Zimbra OBject STorage
Zobst Storage Manager for Zimbra provides essential storage optimizations and security functionality not present in Community, Standard or Enterprise Editions.
About Zobst
Founded by email industry veterans with strong background in developing for and operating Zimbra at industrial scale and extensive experience in designing and implementing scalable and performant storage with focus on the unique challenges posed by email Zobst is executing on a vision that goes far beyond basic storage functionality.​
Zimbra had incredible foresight when creating the StorageManger API. It was intended a way for storage OEMs to easily add support for new APIs to access Object Storage. Zobst leverages this API to add our advanced functionality which means that you can continue to deploy and administer Zimbra as you always have.
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We are starting our journey to do more with email storage by adding a set of critical features that are just not present in Zimbra - features that are critical to securing your data while optimizing resources to reducing costs.
Follow our journey to see where we are heading.
Core Features
Zobst Storage Manager for Zimbra adds essential features and functionality that are missing from the core Zimbra product.
Application Level Encryption at Rest
Provides key missing Zimbra functionality to encrypt all messages stored on the server with industry leading AES-256 CBC security
Selective
Compression
Selectively compresses messages to save space while being gentle on your CPU. Reduce message storage capacity needs by 30 to 50%.
Multiple Concurrent Backends
Unlike Zimbra, Zobst supports multiple storage types like block and multiple object storage APIs. Even better multiple backends can be used concurrently.
Object Storage Optimizations
Think all S3 implementations are the same? Remember your cousin with the funny accent that you mostly understood? Well that's what different S3 implementations are like.
That's ok, we understand all the flavors and optimize for each.
Load
Balancing
Load balancing between on-prem object storage end-points is a fact of life. No need to have a separate load balancer - we have already built-in necessary functionality.
Easy
Administration
Zobst doesn't change how you administer Zimbra, except you'll be doing less work. Migrate to new storage systems transparently or encrypt existing messages without ever taking customer mailboxes off-line. How cool is that?