VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced the completion of its acquisition of Zimbra®, the leading vendor of next-generation, open source email and collaboration software, from Yahoo! Inc.. VMware announced the signing of its definitive agreement to acquire Zimbra on January 12, 2010.
Zimbra joins VMware’s Cloud Services organization, whose charter is focused on meeting increasing customer demand for more public and private on-premises cloud computing services delivered through VMware’s innovative virtualization platform.
“The addition of Zimbra to our VMware vCloud offering brings small and medium size businesses as well as larger organizations a leading, email, calendaring and collaboration service paired with the flexibility and choice of private on-premise or public cloud deployments,” said Brian Byun, Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Services, VMware. “This addition moves us forward in our mission to simplify the complexity of IT for customers of all sizes.”
VMware will support existing Zimbra products, including Zimbra Collaboration Suite and Zimbra Desktop, as well as its open source community. Zimbra will also be more deeply integrated with VMware vSphere™-based cloud infrastructure, alongside Microsoft, IBM and other messaging and collaboration solutions. VMware will also increase investment in Zimbra to accelerate the product roadmap and build on Zimbra’s record growth that has made it one of the world’s largest email and collaboration providers with over 55 million paid mailboxes added in just five years.
“We are thrilled Zimbra is part of VMware because they are our two absolute favorite technologies,” said Jason Whitaker, Director of Information Technology, Transylvania University. “We recently moved our entire campus from a legacy email system to Zimbra on VMware. We now have a modern collaboration platform in an ultra-reliable environment running on half the servers as before.”
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