Vienna, Austria - October 2, 2009 – VDEL, the world's first IT services distribution company for Open Source solutions and enterprise-level products and services in Central and Eastern European countries, announced today the general availability of Zimbra Collaboration Suite and Zimbra Desktop software to its customers. Moving forward, VDEL is a Zimbra Master Distributor for Eastern Europe, Russia & CIS countries.
Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is a next-generation, open source email and collaboration server designed to solve the challenges facing many organizations today. ZCS provides an innovative Web experience designed to manage large email inboxes, works with all desktops and devices, significantly reduces administration complexity, and is an open technology platform which easily integrates an organization’s other mission critical services.
ZCS also provides an optional email compliance component with Zimbra Archiving and Discovery. It offers the ability to store and search all email messages that were delivered to or sent by ZCS. Archiving is configurable on a per account basis. ZCS Archiving and Discovery can be set up to create archiving accounts that are maintained within ZCS or can be set up to work with third-party archiving systems.
For end-users who want rich collaboration plus offline capabilities, Zimbra Desktop is available as a free and Open Source email and collaboration software client application. It's cross-platform and available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux desktop computers.
"Many of our customers are looking for applications solely or primarily based on Open Source. They either want to replace similar proprietary solutions or simply utilize functionality which until Open Source arrived were prohibitively expensive. VDEL is delighted to expand our line of Open Source software products to allow our partners to build IT-infrastructure relying on next generation email and groupware products delivered by Zimbra. Zimbra and Red Hat technologies give our customers the leading price/performance in messaging and collaboration software. We believe that our ecosystem will grow significantly as a direct result of adding technologies perfect for hosting, telecommunication, government and education markets in particular,” said Markus Alschner, VDEL's Managing Director.
“Strong world-wide demand is fueling the rapid growth of Zimbra’s partner and distribution networks,” said Andy Pflaum, Vice President, Global Channel Sales and Business Development, Zimbra. “We are excited to have new partners like VDEL who provide valuable sales expertise and distribution infrastructure in their local market to meet and build upon the demand.
Key Zimbra Benefits for VDEL Partners and Customers:
- Elegant experience. Innovative Ajax-based web client with search, shared calendar and mail that is integrated with contacts and calendar
- Flexibility. Use web client, Microsoft Outlook, or Apple for email, contacts, and calendar
- Stay Connected. Support for mobile smart devices
- Freedom of choice. Support of Windows, Apple and Linux computers
- Save time. Zimlet "mash-ups" simplify tasks
Key Administrative Benefits:
- Better reliability. Faster online move, backup and recovery of individual or a group of mailboxes
- Cost effective. Native hierarchical storage management and clustering
- Easy to maintain. Simple to integrate with Microsoft Active Directory and existing LDAP directories
- Extensibility. Web services integration with existing enterprise applications
- All in one. Integrated anti-spam and anti-virus
About VDEL, GmbH:
VDEL is a Services Distribution company headquartered in Vienna, Austria, with subsidiaries in Moscow, Russia; Kiev, Ukraine; Warsaw, Poland; Minsk, Belarus; Belgrade, Serbia and Limassol, Cyprus. Starting with 1993, VDEL has been delivering services in the territory of Eastern Europe as well as Russia & CIS countries which extends over 12 different Time Zones, 30 countries and 32 languages, for which today it is providing support from the regional center for support based in Vrsac, Serbia. Working in a territory of this size, VDEL cooperates with its local partners to provide native language translation, localization and education, giving an individual approach and personal attention to every client, regardless of their geographical location. For more information, please visit http://www.vdel.com