Zentyal – The Linux Small Business Server 

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(Zaragoza, Spain) Zentyal, developer of the Zentyal Linux small business server, announced today that it has closed a series A venture capital funding of over $1 million USD by Open Ocean Capital, leading investor in community and open source business. The funding will be used to support Zentyal’s expansion in the small and medium business (SMB) server market that is estimated to reach 17.4 million units by the year 2017.

“Zentyal is a fast-growing server solution that combines cloud-based services to make network management easy and secure for SMBs. In just three years we have become the reference in Linux small business servers, and now, with over 30,000 monthly downloads and at break-even, we consider this is the right moment to get venture capital to disrupt definitely the market. We believe Open Ocean Capital is the best investor for us, as they can bring both the funding and the best advice to help us challenge the current market leaders” said Ignacio Correas, CEO of Zentyal.

“We are excited to become shareholders in Zentyal, as the company aims to disrupt the multibillion dollar business for small- and medium sized business servers” said Tom Henriksson, Open Ocean Partner. “Zentyal perfectly fits Open Ocean Fund Three’s investment focus, developing a rapidly scalable business on the basis of a vibrant open-source community and -product.”

Simultaneously Zentyal has also appointed new members to the Board of Directors: Tom Henriksson, Partner at Open Ocean and former Head of Corporate Business Development at Nokia, has joined the board alongside with Jorge Mata, Founder and President of Berg Networks and Founder of MyAlert.

About Zentyal
Zentyal, the Linux Small Business Server, offers small and medium businesses an enterprise-level, affordable and easy-to-use network infrastructure. By using Zentyal server and its cloud-based services, SMBs are able to improve the reliability and security of their computer network and to reduce their IT investments and operational costs.

Zentyal server development was started in early 2004 and currently it is the open source alternative to Windows Small Business Server. Zentyal server is widely used in the small and medium businesses regardless of sector, industry or location as well as in the public administrations or in the education sector.

About Open Ocean Capital
Open Ocean is a leading early-stage venture capital company, with a particular emphasis on European start-ups deploying user community or open source business models.

Open Ocean was the first major owner in MySQL AB, which was later sold to Sun Microsystems for $1 billion in 2008. Above and beyond many venture capital firms, Open Ocean is also able to leverage its direct experience as founders of MySQL to provide hands-on support to the management of companies receiving Open Ocean’s funding.

Open Ocean is led by partners Patrik Backman, Ralf Wahlsten and Tom Henriksson and by “community and open source wizard” Michael “Monty” Widenius, the original developer of the MySQL database and co-founder of the company MySQL AB.

More about Open Ocean Capital: www.openoceancapital.com

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(Zaragoza, Spain) The first Zentyal Summit begins tomorrow in Zaragoza, Spain, with a number of participants that double the initial estimates. The event will take place on the 11th and 12th of November in the Milla Digital facilities, on Friday in the CIEM (Avenida de la Autonomía, 7) and on Saturday in the Digital Water Pavilion (Avenida de la EXPO 2008).

This international event offers a meeting place for the users and developers of Zentyal Linux small business server, widely used tool in the small and medium businesses regardless of sector, industry or location as well as in the public administrations or in the education sector all over the world.

During the event, Zentyal Development Team will unveil details of the partnership agreement signed earlier this week with Canonical, present the roadmap of the next Zentyal server version and give a series of technical workshops, aimed at current and potential Zentyal customers, partners, community members and users.

In addition, the summit features prominent international speakers such as Roberto Galoppini from SourceForge, one of the most popular software repositories in the world, Mihai Bilauca and Patricia O’Dwyer from the Limercik City Council (Ireland) or Christophe Sauthier, president of Ubuntu France. Likewise, Spanish speakers such as Luis Palomero from Sabeco-Simply, Alejandro Escobar from Aitire and Francisco Solans from Neodoo will share their experiences on Zentyal server use cases.

