Virtualization giant VMware announced VMware Zimbra 7, the latest version of its cloud email and collaboration platform. This announcement comes amidst some executive turbulence the company is going through regarding its President and other executives, but Zimbra’s shiny new features are helping to soften the blow. The platform is available starting today, and comes with file sharing, People Search for simplified contacts management,

“Jim Morrisroe, vice president, Zimbra Products, VMware said, “VMware Zimbra continues to be the fastest-growing enterprise collaboration solution — now with more than 66 million paid mailboxes and more than 200,000 organizations using VMware Zimbra as their next-generation collaboration platform of choice.”

Zimbra also features added ‘Administrative Benefits’ to prevent spam, server rebooting, load balancing and zero-downtime hardware maintenance. Zambia v7 also coves with increased mobile support now including BB Enterprise Server 5.0, VMware Zimbra Gallery integration with Zimbra Desktop as well as other tweaks to the platform. These in turn include calendaring updates, scheduled message delivery, inbox recovery and more.

The 200K Zimbra using organizations can expect a change in their landscapes, but the same is true for VMware itself. A document filed with the SEC by the company indicates that current VMware CEO and President Paul Maritz will no longer be President, and 4 execs have been promoted to the roll of co-president: Carl Eschenbach, Richard McAniff, Tod Nielsen, and Mark Peek. Maritz as well as two co-presidents have previous ties with good old Microsoft.

VMware is pushing the collaboration front, but the private cloud his not left behind. We covered the announcement of vCloud Accelerator and vCloud Jumpstart, two new private cloud products.