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Zimbra at Educause? was Re: Zimbra at VMworld 2013 - SanFran
Will Zimbra be presenting a roadmap and some higher ed direction at Any Conference?
Educause was the previous forum, then VMWorld (in theory). After the transition,
where will this roadmap and large adopter meeting be at?
Thanks
Pam
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Hillman" <hillman@sfu.ca>
> To: "zimbra-hied-admins" <zimbra-hied-admins@sfu.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 10:49:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Zimbra at VMworld 2013 - SanFran
>
> 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)
> >
>
> --
> Steve Hillman IT Architect
> hillman@sfu.ca Institutional, Collaborative, & Academic
> Technologies (ICAT)
> 778-782-3960 Simon Fraser University
>
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