Zentyal Summit 2011 will be held right after the Libre Software World Conference 2011, that takes place in Zaragoza on the 9th and 10th of November. The Summit is organized in collaboration with the Local Government of Aragón, Zaragoza City Council, Business Consortium for Open Source Software in Aragón (CESLA) and National Reference Center for ICT Based on OSS (CENATIC).

Additional Information

Zentyal Summit 2011 Program

The event can be followed on-line in real time

About Zentyal
Zentyal, developer of a Linux server of the same name, aims at providing small and medium businesses a professional, reliable and secure server solution, that is yet easy to use and affordable. To reach this goal, the company develops Zentyal server and provides support, services and solutions based on Zentyal server either through Authorized Partners or directly to end customers.

The Zentyal Linux server development began in early 2004 and today it is the open source alternative to Windows Small Business Server. Currently Zentyal server gets about 1,000 daily downloads and the project has an active community of more than 5,000 members. Likewise, it is estimated that there are over 50,000 active Zentyal installations all over the globe.

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(Zaragoza, Spain) Zentyal, developer of the Linux small business server of the same name and Canonical, the organisation behind Ubuntu, announced today a partnership agreement to extend the availability of Ubuntu Advantage to SMBs through Zentyal’s partner network.

“This agreement brings the services of Ubuntu Advantage to a much broader set of companies through utilising the Zentyal partners’” said Andrew Cooper, EMEA Channel Manager, Canonical. “Zentyal has an extensive experience with small and medium-sized IT providers and SMB market in general and we firmly believe they can take Ubuntu to customers that Canonical cannot reach otherwise.”

“This agreement offers a number of benefits to our partners and the over 1,000 IT providers with which we have started conversations” said Ignacio Correas, CEO, Zentyal. “From now on, our partners will not only provide high-value services based on Zentyal small business server, but they will be able to extend their offering to Ubuntu desktop and application servers based on Ubuntu, all within the same partnership agreement with us.”

From today, Authorized Zentyal Partners can also choose to sell Ubuntu Advantage products, with conditions very similar to the Zentyal-based products and services. Moreover, all those IT providers that do not reach the minimum requirements to become official Ubuntu partners, can do so through Zentyal.

About Zentyal
Zentyal, developer of a Linux server of the same name, aims at providing small and medium businesses a professional, reliable and secure server solution, that is yet easy to use and affordable. To reach this goal, the company develops Zentyal server and provides support, services and solutions based on Zentyal server either through Authorized Partners or directly to end customers.

The Zentyal Linux server development began in early 2004 and today it is the open source alternative to Windows Small Business Server. Currently Zentyal server gets about 1,000 daily downloads and the project has an active community of more than 5,000 members. Likewise, it is estimated that there are over 50,000 active Zentyal installations all over the globe.

About Canonical
Canonical provides engineering, online and professional services to Ubuntu partners and customers worldwide. As the company behind the Ubuntu project, Canonical is committed to the production and support of Ubuntu – an ever-popular and fast-growing open-source operating system. It aims to ensure that Ubuntu is available to every organisation and individual on servers, desktops, laptops and netbooks.

Canonical partners with computer hardware manufacturers to certify Ubuntu, provides migration, deployment, support and training services to businesses, and offers online services direct to end users. Canonical also builds and maintains collaborative, open source development tools to ensure that organisations and individuals can participate fully in innovations within the open-source community. For more information, please visit the Canonical website: www.canonical.com

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(Zaragoza, Spain) Zentyal, developer of the Zentyal Linux small business server, announced today the program for upcoming Zentyal Summit 2011, that will take place on the 11th and 12th of November in Zaragoza, Spain. Zentyal Summit offers a meeting place to share experiences, meet and discuss with other Zentyal users and developers, discuss the roadmap of the next release and attend training sessions.

Keynote speaker of the Summit is Roberto Galoppini, Senior Director of Business Development at SourceForge, who has over 20 years experience in the computer industry, and has spent the last 10 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. His talk “From Projects to Products” will take a look on how open source projects can turn in to commercially viable products and how SourceForge can help in the process.

