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GDPR for non-EU companies: how and when it applies to you | Blog
Has anyone spoiled a perfectly fine day by telling you that – though you own a non-EU company – the GDPR might still apply to you? Are you wondering how...
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Are Telegram’s Secret Chats GDPR-compliant? | Blog
In a previous post, we have discussed how using Telegram as a data controller can breach the obligations arising under the GDPR. In a nutshell, when you share data subjects'...
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Meet Zextras at CloudFest 2022 | Event | Blog
Can't wait! CloudFest 2022 returns as an in-person event March 22-24, 2022, in Rust, Germany. CloudFest is the leading conference for service providers who wants to find new partners and...
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GPDR made easy: the definitive guide, part 1 | Blog
The GDPR has been in force for over three years, but much of it remains unclear. And that is why we've drafted this guide. We want to help you understand...
How to Manage Multiple Domains in a Zimbra Server | Zimbra
A few years back, things were quite simple. Each organization acquires a domain to establish its virtual identity. Virtual identity includes their company website, company email service, etc. Over time,...
How to Set Up a Static IP Address on Ubuntu Server | Carbonio CE
The previous article showed you how to deploy a Carbonio server in a demo environment. It was meant for testing purposes and used dnsmasq to resolve A and MX records....
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Top 4 Unknown Truths about Self-hosted Open-source Platforms You Need to Know | Blog
This news may infuriate a swarm of hardcore public cloud advocates, but admit it – on-premises platforms are NOT as bad as they're advertised to be. Folks in tech, you...
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Data Protection Day 2022 | Blog
Interview with Carlo Piana from Array Law Happy 16th Data Protection Day! Launched in 2006 by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Data Protection Day aims to...
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Zextras Suite 3.9.0 | Blog
Zextras Suite for Zimbra OSE 3.9.0 has been released. Here are all the new and updated features. Customers can upgrade the Zextras Suite for Zimbra OSE by logging into their account...
How to Install Your DNS Server Using Dnsmasq for Test Environment of Carbonio Community Edition | Carbonio CE
A DNS server becomes very handy on several occasions where you need to define your DNS, disable the automatic DHCP server, and use a static IP. This guide can also...
Real-time Backup and Restore for Zimbra – System Administrators’ Most Requested Features | Zimbra
Zimbra OSE is a complete email solution. It offers lots of customization compared to G Suit and M365. Still, it needs some attention from the system admins perspective. We think...
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Zextras at FOSDEM 2022 | Event | Blog
We're very excited to take part in FOSDEM 2022 with a speech in the Collaboration and Content Management devroom. FOSDEM is the central event about open-source, taking place yearly in...
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Carbonio Chat – GDPR Compliant Enterprise Instant Messaging service for Data Controllers | Blog
In this article, you'll find out why Zextras Carbonio's instant messaging service, aka Chats, is a perfect fit to comply with GDPR and how it meets all the legal obligations...
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Carbonio Community Edition is available! | Blog
Today we have finally released the first Release Candidate (RC) of Zextras Carbonio CE, our brand-new open-source e-mail and collaboration platform available in 14 languages. The solution includes a server...
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Why Data Sovereignty Should Matter to Us All | Blog
Rise of cloud computing and the increase in the number of companies adopting this technology to offer services to users, draw more criticism about data privacy. Especially all sorts of...
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Zextras Carbonio – An Ideal Digital Workplace for Those Who Need Absolute Control over Their Data | Blog
With the speed at which the concept of the digital workplace is evolving, it's safe to say there might be some hurdles along the way regarding the privacy of data....
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Why Not All Digital Workplace Solutions Are Suitable For All Businesses | Blog
According to Gartner, the Digital Workplace Enables new, more effective ways of workingRaises employee engagement and agilityExploits consumer-oriented styles and technologies However, there is no free lunch. All these benefits...
How to Deploy a Private E-mail Server for Free Using Zextras Carbonio Community Edition | Carbonio CE
Zextras Carbonio Community Edition (CE) is an open-source and free e-mail server. Zextras Carbonio CE provides you with a completely private, easy to deploy, and highly customizable e-mail platform. In...
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Telegram and GDPR – are data controllers covered? | Blog
Are you using Telegram for your business and wondering if the app is GDPR-compliant?Are you using Telegram for your business because you are *sure* the app is GDPR-compliant?Are you using...
Native Packaging vs. Installers – Secure Installation of Carbonio Community Edition | Carbonio CE
Software programs in the source code have to be compiled and built first in order for the consumes to easily install and use. Software packaging within the various Linux distros...
How To Maintain Your Zimbra Servers After Soon-coming CentOS End-of-life | Zimbra
In December 2020, an announcement of Redhat shocked the whole tech world. CentOS, one of the most stable open-source OS will not release any stable version of it after CentOS...
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Are your work emails GDPR compliant? | Blog
It's just another manic Monday. You are sitting at your desk, making your way through a nearly-exploding inbox and wondering why people send so many emails – and why they...
Upgrade to the Latest Version of Zextras Suite Using the Same Installer Script | Zimbra
Zextras suite installer file is not dependent on a specific version. It means that you can download the installer once, keep it and use it for every future updates. Installer...
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Yet Another Step Towards An Open-source Future: German State Adopts Open-source Solutions For Public Administration And Schools | Blog
Schleswig-Holstein – a state in northern Germany – tries to separate its path from the tech giants by replacing Microsoft’s products in the public sector and schools switching completely to...
