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AppAssure to Host Live Webinar on Virtual Backups Featuring Microsoft MVP, VMWare vExpert Greg Shields on April 1

March 18, 2010 – Reston, VA. –AppAssure Software will be hosting a live webinar on the various perspectives of backups in virtual environments on Thursday, April 1, entitled,

Virtual Backups: Many Perspectives, Painful Management, Duplication of Work … Or, NOT?

Business computing’s recent shift to virtualization has been mind-blazingly fast. Companies everywhere are experiencing the cost reductions and process improvements that come with that jump to virtual computing. Yet there’s one critical element of your basic, run-of-the-mill systems administration that hasn’t necessarily gotten easier: Backup and recovery. Backups in today’s virtual environments gain functionality, but at the expense of greater complexity, painful administrative processes, and the doubling or tripling of backup data.

The problem is that virtual backups can have multiple perspectives. IT managers can easily be confused about whether they should backup their virtual machines using agents installed into the VM. Questions arise about whether it is smarter to use host-based backup to grab an entire VHD or VMDK file, all at once or if it’s best to perform backups from the SAN itself.

In this groundbreaking webinar, Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert Greg Shields exposes the pitfalls in today’s multiple virtual backup perspectives. He’ll explain why yesterday’s backup solutions are fundamentally ill-suited for backing up today’s virtual environments. Attendees will also see the power in today’s new paradigm in backups, “Backup 2.0”, which stands to revolutionize virtual administration by eliminating the backup problem completely.

Also presenting will be Brendan Hourihan, network engineer at Flagler College to provide a firsthand account about the benefits of Backup 2.0 in a virtualized environment with Replay 4 from AppAssure Software.

Joshua Hoffman, Lead Geek at AppAssure Software will moderate the this lively and interactive discussion and live demonstration of Backup 2.0 in action with the award-winning Replay 4 from AppAssure Software.

Attendees will also receive several valuable resources at no cost:

  • Free trial of AppAssure’s award-winning Replay 4 for Hyper-V
  • White paper entitled Leveraging Virtualization for Application Assurance
  • Subscription to the e-Book entitled, The Definitive Guide to Windows Application and Server Backup 2.0 by Microsoft MVP Don Jones
  • Access to Backup 2.0 University, including the latest session entitled “Rethinking Virtualization Server Backups” featuring Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert Greg Shields

IT managers, directors and executives may register for this complimentary webinar today HERE.

Date: Thursday, April 1, 2010 – 2PM EDT

Media Contact:

Steven Toole, CMO
703-480-0178
smtoole@appassure.com

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