Kerio Connect 7 Unveiled at Macworld Conference

Show attendees in San Francisco got a good glimpse of the new distributed domain system, a successor to the former MailServer model.

Previously knows as Kerio MailServer, the new Kerio Connect 7 made its debut at the Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco this week.

Kerio Connect 7 enables SMBs with multi-office deployments to link standalone servers into a single distributed domain system. SMBs can join their Kerio Connect servers into a single, geographically dispersed cluster, with servers aware of each of other's user groups, contacts, and other resources.

Kerio told attendees of the Macworld Conference that the advantages of 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," the company states in a press release to EH Publishing, "they often lose the benefits of a single collaboration server."

Features of Kerio Connect 7
The management of distributed domains is an integral part of a newly    introduced Web-based Administration Console. It provides complete remote management of Kerio Connect 7 from any modern browser.

The product also sports 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," says Dusan Vitek, vice president of worldwide marketing at Kerio. "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.

Availability & Pricing
Kerio Connect 7 is available now from Kerio partners worldwide. It starts at $450 for five users; additional user starts at $24 each.

Kerio Connect 7 runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and is also available as a VMware Virtual Appliance and Parallels Virtual Appliance.