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23 May 2022

Zimbra – Google Workspace Coexistence Solution

What was the impetus for the Cloud Zimbra – Google Coexistence Solution?

G Suite Free Edition is counting down the days it will remain free for businesses, and organizations across the world. Google Cloud is all set to shelf the product, which is just a natural consequence of their decision to block all new sign-ups after December 2012.

So, what does it mean for you as a G Suite Free Legacy Edition user? Well, you have two options. The first one is presented by Google Cloud itself: you can choose to upgrade to the paid Google Workspace Solution. If you have the budget for it and feel that Google’s mailing and productivity tool is too necessary a part of your day-to-day operations, you may very well choose this option.

However, if there is a budget constraint and only a handful of your key employees may need a premium subscription while the remaining users can be given non–google mailing solution, then Logix has Cloud Zimbra – Google Workspace Coexistence to offer.

The solution to this puzzle

Our Cloud Zimbra – Google Workspace coexistence solution is a hybridized solution which allows you to classify your mailing and productivity tools as per your organizational needs. Keep your key users on G Suite while others shift to Cloud Zimbra Suite, which is more economical and a potent mailing and collaboration tool.

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Highlights of the Cloud Zimbra – Google Workspace Coexistence solution

Both classes of users share the common domain name of your business.
Seamless mail flows between two accounts.
Cloud Zimbra suite users are secured with in-built email ATP, while G Suite has its own powerful native threat scanning capabilities.
Perfect solution for organizations who get the best of both worlds.
Guided email migration for G Suite users to Cloud Zimbra solution. Your entire process is managed by Logix, a reliable and experienced vendor.

Milestones for you as a G Suite Free Edition user

Whether to opt for the G Suite alternative or go for the paid Google Workspace subscription is totally up to you, your requirements, and your procurement budgets. However, Google has set in motion a plan to convert all free users to premium ones. So, keep in mind the following dates:

Since the 1^st of May 2022, Google will have automatically elevated your privileges to the paid Google Workspace plan.

After that, Google will let you use the new Workspace solution free of cost for 60 days.

By 1^st of July 2022, you will need to provide your billing details so Google can officially onboard you to the solution. If you choose not to shift, you will lose all access to your account July onwards.

And what is the date to shift to the G Suite alternative by Logix? Well, you can do that even today! Simply reach out to us to get started on the provisioning.

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20 Jun 2020

GSuite – Cloud Zimbra Hybrid Solution

Logix’s G Suite – Cloud Zimbra Hybrid Solution

Any business needs mail servers to streamline their electronic communication. A powerful, properly chosen mail server can do wonders for your email communications and transactions. Most businesses have realized that only power users are utilizing the potential of the solution and general users are only using basic email features. A significant business slowdown is observed and as a result, most organizations have started to migrate their general users to low-cost mail solutions.

Benefits of the hybrid solution

Best ROI with justified cost
Sharing the same domain: Although you may decide to host different segments onto different cloud deployments, you can share the same domain so your segmentation remains transparent.
Seamless mail flow between the user group
Security: By opting for our hybrid solution, you also get the added value of potent, all-round security. This is because we package our hybrid solution with our Email Advanced Threat Protection, which battles all advanced malware attacks.

Before we explore the features of a hybrid solution, here is a short explanation of the two individual services.

What is Zimbra?

Zimbra is a collaboration tool that consists of a mail server and a web client. It acts as a complete enterprise email & collaboration solution. At Logix, we use Zimbra to connect end-users to the information and activity in their personal clouds. You can easily deploy Cloud Zimbra Solution on the Logix cloud infrastructure. We host Zimbra mail servers in three, tier III data centers in Mumbai, Pune, and Bangalore.

What is G Suite?

G Suite is Google’s one-stop solution to boost productivity within an organization. In one combined offering, G Suite offers solutions for email, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, calendars, cloud storage, remote conferencing, and a lot more.

The Zimbra-G Suite Hybrid Solution – What do you get?

Cloud Zimbra – G Suite Hybrid setup gets you the best of both worlds by letting you choose Cloud Zimbra for general users and G Suite for Power Users, sharing the same domain, and lowering the total cost of ownership.

Benefits of the Logix Zimra-G Suite Hybrid Solution

The true allure of this hybrid solution is that if you are already using G Suite for your core team, but are thinking of migrating your general users to other mailing solutions, you can keep the core team on G Suite and the other set of general users on Cloud Zimbra. In this way, using the Zimbra-G Suite hybrid solution, you optimize for cost without losing out on the productivity of the non-core members.

Logix provides migration services, wherein Mail / Folder / Calendar & Contact data is migrated from G Suite to Zimbra. More details are on our hybrid solution page.