Gwava
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GWAVA is a Montreal based company that sells software supporting Novell GroupWise. GWAVA's official corporate name is GWAVA Technologies, Inc. in the United States and GWAVA, Inc. in Canada. GWAVA is also the name of Anti-Spam/Anti-Virus proprietary software
designed by Beginfinite to protect Novell
GroupWise systems. GWAVA and the other applications in the GWAVA family can run on several different platforms including NetWare, Linux
, and Windows
servers
. Beginfinite first introduced GWAVA in 2001.
In addition to Marc and Charles forming the company, two developers, far removed from Montreal, were the ones to develop the actual working product. Josh Gibbs, in Auckland New Zealand, and Michael Bell of San Francisco actually created the product upon which Marc and Charles built the company.
GWAVA the product was launched at a time that Internet Email viruses were running rampant. Viruses like Code Red, Nimda, Melissa, and I love you were downing Microsoft Exchange servers around the world. GWAVA had a unique approach to solving the virus problem, instead of attempting to fight viruses on the desktop or on at the gateway, GWAVA installed itself directly inside the email infrastructure. This allows the blocking of viruses that enter through other methods than just the SMTP Gateway.
The name GWAVA is an achronym meaning GroupWise Anti-Virus Agent. The product works only with Novell GroupWise. This was a decision that Marc and Charles made early in the company's history, to focus on a very narrow market that was not being served by other vendors.
The company was created as a private company, funded by both Marc and Charles. The timing was perfect for the company as the viruses continued to attack email servers worldwide.
Then SPAM became more of an issue than viruses and GWAVA modified itself to be an effective Anti-Spam tool as well. In 2005, a survey indicated that GWAVA had captured 50% of the GroupWise market.
GWAVA then began to expand into other products, but still staying tightly focused on their niche market of supporting Novell GroupWise. The next product was Redline, developed by Ulrich Neummann from Germany, Redline became a successful second product for GWAVA by managing and monitoring GroupWise infrastructure.
GWAVA's current management team includes Perry Owen as VP of North America Sales, Richard Bliss as VP of Global Marketing, Herbi Lefering as VP of EMEA Sales, Taylor Cochrane as Director of Product Management.
HAMmer is GWAVA's only add-on product, produced by RDA Enterprises a New York based company.
This add-on product is exclusively for GWAVA 4 and
includes:
Proprietary software
Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...
designed by Beginfinite to protect Novell
Novell
Novell, Inc. is a multinational software and services company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group. It specializes in network operating systems, such as Novell NetWare; systems management solutions, such as Novell ZENworks; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise...
GroupWise systems. GWAVA and the other applications in the GWAVA family can run on several different platforms including NetWare, Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
, and Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
servers
Server (computing)
In the context of client-server architecture, a server is a computer program running to serve the requests of other programs, the "clients". Thus, the "server" performs some computational task on behalf of "clients"...
. Beginfinite first introduced GWAVA in 2001.
History
GWAVA was founded in October 2001 in Montreal by Marc St-Arnaud and Charles Taite. The company's original name was Beginfinite and in 2008 the company came to be known by its flagship product name, GWAVA.In addition to Marc and Charles forming the company, two developers, far removed from Montreal, were the ones to develop the actual working product. Josh Gibbs, in Auckland New Zealand, and Michael Bell of San Francisco actually created the product upon which Marc and Charles built the company.
GWAVA the product was launched at a time that Internet Email viruses were running rampant. Viruses like Code Red, Nimda, Melissa, and I love you were downing Microsoft Exchange servers around the world. GWAVA had a unique approach to solving the virus problem, instead of attempting to fight viruses on the desktop or on at the gateway, GWAVA installed itself directly inside the email infrastructure. This allows the blocking of viruses that enter through other methods than just the SMTP Gateway.
The name GWAVA is an achronym meaning GroupWise Anti-Virus Agent. The product works only with Novell GroupWise. This was a decision that Marc and Charles made early in the company's history, to focus on a very narrow market that was not being served by other vendors.
The company was created as a private company, funded by both Marc and Charles. The timing was perfect for the company as the viruses continued to attack email servers worldwide.
Then SPAM became more of an issue than viruses and GWAVA modified itself to be an effective Anti-Spam tool as well. In 2005, a survey indicated that GWAVA had captured 50% of the GroupWise market.
GWAVA then began to expand into other products, but still staying tightly focused on their niche market of supporting Novell GroupWise. The next product was Redline, developed by Ulrich Neummann from Germany, Redline became a successful second product for GWAVA by managing and monitoring GroupWise infrastructure.
GWAVA's current management team includes Perry Owen as VP of North America Sales, Richard Bliss as VP of Global Marketing, Herbi Lefering as VP of EMEA Sales, Taylor Cochrane as Director of Product Management.
Add-on product for GWAVA
This add-on product is exclusively for GWAVA 4 and
includes:
- One-click, real-time quarantine access and retrieval
- Fully searchable aggregate list for easy and fast retrieval
- Integration with the GroupWise Client for true single sign-on and fast access
- Web-based Client for anytime/anywhere access
- Full Retrieval with GroupWise Proxy accounts
- Ability to manage global black lists