As we’ve been mentioning over the past several weeks, we’ve been running a contest throughout November – every download of an AppAssure trial or utility entered you into our drawing for a free 2 TB NAS device! Well, we’re pleased to announce that Dave B. from Pennsylvaniahas won our drawing for the month of November. Congratulations, Dave!
Every download of the above trials and utilities between December 1 and December 31, 2009 will qualify you for an entry into our drawing (limit of one entry per person, per product.) Good luck!
Industry News
Data Protection: Where the Problems Lie
Auerbach Publications has posted a sample chapter from David Hill’s new book, Data Protection: Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance. It provides a great overview of the challenges we face when approaching data protection and disaster recovery.
Cloud computing and the build vs. buy question
Cloud-based, SaaS, outsourced – although the barrier to entry for outsourced services seems to be lower than it was in the past, Scott Lowe wants to make sure that due diligence and complete analyses are performed before jumping in with both feet.
Get Ready for SharePoint 2010
With the release of SharePoint 2010 just around the corner, it’s a good time to consider the upgrade and migration options, and take action to prepare your environment.
The Future of Servers
Daydreaming about the future of servers might lead to thoughts of machines the size of matchboxes, thought-operated servers, or other space-age technology. Although these advances are not likely in our lifetimes, there are sure to be new developments in the decades to come. Here is a look at what some analysts are predicting.
Does Virtualization Equal Cloud Computing
ZDNet’s Dan Kusnetzky comments on a debate currently in progress over where the line falls between virtualization and cloud computing.
News from AppAssure
How Corrupt is Your Data?
When you run your backup and disaster recovery solution do you ever wonder if your data would mount in the event of a recovery scenario? Do you ever second guess the quality of your backups, or consider the possibility that you may be replicating data that’s already corrupt? If so, it may be time for a change.
Turkey Day Tech Support Survival Kit
Even though Thanksgiving has come and gone, the holidays are always a popular time for providng family with tech support services. This tech support survival kit, courtesy of Adrian Kingsley-Hughes over at ZDNet, is a must have for any IT Pro who might need to help the folks recover a document or troubleshoot grandma’s Internet access.
Finally this week, I wanted to highlight our most re-tweeted story of the past week – Has PowerShell’s time come for Windows admins? We’ve been talking a lot about scripting around here lately, and Brendan Cournoyer – Site Editor over at TechTarget – has some interesting thoughts about whether it’s time for Windows PowerShell to finally break through.
AppAssure Software 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 AppAssure Software 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.
AppAssure Software 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.
AppAssure Software for Hyper-V is an enterprise-class backup and disaster recovery software solution designed for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V environments. AppAssure Software 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.
AppAssure Software 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.
AppAssure Software 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 AppAssure Software for Windows Small Business Server they have full access to the same powerful server backup and recovery software tools found in larger organizations.
AppAssure Software 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, AppAssure Software delivers accelerated backups, fast local recoveries and disaster recovery, all-in-one solution.
AppAssure Software 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.
AppAssure´s Backup software for Kaseya lets you recover from any server failure to physical or virtual machines in minutes, backup and recover either locally or offsite, and provide offsite DR to customers with low bandwidth through integrated deduplication and replication.
AppAssure Backup & Disaster Recovery Software is best way to back up and protect your VMware virtual machines. It doesn´t just support your virtual environment - rather; it leverages VMware ESX, ESXi and vSphere to provide a whole new level of protection for all your virtualized applications, services and desktops. AppAssure Software lets you meet your VMware backup RTO and RPO objectives for less.
For everyone else who entered, or didn’t have a chance to in November, not to worry! We’re pleased to announce a new contest for the month of December! We still have 7 available downloads (
