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Administrative Benefits
- Lower-Overhead Management
- Native Hierarchical Storage Management or Information Lifecycle Management (HSM / ILP)
- Multi-domain support and administration on a single node
- Online single mailbox restore to point-in-time
- Online mailbox moves (and backups)
- Integrated High Availability Solution
- Rich, zero footprint, AJAX-based administrator interface (cross browser/OS)
- Dashboards for real-time system activity
- Comprehensive command-line tools
- SOAP APIs for every administrative action
- Server and Storage Consolidation
- Substantial reduction in managed storage - One copy of email & attachments per server (rather than one per user or one per storage group)
- Substantial increase in the number of users per CPU - Multi-level caching and optimization of underlying system.
- Compatibility with Existing Infrastructure
- Web services – Full API for easy Bi-directional integration with enterprise applications like CRM, ERP, etc…
- Client - Outlook, Mobile, IMAP, POP, iCalendar, RSS, etc.
- Directory - Active Directory/LDAP integration, provisioning support
- Messaging Server - Co-existence and migration tools (including Microsoft Exchange)
- Security
- Web security model - Single sign-on, TLS/SSL, no VPN required
- Secured attachment opening and HTML rendering
- SpamAssassin and ClamAV included
- Compatibility with existing anti-spam/anti-virus (via Postfix & amavisd-new)
- Open solution
- Open source
- Open formats - One MIME message per file means Zimbra storage is not opaque to sys. admin. or operating system utilities
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