New Kerio Connect 7 Groupware Server targets organizations with multiple branch offices

ADAOX Middle East, the leading value added distributor of IT security solutions and services across the Middle East and Kerio’s Middle East distributor, today announced the availability of Kerio Connect 7 for its customers in the Middle East region. The new Kerio Connect 7, previously known as Kerio MailServer, marks the messaging server’s entry into the market of midsize, multi-office deployments, giving customers an option to link standalone servers into a single distributed domain system.

The advantages of a distributed domain become apparent for organizations with branch offices in different physical locations. While companies often install separate messaging servers in offices located in other cities or countries for performance, security or compliance reasons, they often lose the benefits of a single collaboration server – most notably the ability to see the availability of coworkers in other offices. 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.

“Kerio Connect 7 is ideal for companies having a number of branch offices as it helps them synchronize their contacts and calendar schedules across all offices. A significant number of our customers have multiple offices across the region and the software’s new distributed domain feature will help these companies delegate management of their servers at each location, while keeping everything under the same domain. We are confident Kerio Connect 7 will provide our customers with an enhanced level of support, scalability and reliability that is in alignment with their needs,” says Neo Neophytou, Managing Director of ADAOX Middle East.

The management of distributed domains is an integral part of a newly introduced web-based Administration Console, providing complete remote management of Kerio Connect 7 from any modern browser.

New contact list sync via CardDAV

Kerio Connect 7 continues to push toward open standards in messaging and collaboration with the implementation of a new open source protocol CardDAV for address book synchronization.

“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,” says Dusan Vitek, vice president of Worldwide Marketing at Kerio Technologies Inc. “The ever-growing adoption of smartphones in the corporate and consumer markets raises expectations, which users have about interoperability.”

Apple Address Book, a CardDAV-compliant client in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, now syncs contacts directly with Kerio Connect 7. A configuration utility available through Kerio WebMail helps users setup their Address Book in a few clicks.

Availability and pricing

Kerio Connect 7 is available now from Kerio partners worldwide. It starts at $450 for 5 users, additional user starts at $24. Kerio Connect 7 runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and is also available as a VMware Virtual Appliance and Parallels Virtual Appliance. For more information, please visit: www.kerio.com/connect/whats-new

About Kerio Technologies, Inc.

Innovating in Internet security since 1997, Kerio Technologies, Inc. provides Internet messaging and firewall software for small-to-medium sized businesses and organizations worldwide. Kerio is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has offices in New York, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic and Russia. Kerio is a member of CalConnect, a calendaring and scheduling consortium; a premier member of the Apple Developer Connection; and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Kerio has more than 4,400 business partners in 108 countries. Technology partners include McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE), eSoft, Inc., and Notify Technology Corporation (OTCBB: NTFY). For more information, please visit www.kerio.com.

About ADAOX

ADAOX is a leading Value Added Distributor which provides IT Security Solutions and Services to customers across the Balkans and the Middle East regions. ADAOX enables customers protect, store and manage their valuable data; and works closely with its Channel Partners to empower them by extending technical expertise, support and training to develop their overall capabilities.

With offices in Cyprus, Greece and the United Arab Emirates, ADAOX specializes in value added distribution and support of IT Security Solutions in the areas of Malware Protection, Disaster Recovery, Web Filtering, Internet Bandwidth Optimization, Unified Threat Management, Antispam and Intrusion Detection & Prevention. ADAOX is committed to ensuring customer satisfaction by offering its partners and customers quick response to all their queries and the best prices in the market. For further details, please visit www.adaox.com