The Summit program covers a large number of topics related to Zentyal, from commercial aspects to Zentyal server use cases, community talks and technical workshops, aimed at current and potential Zentyal customers, partners, community members and users. There is no registration fee for participating in the event, but seats are limited so early registration is highly recommended. Both the program and registration form can be found at the Summit website at: http://events.zentyal.com/zentyal-summit/

Zentyal Summit 2011 will be held right after the Libre Software World Conference 2011, that will take place in Zaragoza on the 9th and 10th of November. The Summit is sponsored by the Local Government of Aragón, Zaragoza City Council, Business Consortium for Open Source Software in Aragón (CESLA) and National Reference Center for ICT Based on OSS (CENATIC).

Additional Information

Zentyal Summit 2011 Program

Zentyal Summit 2011 Registration Form

Libre Software World Conference 2011

About Zentyal
Zentyal, developer of a Linux server of the same name, aims at providing small and medium businesses a professional, reliable and secure server solution, that is yet easy to use and affordable. To reach this goal, the company develops Zentyal server and provides support, services and solutions based on Zentyal server either through Authorized Partners or directly to end customers.

The Zentyal Linux server development began in early 2004 and today it is the open source alternative to Windows Small Business Server. Currently Zentyal server gets about 1,000 daily downloads and the project has an active community of more than 5,000 members. Likewise, it is estimated that there are over 50,000 active Zentyal installations all over the globe.

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(Zaragoza, Spain) The Zentyal Development Team announced today the release of Zentyal 2.2, a new major release of the Zentyal Linux small business server. Zentyal aims at providing small and medium businesses a professional, reliable and secure server solution, that is yet easy to use and affordable.

Zentyal 2.2 introduces major performance improvements, reducing the installation time and improving the user interface responsiveness by 30%. Besides, a number of usability improvements have taken place, making the server installation, configuration and management easier and more accessible for SMB users with no earlier experience on Linux.

This version features fully new Captive Portal module, that offers the possibility to limit user access to the Internet through a login page. Captive portals are typically used at WiFi hotspots, but also in wired networks at hotels, schools or airports where users need to authenticate prior gaining Internet access.

In addition, Zentyal 2.2 introduces a bunch of new features, such as IPsec and, PPTP support, Administrator audit logging, Virtual machine management, Zarafa 7 integration, Ad-blocker or the ability to run Zentyal from a USB stick. Moreover, to celebrate the new release, improved free Basic Subscription was recently launched to give users access to basic alerts, reports, remote monitoring and management options directly from the Zentyal Cloud at no cost.

Zentyal users are invited to participate in Zentyal Summit 2011, to be held on November 11-12, to learn more about this version and discuss the roadmap of the next stable Zentyal version.

Additional information:
Zentyal 2.2 is available for download at:
http://www.zentyal.com/en/server/download/
The detailed Zentyal 2.2 release announcement is available at:
http://trac.zentyal.org/wiki/Document/Announcement/2.2
Call for talks and registration are both open for Zentyal Summit 2011:
http://events.zentyal.com/zentyal-summit/

About Zentyal
Zentyal, developer of a Linux server of the same name, aims at providing small and medium businesses a professional, reliable and secure server solution, that is yet easy to use and affordable. To reach this goal, the company develops Zentyal server and provides support, services and solutions based on Zentyal server either through Authorized Partners or directly to end customers.

The Zentyal Linux server development began in early 2004 and today it is the open source alternative to Windows Small Business Server. Currently Zentyal server gets about 1,000 daily downloads and the project has an active community of more than 5,000 members. Likewise, it is estimated that there are over 50,000 active Zentyal installations all over the globe.

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(Zaragoza, Spain) Elekta, a world leading supplier of radiation oncology and neurosurgery systems, has chosen Zentyal to provide the security of medical therapy equipment. Zentyal’s Unified Threat Management (UTM) software is integrated in a PC based multi-threat security appliance launched by Elekta to protect the equipment from security vulnerabilities and cyber threats.

