Deployment Options
Get Zimbra the Way You Want It. On-Premises or in the Cloud.
Zimbra can be deployed either as a dedicated on-premises email service or hosted in the public cloud, making it easy for IT to deploy, manage and scale at dramatically lower costs compared to other legacy solutions.
| Traditional Deployment | Cloud Deployment | |
|---|---|---|
| On-Premises |
Zimbra Standard Install Install Zimbra Collaboration Server on your existing native hardware infrastructure or your virtualized environment. |
Zimbra Virtual Appliance Instantly deploy Zimbra as a software virtual appliance on top of vSphere without complex installation and configuration workflows. |
| Off-Premises |
Zimbra Hosting Partner Choose from hundreds of global hosting partners to get all the benefits of Zimbra, delivered as a service. |
VMware vCloud Partner Outsourced email with globally consistent, enterprise class cloud service providers that have the highest certification-level VMware offers. |
Zimbra Collaboration Server offers a consolidated collaboration service for messaging, calendar and contacts with enterprise IT security controls optimized for virtual and cloud infrastructure. Zimbra offers several deployment options, including hosted, email-as-a-service through partners, an on-premises software appliance, and traditional on-premises physical hardware deployments—as well as various combinations of all these options.
On-Premises or Hosted Email? Which is Right for You?