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Another Successful GWAVACon

GWAVACon 2010 was a great success! Sessions and keynotes from industry experts provided timely messages about email trends in the industry. We heard a lot about Novell's new sync technology and there were lots of discussions about the cloud, mobility and messaging security.

Here's a sample of some of the popular sessions:

Teaming 2: A Technical Review
Maximizing GroupWise 8 in Windows for your End Users
Reload, Retain, Vertigo and GWAVA 4.5 Hands-on Training
GroupWise Mobility and Mobile Device Management
First Look at Novell Synchronizer
Power User Training for your BlackBerry
Advansys Portable Archiving
Surviving a Security Attack
DocXchanger - an Advanced Approach to Locating, Accessing and
Sharing Documents
Get the Whole Story on Stubbing in GroupWise
Unified Communications for GroupWise: SKyCOM, FaxGwise, SKySMS
GroupWise and the iPhone - 101 Ways to Make it work

If you missed GWAVACon or one of the sessions you wanted to attend, there is good news. A complete list of sessions at GWAVACon and downloadable PDFs for each one is available on the GWAVACon website.

Everyone at GWAVACon enjoyed the interesting keynotes. Ken Muir, Chief Technology Officer at Novell, spoke about Novell's strategy with collaboration and data management. Exciting new developments include Pulse and "Gradenko," Novell's DataSync technology.

Adam Gray of Novacoast talked about computing in the cloud - different ways you can take advantage of the cloud, including cost tradeoffs for data storage. Then in an exciting turn of events, GWAVAMan swooped in at lunchtime, creating a fun photo opportunity with our favorite security software superhero!

Three keynotes on Tuesday touched on trends in the messaging and collaboration space, the expanding use of mobile devices and the future health of both GWAVA and Novell.

Michael Osterman of Osterman Research shared some research with the group. On a typical day, each person sends or receives 124-149 emails and spends 152 minutes per day dealing with email. Outside of work, 82% of people check work-related emails from home during weekends; 61% check email on vacation. He also discussed median costs of GroupWise versus Exchange, with GroupWise being the most stable and least expensive option. He encouraged the group to determine what their email costs are for their organization so they will be able to make informed decisions about different email systems and storage solutions.

Michael Toto from Verizon discussed how his company is bringing mobile vertical data applications with its partners to its customers.

Charles Taite, CTO of GWAVA, discussed how GWAVA will be supporting Novell's new synchronization server with anti-virus, attachment filtering, content control, monitoring, alerting and archiving. He also discussed how Pulse, soon to be released by Novell, will integrate email with other forms of electronic communication and will provide realtime, unified social and document collaboration. Because of this trend, GWAVA will expand its emphasis on protecting new forms of electronic messaging. Lots of new releases of GWAVA products and a new product supporting Pulse are planned for 2010.

GWAVACon wasn't all business. GWAVA and our sponsors gave away a lot of great prizes so many attendees went home with a netbook, an iPod and lots of other fun items.

If you missed GWAVACon, make sure you see GWAVA at BrainShare!

GWAVA Events at BrainShare

At GWAVA, we're getting excited about BrainShare and are preparing for all of you to come and visit us at our booth or one of the events we have planned. Join GWAVA at one or more of these events and you'll have a good chance to win some fabulous prizes. Follow us at BrainShare with our Twitter feed BrainShareSLC to get up-to-date information on GWAVA activities and other exciting. You can also follow us anytime on our GWAVA Twitter account.

BrainShare Movie Sunday March 21, 5:00PM

Looking for something to do on Sunday evening before BrainShare begins? Come join GWAVA and our partners for a free movie at the downtown MegaPlex at the Gateway Mall, a walkable distance from the Salt Palace Convention Center. GWAVA is offering free tickets to any BrainShare attendees who wish to join us to watch the "Bounty Hunter", starring Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler. Seating is limited, so make sure you register to reserve your spot as soon as possible.

