The continuing growth of our company

"With the continuing growth of our company and ever increasing business needs, a migration to a more feature rich and flexible email system is a natural progression," said Michael Payne, senior systems administrator, Rent-A-Center. "Since deploying VMware Zimbra across more than 5,000 Rent-A-Center locations, we nevertheless realize that true collaboration is about so much more. We look forward to implementing VMware Zimbra 7 which will allow our employees to stay connected with each other, from their stores or on the road, via a collaboration platform that offers email, dynamic calendaring and file sharing."

VMware Zimbra 7 features new data sharing capabilities, expanded calendaring and search functionality, and upgraded management features for both IT and end-users. With this update, Zimbra is furthermore optimized for both the casual and power-user, establishing a platform for a at once-generation workspace within the VMware End-User Computing vision.

VMware's End-User Computing vision seeks to free users and IT from more than two decades of complex, device-centric computing and deliver a more consumer-focused cloud experience for the enterprise. VMware Zimbra is among the largest business collaboration providers and is the largest on-premise open source collaboration suite in terms of paid mailboxes.

The enterprise inbox is going through dramatic changes

"The enterprise inbox is going through dramatic changes," said Erin K. Traudt, innovation director, Enterprise Collaboration and Social Solutions program at IDC. "The impact of social media along with a new-generation of increasingly mobile workers creates new demands on collaboration platforms. The concept of 'sharing more and sending less' becomes a key capability that enterprises should consider as they look to arm their workforce with the essentials of day in day out business communications."

"As a leader in storage and data management solutions, we're excited about the latest advances in the service-based delivery of messaging and collaboration announced by VMware Zimbra," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Corporate Alliances at NetApp. "Leveraging network file systems, NetApp optimizes Zimbra deployments to help clients transition to a flexible and efficient shared infrastructure, which is optimal for virtualization and cloud computing."

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