Re: Zimbra at VMworld 2013 - SanFran

[Steve Hillman <hillman@sfu.ca>]

I attended VMWorld last year, hoping to get some Zimbra Love, but there wasn't a lot to be found. There were about 3 Zimbra talks last year as well, and a couple of tech talks on Octopus (Zimbra's Dropbox-like solution, based heavily on Zimbra Briefcase I think) - this out of some 500 or so total talks. Some of the key Zimbra product managers were there though, and I did get a brief chance to chat with them in the hallway about the direction for Zimbra 9 and Octopus (which got stalled when VMWare decided they wanted to roll it into "Horizon"). I do have some interest in other areas of VMWare (application cloud stacks, performance monitoring, etc), so there were some other sessions I attended that I enjoyed.

I think if you're going to VMWorld strictly for Zimbra knowledge, you'll come away disappointed -- it's just such a small part of what they do.

I know Zimbra used to have a strong presence at Educause (Zimbra people, not conference content) - I don't know if they still do though.

----- Original Message -----
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I remember hearing a year or so ago that Zimbra was meeting with
> customers at VMworld rather than other conferences.  So I recommended
> to my managers that I attend the San Fransisco VMworld this year.
> Can any Zimbra people on this list let me know if some Zimbra
> sessions
> will be added to the San Fransisco content catalog?  They don't look
> like they are on there yet!
> 
> Although I can see 3 application sessions for the 2012 conference
> related to Zimbra:
> 
> EUC1920	- Case Study: Implementing Zimbra as a Private Cloud
>     Collaboration Solution
> EUC2327	- Zimbra: How to Defeat the Rest
> EUC2791	- VMware Zimbra 8: Messaging as a Service in the Post-PC Era
>  
> The only item returned for a search of "zimbra" in this year's
> content
> catalog is a speaker session for Marcello Golfieri whose bio includes
> that he is working on Zimbra as Research Engineer.  This session is a
> Horizon Workspace: Data Deep Dive, which does sound interesting, but
> is not an application that I use at Purdue.
> 
> We are working on an upgrade from ZCS 6 to ZCS 8.  There have been
> several good posts about this on the list, but I am looking forward
> to
> learning more about sizing and architecture recommendations as well.
> Anyone else going this year and have you found any sessions for
> Zimbra?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian
> 
> ---------------
> Brian Berndt
> Messaging Systems Administrator
> Purdue University - ITaP - IT Infrastructure Services
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Robb" <jrobb@vmware.com>
> > To: "Pam Buffington" <pam.buffington@oit.gatech.edu>
> > Cc: "zimbra-hied-admins" <zimbra-hied-admins@sfu.ca>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:41:13 AM
> > Subject: Re: No Zimbra at Educause this year
> >
> > Pam and all-
> > 
> > That is correct. We would be happy to organize a EDU roadmap
> > webinar
> > if you feel it makes sense.
> > 
> > We have been meeting with many of our customers at VMworld US and
> > EMEA.
> > 
> > -jr
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Pam Buffington" <pam.buffington@oit.gatech.edu>
> > To: "zimbra-hied-admins" <zimbra-hied-admins@sfu.ca>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 8:00:27 AM
> > Subject: No Zimbra at Educause this year
> > 
> > In previous years several of us have attended a Zimbra roadmap
> > session
> > at the national educause convention. Zimbra/Vmware will not be
> > offering such an event or attending Educause this year. I just
> > wanted
> > to let everyone know in case you were planning on attending.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Pam
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > Pam Buffington, IT Support Prof Mgr Sr - Enterprise Application
> > Services
> > Office of Information Technology/A&I :: Georgia Institute of
> > Technology
> > pam.buffington@oit.gatech.edu :: (404) 385-7518
> > https://mail.gatech.edu/home/pc21?fmt=freebusy (my calendar
> > availability)
> 

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Steve Hillman        IT Architect 
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