Zimbra 8.8: Easier, Faster, Stronger, Safer, Smarter
The most robust version of Zimbra ever
Zimbra Drive
File sync and share functionality. Built on the ownCloud/Nextcloud platform, seamless synchronization & sharing of files between users.
NG Modules
Backend Improvements
Zimbra Docs
Refactored IMAP services to run separately from all other Zimbra services. Improved SIEVE RFC compliance and Ephemeral Data. These features debut as beta in Zimbra 8.8.
With Zimbra Docs, users can create and collaborate using documents, spreadsheets and presentations right inside the Zimbra Web Client.
Zimbra Talk V2
Enterprise-level messaging and videoconferencing licenses can now be purchased for Zimbra Network Edition - with no third-party products and simple installation. Give your users everything they need to collaborate with coworkers, all inside the communication tool they use the most - Zimbra. Includes file and screen sharing plus corporate messaging and unlimited videoconferencing.
Bringing Email, Calendaring and Chat/Videoconference into Zimbra for Enterprise-Level Collaboration
Zimbra includes complete email, contacts, calendar, file sharing, tasks and messaging/videoconferencing, all accessed from the Zimbra Web Client via any device. You can deploy Zimbra as a traditional on-prem install or through a Zimbra hosting provider.
All the Collaboration Features Your Users Need
Zimbra incorporates several open source projects under one supported and certified application to offer world-class, open source collaboration software consumable for the enterprise
Now available as an addition to Zimbra Network Edition! Add enterprise-level messaging and videoconferencing to the tool your users use the most – email – with no third-party products and simple installation. Licenses include group messaging and videoconferencing, file and screen sharing, corporate messaging, unlimited videoconferencing and more.
Zimbra Drive is updated file sync and share functionality. Built on the ownCloud/Nextcloud platform, Zimbra Drive provides seamless synchronization and sharing of files between your users, wherever they are and on any device.
With Zimbra Docs, users can create and collaborate using documents, spreadsheets and presentations right inside the Zimbra Web Client.
Zimbra’s new realtime backup and restore engine backs up every single item and event on your server with split second precision. Avoid data loss using atomic and ever-consistent algorithms, while still saving disk space — up to 50% — thanks to an intelligent deduplication and compression system. It offers six restore features, that are all transparent to the end-user and are 100% OS, architecture and version independent.
With advanced Zimbra store management and HSM, you can manage multiple volumes and HSM policies through your Zimbra Administration Console. Use up to 50% less storage space, easily expand your Zimbra server by adding new volumes at will and improve server performances by splitting the I/O load onto different storage media and different tiers of storage.
What’s new about Zimbra’s mobile sync functionality? Users can now sync their shared Zimbra items along with all of their other Zimbra data. Using Exchange ActiveSync protocol, which is natively supported by the majority of mobile devices, your data will always be at your fingertips.
Zimbra now includes two-factor authentication. Your mailbox will be more secure with the extra login layer.
What’s New in Zimbra Collaboration?
NEW Zimbra Talk v2
- 1:1 & Group Messaging
- 1:1 & Group Videoconferencing
- Corporate Messaging using Spaces and Channels
- Channel Videoconferencing with Unlimited Participants
- File Sharing
- Screen Sharing
- Buddy List Management and More!
Zimbra Drive, Zimbra Docs, ABQ (Allow/Block/Quarantine) Service and much more …
Rolling Upgrade Improvements
This was a rewrite of the NG module Admin console interfaces to allow the presence of mixed, multi-server environments with legacy NE and NG modules. Benefits include:
- Better coexistence with legacy NE
- Error-level messages no longer changed to notifications
Platform refactoring for easier updates
Technical Specifications
Zimbra Collaboration is supported on a variety of Hypervisors and Operating Systems
System Requirements
Evaluation and Testing
- • Intel/AMD 64-bit CPU 1.5 GHz
- • RAM requirements:
- • For single server installations, a minimum of 8GB of RAM is required.
- • For multi-server installations, contact Zimbra sales for recommendations.
- • 5 GB free disk space for software and logs
- • Temp file space for installs and upgrades*
- • Additional disk space for mail storage
Production environments
- • Intel/AMD 2.0 GHZ+ 64-bit CPU
- • RAM requirements:
- • For single server installations, a minimum of 8GB of RAM is required.
- • For multi-server installations, contact Zimbra sales for recommendations.
- • Temp file space for installs and upgrades*
- • 10 GB free disk space for software and logs (SATA or SCSI for performance, and RAID/Mirroring for redundancy)
- • Additional disk space for mail storage
*Temp files space: The zimbra-store requires 5GB for /opt/zimbra, plus additional space for mail storage. The other nodes require 100MB.
Cloud Platforms
The following Cloud Platforms are supported:
- • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as a Service New
- • VMware vCloud Director
- • VMware vCloud Air
Virtualization Platforms
The following hypervisors are supported:
- • VMware vSphere 4.x
- • VMware vSphere 5.x
- • XenServer 6.2
- • XenServer 6.5
- • KVM
Operating Systems
The following Operating Systems are supported:
- • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 7 (64-bit)
- • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64-bit), patch level 4 or later is required
- • Oracle Linux 7.2 New
- • Oracle Linux 6.6 New
- • CentOS Linux® 7 (64-bit)
- • CentOS Linux 6 (64-bit), patch level 4 or later is required
- • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server Edition (64-bit)
- • Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS Server Edition (64-bit) running the saucy (3.11) or later kernel is required
The cost of the Zimbra solution is greatly lower than solutions like Microsoft Exchange, and the functionality is excellent.