Will be joining us to share Novell's new marketing strategy for GroupWise, Novell Data Synchronizer Mobility Pack and Mobile Groupwise Messenger (and all things communicative).
Who will be the next office holders for PSNUG? Come have your say.
Bring what ever information you've found about this year's BrainShare event. Do a little Internet research on your favorite topics. We'll have a discussion. Send an Email to Steve or Brandon for any special requests. See above for the usual schedule and directions to our meeting. RSVP to ssinghose (AT) wccg DOT net so he can make sure he gets enough food for our light dinner.
Some 2,000 BrainShare attendees were at the keynote sessions. See video replays of Jeff Hawn, CEO of The Attachmate Group, and the presidents of three of its companies; NetIQ, Novell and SUSE, along with top product experts from each. The speakers laid out their vision for the future--and demonstrated specific technologies for making that vision a reality.
Mushroom Networks appliances can be used to bond together various Internet access lines to create a single virtual secure, fast and reliable IP pipe for Internet access and branch office communications. Bind a combination of DSL, cable modem, T1, MPLS, satellite modem, fractional DS3, DS3, fiber, cellular or any other broadband connection together to suit your bandwidth and budget needs. VLL can also be utilized to offload public Internet traffic off of MPLS when deployed along side with MPLS - generating huge savings in MPLS bandwidth cost.
Sheila Aschenbrenner - Regional Manager for Mutare Software - will be introducing us to some of Mutare's products which include a really nifty Voice-Mail to SMTP product. Checking your Voice-Mail from your e-mail inbox is not new to some of us, but Mutare has modernized the process quite a bit.
Scott Clayton and Ron Bingham, both from Novell will be presenting on GroupWise and it's future.
Yes, in spite of the FUD you may have heard, GroupWise has an exciting, re-energized future. These guys are involved with architecting the client so you are going to get to see the latest code running and hear all sorts of good bits about what's coming in the next release of GroupWise slated for later this year as well as an aggressive road map for future releases.
They will also have words on where things are with GroupWise Mobility and the Datasync Engine (and iPad?).
Pat Nurre a Technology Sales Specialist for Novell will be on the
line to get us up to date on what's new with ZENWorks 11.
Configuration Management, Asset Management, Endpoint Security
Management and Patch Management all from one console.
Brian will update us on what SP3 brings to Novell OES2 as well as what's coming in the future.
Over 5 years ago Novell decided to turn their new asset, SuSE Linux GmbH into a community distribution. It was a long and laborious process but since almost 2 years now the development processes have been opened up to the community. We now speak of openSUSE, a community which is now searching for it's direction. The project has state-of-the-art infrastructure at its disposal and develops a modern, stable and powerful linux distribution. Meanwhile, communication and marketing are it's weak points - innovative technologies like the openSUSE Build Service and SUSE Studio do not get the exposure they deserve. In this talk an overview is given of openSUSE's history, the developments in the community and the latest openSUSE technology is presented.
Tracy will be updating us on Vibe, formerly known as Teaming -Come see the new User Interface.
Our appliances are designed to support high capacity WANs and a diverse mix of applications:
The Silver Peak solution accelerates performance for all centralized enterprise applications, from traditional office applications to real-time traffic including:
"The human element is typically one of the weakest links in the data protection triangle of: technology, business policies, and user awareness. While there has been great attention given to protecting data from external threats, evidence shows that it's the authorized, yet unaware and unversed user, that poses the greatest risk to data protection. An effective security awareness and training initiative will address one of the highest risks your customers and prospects face in data protection today - the human element."
"An effective awareness and training program can greatly reduce many risks which cannot be addressed through security technology and policies alone. It can also help create and sustain a data protection "culture" within the organization. And, it doesn't need to "break the bank" to achieve positive results and increased user involvement."
Britton will talk about Arkeia's backup products for NetWare and OES AND the Impact on Backup of Virtualization, Cloud Computing, and Deduplication.
Our speaker Kenneth R. Weaver, NOVELL NW Territory Executive for Identity & Security Management - 425.802.0756
Intelligent Workload Management is the business need that drives our Security and Identity practice.
Intelligent Workload Management is enabling IT organizations to manage and optimize computing resources in a policy-driven, secure and compliant manner across physical, virtual and cloud environments to deliver business services for end customers.
Mo Lemieux,Territory Executive, Novell Inc.
His focus is Datacenter computing and will be presenting on Novell's Intelligent Workload Management initiative
http://www.novell.com/intelligent-workload-management/
Intelligent Workload Management enables IT organizations to manage and optimize computing resources in a policy-driven, secure and compliant manner across physical, virtual and cloud environments to deliver business services for end customers.
PSNUG and GWAVA invite you for a Free Lunch and Learn Seminar on GWAVA's RETAIN and RELOAD solutions, the best archiving and disaster recovery solutions for Novell GroupWise.
Where: Renaissance Seattle Hotel, 515 Madison Street, Seattle, WA 98104RSVP Please confirm your presence by February 7 ssinghose@wccg.net We would like to order the proper number of lunches.
We look forward to seeing you then.
Steve Singhose, Network Design Engineer, Western Computer Consulting Group, http://www.wccg.net, 206-419-0829
SKyCOM 4GW, our unified communications Add-On for Novell GroupWise to make phone calls. SKyCOM 4GW helps reducing communications cost and increase user productivity and convenience. And a brief look into our tools to help turn GroupWise in your unified communications platform.
About SKyPRO: a 21 year old Swiss firm, founded in 1987 and based in Cham, near Zurich. SKyPRO is a software developer that provides software products and custom programming in the areas of Novell applications and Identity Management. Partial client list includes Swisscom, Swisscard, UBS, Credit Suisse, Novell, and Microsoft.
Christian Karch COOAdam Croft, Territory Manager, cell(312) 925-0138; Office (206) 682-0254
Integrated Data Storage www.integrateddatastorage.com
Mike Pennacchi, Executive Network Analyst, Network Protocol Specialists, LLC.
Mike will be talking about a VMWare image that he has put together that contains a number of Open Source troubleshooting tools. It is running on top of Ubuntu. "The tools and how to configure some of them." The tools include Cacti, SmokePing, Nagios/Centreon, nTop, Wireshark.
Channing Quest from Novell will talk about current state of ZEN product line and Novell in general.
Dave Lange, a long time PSNUG member, will present Nagios for dummies. He has been using Nagios on a campus network and he uses openSUSE and learned a few tricks.
Scott Brown, Development Engineer for GroupWise at Novell will be presenting on the present state of GroupWise and the future.
Xiotech Virtualization and Management along with ISE storage solution.