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One of my key mandates as Lead Geek here at AppAssure is to make certain that you – as IT professionals – have all of the tools possible to help make you successful. And sure, we’ve got tools like DocRetriever Lite, MailRetriever Lite, Exchange Observer, and the Hyper-V Toolset that do just that.
But as we’ve said here before, successful IT Pros know the key to being successful – that is, getting the resources you need to make your IT department successful – lies in presenting a convincing business case. Your boss is going to want to be sure that the company will get more benefit from a purchase than you spend.
To that end, we’ve pulled together the ROI Toolkit. Included are in-depth resources to help you calculate the return on your IT investment. Among those resources are an instructional workbook, a whitepaper on creating a business case, a video featuring myself and our CEO, Naj Husain, and a set of actual ROI calculators to help you crunch the numbers.
Be sure to download your free copy of the ROI Toolkit today. And as always, your feedback is most welcome. You can e-mail us anytime at leadgeek@appassure.com, or find us on Twitter at twitter.com/appassure.
Industry News
Cloud Storage for the Enterprise: The Hybrid Cloud
The term cloud computing alone can be pretty confusing, especially since it’s still being defined. But the terminology that follows – public clouds, private clouds, virtual clouds; it’s enough to make your head spin. Thankfully, there are resources like this one to help cut through the noise. In this posting, CloudStorageStrategy.com defines The Hybrid Cloud.
Meeting SLAs in Virtual Data Center Environments
Virtualization is on every CIO’s radar, and for good reason. It is widely considered to be one of the best ways to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency in IT, and the economic downturn has increased its prominence. However, not enough organizations evaluate their virtualization solutions from the perspective of Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Perhaps now is a good time to start.
Cloud Replication Is Not Backup, But Backup Is!
Keeping alternative copies of data in multiple locations is a great idea, reducing the risk of data loss and potentially enabling enhanced access, but it’s not a historical data protection (aka, backup) strategy. Backup requires management of multiple historic copies of a data set. Clearly, cloud storage in itself isn’t backup.
How to Use Continuous Data Protection to Improve Backup, Disaster Recovery
Backup and disaster recovery have historically been treated as two separate islands of IT, handled by different departments. Although some organizations have merged the two, most continue to use tape-based backup and disk-based replication, two separate technologies and processes. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Bobby Crouch explains how to get the most value from your storage investment by using continuous data protection to bridge the gap between tape-based backup and disk-based replication.
The Pros and Cons of Dense Storage
One thing that never stops in the storage industry is the drive for greater density. Higher concentration of resources on a smaller physical footprint will always be in demand even if IT infrastructure is pushed past the cloud onto — what’s next? The moon?
News from AppAssure
Storage and Network Convergence
We love stories about technology convergence. And as luck would have it, we’re currently witnessing the convergence of two very well established components of our data center: our storage and our network.
Creating a Business Case: Translating Technical Capabilities into Business Advantage
Technical people and business people don’t always speak the same language. IT managers and administrators who understand the business goals and realities of their company are able to evaluate and select technology that will help meet goals while staying within budget. In best case scenarios, the technology they select actually saves the company money. The hard part is often explaining the benefits of chosen technology to business people who have to sign off on the investment.
Finally this week, a quick tip on setting up your storage architecture for Hyper-V: How to install Hyper-V storage disks. Be sure to share it with your favorite data center admin today!
Have a great week,
Josh
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