Groupware Server for Multiple Branch Offices

By Stephanie Jordan
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Kerio Technologies Inc, recently announced a new version of its Kerio MailServer along with a new name: Kerio Connect 7.

Through its new distributed domain feature, Kerio Connect 7 allows companies to join their Kerio Connect servers into a single geographically dispersed cluster with servers aware of each other’s user groups, individual user’s availability, shared contacts in Global Address Lists, or shared resources such conference rooms.

“We support a significant number of clients with multiple offices around the world,” says Kevin Klein, CEO of 318, Inc., a value-added reseller and Kerio Preferred Partner in Santa Monica, California. “The new distributed domain feature will enable us to delegate management of a server at each location, while keeping everything under the same domain. This provides an enhanced level of support, scalability and reliability that is in alignment with the needs of our most savvy clients that have chosen Kerio Connect.”

With the announcement the company also introduced its new contact list sync via CardDAV. Explains Dusan Vitek, vice president of Worldwide Marketing at Kerio Technologies, “The ever-growing adoption of smartphones in the corporate and consumer markets raises expectations, which users have about interoperability. CardDAV is for address books what CalDAV is for calendars – a straightforward way to sync up contacts among various applications, servers, laptops and phones that you use for work or fun.”

Kerio Connect 7 is available now from Kerio partners and runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and is also available as a VMware Virtual Appliance and Parallels Virtual Appliance.

Published March 18, 2010