Kerio Connect

VMware

Average Customer Rating

(3 reviews)

Kerio Connect simplifies email, calendar, contact, and task management for effective and secure messaging and collaboration.

Submitted by: Kerio Technologies Inc.

App On Demand Enabled

Tools

Appliance Type

Partner

Description

Kerio Connect is the award-winning messaging and collaboration server that provides reliable and secure access to email and simplifies the synchronization of calendar events, contacts, and tasks between a wide range of clients and devices on a variety of platforms. A central communication hub for small enterprise, Kerio Connect offers unmatched support for sharing data between Microsoft Outlook and other standards-based groupware clients, giving users more freedom to choose how they collaborate.

Mobile users enjoy similar flexibility through the built-in mobile device manager, which uses ActiveSync to open communication between support devices, including the Apple iPhone 3G, Palm Pre and Treo Pro, BlackBerry Storm, Google Nexus One, and Nokia N96. Administrators can initiate a remote wipe to remove all data when a device is lost or stolen. All information is stored securely on the server, which in addition to virus and spam filtering provides archiving and backup for further reliability.

Connect’s own Webmail option provides application-like usability through a web browser, giving users a powerful groupware client that requires no desktop administration. Out of office reply, resource scheduling, Global Address List, and automated message sorting can all be accessed easily from Internet Explorer, Safari or Firefox, whether logged in on the corporate network or connected securely from an Internet café across the globe.

Administrators can easily access a host of powerful features to help them maintain peak performance of the mail solution. Multiple Kerio Connect servers in different offices can be joined in a Distributed Domain cluster to enable collaboration between users company-wide. Extensive logs and status views detail security incidents, configuration changes, message volume and much more to guide the management of the server for maximum availability. The web-based admin console can be used to configure and manage the server securely from anywhere.

Features & Benefits

Highly acclaimed for its ease of deployment, administrators can download, install and configure Kerio Connect in minutes. It comes with a wizard for setting up basic features such as the administrative account, the primary domain, and the location of the store directory. All services within Kerio Connect are self contained, meaning it has no dependencies on other services which may be pre-installed with the operating system (SMTP, POP, IMAP, LDAP, and HTTP).

Additional tools and functionalities include mobile device synchronization, anti-spam, anti-virus, mailing lists, distributed domain clustering, archiving and backup. Strong cross platform support ensures that Mac and Windows groupware clients can not only coexist, but collaborate. Sophisticated Webmail server turns most popular browsers into fully functional groupware clients. Mobile users can connect with popular devices and enjoy real time synchronization of email, contacts and calendar data.

Ease of setup, management and maintenance make Kerio Connect an ideal solution to both start with and grow with. For single server deployment, Kerio MailServer scales from 5 to 500 users without requiring migration to different platforms or significantly more expensive hardware. For organizations with multiple sites, Kerio Connect can be deployed using a Distributed Domain Cluster, allowing each local server to balance the overall email load while sharing contacts, resources and scheduling data across the offices.

Strong standards support and integrated security help make Kerio Connect one of the most reliable messaging solutions available, minimizing both unscheduled and scheduled downtime. Built-in back-up and archiving provide basic data integrity assurance while 14 different spam fighting technologies help eliminate costly junk mail messages.

Complimentary technical support is available during the 30 day no-risk evaluation. License includes one year of support and upgrade maintenance.