Kerio Connect

Kerio Connect – perhaps, the best alternative of Microsoft Exchange for small and medium business mentioned by many awards. Kerio Connect gives to the companies the chance to use corporate mail, joint calendars and contact lists on the majority of e-mail clients, web browsers and mobile devices, having spent much less money and IT resources. In this solution there is everything that is necessary for safe work with mail: the integrated antivirus, a powerful antispam of Kerio Greylisting, the built-in system of archiving, automatic backup and a user-friendly interface of administration. Now Kerio Connect supports iOS and Android and also has the configured politicians of access for users. A possibility of deployment on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, VMware and Parallels and also in "cloud" allow to integrate it practically into any IT infrastructure.

Complex safety of network for SMB is ensured by the solution Kerio Control developed especially for protection of the companies of the small and medium sizes against a full range of network threats. Kerio Control provides to system administrators a full range of tools for creation flexible user the politician, managements of bandwidth and service quality of network, detailed monitoring of network and one of the fastest and reliable VPN in the market. Kerio Control protects corporate network and from the arising threats by permanent updating of signatures of network attacks, being stable, safe and simple in management. The quality assurance of communication is performed through QoS, there is a protection for IPV6 networks, filtering of HTTPS and the enclosed URL. The solution is available to Hyper-V, VMware, Parallels.

Kerio Connect 8

The Kerio Technologies company announced in the fall of 2012 release of new cloud infrastructure for the partners and clients. The flagship product of Kerio Connect 8 — the server of e-mail and maintaining calendars will become the first cloud service of Kerio Cloud which Kerio will offer on the market.

"In spite of the fact that before Kerio allowed the trading partners to set Kerio Connect on own equipment and to provide services within the SaaS model, the release of new infrastructure is the first serious step of Kerio on the way to creation of true infrastructure of remote services" — emphasized in Kerio Technologies.

Unlike such cloud servers of e-mail, Microsoft Office 365 as well as Google Apps, Kerio suggests to use the selected "cloud" that, as envisioned by the company, will give to clients additional abilities to manage data.

"Today experts praise highly services based on cloud computing and predict death of the solutions deployed on local servers within the next several years — Scott Schreiman, the chief executive of Kerio Technologies company said. — And though at the moment the facts still say that local servers are still very popular, we consider that Kerio Cloud is the safest and flexible solution for the IT specialists who are looking for alternative options, but still not until the end of trusting to a cloud technology. With our selected 'cloud' partners can not worry about the equipment, and focus on profit earning, without caring for availability of e-mail".

The remote infrastructure service Kerio Cloud allows partners of Kerio to resell to the clients the software of Kerio as SaaS, saving end users from need to buy and support own server environments.

Kerio will provide to the partners the selected virtual machines with the solution Kerio Connect 8 set on them in "cloud" with a basic configuration. The partner of Kerio, the speaker as the main administrator and technical support service for the clients will use the virtual machine, explained in the company.

"We offer Kerio Connect as an alternative to the Exchange and Google Apps servers long ago — Walter Huff, the president of the Huff Technologies company which is the partner of Kerio company in Jacksonville, the State of Florida said. — As soon as services of e-mail moved to 'cloud', I wanted to take part in the program of beta testing Kerio Cloud. Now, after testing of this solution together with our clients, I can report that on reliability, security and convenience of administration this service can easily compete with any other services of e-mail existing in the market".

Expected retail price of Kerio Connect Cloud is $10 for one user a month. However partners of Kerio can set the own prices, based on a packet of the provided services and the prices of local competitors, emphasized in Kerio Technologies.

In the whole Kerio Connect 8 with the new client who is completely processed by Kerio Connect provides performance and functionality necessary for users of modern web applications. This version of Kerio Connect of the client completely supports work with e-mail, calendars, contacts, tasks and notes. In addition to the new cloud version, Kerio Connect 8 it is available in the form of the solution installed on the local server and also as SaaS service, Kerio provided by partners.

Kerio Connect 8.1

in Kerio Connect 8.1 there will be an opportunity to synchronize e-mail, calendars and contacts with the help of the application which is available in Windows 8 for work with mail on the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol.

If you want to update the operating system to Windows 8 or use the latest PCs and tablets, you will win thanks to flexibility and habitualness of Kerio Connect:

• Simple installation, administration and service;
• Reliable security, archiving and backup of mail;
• Flexible economic deployment.

