20-year veteran brings insight into Novell’s collaboration growth

Montreal, Quebec, Canada –August 3, 2010 —GWAVA today announced Dave Wilkes, Novell Vice President of Collaboration Engineering, will deliver the keynote address at the 5th Annual GWAVACon™ EMEA technology conference being held in Berlin, Germany on October 23-25, 2010.

With 20 years of collaboration engineering experience, Mr. Wilkes brings a wide range of knowledge and expertise to the topic of collaboration. Having been instrumental in the success of Novell GroupWise® and the recent launch of Novell Pulse™, Mr. Wilkes’ insight is invaluable to those who regularly attend GWAVACon.

“Dave has such a strong grasp of the challenges faced by companies looking to a vendor for their many expanding collaboration needs,” said Charles Taite, CTO and co-founder of GWAVA. “No other person understands what the GWAVACon delegates need to hear better than he does. We are extremely pleased that he has accepted the invitation to speak.”

GWAVACon is the largest independent Novell Technology Conference, held annually in Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This is the 5th GWAVACon EMEA, and 14th worldwide. Collaboration, mobility, cloud-computing, and security are the key topics covered in the sessions and presentations.

Sponsors in the past include Nokia, Research in Motion, Novell, and Kaspersky Lab.

For complete information and to register, go to 

http://www.gwavacon.com

About GWAVA

GWAVA is a worldwide leader in messaging security and archiving with strategic relationships with Microsoft, Novell, Kaspersky, Verizon Wireless and Research in Motion.  GWAVA solutions are used by over 15 million users in 60 different countries. GWAVA has offices in the U.S., Canada, Germany, and Australia and maintains a network of hundreds of authorized partners. Information on GWAVA can be found at 

http://www.gwava.com

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Novell Technology conference to focus on mobility and cloud computing

Montreal, Quebec, Canada –August 3, 2010 —GWAVA today announced that GWAVACon™ 2011 will be held in Torrance, California on January 22-25, 2011 at the Marriott Torrance South Bay.

GWAVACon 2011 will be the 8th year of GWAVACon North America and the 15th GWAVACon worldwide. GWAVACon attracts IT administrators that need training and instruction on collaboration topics including mobility and cloud computing.

GWAVACon 2011 will focus on building strong security practices for organizations running BlackBerry® Enterprise Server. In addition, instruction will target IT administrators looking to deploy cloud computing collaboration and needing a deeper understanding of archiving and compliance of electronic communication such as email and text messages.

Keynotes in the past have included Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian, executives from Research in Motion, as well as industry analyst Michael Osterman with Osterman Research.

For complete information and to register, go to www.gwavacon.com

About GWAVA

GWAVA is a worldwide leader in messaging security and archiving with strategic relationships with Microsoft, Novell, Kaspersky, Verizon Wireless and Research in Motion.  GWAVA solutions are used by over 15 million users in 60 different countries. GWAVA has offices in the U.S., Canada, Germany, and Australia and maintains a network of hundreds of authorized partners. Information on GWAVA can be found at www.gwava.com.

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Ahaus, Germany – May 11, 2010 — GWAVA, Novell’s largest technology partner for GroupWise®, and Tmi3, a Dutch integrator, today announced a wide-ranging strategic business partnership to market and sell solutions for Novell GroupWise throughout Europe.

This partnership will help move a large segment of the Novell GroupWise market in EMEA off their aging collaboration archiving and email security solutions to the latest versions of GWAVA Retain™ and GWAVA® 4.5 Anti-Virus/Anti-Spam.

"We are extremely pleased for the opportunity to include the GWAVA product line in our solution portfolio,” said Mark Beermann, Managing Director at Tmi3. “Having a financially strong vendor with advanced technical solutions will be a tremendous benefit to our European customer base."

Mr. Beermann has been involved with the Novell collaboration market space for many years, operating as The Messaging Architects in Europe since 2003. Mr. Beerman has a strong reputation for focusing on the best fit solution for his customers.

Visit www.gwava.com/Tmi3 for more information.

GWAVA is a worldwide leader in messaging security and archiving and the largest partner of its kind to Novell® GroupWise and Teaming in the world.  Over 15 million users located in 60 different countries use GWAVA solutions. GWAVA security and audit solutions have been field-tested and proven in many large messaging infrastructures. GWAVA has offices in the U.S., Canada, Germany, and Australia and maintains a network of hundreds of authorized partners. Information on GWAVA can be found at www.gwava.com

About Tmi3

The focus of Tmi3 is on providing integrated solutions in the area of open unified business communications, independent of groupware, supporting technology and implementation method. The solutions complement messaging security and archiving with mobile synchronization and device management, IP telephony and unified communications.

