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Choosing the Right Zimbra Deployment for You
Zimbra Can Be Deployed On-Premise or Hosted Offsite
Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is available in both hosted and on-site deployment options for maximum flexibility. If you want all the advantages of a full email and collaboration suite but do not want to own email server hardware, manage administration, configuration, updates or support then Zimbra hosting from a partner may be the right answer for your organization. For organizations looking for maximum control an on-premise deployment is ideal. It is also possible to run mixed deployments of both on-premise and hosted Zimbra.
Zimbra Deployment Option Offer Different Benefits
In any deployment option you will provide enterprise-class collaboration capability (email, shared calendars, online documents authoring, instant messaging, mobility, and more) to your organization. The question is which option provides the right set of benefits for your particular situation’s needs.
Hosting Benefits |
On-Site Benefits |
| Enterprise-class email and collaboration |
Enterprise-class email and collaboration |
| Re-branding, custom domains |
Re-branding, custom domains |
| Uptime guarantees |
Maximum configuration and integration options |
| No hardware or software to maintain |
Control hardware and software |
“With over 135,000 e-mail accounts, and growing, Kaplan Higher Education students will have access to Zimbra’s best-in-class messaging, calendar and collaboration features without the overhead of extra resources to maintain the student e-mail system.”
-- Ron Lockhart, VP Academic and Application Technology, Kaplan Higher Education
Choosing Your Zimbra Deployment
The decision point revolves around where your organization prefers to invest based on weighing the relative values of slightly higher hosting license costs with less hardware and IT cost versus lower on-site license cost plus hardware and IT time spent. All-in-all either option using Zimbra is powerful and cost-effective.
Regardless of which deployment solution you ultimately select, you enter the process with a flexible solution in Zimbra hard to match on the market today. For instance, in Education collaboration suites such as Microsoft Exchange can be cost prohibitive if deployed to thousands of students and other web-based solutions lack the enterprise-class features required by campuses today. Zimbra Collaboration Suite is the only solution with enterprise-class features and the ability to scale to whole campus deployments in either a hosted or on-site mode.
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