Kerio Connect 7.1

The Kerio Technologies corporation announced upgraded version of the product Kerio Connect 7.1, server solution for message exchange and the organization of effective collective work. The product switches on the new connector Kerio Connector for BlackBerry which allows to synchronize data between the product Kerio Connect and mobile devices based on the BlackBerry platform.

Representatives of the company note that during development of Kerio Connect 7.1 the attention of creators was generally concentrated on the BlackBerry platform – the BlackBerry smartphones best of all work together with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server or BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express servers.

Thanks to the solution Kerio Connect, the owners of smartphones who are far from the house or office will be able to receive and send e-mail, to work with the general address directories, work calendars and task lists.

After installation of the Kerio Connector component on the corporate BlackBerry IT specialists server will be able to organize without effort synchronization of data between the server and mobile devices. For comprehensive control of client smartphones usual administrative tools can be used, and the staff of the organization will be able to use for the solution of standard tasks the built-in e-mail clients, calendars and address directories which are on each BlackBerry device.

The solution Kerio Connect works running operating systems Windows, Linux and Mac OS X and also is available in the form of the virtual device, completely ready to commissioning, to platforms VMware and Parallels. The version of Kerio Connect 7.1 is delivered complete with the integrated high-performance means of protecting from viruses and dangerous SOFTWARE, made by Sophos company and also has close compatibility with new Microsoft Outlook version 2010.

Kerio Connect 7.2

The open and flexible Kerio Connect 7.2 platform will allow the staff of the enterprises to work with personal electronic correspondence, to interact with address directories and work calendars. Thanks to support of a broad spectrum of desktop clients and mobile devices, including iPhone, Android and BlackBerry, these crucial business data will appear within reach even out of office.

New Microsoft Outlook version 2011 for Mac is capable to interact with Kerio Connect 7.2 and to provide synchronization of e-mail, calendars, contacts and tasks with the server. Besides Mac-users can stop the choice on Microsoft applications of Entourage 2004 and 2008 or use Apple the products Mail and iCal also completely compatible to Kerio Connect as clients.

The new version of the CalDAV protocol which will allow the server to control process of synchronization of calendars between different CalDAV-compatible clients is offered to users of Kerio Connect 7.2 (their number includes the iCal application for Mac or Calendar for the iPhone smartphones). The experimental new feature of auto-accept allows to enter in the calendar of the invitation to meetings and meetings which arrived when finding the user in offline. Thus, other interested users will be able to see free or potentially busy time spans, without waiting for acceptance or a deviation of a specific request.

IT specialists will also find the product Kerio Connect 7.2 extremely simple in administration and management. Availability of the administrator web interface will provide a possibility of remote execution of operations, connected with an email preference or management of users. During removal of the user it is automatically excluded from all groups. From security reasons administrators can also prohibit users to change passwords independently. The integrated means of protecting from spam and viruses, mechanisms of automatic backup and archiving of data are a part of a product.

Kerio Connect 7.4

The Kerio Technologies company announced in the spring of 2012 release of Kerio Connect 7.4 – the new version of the popular mail server. Kerio Connect 7.4 facilitates life to IT administrators, allowing them to carry out routine tasks not only behind the desktop. Using the full-function web console of the administrator optimized for iPad, system administrators can perform the work "on the run": solve problems of users, moving on office, or perform routine transactions outside office, for example: update politicians of access for users to the Internet, configure new mailboxes, browse magazines of system events and debug on the server.

The web console of the administrator of Kerio Connect and Kerio Control for iPad expands possibilities of tablet computers and allows to use them as a full-function management tool IT infrastructure. The web interface supports the multi-touch, a call of a context menu by double contact and also concealment of a tree of the menu for the purpose of the maximum increase in a working space.

One of new features is setup the politician of access for users (User Access Policies). Politicians of access allow administrators to manage access for users to postal services, such as Kerio WebMail and Microsoft Outlook. Besides, administrators can limit access to these services from mobile devices that allows to control remote connections to the server. For the solution of this task it is possible to configure easily access rights for the post office protocols ActiveSync, IMAP or Exchange Web Services.

Kerio Connect 7.4 provides to the enterprises all necessary for safe and reliable work with mail – the built-in antivirus, the improved mechanism of spam filtering and the built-in functions of archiving. Kerio Connect can be unrolled on the local server of the organization or in a type udaltnnogo the server in "cloud" provided by one of partntrov to Kerio. Connect 7.4 is the worthy alternative to Microsoft Exchange and Google mail servers optimum suitable for the small and medium enterprises.