Zimbra was initially developed by LiquidSys, which changed their name to Zimbra, Inc. on 26 July 2005. The Zimbra Collaboration Suite was first released in 2005. The company was subsequently purchased by Yahoo! on September 17, 2007, and later sold to VMware on January 12, 2010. In July 2013, it was sold by VMware to Telligent Systems which changed its name to Zimbra, Inc. in September 2013. It was then acquired by Synacor Inc on 18 August 2015.
According to former Zimbra President and CTO Scott Dietzen, the name for Zimbra is derived from the song "I Zimbra" by Talking Heads.
Highlight Features
Zimbra Collaboration Network Edition provides an Open, Secure and Private Collaboration Infrastructure
Zimbra Talk V2
Enterprise-level messaging and videoconferencing licenses can now be purchased for Zimbra Network Edition – with no third-party products and simple installation. Give your users everything they need to collaborate with coworkers, all inside the communication tool they use the most – Zimbra. Includes file and screen sharing plus corporate messaging and unlimited videoconferencing.
Zimbra Docs
With Zimbra Docs, users can create and collaborate real-time using documents, spreadsheets and presentations right inside the Zimbra Web Client. The Zimbra Docs feature is in the Zimbra Briefcase tab, and it is based on LibreOffice.
Any Device
Zimbra Collaboration Network Edition incorporates the latest synchronization technologies that allow your users and customers to keep using Microsoft Outlook in Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X
Advanced Administration Features
Save time managing your Zimbra deployment, whether it’s on-prem, hosted or a hybrid solution
- Realtime Backup & Restore
Zimbra’s new realtime backup and restore engine backs up every single item and event on your server with split second precision. Avoid data loss using atomic and ever-consistent algorithms, while still saving disk space — up to 50% — thanks to an intelligent deduplication and compression system. It offers six restore features, that are all transparent to the end-user and are 100% OS, architecture and version independent.
- Simplified Delegated Admin New in 9
In minutes, you can now grant Delegated Admin rights to users, allowing them to perform management tasks such as setting quotas, COS and user limits for your domains. Keep track of your Delegated Admins’ actions and your domain status with new reporting features, straight from your Zimbra Administration Console thanks to the dedicated Administration Zimlet.
- Hierarchical Storage Management New in 9
With Zimbra Collaboration Hierarchical Storage Management, you can tier your storage, moving old information to less expensive storage.
- Reconfigured IMAP Service Beta in 9
Have you had performance issues or outages due to IMAP usage? Zimbra has refactored IMAP services to run separately from all other Zimbra services. IMAP will no longer affect your company’s SLAs! Zimbra 9 also has improved SIEVE RFC compliance, offering administrators greater email filtering.
- Zimbra Packaging System
- Archiving and Discovery
- Integrated Unified Communications
Zimbra Security Features
Ensure that your mission-critical content is safe and private
- SSL SNI for HTTPS
- Postscreen for Zimbra MTA boosts Email Security
- S/MIME Digital Signatures and Encryption
- Two-factor Authentication
- Download Zimbra: https://www.zimbra.com/downloads/zimbra-collaboration/
