On 26th of April, at 11 am. CET, Ignacio Correas, Chief Executive Officer of Zentyal and Alex Hartwig, Corporate Services Manager at Canonical will explain how by partnering with Canonical and Zentyal, you can offer new services to your customers. You will learn how to gain more customers, how your current support staff can work more efficiently and how to become an Authorized Zentyal-Ubuntu Partner in your region.

In this session you will learn:

• How to add value added services to your portfolio without large initial investment in technology
• What benefits the Zentyal-Canonical partnership offers
• How to become an Authorized Zentyal-Ubuntu Partner in your region

This webinar is ideal to:

• Any IT service provider that currently provides SMBs a full set of IT infrastructure services under a break-fix support model and is interested in becoming a more efficient and scalable managed service provider.
• Any newly founded MSP that is in process of choosing the technology they will use to provide managed services. You will learn how one, single technology and contact point with the vendor will allow you to provide IT solutions and services to all your SMB customers.

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The next stable Zentyal release (Zentyal 3.0) will be published in September 2012 and it will integrate Samba 4, offering a full replacement for Microsoft Active Directory to manage network users and resources. During his talk, Salamero will explain the challenges the Zentyal Development Team has faced when integrating Samba 4 with technologies such as OpenLDAP and Kerberos.

“The biggest challenge of Samba 4 integration is to make it work with LDAP Directory server and Single sign-on configuration. This makes possible, for example, that the user can change his Windows Desktop password and the existing mail system keeps working as it is able to authenticate the user with the new password” said Jorge Salamero, and continued “The first beta version of Zentyal 3.0 including Samba 4 has been published already and I’m glad to share our experience on the integration.”

Additional note: Zentyal Team will be in Belgium and the Netherlands from the 30th of March until the 3rd of April. If you are interested in arranging a meeting, please contact us via info at zentyal.com

“These new server editions guarantee that our customers have fully supported and secure server at one single, very affordable price” said Ignacio Correas, Zentyal CEO, and continued “It is easy to choose the server edition your business needs and it is easy and secure to install, configure and maintain your Zentyal server. The feedback we have received prior to the launch has been extremely positive and we believe this will be a great server choice for any small and medium business.”

Both the Small Business Edition and the Enterprise Edition are immediately available for purchase through the Zentyal On-line Store, together with Disaster Recovery and Zarafa Small Business add-ons. The Zentyal Community Edition users will be automatically upgraded to the commercial server edition once they have purchased the edition of their choice.

Below the course descriptions and registration details.

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COURSE (user level): Daily management of a Linux Server for SMBs (onsite, Aragón)
Date: February 2012, in the evenings.
Duration: 12 hours.
Requirements: Prior knowledge of computers. Students must be self-employed or unemployed.
Objective: Students will carry out of the daily management of their Zentyal server efficiently.
Registration: http://plan.aragon.es/MapaRec.nsf/(ID)/6B08B08BF315204AC1257976002C398F?OpenDocument

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COURSE (basic level): Computer Network Management of SMBs with Linux (onsite and online, Aragón)
Date: March 2012, in the evenings.
Duration: 34 hours.
Prerequisites: basic knowledge in computer networks. Students must be self-employed or unemployed.
Objective: Students can deploy Zentyal as a gateway server and manage the network infrastructure and security in an SMB. Corresponds to the official “Zentyal for Network Technicians” course.
Registration: http://plan.aragon.es/MapaRec.nsf/(ID)/CE6401F8359672B0C1257976002C39E7?OpenDocument

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COURSE (Intermediate Level): Managing Servers with Linux in SMBs (onsite and online, Aragón)
Date: April 2012, in the evenings.
Duration: 34 hours.
Requirements: Experience in computer network managment. Students must be self-employed or unemployed.
Objective: Students can deploy Zentyal server as a office server and communications server in an SMB. Corresponds to the official “Zentyal for Network Administrators” course.
Registration: http://plan.aragon.es/MapaRec.nsf/(ID)/56D60199D9ED9F6AC1257976002C3979?OpenDocument

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COURSE (Intermediate Level): Linux Network Administration with Zentyal (onsite, in the CTA, Aragón)
Date: From 16/04/2012 until 03/05/2012 in the evenings.
Duration: 40 hours.
Requirements: Basic knowledge in computer network management.
Objective: Students can deploy Zentyal server as a gateway, office and communications server and manage the network infrastructure and security in an SMB. Corresponds to the official “Zentyal for Network Technicians” and “Zentyal for Network Administrators” courses.
Registration: http://plan.aragon.es/MapaRec.nsf/(ID)/1A5C437D4B818220C12578A70036DBAB?OpenDocument

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COURSE (Intermediate): Linux Network Administration with Zentyal (onsite, in the CNTG, Galicia)
Date: From 03/03/2012 until 16/03/2012.
Duration: 40 hours.
Objective: Provide the understanding of the Zentyal server architecture. Allow to deploy and manage all Zentyal services in SMB environment. Allow to learn best practices for effective and safe network maintenance of a SMB server. Prepare for the Zentyal Certified Associate (ZeCA) certification exam.
Requirements: Basic knowledge in computer network management.
Registration: https://cntg.xunta.es/web/cnt/formacion?resultadoId=657&tipoId=1

“This agreements affirms our commitment to training highly skilled professionals capable of managing the ICT infrastructures of SMBs, which require ever more powerful and secure systems to, in turn, better meet the demands of their customers” said Ignacio Correas, CEO of Zentyal.

The agreement was signed at the Centro de Tecnologías Avanzadas (CTA) by Ignacio Correas, CEO of Zentyal, Francisco Bono Ríos, Director of Economy and Labor of the Government of Aragon and Arturo Aliaga, Director of Industry and Innovation of the Government of Aragon.

“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.

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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).

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Zentyal Summit 2011 Program

The event can be followed on-line in real time

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“Zentyal server offers an easier way to manage a Linux server than the traditional solutions and it has a great acceptance among vocational training students” said Ignacio Correas, CEO, Zentyal. “For us this is an important step to introduce complementary Linux training in Spanish training centers and to gain more visibility.”

With this agreement, the 45 Spanish training centers affiliated to the LPI program may subscribe to the Zentyal Academy Program for free during one year. The period during which the training centers can benefit from this promotion will begin on November 15, 2011 and end on March 15, 2012. Since the subscription, the center will be able to participate in the Zentyal Academy program for free. Afterwards, the center can decide to continue the subscription with the usual annual fee.

Santi Alcaide, Director of Business Development at Proyecto Universidad Empresa (PUE), also attended the act. PUE currently includes in their service portfolio both LPI and Zentyal training programs, and has played an important role in achieving this agreement between the companies.

“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.

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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.

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).

Download the full press release in English or Spanish…