Installation of a Zimbra server and integration with Active Directory

Already at the beginning of the 2010 we saw how VMware acquired Zimbra from Yahoo to integrate it into its new services infrastructure; Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) It's a complete suite, both messaging and open-source-based collaboration, There is a free version (ZCS Open Source Edition) and also the paid version (ZCS Network Edition Starter with Standard or Pro Option). Day by day it takes over more of the market thanks to its scalability, reliability and above all because it is combined with already consolidated open source technologies and the support of the community!

Installing and Configuring iFolder with Active Directory & CIFS

After a long time looking for Open Source solutions that allow organizations to set up their own DropBox, we find ourselves with 3 Great solutions: iFolder, ownCloud and SparkleShare. We stay (For now) with the first since today it is the most complete, Clients for the most common operating systems available (Linux, Mac OS X & Windows.) apart from having clients for mobile devices (Android or iOS), allows you to synchronize folders securely or share them with the users you are interested in. Ideal for remote users or information shared across companies,

TCOS Project

TCOS is one of the best Open Source solutions that generates boot images for thinclient computers (based on Linux Debian/Ubuntu). Allows rDesktop connections (Terminal Server), FreeNX & X over SSH. In this document we will first see how to connect to the same Ubuntu where we will generate the images and in which we will have installed applications; later we will customize a client to use RDP,

vShield Data Security

Inside the vShield family, we could enable the vShield Data Security service in order to have visibility into the leakage of sensitive information in our company, He will show it to us in some reports, where we can confirm that we have the information correctly secured, being able to evaluate compliance with any regulation in the world.

vShield Endpoint con Trend Micro Deep Security

In this document, we will see the deployment of vShield Endpoint with Trend Micro's Deep Security antivirus, As we already know, with vShield Endpoint we will be able to avoid having on each virtual machine (hosted on our vSphere infrastructure) of antivirus/antimalware software, with this we will be able to further optimize our VDI environments by not having as many AVs as MVs, The processing of this payload is executed only once by our hypervisor.

Installing the vShield App

Como ya vimos en el documento anterior, desplegamos nuestro vShield Manager para poder gestionar nuestro entorno vShield, en este documento desplegaremos el appliance firewall vShield App para proteger mediante reglas de red el acceso entre nuestras máquinas virtuales, desplegaremos un vShield App por cada host.

Installing vShield Manager

vShield Manager enables centralized management of vShield components in the network, is a virtual applicance installed on one of our ESXi hosts (one per vCenter). From its management console we can install, configure (or perform maintenance) on vShield components. In this first document we will see the deployment of this appliance and its initial configuration,

VMware vShield

VMware vShield is a component that adds security by protecting virtual data centers from potential attacks or misuse through a set of security virtual appliances built for VMware vSphere. In a series of articles we will see the deployment of the products that make it up: vShield Manager, vShield App, vShield App with Data Security, vShield Edge and vShield Endpoint.