“Elekta found in Zentyal a solution which brought together all the required elements in one integrated package. What is more, the support and partnership provided to develop it into a unique and tailored product was excellent” said James Troke, Project Manager at Elekta. “Furthermore, Zentyal’s flexible and responsive involvement was essential to the delivery of this important component of our radio-therapy product suite.”

As a well-proven UTM solution, Zentyal adds to the appliance an advanced firewall, antivirus software and intrusion detection system. Zentyal also acts as a shared storage server between the medical device used for making the diagnosis and the doctor’s computer, allowing user authentication, advanced file access control lists, file access audit and antivirus file scanning.

For increased security, Zentyal also logs every access, modification or file deletion in the server and immediately reports all threat events such as files infected by virus or unauthorized access attempts to network administrators. Even though medical software usually runs on non-Linux based operating systems, integration of the full solution into a single appliance was possible by using virtualization technologies that allow Microsoft Windows run on top of Zentyal.

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About Elekta
Elekta is a human care company pioneering significant innovations and clinical solutions for treating cancer and brain disorders. The company develops advanced tools and treatment planning systems for radiation therapy and radiosurgery, and workflow enhancing software systems across the cancer care spectrum. Through its products and services, Elekta aims to improve, prolong and save patient lives. Elekta solutions in oncology and neurosurgery are used in over 5,000 hospitals globally, and daily more than 100,000 patients receive diagnosis, treatment or follow-up with the help of an Elekta Group solution. Elekta, with corporate headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, employs approximately 2,500 people globally.

About Zentyal
Zentyal, developer of a Linux server of the same name, aims at providing small and medium businesses and organizations a professional, reliable and secure computer network, that is yet easy to use and affordable. To reach this goal, the company develops Zentyal server and provides support, services and solutions based on Zentyal server either through Authorized Partners or directly to end customers.

The Zentyal Linux server development began in early 2004 and today it the an open source alternative to Windows Small Business Server. Currently Zentyal server gets about 1,000 daily downloads and the project has an active community of more than 5,000 members. Likewise, it is estimated that there are over 50,000 active Zentyal installations all over the globe.

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(Zaragoza, Spain) The Department of Education, Culture and Sports of the Government of Aragon (EducAragon), Spain, has chosen a solution based on Zentyal Linux server to solve one of the main challenges of the School 2.0 Program: renewal of the network infrastructure of schools. The solution guarantees that schools can provide safe and proper use of the assigned computer equipment.

On the one hand, the chosen solution has improved the connectivity of the schools, avoiding that the classrooms are left without Internet access and on the other hand, it has ensured maximum network security and proper access control to Internet content. Currently, deployments have been carried out in 80 schools with the support of EducaAragon and the Spanish company that develops Zentyal server.

The mains reasons to choose Zentyal server as the technological solution were that Zentyal server was open source software that covered all the functionality required by schools and professional support was available, provided by the manufacturer, making the project viable. Furthermore, the solution allows to provide centralized and high quality support to the schools, with high level of flexibility to adapt the solution to the specific needs of each school.

Depending on the specific needs of each school, Zentyal server can be deployed to be used for auto-configuration of the equipment, firewall, content filtering, Internet access optimization via http proxy, traffic shaping and hosting of shared resources and School 2.0 applications. In addition, the server allows balancing of several ADSL lines, improving the browsing experience.

“Zentyal server has always had favorable reception as Unified Threat Manager (UTM) in schools, but the opportunity given by EducAragon within the School 2.0 Program has allowed us to refine our technology and establish ourselves as the ideal solution for the education sector” said Ignacio Correas, CEO of Zentyal.

Zentyal participates together with ASOLIF (Federate Open Source Associations) in the School 2.0 Congress (Congreso Escuela 2.0), held from the 13th to the 15th of April in Zaragoza (Spain). Zentyal and ASOLIF will participate in the event with a joint stand, where Zentyal will provide information on projects it has recently undertaken in the education sector, including the project carried out with the Department of Education, Culture and Sports of the Government of Aragon.

