Comments on: VMware Zimbra: Integration without Context Shift

By: Sam Kleinman

Sam Kleinman — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:15:34 +0000

I’ve done some playing with Zimbra, and while a bit of extra development could, I’m sure, make it a more efficient piece of software, I wouldn’t be so quick to pass off it’s performance faults as being a deployment specific problem. It’s sort of a “throw RAM at it and pray,” problem, and thankfully that works.

One of the reasons Zimbra gets a bad rap, at least in the circles I travel in, is that the competing UNIX stack (postfix/dovecot/etc.) is a magnitude more efficient on system resources. So it’s the kind of thing that if you need it, you have to be willing to pay for (in some way) and that you probably want to try and avoid unless you really need it.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:15:19 +0000

Zimbra needs major work to scale beyond the “user lives on a single mail server” model. I think VMware could provide the resources to do that.

If mail accounts are held in a pool that any ZCS mailbox server can access, then “all” (ha!) you need to do would be to add more Zimbra mailbox vApps to your cluster (assuming hardware resources available)

By: robinsok

robinsok — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:32:33 +0000

Analyst commentary on #Zimbra acquistion http://bit.ly/bf3OBr

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By: marcgadsdon

marcgadsdon — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:12:27 +0000

Zimbra’s ability to integrate without context shift: http://bit.ly/amVkjq – my thoughts here: http://bit.ly/a1yJaA

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By: Marc Gadsdon

Marc Gadsdon — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:12:04 +0000

Interesting points James – we’re very excited about the VMWare deal and what it will mean for us and the channel.

We need an extremely strong stack… Does VMWare + Spring + Zimbra do it, no I don’t think so as I believe there are more pieces of the puzzle which need to be added, but it’s a dam good starting point and a much stronger position than where we were last year…

By: VMDigest

VMDigest — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:07:37 +0000

James Governor’s Monkchips » VMware Zimbra: Integration without …: Stephen did his usual excellent job of explai… http://bit.ly/d6JZJf

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By: sapscene

sapscene — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:27:37 +0000

James Governor’s Monkchips » VMware Zimbra: Integration without … http://bit.ly/bxaIFA

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By: eXoPlatform

eXoPlatform — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:55:10 +0000

Analysis from @monkchips on why Zimbra is more than just a mail server for VMW http://bit.ly/bw37Fe (See where we’re heading?)

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By: monkchips

monkchips — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:22:23 +0000

VMware Zimbra: Integration without Context Shift http://bit.ly/bw37Fe some thoughts on why i think the deal could make a lot of sense

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