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Why The Digital Market Act Is Not Enough | Blog
In recent years we have observed a clear speedup in devising new regulations aimed at creating a more hospitable digital world. This holds true especially in Europe with the emergence...
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Zextras joins the Coalition for Competitive Digital Markets (C4DM) | Blog
Zextras joined the Coalition for Competitive Digital Markets, which aims not only to open the digital market to European companies to boost their potentials, but mostly to give the customers more...
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Zextras Suite 3.8.0 | Blog
Zextras Suite 3.8.0 for Zimbra has been released. Here are all the new and updated features. Customers can upgrade the Zextras Suite for Zimbra by logging into their account on...
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French Administration boosts open source in the Public Sector | Blog
During the Open Source Experience event in Paris, the Minister of Transformation and Civil Service Amélie de Montchalin unveiled the action plan to increase Open Source software usage among the PA....
How Do Antispam and Antivirus Protection Works in Zimbra OSE? | Zimbra
These days the world is dealing with a different kind of threat. You may have heard the term called “Mail borne threat”. Usually a network/system administrator is concerned about end...
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Zextras announces Carbonio, an open-source email and collaboration software | Blog
Press Release Paris and Milan, November 9, 2021 – Zextras announces Carbonio, the first open-source solution for email and collaboration targeted to the growing segment of organizations with a responsible...
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A Crucial Choice of Email Servers: Cloud-based vs. On-premises | Blog
A Brief History of Email Today, we all use emails on a day-to-day basis and consider them to be one of the most useful and popular services on the internet....
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Roots of Cloud Computing and Data Privacy Concerns | Blog
Cloud computing is getting more and more popular due to allowing clients to access computing services conveniently through the Internet. Here we can consider the internet as the medium to...
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Meeting Rooms
Meeting rooms are one of the most important features of our communication system. This functionality greatly improves the way users communicate with their colleagues. Here you can find a practical...
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Zextras Suite 3.7.0 | Blog
Zextras Suite 3.7.0 has been released for Zimbra. Here are all the new and updated features. Customers can upgrade the Zextras Suite for Zimbra by logging into their account on...
Best Authentication Methods for Zimbra – System Administrators’ Most Requested Features | Zimbra
Zimbra OSE is a complete email solution. It offers lots of customization compared to G Suit and M365. Still, it needs some attention from the system admins perspective to make...
External Content Extractor for Zimbra with Zextras Suite | Zimbra
Data extraction is the process of collecting unstructured data of various types from numerous different sources. Much of this data can be unorganized or of non-standard structure, but still, using...
Zimbra OSE Backing Up And Restoring Process | Zimbra
In my future series of articles onmost requested features by Zimbra admins, I will discuss the details about the advantage and disadvantages of various manually created backup and restoration process...
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Zextras Suite 3.6.0 | Blog
Zextras Suite 3.6.0 has been released. Here are all the new and updated features. Customers can upgrade the Zextras Suite by logging into their account on our website in an...
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Meet Zextras at Open Source Experience 2021 | Event | Blog
We're getting ready for the Open Source Experience event in Paris where we will disclose big news!! Meeting with the European open source community means new opportunities to grow as a technical team and open-source...
Advanced Administrative Tools for Zimbra with Zextras Suite | Zimbra
Administrative tools is the collective name for several advanced tools in Zextras suite that facilitates a lot of tasks for Zimbra system administrators. These tools cover a wide range of...
Single Item Restore for Zimbra with Zextras Suite | Zimbra
Restoring only a single item is one of the most common problems an administrator faces. It can easily take the administrator half a day to restore the whole account and...
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Zextras Storage Management Part 3 – Let’s Calculate Your Savings | Blog
This is the last part of this three-part article on how the Zextras storage management system also known as Powerstore reduces your storage costs. Here you'll learn how you can...
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Zextras Storage Management Part 2 – These Features Save Your Money | Blog
This is the second part of this three-part article on how the Zextras storage management system also known as Powerstore reduces your storage costs. Here you'll learn about different features...
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Zextras Storage Management Part 1 – More Than Meets the Eyes | Blog
Zextras Suite comes with a very powerful storage management system also known as Powerstore in the Zextras documentations. In this three-part article, you'll learn how the Zextras storage management system...
Monitoring Zextras Docs using Prometheus | Zimbra
Collect and correctly display metrics is the best (sometimes the only) way to understand how single software components or the entire infrastructure is working and performing. You can use the...
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Zextras Suite 3.5.0 | Blog
Zextras Suite 3.5.0 has been released. Here are all the new and updated features. Customers can upgrade the Zextras Suite by logging into their account on our website in an...
Centralized Storage for Zimbra with Zextras Suite | Zimbra
Centralized storage drastically improves mailbox move speed and facilitates data management. This positive impact on time and resources is even more evident in large-scale infrastructures. What Is Centralized Storage Centralized...
Advanced Volume Operations for Zimbra with Zextras Suite | Zimbra
Zextras suite storage management system or Powerstore provides Zimbra users with four very useful volume operations which are only available through the CLI to avoid any volume management errors. These...
How we solved the issue of updating Zimbra 9 | Zimbra
So, finally, we can provide an updated (latest patch) version of Zimbra 9.0! Go ahead to read why we were able to do that and how to get it. Why...
Items Deduplication and File Compression for Zimbra with Zextras Suite | Zimbra
Zextras suite item deduplication and file compression allow you to save disk space by compressing files and storing only one copy of each item. It will save you a lot...