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Announcing Backup 2.0 University!

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Josh HoffmanWelcome to Backup 2.0 University!
Backup 2.0 University (Backup2U) is the leading backup, disaster
recovery, and storage training program for busy IT Professionals, as
well as IT Pros between jobs, who are looking to gain new skills to
help them get ahead in the competitive workforce. And best of all? It’s
free!

The Backup2U program includes ten webinar classes and
one review session and concludes with the Backup 2.0 Certification
exam. In order to receive the certification, the recipient must pass a
comprehensive certification exam with a score of 75% or higher.

I’ll be your “dean” for Backup 2.0 University. For each session, I’ll
give a presentation about each of the core areas of the Backup 2.0
Revolution, followed by an interview or guest lecture from a Backup 2.0
featured professional.

Become a Certified Backup 2.0 Professional and receive a certificate, t-shirt, and a discount off AppAssure software purchases made within 1 year of certification.

Backup 2.0 University is available for free to all qualified IT Professionals. Be sure to register today!

Industry News

The Do’s and Don’ts of Adding New Storage
Like everything else, when it comes to adding storage, there is a right
way and a wrong way to go about it. According to Jim DeCaires, storage
product marketing manager at Fujitsu America, companies add new storage
for four primary reasons: capacity, a technology update, performance
and availability. No matter what the reason, installing it the wrong
way can lead to a host of problems.

Disaster prevention strategies for Active Directory Forests
While the need to recover an entire forest is highly
unlikely, a good forest recovery plan will ensure that the underlying
components can be recovered quickly and successfully. It is important
to review the features and changes in future versions of Windows Server
to determine how they will affect the recovery plan.

Hot Data Storage Technologies for SMBs: Storage Trends for 2010
Data storage, data backup and recovery, and disaster recovery
in the small- to medium-sized business (SMB) market saw many changes in
2009. Data deduplication made its way into SMB data storage
environments, many SMBs adopted cloud backup
technology as part of their data backup plans, and many vendors altered
their products to fit the specific needs of an SMB. But what’s going to
change in 2010? This tip predicts the top SMB data storage technologies
and storage trends that will have the biggest impact on SMBs this year.

Five Ways to Use the Cloud Right Now
The cloud represents the future of IT, one in which all manner of
resource configurations can be provisioned and decommissioned
practically at a moment’s notice to suit whatever data needs are
knocking at the door. But before we get there, the cloud will
have to address more immediate concerns, if only to make itself useful
as the long-term architectures work their way through the development
process.

How SMBs Should Be Getting Started with Virtualization
Join Paul Mah on his blog SMB Tech for tips to help the small- to medium-sized business get started with virtualization technology in their environment.

News from AppAssure

Register Today for Backup 2.0 University
Backup 2.0 University (Backup2U) is the leading backup, disaster
recovery, and storage training program for busy IT Professionals, as
well as IT Pros between jobs, who are looking to gain new skills to
help them get ahead in the competitive workforce. And best of all? It’s
free!

Why is the backup process stuck in the 80’s?
Chris Poelker has a great post on the Computerworld blog today entitled Why is the backup process stuck in the 80’s? His
point, and it’s one very well made, is that while both the volume and
importance of data has grown dramatically over the past 20 years,
organizations haven’t kept pace in their ability to protect and recover
that data quickly.

Finally this week, a reminder that we’ve extended our December contest through the month of January! Every qualified download will earn you a chance to win a 128GB Solid State Drive. Be sure to enter today!

Have a great week,

Josh
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