French OpenIO Recognized by Zimbra as Independent Software Vendor

OpenIO SAS announced Zimbra, Inc. has recognized the company as a an independent software vendor, providing object storage for Zimbra collaboration.

OpenIO, in object storage software technology, offers an OpenIO connector for the Zimbra email and collaboration platform. With the OpenIO connector, Zimbra customers can use object storage for increased performance, service quality and storage efficiency.

Email is one of the most ubiquitous forms of communication, with more than 293 billion emails sent and received each day, and the number of email users continuing to grow. According to reporting from The Radicati Group, Inc., 3.8 billion email users should reach 4.2 billion by 2022.

OpenIO supports more than 45 million mailboxes, storing over 15PB of data. Both Zimbra and OpenIO are open source-based, can be used on-premises and in the cloud, and are highly scalable. Customers can use both companies to build their own email and collaboration platform solution, a component of corporate IT systems.

Guillaume Delaporte, VP customer success, OpenIO, who spoke at the recent Zimbra ACTIV8 EMEA Tour in Milan, Italy, Marseille, France, and Barcelona, Spain, said: “OpenIO is excited to work with Zimbra as an ISV and serve their global customers. ISPs have a technical and economic challenge: how to store the growing volume of small, frequently accessed email files without exploding infrastructure costs. OpenIO solves that challenge. Communities, universities and small to medium enterprises turn to Zimbra to control their costs and have an alternative to Microsoft, Gmail and IBM (Lotus). Now these same Zimbra customers can optimize their storage infrastructure while fulfilling their QoS requirements.“

“We welcome OpenIO to our global Zimbra ecosystem and are excited to offer our partners and customers further Zimbra extensibility through OpenIO’s hyperscalable Object Storage solution,” said Martin Vickerton, VP Zimbra EMEA. “This will help our customers build robust, scalable and economically efficient collaboration systems, avoiding exponential storage costs.“

Zimbra, a Synacor, Inc. product, connects people and information with unified collaboration software that includes email, calendaring, file sharing, chat and video chat. It powers hundreds of millions of mailboxes and works with 2,500 partners. More than 2,500 enterprises, 1,000 governments and 120 service providers trust Zimbra.