For more information see www.tmi3.eu/freedom

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada – May 11, 2010 —GWAVA announced today a competitive upgrade for those customers running The Messaging Architects’ archiving solution, M+Archive®. The offer delivers the latest version of GWAVA Retain for free to current M+Archive customers who purchase a 1-year maintenance contract for Retain. GWAVA will also honor any remaining time on the customer’s maintenance contract with The Messaging Architects.

"GWAVA always supports its customers," says Richard Bliss, Senior Vice President of Marketing Worldwide for GWAVA. “They have made a substantial investment in Novell GroupWise and GWAVA has a long track record of supporting that investment.”

GWAVA Retain™ is a collaboration archiving solution with modules being rolled out for Novell GroupWise®, Microsoft Exchange®, RIM BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, and Microsoft Office Communication Server®. GWAVA is Novell’s largest GroupWise partner, with nearly 100% of its products supporting Novell GroupWise.

"GWAVA has a long history of standing by the GroupWise community," says Charles Taite, Chief Technology Officer and GWAVA  co-founder. "As more and more M+Archive customers began making the migration to GWAVA products, we felt that honoring their existing maintenance contracts and making a limited-time offer was the right thing to do. We believe in these difficult economic times, GWAVA’s commitment to excellence and our strong financial support of the community is a key differentiator for customers making decisions about the future."

The GWAVA cross promotion ends July 31st, 2010.

Information concerning the competitive upgrade can be found on the GWAVA website at www.gwava.com/tma

About GWAVA

GWAVA is a worldwide leader in messaging security and archiving and the largest partner of its kind to Novell® GroupWise and Teaming in the world.  Over 15 million users located in 60 different countries use GWAVA solutions. GWAVA security and audit solutions have been field-tested and proven in many large messaging infrastructures. GWAVA has offices in the U.S., Canada, Germany, and Australia and maintains a network of hundreds of authorized partners. Information on GWAVA can be found at www.gwava.com. 

GWGuardian and M+Guardian are trademarks of Messaging Architects Inc. GWAVA does not distribute or claim to distribute these products, nor does it possess or claim to possess any rights of any nature whatsoever with respect to such trademarks or to any products being marketed in association therewith.

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada –May xx, 2010 —GWAVA announced today that due to recent events and generous support from the Novell GroupWise technology partner community, the New York City Security Summit at the Marriott Marquee in Times Square will now be free of charge to all Novell customers. These partners include Kaspersky Lab, a top anti-virus security company, SkyPro, a VoIP and Fax solution company, Notify Technologies, the leading mobility vendor for GroupWise, and Novell, the makers of GroupWise and SUSE Linux. 

The summit offers two technical tracks focused on security and geared for GroupWise® administrators and Novell consultants.

“This opportunity will give unprecedented access to the latest information in security and compliance that organizations need to protect themselves in today’s uncertain environment." Said Richard Bliss, Senior Vice President Global Marketing, GWAVA.  

For complete information and to register, go to 

GWAVA is a worldwide leader in messaging security and archiving with strategic relationships with Microsoft, Novell, Kaspersky, Verizon Wireless and Research in Motion.  GWAVA solutions are used by over 15 million users in 60 different countries. GWAVA has offices in the U.S., Canada, Germany, and Australia and maintains a network of hundreds of authorized partners. Information on GWAVA can be found at www.gwava.com.

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Security to be key focus of summit in New York City

Montreal, Quebec, Canada –April xx, 2010 —GWAVA is pleased to announce that Kaspersky Lab, a top anti-virus security company, is joining in the GWAVA Regional Summit New York City on May 13, 2010. Kaspersky Lab has just been named the “Security Brand of the Year” by VAR Magazine.

This summit will offer two technical tracks geared for GroupWise® administrators and Novell consultants. The courses being offered are among the most popular at GWAVACon and have been updated to the latest information available.

Peter Merkulov, Vice President, Technology Alliance Business Division at Kaspersky Lab states, “Kaspersky Lab has a track-record of partnering with the top technology providers of the IT industry, and GWAVA is without question the leading innovator in the Novell GroupWise community.  GWAVA provides millions of users around the world with the robust messaging infrastructure they need, and it’s a natural fit for Kaspersky Lab to work with GWAVA to provide critical anti-malware functionality.  We’re excited to have them as a partner, and honored to join GWAVA at their regional summit.”

Track One will be taught by popular Novell Advanced Technical Training Engineer, Paul Lamontagne. He will instruct summit attendees on how to migrate a Novell system to OES and how to harden and secure a Novell GroupWise system (both half-day sessions). This is a great opportunity to get some hands-on help from a top-notch authority. Attendees can choose both or one of these classes.