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About School 2.0 Program
Thanks to the Department of Education, Culture and Sports of the Government of Aragon (EducAragón), Spain, Aragon is one of the pioneering communities in the implementation of the School 2.0 program. The objective of this program, which began in 2009 promoted by the Ministry of Education in partnership with the Autonomous Communities, is to introduce innovative factors in the process of integration and bringing of ICT closer to education.

About Zentyal
Zentyal aims at providing small and medium businesses (SMBs) and organizations with an affordable and easy-to-use enterprise-level computer network. By using Zentyal server, SMBs are able to improve the reliability and security of their network infrastructure and to reduce their investments and operational costs.

Zentyal server development was started in early 2004 and currently it is an open source alternative to Windows Small Business Server. Zentyal and the Authorized Zentyal Partners offer SMBs a series of subscription services such as Quality assured software updates, Alerts and reports, Centralized monitoring and administration of multiple Zentyal servers as well as Technical support and Certified training.

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(Zaragoza, Spain) Zentyal, developer of the Zentyal Linux small business server, announced today the availability of a Disaster Recovery service for Zentyal servers. This new, cloud-based service, confirms Zentyal’s commitment to provide small and medium businesses (SMBs) easy and affordable network management services and to reduce their network infrastructure costs by more than 50%.

“It is a well known fact that a major loss of business data can have devastating effects on the continuity of a company. The Disaster Recovery service we offer allows to recover easily and quickly the data stored in a Zentyal server, at a price that is within the price range of any SMB” said Enrique Hernández, Zentyal Cloud Product Manager. “Moreover, we count with rsync.net, one of the most trusted offsite backup providers, as our technology provider to guarantee our customers the highest levels of quality and performance”.

The Zentyal Disaster Recovery service allows users to store critical data in a remote location by using a simple backup process and to restore this data and system configuration quickly in case of a disaster. The service is configurable, but it comes with default settings that are configured for one initial full backup and one daily incremental backup for up to 10GB of data. The configurable encryption protocols guarantee the confidentiality of both the transfer and the storage of the data.

Both the Disaster Recovery service and the complementary Extra Storage Space package (10GB) are immediately available for Zentyal server users with commercial Zentyal server subscriptions. Those interested in testing the cloud-based Zentyal services can obtain free community server subscription that, among other features, includes remote configuration backup.

Additional information
Zentyal Disaster Recovery service is available for purchase at:
https://store.zentyal.com/other/disaster-recovery.html
The free Basic Server Subscription is available at:
https://store.zentyal.com/serversubscriptions/subscription-basic.html

About Zentyal
Zentyal aims at providing small and medium businesses (SMBs) with an affordable and easy-to-use enterprise-level computer network. By using Zentyal server, SMBs are able to improve the reliability and security of their network infrastructure and to reduce their investments and operational costs.

Zentyal server development was started in early 2004 and currently it is an open source alternative to Windows Small Business Server. Zentyal and the Authorized Zentyal Partners offer SMBs a series of subscription services such as Quality assured software updates, Alerts and reports, Centralized monitoring and administration of multiple Zentyal servers as well as Technical support and Certified training.

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(Zaragoza, Spain) Zentyal, developer of the Linux SMB server of the same name, announced today a partnership agreement with Proyecto Universidad Empresa (PUE) to extend certified Zentyal training to all of Spain. PUE is a company specialized in the management of training programs promoted by the leading technology manufacturers and with presence in all the Autonomous Communities of the Spanish territory.

“PUE has more than a decade of experience in integrating certified training of technology manufacturers – such as Sun, Cisco, Microsoft or Linux Professional Institute – to the Spanish educational sector and we are glad to seal a long collaboration with this agreement” said Ignacio Correas, Zentyal CEO. “The certified Zentyal training responds to a genuine demand of the SMBs to find professionals who can manage network infrastructures in an easy and affordable way, based on Linux. This agreement allows training centers to expand their educational offering to easily respond to this demand.”

