This past August I blogged about VMware’s announcement of a Zimbra-based virtual appliance. As a VMware partner, selling a VMware-based virtual appliance, we are excited to share that VMware recently announced it has expanded its’ VMware Ready™ Program to include mail security solutions for Zimbra. Customers using VMware Ready products can now easily extend the Zimbra solution with complementary virtual appliance mail security solutions that run on top of VMware vSphere™ from Sendmail and other providers. As part of the new Zimbra program, Sendmail had to run our virtual appliance, Sentrion MPV, through a battery of tests which it passed with flying colors.
So where does Sendmail fit in a Zimbra-based email environment? As I wrote in the previous blog, Sendmail provides the infrastructure (email backbone) required to facilitate complex policy and routing requirements for enterprises. In other words, a Sentrion MPV would sit on the internal email backbone and/or in the DMZ to handle the “heavy lifting” required for enterprise messaging infrastructures—things like gateway security management, outbound content filtering and much more. While Zimbra, or any of the other Groupware systems, handles mailboxes, end-user collaboration and email clients.
You can learn more about the Zimbra Email Security program here and information about Sentrion MPV here.