment to providing ubiquitous access to messaging and collaboration data regardless of channel or device.

To learn more about ZCB 6.0 and download, click on the link below:

http://www.zimbra.com/products/blackberry-enterprise-server.html

http://www.zimbra.com/downloads

To join the ZCB 6.5 Beta Program:

Please send an email to beta@zimbra.com if you are interested in gaining early access to ZCB 6.5 Beta and trying BES 5.0 integration.

Thank you for your continued support!

Zimbra: RT @satishd SUPER COOL! Undo-Send Zimlet: Delay mail up to 20 sec for those 'oops' moments. http://bit.ly/zundo via @rajaraodv

Zimbra: Google Translator Zimlet v2: Side-by-side comparison & 1-click inline convert of 54 langs from your inbox! http://bit.ly/gtzz

Zimbra: Zimlets Go Back to School – Part 4: Q&A with Simon Fraser University http://bit.ly/ZatSFU

In final installment of this series we recently had a chance to sit down with Frances Atkinson, the Director of Institutional & Academic Technologies, IT Services at Simon Fraser University, one of the over 500 educational organizations that have deployed the Zimbra Collaboration Suite Network Edition worldwide. Not too long ago, SFU decided to upgrade their collaboration system and investigated several options. No surprise, Zimbra won out! Now, two and a half years later, SFU is seeing how Zimbra is benefiting all of their campus systems.

Highlights from our discussion with Frances are below:

How are SFU’s staff, faculty, and students using Zimbra Collaboration Suite?

Zimbra has become more than just an email and calendaring solution at Simon Fraser – it has evolved into the campus communications “hub” used by all faculty, staff and students. With Zimbra, calendaring and document sharing are available to everyone for the first time, and fewer users are forwarding to external sites like Gmail. Additionally, SFU connected Zimbra to other campus systems increasing campus-wide organization and efficiency. Students and faculty also have the ability to access Zimbra via mobile devices, including BlackBerrys. This mobile access is even more important since we now have the ability to send out notifications to all users for emergencies, weather, downtime, etc.

 
How are you customizing Zimbra to meet the needs of the SFU student body?

SFU is taking advantage of Zimbra’s open source functionality by using several Zimlets – including Calendar Scheduler, Arcade, Google Translator and Yahoo Local – we are able to extend the product and bring features to people who may not have otherwise found these resources.

We have even generated Zimlets of our own. These SFU Zimlets offer students and faculty a simple way to access course information, alerts/tips & tricks and their mySFU profiles. The course resource Zimlet is definitely the most important Zimlet for the students. It allows them to pull up all their course information for the current, past and next term, including the course description, syllabus, video content and digitized lectures. It helps to keep students organized and on track to graduate. Faculty and staff also utilize Zimlets to reserve rooms and equipment.

Additionally, we have branded Zimbra as SFU Connect, and we got the community involved by holding a naming and logo contest. We’ve personalized SFU Connect by providing users with a tip/trick or message of the day upon startup to help them use the portal to its full capacity.

 
What are your students and/or faculty saying about Zimbra?

Zimbra satisfied the desire of the students and faculty to have access to a modern, feature-rich, communications environment. Not only is the email and calendaring solution functional and well-suited to serve the entire campus, but its open source nature is lauded by faculty and students alike. By choosing an open source product, SFU has the potential to integrate with other products as the University’s needs continue to evolve.

Zimbra: Virtual Machine Appliance: Get in on the beta. More to come @VMworld. http://bit.ly/zcabeta

NE running on Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit. Ran the big update to 6.0.7 first, that took about 45 minutes from start to finish. The database integrity check took about 35 minutes with ~2200 accounts. After doing a zmcontrol restart for good measure and making sure things were still working, I applied the smaller patch to the .7 release. That took maybe 3 minutes total. Gave it another restart, working great. Thanks, Zimbra guys. Extra thanks for getting drag and drop to work (boss wanted it) and for adding zmcontrol restart (I wanted it). Those two things right there were worth the upgrade for me.

Zimbra: Video with Jim on bringing Zimbra to @VMware channel by @thevarguy http://bit.ly/czNlNy

Zimbra is going to be launching a new product called the Zimbra Collaboration Suite Appliance (ZCA). The Zimbra Appliance is your email and collaboration cloud that is easy to deploy and administer on the VMware vSphere platform. ZCA enables customers to run a single instances of the 'Zimbra Collaboration Suite and operating system' pre-packaged as a virtual appliance, making this product ideal for SMB businesses with up to 1,000 mailboxes.

The Zimbra Collaboration Suite Appliance is available to customers for a private beta. We are looking for 5-10 businesses interested in evaluating the product and providing us with their feedback. The Zimbra Appliance Beta version requires vSphere 4.0 or higher already deployed on-premise.

If you would like to participate in the private beta please send an email to beta@zimbra.com.

Thanks!
The ZCA team

Zimbra: Want Sticky Notes on Calendars & Contacts as well? Check. http://bit.ly/noteszimlet @SFU asked @rajaraodv #Zimbra delivers

Zimbra: Telenet Launches Zimbra For More Than 1.3 Million Customers http://is.gd/dCaKJ

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.)

According to Saskia Schatterman, Executive Vice President Residential Marketing, no less than 70% of their customers use Telenet email on a regular basis and just over half report that account is their primary address. Those customers can now send mail anywhere, from any device with Internet access; putting aside the need to also use alternatives like Hotmail or Gmail. With this cutting-edge webmail architecture, Telenet can provide all of their broadband customers with a sophisticated and full featured product, that’s still simple to use.
 
The rollout of the advanced Telenet email platform is phased, all existing internet customers will automatically be granted access to the new communication suite and will be notified once their mailbox has been transitioned. Brand-new users will receive access to the Zimbra webmail client by default.

With this integration Zimbra continues to deliver on its promise of providing hassle-free collaboration solutions to our partners around the world. We look forward to sharing news about additional international organizations in the coming months.

Zimbra: RT @rajaraodv Email Attacher Zimlet (append other mail to msg being created) now works in detached windows http://bit.ly/bfNZuy #zimbra

Zimbra: RT @simonfeesh Tweeting live from my shiny new @zimbra client. This is awesome. Intergration at it's best.

Zimbra: RT @html5guy Check out HTML5 based drag-n-drop attachments from OS Zimlet by Zimbra's developer Suman Raj http://bit.ly/bx6vHu