http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/zimbra.htmlZimbra to Join VMware: 2010 Will Accelerate Growthhttp://www.zimbrablog.com/blog/archives/2010/01/zimbra-to-join-vmware.htmlWe are very encouraged by this news. VMWare and Zimbra are a smart fit. VMWare has assured Zimbra’s community, customers and partners that they are 100% committed to Zimbra’s mission.Yahoo! was a great partner to Zimbra in that they didn’t get too involved, but provided the necessary financial backing to allow Zimbra to grow, and grow it has: In just five years, Zimbra has grown to become one of the largest email and collaboration providers in the world with Microsoft and IBM, totalling more than 55 million paid mailboxes at over 150 thousand organisations worldwide – that’s upwards of 80% year-over-year growth. Given that Yahoo! eventually decided to divest itself of noncore businesses, the decision to sell Zimbra was expected and VMware is a brilliant choice. Yahoo!’s consumer mail continues to benefit from Zimbra technologies while Zimbra benefits from the strength and enhanced integration into VMWare’s vSphere cloud. Zimbra products were designed from the ground up with virtualisation and the cloud in mind, with a modular architecture and APIs to allow distributed access to data and storage. Email and collaboration services have always been ubiquitous to organisations, but now the barriers to transitioning them to efficient virtualised environments are coming down.Over the last few years VORARI have done a number of on premise Vmware Zimbra deployments for our customers, providing expert management and monitoring of these systems and we look forward to higher levels of integration between the two platforms going forward. Many of our customers have also asked for managed VMware deployments within 3rd party data-centres - and is this part of VMWare’s strategy of enabling hosting providers.With this acquisition VMWare is embracing a broader platform strategy, to the degree to that VMware wants to own an entire stack - known colloquially as the SPI stack - short for SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)As a managed services provider - VORARI leverages cloud data centres both public and private and employs cloud tools and technologies to streamline operations, development, workflow systems and ultimately our customers peace of mind.We focus on collaborative email and core IT services like directory services, identity management and file management and provide sophisticated on-boarding tools to help get our customers data into the cloud.While these technology areas are common to companies both large and small, they are no longer strategic in a day to day operational capacity in that they are consuming increasing amounts of IT time and money. Further more - IT departments efforts today need to be directed at integration, workflow and automation. VORARI takes away our customers immediate pain of day to day management and works with them to define and create value added web service integrations.We look forward to seeing new bundled service capabilities between Zimbra and VMWare.
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