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One of the most important (and often difficult) tasks an IT Pro faces is keeping up. New products, new technologies, and new techniques make for an ever-changing landscape, and the ability – and the need –  to remain current is a hallmark of our profession. To that end, I’ve pulled together a list of some of my favorite resources, and some of my favorite people, all of which help me in my on-going efforts to stay ahead of the curve. This list certainly isn’t exhaustive; just like IT itself, it will continue to evolve. Have something you’d like to see added? There’s a place below you can recommend stuff to me!   I’d love to hear from you.   ~Josh

Here are some sites, blogs, and tweeps I recommend:

Cool Technical Stuff
TechNet Magazine
Solar Winds Thwack
TechNet Forums
Windows IT Pro Magazine
Redmond Magazine
Storage Monkeys
Computer World
ZDNet
SpiceWorks Community
TechTarget
SlashDot

…more!

Blogs and Tweeps
Paul Randal (@paulrandal) – http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/
Greg Schulz (@storageio) – http://storageio.com/blog/
Steve Riley (@steveriley) – http://stvrly.wordpress.com/
Don Jones – http://www.concentratedtech.com/items/show/type/blog
Greg Shields – http://www.realtime-windowsserver.com/
Paul Robichaux – http://www.robichaux.net/blog/
Kendal Van Dyke (@sqldba) – http://kendalvandyke.blogspot.com/
Ross Mistry (@rossmistry) – http://www.networkworld.com/community/taxonomy/term/6736


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Replay for Exchange continuously protects and monitors the health of your Exchange data stores and allows administrators to quickly search, recover, and analyze mailbox content. With Replay for Exchange you can backup and restore individual email messages, folders, or mailboxes to a live Exchange server or directly to a PST, thereby solving some of your most costly and time consuming challenges.
Replay for SQL is an enterprise SQL server backup and disaster recovery software solution developed to assure comprehensive protection - including system and user databases, SQL binaries and the server - making it possible to restore both servers and databases in just minutes.
Replay for Hyper-V is an enterprise-class backup and disaster recovery software solution designed for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V environments. Replay for Hyper-V supports both host and guest level backup methodologies while delivering accelerated backups, fast local recoveries and disaster recovery, all-in-one solution.
Replay for SharePoint is an enterprise backup and disaster recovery software solution developed to assure comprehensive protection - including front-end servers, SQL servers and the web servers - making it possible to restore both the entire SharePoint environment, individual SharePoint servers and databases and individual SharePoint objects in just minutes.
Replay for Windows Servers is an application-aware, server-based backup and disaster recovery software solution that delivers fast application backups, fast local recoveries and off-site disaster recovery, all-in-one solution.
Small businesses typically have limited IT resources and smaller staffs than large enterprises, but with Replay for Windows Small Business Server they have full access to the same powerful server backup and recovery software tools found in larger organizations.
Replay for VMware is an enterprise-class backup and disaster recovery software solution designed for Windows workloads running VMware virtual environments. With one price for an unlimited number of guests, Replay delivers accelerated backups, fast local recoveries and disaster recovery, all-in-one solution.
Replay for Windows Desktops (VDI) simplifies and automates backup and disaster recovery processes, while giving an administrator the ability to remotely monitor and manage large VDI deployments or geographically distributed machines from a single console.
DocRetriever for SharePoint dramatically simplifies the process of restoring individual documents, sites, sub-sites and folders. SharePoint Administrators no longer need to spend countless hours rebuilding your entire production database, or worry about deploying a temporary SharePoint recovery farm, just to recover an individual document or list item.
MailRetriever for Exchange is an affordable and easy-to-use e-mail recovery software package for browsing, recovering, searching, exporting, and analyzing e-mail and mailbox content directly from any unmounted Microsoft Exchange Data Store (EDB). MailRetriever for Exchange can even open and repair corrupted EDB files. With MailRetriever for Exchange, you are never more than just a few clicks away from recovering a message or mailbox. MailRetriever for Exchange eliminates the need for time-consuming full-server and EDB restores for message recovery.
For individual message or mailbox recovery, AppAssure Software and Microsoft Storage Solutions have partnered together to deliver MailRetriever for DPM, enabling Microsoft Exchange administrators around the world to gain efficient and economical access to message-level recovery.