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Are Hyper-V Snapshots Enough?

Josh HoffmanFree TrialAnd They’re Off!

Last week, we introduced our November download sweepstakes, and to be honest, we’re humbled by the response. IT Pros are downloading free trials and utilities from AppAssure in astounding numbers, and the competition is on! So don’t forget – for every trial and utility you download, you’ll be entered into a drawing for a FREE 2 TERABYTE Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. We have 7 available downloads (AppAssure Backup & Replication, MailRetriever, DocRetriever Lite, MailRetriever Lite, Exchange Observer, and the Hyper-V
Toolset) so that’s 7 possible entries for you between November 1 and November 30, 2009.

And there’s a special bonus for those of you on Twitter: Download a
free trial of AppAssure Backup & Replication and tweet about it (“I just downloaded a free trial of #Replay4 by @AppAssure at http://appassure.com”), and get a bonus entry! That’s 8 chances
to win between now and the end of November.

Good luck!

Industry News

What To Do With Too Much Storage Performance

For possibly the majority of data centers, default storage configurations provide all the storage and capacity that they will ever need. In fact the storage controllers or arrays sit at almost zero utilization throughout the day. Instead of letting the storage processor sit on the couch, put it to work.

Deduplication’s Five Modes

Join Network Computing blogger George Crump as he discusses the five (or sometimes even six) modes of deduplication.

How Configuration Management helps with Disaster Recovery and Consolidation

During the final keynotes of the SQL PASS Summit last week, Patrick Ortize – the Practice Manager for SQL Server and Business Intelligence (BI) at Dell – discussed Configuration Management and how it helps with Disaster Recovery and Consolidation. Bill Graziano,
VP of marketing for PASS, also spoke to stress the importance of truly understanding your SQL Server environment.

Data archiving reduces data backup workload prior to data deduplication

In enterprise data storage, the theme of the year for storage managers is “do more with less,” and some users are staying on top of data growth without breaking the bank by archiving their
inactive data before it ever enters the data backup cycle.

SQL Server: Recovering from Disasters Using Backups

There isn’t much point taking SQL Server backups unless you know how to restore them. If you have anything more complicated than just a full database backup, you’re going to need to know some RESTORE options to be able to successfully restore your database to the desired point in time.

Data Losses Drive Changes to Enterprise Computing

For all the great talk about saving money by moving to cloud computing models or virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), you can’t help but wonder if economics are really driving these trends or whether something else is at work.

News from AppAssure

Enter to Win a FREE 2TB NAS Device!

For every AppAssure trial or free utility you download, you’ll be entered into a drawing for a FREE 2 TERABYTE Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. We have 7 available downloads (DocRetriever, MailRetriever, DocRetriever Lite, MailRetriever Lite, Exchange Observer and the Hyper-V Toolset) so that’s 7 possible entries for you between November 1 and November 30, 2009 (limit one entry per person, per product).

Are Hyper-V Snapshots enough?

AppAssure team member Gerard Ngo shares his thoughts on a recent article by Brien Posey entitled Disaster Recovery for Hyper-V.

Finally this week, a reminder that we’ll be reporting live from the floor of the Windows
Connections conference in Las Vegas. If you’re going to be there, drop us a line at leadgeek@appassure.com, or via Twitter (@appassure) so we can meet you in person!

Have a great week,

Josh

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