“Zentyal Academy is a training program designed to allow academic institutions to train and certify their students in the Linux small business server management through technology that is both innovative and easy to use and implement” said Orlando Dominguez, PUE CEO. “It is the academic solution that our training centers have claimed so many times in order to provide official training in Linux server management with a tool similar to Small Business Server.” Mr. Dominguez concluded “We’re convinced that the Zentyal Academy will have an excellent reception in the Spanish ICT training centers and it complements perfectly the Linux Professional Institute AAP training program, in which we have placed Spain as the country with the most accredited centers in the world.”

Under the agreement, PUE becomes Zentyal Regional Training Academy for Spain and it will be the entity in charge of managing and supporting public and private training centers to introduce certified Zentyal training in their training programs. Certified Zentyal training aims to enable system administrators with knowledge and tools necessary to manage SMB computer networks with Linux based technologies.

About Zentyal
Zentyal aims at providing small and medium businesses with an affordable and easy-to-use enterprise-level computer network. By using Zentyal, SMBs are able to improve the reliability and security of their network infrastructure and to reduce their investments and operational costs.

Zentyal development was started in early 2004 and currently it is an open source alternative to Windows Small Business Server. The Zentyal Development Team and Authorized Zentyal Partners offer a series of subscription services such as Quality assured software updates, Alerts and reports, Centralized monitoring and administration of multiple Zentyal servers, Technical support and Certified training.

About PUE
Proyecto Universidad Empresa (PUE) is a private institution founded in 1998. Its main objective is to bring official training and certification of the major ICT multinationals (Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, LPI, Zentyal, …) to the Spanish educational sector.

The training programs offered by PUE are aimed for different existing training curricula (University, Vocational, High School, Occupational Training, …) and they are designed to ensure that students and professionals are granted access, with the best possible conditions, to the certifications established by the major software and hardware manufacturers to prove knowledge and domain in their technologies.

Currently, the PUE educational program is implemented, stable and solvent in all the Autonomous Communities of the Spanish territory, with over 2,000 active training centers that at the moment train and/or certify more than 50,000 students each year.

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(Zaragoza, Spain) The Zentyal Development Team announced today the release of Zentyal 2.0, the Linux small business server formerly known as eBox Platform. Zentyal aims at providing SMBs easy and affordable network management and reducing their network infrastructure costs by more than 50%.

Zentyal 2.0 is based on the new Ubuntu 10.4 LTS distribution and this has implied a major change in all the server components. For this reason, Zentyal 2.0 is a new major release. With this change, the users are ensured higher levels of security, functionality and hardware compatibility.

Besides updating the Zentyal base, this version features significant usability, performance and stability improvements. Additionally, it also includes new features. With the goal of providing a Linux server that can be fully configured through a simple graphical interface, software management improvements have taken place and automatic configuration wizards have been introduced.

Moreover, the configuration backed of Zentyal has been changed from gconf to redis and this has improved notably the server speed. Thanks to this and other visual enhancements, the general user experience has been greatly improved.

Additionally, Zentyal 2.0 also includes new features such as bridge mode that simplifies the deployment of existing networks or FTP module demanded by many Zentyal community members. Finally, this version also features a new Zarafa module that provides a groupware solution for sharing calendars, contacts and tasks.

Additional information
Zentyal 2.0 is available for download at:
http://www.zentyal.org/download/latest
The official Zentyal 2.0 release announcement is available at:
http://trac.zentyal.org/wiki/Document/Announcement/2.0/
This announcement is also available in Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian.

About Zentyal
Zentyal aims at providing small and medium businesses with an affordable and easy-to-use enterprise-level computer network. By using Zentyal, SMBs are able to improve the reliability and security of their network infrastructure and to reduce their investments and operational costs.

Zentyal development was started in early 2004 and currently it is an open source alternative to Windows Small Business Server. The Zentyal Development Team and Authorized Zentyal Partners offer a series of subscription services such as Quality assured software updates, Alerts and reports, Centralized monitoring and administration of multiple Zentyal servers, Technical support and Certified training.