Kerio Connect 8 Takes Vendor’s Email, Calendaring Server to the Cloud
December 4, 2012
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
Kerio Technologies took a small step into the cloud computing realm with the launch of SaaS capabilities in Connect 7, but now the vendor is taking a much larger step into cloud with the release of Connect 8.
Previously, Kerio enabled its partners and customers to host Kerio Connect on their own hardware using the SaaS model, but Kerio is now offering its messaging and calendaring server on a new cloud service infrastructure. However, it’s not pulling the plug on its on-premise version of Connect; it’s simply adding more cloud capabilities in an effort to compete more directly with the big guys in the space, namely Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps…
"Kerio Connect Cloud is a service that our partners buy from us. They’re essentially renting IT infrastructure, but they keep the ownership of the administration," Dusan Vitek, vice president of marketing at Kerio, told Talkin’ Cloud. For Kerio’s channel partners that don’t have the resources or the interest in building and maintaining their own Connect servers, Connect 8 provides them with another option. It gives partners resell opportunities related to Connect on the Kerio Connect Cloud, a private cloud service…
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