Community Forum Keynote Tuesday March 23, 1:00 - 2:15 PM

Join GWAVA at our open Community Forum Keynote to hear the latest announcements from GWAVA and our partners. At this session, not only will you get the scoop, but you will also have a good chance to win a prize. Lots of prizes will be given away, including 2 iPod Nanos, a GPS navigation system, and the grand prize of a $300 BestBuy gift certificate.

Party with the Partners Tuesday March 23, 6:30 - 7:45 PM

At 6:30 on Tuesday night, the show floor opens for "Party with the Partners." This is your time to check out partner booths and get chances to win one of a bundle of great prizes. At the keynote earlier on Tuesday, you will have received your "party with the partners card" which you can take to any participating partner booth. At each booth, you will hear some brief information about each company's products. A partner representative will then stamp your card. You must visit the booth of each partner on the card to qualify for prizes. If you want, you can even get a jump-start and visit the partner booths during lunch.

Once you've visited all of the partner booths on the card, drop it off at the GWAVA booth and hang around to see if you've won a prize. GWAVA and participating partners will be drawing from the party with the partner cards and giving way fabulous prizes such as a BluRay player, Flip video camera, iPod Touch and more.

Elmo Times

11:45 to 12:15 PM
12:45 to 1:15 PM
6 to 6:30 PM
7 to 7:30 PM
8 to 8:30 PM

BrainShare Sessions

GWAVA 5 Appliance with an SMTP Scanner - Hands-on Lab
Policy Enforcement with GWAVA 5 Hands-on Lab
Reload Disaster Recovery - Hands-on Lab
Reload Single Message Restore - Hands-on Lab
Retain Archiving Initial Configuration Hands-on Lab
Retain - Reload Integration Hands-on Lab
Introduction to GWAVA Reload
Introduction to GWAVA Retain 1.8 for GroupWise
Introduction to GWAVA 5
Introduction to GWAVA Retain 2 for BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES)
Community Announcement Forum

GWAVA Game Night at BrainShare Monday March 22, 7:00 - 10:00 PM Wednesday March 24, 7:00 - 10:00PM

Come join the growing tradition of Board Gaming with GWAVA. This year at BrainShare, GWAVA Game Night will be held two evenings, Monday and Wednesday from 7pm-10pm in the Marriott Hotel Ballroom across from the Salt Palace.

Game night is open to BrainShare attendees. Come enjoy great games like Ticket to Ride, Settlers of Catan and a fan favorite, Wings of War. See you there on Monday and Wednesday to play some games.

GWAVA Releases Retain 1.8

Thanks to you, our customers, for letting us know what you want, this release includes several new "most requested" features:

PDF Export—publish archive search results in PDF format. Easily search through and print the contents of the PDF or send to
Restore Stub Functionality—Retain fully supports the GroupWise stubbing functionality directly through its native API. With version 1.8 and GroupWise 8.01, Retain will now allow restoration of individual or multiple messages into GroupWise as a stub.
Archive Marking—Retain can now mark each mailbox item as archived directly within the GroupWise client.
Single Sign-on—A plug-in available with verson 1.8 of Retain now allows single sign-on for Retain, the GroupWise client and GroupWise WebAccess.
Platform Support—Retain 1.8 now supports SLES 11 64-bit, Windows Server 2008 64-bit, MS SQL 2008, MySQL 5.1.

For more information on Retain 1.8 or to download it, go to http://www.gwava.com/retain

Open Horizons EMEA Needs Your Input

Open Horizons is working to gather information about Novell DataSync to help Novell EMEA determine its product direction and connectors that may be vital to the worldwide Novell community.

With this survey we are asking you for feedback on Novell Gradenko (DataSync). Which of the standard connectors would you want to use? Which other applications would you like or need to connect using this new service?

All participants of this survey will be entered into a drawing to win a "Pulse Smartpen" from Livescribe.

Click HERE to read more about and participate in the survey.