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VMware completes Zimbra acquisition |
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Virtualization solutions provider VMware Inc. has said that it has completed its acquisition of Zimbra, the open source email and collaboration software, from Yahoo! Inc. VMware had said last month that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Zimbra. Zimbra will now be part of VMware's Cloud Services organization, whose charter is focused on meeting increasing customer demand for more public and private on-premises cloud computing services delivered through VMware's innovative virtualization platform.  Brian Byun, Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Services said the addition of Zimbra to Vmware's vCloud offering will give small and medium size businesses (SMBs) and larger organizations “a leading, email, calendaring and collaboration service paired with the flexibility and choice of private on-premise or public cloud deployments."  VMware also said that it will support existing Zimbra products, including Zimbra Collaboration Suite and Zimbra Desktop, as well as its open source community. VMware's statement included a testament to the acquisition from the Director of information technology for Transylvaia University Jason Whitaker, who termed it as “our two absolute favorite technologies.” He said the university recently moved from a legacy email system to Zimbra on Vmware, and now has “a modern collaboration platform in an ultra-reliable environment running on half the servers as before." Zimbra will be integrated with vSphere-based cloud infrastructure, alongside Microsoft, IBM and other messaging and collaboration solutions. VMware said it will invest in Zimbra to accelerate the product roadmap and build on Zimbra's record growth that has made it one of the world's largest email and collaboration providers with over 55 million paid mailboxes added in just five years. |
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