Track Two will be taught primarily by Taylor Cochrane, Director of Product Development at GWAVA. Mr. Cochrane and vendors such as Kaspersky will be covering disaster recovery, security and compliance in messaging. These discussions will be in-depth and include real answers and plans of action that you can take with you back to work. GWAVA products such as Reload, Retain and Retain for BES will be discussed. Breakfast and lunch are included with the attendance fee.

For complete information and to register, go to

https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ereg/index.php?eventid=10471&

GWAVA is a worldwide leader in messaging security and archiving with strategic relationships with Microsoft, Novell, Kaspersky, Verizon Wireless and Research in Motion.  GWAVA solutions are used by over 15 million users in 60 different countries. GWAVA has offices in the U.S., Canada, Germany, and Australia and maintains a network of hundreds of authorized partners. Information on GWAVA can be found at www.gwava.com.

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Retain 1.8 has several new features including:

• PDF Export—Publish archive search results in PDF format. Easily search through and print the contents of the PDF or send to an email recipient.
• 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 version 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, and MySQL 5.1.

GWAVA is a worldwide leader in messaging security and archiving and the largest partner of its kind to Novell® GroupWise and Teaming in the world.  Over 15 million users located in 60 different countries use GWAVA solutions. GWAVA security and audit solutions have been field-tested and proven in many large messaging infrastructures. GWAVA has offices in the U.S., Canada, Germany, and Australia and maintains a network of hundreds of authorized partners. Information on GWAVA can be found at www.gwava.com.

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada – April 15, 2010 — GWAVA, Inc., a Montreal-based company, along with Kaspersky Labs, based in Moscow, Russia are coming together to discuss email, collaboration and messaging security in Calgary, Alberta.

These two companies are focused on messaging security and are offering their expertise at a free half-day technical training session. This event will address technical issues surrounding disaster recovery, message retention compliance and anti-virus protection of crucial data in Novell® GroupWise® email messages.

Anyone concerned with his or her GroupWise email security is invited to attend this security seminar. It will be held starting at 7 AM on April 22, 2010 at the Calgary Marriott Hotel at 110 9th Avenue, SE. There is no cost to attend; however, prior registration is requested. To register for this seminar, go to http://www.etouches.com/10471

This key security seminar will also be held in two additional cities in western Canada—Edmonton and Vancouver.

GWAVA is a worldwide leader in messaging security and archiving and the largest partner of its kind to Novell® GroupWise and Teaming in the world.  Over 15 million users located in 60 different countries use GWAVA solutions. GWAVA security and audit solutions have been field-tested and proven in many large messaging infrastructures. GWAVA has offices in the U.S., Canada, Germany, and Australia and maintains a network of hundreds of authorized partners. Information on GWAVA can be found at www.gwava.com.

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• Press Contact The Americas and Asia Pacific:
  GWAVA Inc. Headquarters
  Christina Bliss
  Email: questions@gwava.com
  Phone: +1-866-GO-GWAVA x 302

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  GWAVA EMEA GmbH
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  Phone: +49 2561 30249 100
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Orem, Utah USA  – April 14, 2010 — GWAVA Technologies, a Utah-based company, along with Kaspersky Labs, based in Moscow, Russia are coming together to discuss email, collaboration and messaging security in Boise, Idaho.

GWAVA and Kaspersky are focused on messaging security and are offering their expertise at a free half-day technical training session. This event will address technical issues surrounding disaster recovery, message retention compliance and anti-virus protection of crucial data in Novell® GroupWise® email messages.

Anyone concerned with his or her GroupWise email security is invited to attend this security seminar. It will be held starting at 7:30 AM on April 27, 2010 at the Courtyard Boise Downtown at 222 S. Broadway Avenue. There is no cost to attend; however, prior registration is requested. To register for this seminar, go to www.etouches.com/10471

GWAVA is a worldwide leader in messaging security and archiving and the largest partner of its kind to Novell® GroupWise and Teaming in the world.  Over 15 million users located in 60 different countries use GWAVA solutions. GWAVA security and audit solutions have been field-tested and proven in many large messaging infrastructures. GWAVA has offices in the U.S., Canada, Germany, and Australia and maintains a network of hundreds of authorized partners. Information on GWAVA can be found at www.gwava.com.

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• Press Contact The Americas and Asia Pacific:
  GWAVA Inc. Headquarters
  Christina Bliss
  Email: questions@gwava.com
  Phone: +1-866-GO-GWAVA x 302

• Press Contact EMEA (Europe, Middle-East, Africa):
  GWAVA EMEA GmbH
  Christian Heselhaus
  Christian.Heselhaus@gwava.eu
  Phone: +49 2561 30249 100

Copyright © 2010 GWAVA, Inc. All rights reserved.

Note: All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.