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VMware Zimbra 8
Target
• Enterprises
• Hosting Service Providers
Major 5 of the 13 key features:
• Unified Communications
• Multi-node Virtual Software Appliance
(feature parity)
• Expanded Active Directory Integration
• Leading browser experience for mail
and calendar
• Sync and policy mgmt. for desktop and
mobile devices
Summary
VMware Zimbra is a messaging and
collaboration solution built for the post-PC
era. Zimbra enables users to connect to
their personal cloud and sync across
multiple devices with a smarter mailbox
that efficiently handles your activity
streams from email, voice, and social
networks. Zimbra’s browser-based
interface integrates seamlessly with other
applications and delivers a simplified
unified communications experience. Built
on the power of VMware’s virtualization
and cloud expertise, Zimbra can be
deployed in a private cloud as a virtual
appliance or hosted in the public cloud,
making it easy for IT to deploy, manage
and scale as business needs evolve.
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ZCS 8 Themes
Connect to Your Personal Cloud
Users can easily connect to their email, address book and calendar information on any device
anywhere, anytime.
• Smarter Mailbox – social conversation view, auto-filtering of bulk and distribution lists mail, expanded
search capabilities, end-user managed distro lists, shared tagging
• Enterprise Calendar – scheduling suggestions for complex meetings, smart views for managing
multiple calendars
• Anywhere, Anytime -- lead with the browser and support native experiences when connecting with
post-pc devices
Simplified Unified Communications
IT administrators can quickly connect Zimbra to their unified communications solution to provide a
voicemail, presence and chat for their users.
• Click2Call, voicemail, presence, and chat out-of-the-box with Cisco and Mitel
• Flexible and extensible to integrate with other UC providers
Managing ITaaS in the Cloud Era
Significant reduction in deployment time and administration and maintenance overhead.
• Software Appliance – including all features and large deployments
• SaaS administration and self-service experience
• Simplified upgrades and migrations
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Zimbra 8 Features: Connect to Your Personal Cloud
Feature Description
Serenity User
Experience
• Streamlined interface with most common actions easily discoverable.
• “Natural” conversation view hiding quoted text with improved message threading
and Inline replies/forwarding.
• Rich compose with paste style support from desktop apps and inline images.
• Shared tags across applications and mailboxes.
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Zimbra 8 Features: Connect to Your Personal Cloud
Feature Description
Dedicated Search
Tab
• Search results appear in a separate search tab.
• Simple interface to quickly filter on common attributes or add complex logical
operators.
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Zimbra 8 Features: Connect to Your Personal Cloud
Feature Description
Activity Stream • Users have simple presets to instantly filter direct messages, distribution lists,
feeds, and notifications. Moves bulk or unimportant email out of inbox to Activity
Streams
• Simple UI allows the user to further tune message view
Inbox
Off
• Bulk mail
• 1:1 communication
• Mass distributions
• Timely information
• Solicitations
• Peer exchanges
Inbox
On
• 1:1 communication
• Timely information
• Peer exchanges
• Bulk mail
• Mass distributions
• Solicitations
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Zimbra 8 Features: Connect to Your Personal Cloud
Feature Description
Enterprise
Calendaring
• Experience improvements to time and resource suggestions.
• Merge and split views of “Day” view.
• Landscape and date range printing.
• Wizard to add external Google calendars.
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Zimbra 8 Features: Connect to Your Personal Cloud
Feature Description
Zimbra Mobile for
ActiveSync 12.1
Devices
• Autodiscover support for auto device configuration with email address and
password.
• Device wipe from Admin Console.
• Bandwidth reduction and battery optimization for push enabled devices.
• Persona/Alias support as device level configured email address.
• 30 new Admin configurable policies to enable/disable device software and
hardware capabilities and approved applications.
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Zimbra 8 Features: Simplified Communications
Feature Description
Voice Application • Out-of-the-box integration with Cisco and Mitel UC solutions with a new “Voice”
application tab.
• Click-to-Call any phone number with call routing to device or soft phone.
• Visual Voicemail with inline playback, management, and MWI status update.
• Call Record history of placed, received, and missed calls
• Presence and click to chat from hover over contact card of any address.
• SDK to extend or integrate other 3rd party UC solutions.
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Zimbra 8 Features: Simplified Communications
Feature Description
Real-time Communication • Presence and click to chat from hover over contact card of any address.
• APIs to extend or integrate other 3rd party real-time solutions.
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Zimbra 8 Features: Managing ITaaS in the Cloud Era
Feature Description
Self Service Collaboration • End user distribution list management from the web client. A delegated DL
manager can create and manage subscriptions to distribution lists based on
IT defined policies.
• End users can search and recovery deleted items across Mail, Calendar,
Contacts, and tasks based on IT defined recovery retention policies.
Automatic Provisioning of
Accounts
• Accounts in Zimbra can be provisioned with attributes populated from Active
Directory or another LDAP directory. Accounts can be provisioned ad-hoc
automatically by polling for new accounts.
• Dynamic Distribution List support to automatically populate DL membership
based on account attributes
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Zimbra 8 Features: Managing ITaaS in the Cloud Era
Feature Description
Multi-Node Appliance • Single and multi-node deployment from vSphere Client or via CLI for
automation.
• Feature parity with ZCS including scaling, multi-tenancy, and CLI access
• Migration from 6.x ZCA to Z8 Appliance
Rolling Upgrades • Minimal service disruption to perform upgrades.
• Multi-master directory replication.
• Mailbox move forwards between version of Zimbra with less than 60s of
downtime for a single mailbox.
One-click to enable
VMware HA Clustering
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Zimbra 8 Features: Managing ITaaS in the Cloud Era
Feature Description
Compliance • Litigation hold without forking the mailbox or needing to deploy additional
infrastructure.
• Custom folder retention and disposal policies can be enabled by IT or the end user.
• Administrative roles linked to Active Directory groups to enhance federated identity
access and authorizations.
Migration • Multi-threaded for parallel mailbox migrations and improved scalability.
• Stage and schedule data migrations with improved visibility into real-time statistics
and error logging.
• Migrate OOO settings to reduce migration scheduling conflicts.
Editor's Notes
Email in Conversation View
Dedicated Search Tab with Intuitive Filter Options