This week is always tough. For so many of us who were lucky enough to grab some time off over the past few weeks, getting back into the groove can be a monumental challenge. Your e-mail is proverbially piled up; the calendar is packed with non-stop meetings. What can you do, though, except push through, crossing off one thing at a time?Well, sometimes a little distraction helps. Just something to break up the routine a bit as you ease back in to the grind. To help you out, we’ve pulled together some news you may have missed over the past few weeks while you were resting up.Enjoy. And welcome back!
Industry News
How to control the storage impact of virtual servers
Server virtualization drives us to shift operating system data that was on low-cost, captive disk drives inside each server into a SAN (or NAS) environment, which is usually much more expensive per GB of storage. Storing VMs can be—and for many already is—an overwhelming cost. Since the life-cycle cost to maintain storage is roughly seven times its purchase price, it’s essential to rein in storage bloat by adopting new techniques to optimize storage in a virtual server environment.
Disaster recovery budgets: Five ways to cut costs
Despite budget cuts, companies can’t cease spending altogether on disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC). However, the present economic climate presents an ideal opportunity for organizations to examine disaster recovery budgets to see where they can eliminate waste. Here are five ways that your enterprise may be frittering away your disaster recovery dollars. These are areas where you may want to reexamine your disaster recovery spending.
The big storage industry acquisitions of 2009 – and what they mean for 2010
Despite the economic conditions of 2009, the mergers and acquisitions business was still very much alive. Take a look at the biggest storage industry acquisitions of 2009, and what they might mean for the IT profession as we head into the new year.
Data backup and recovery planning in 2010
In case you think you’re missing out on what’s happening in the data backup and recovery space, join W. Curtis Preston (aka Mr. Backup) for his best attempt at trying to predict the future of 2010, and how your data backup and recovery planning may change.
Not Everything Will Move To The Cloud Join Ed Sperling of Forbes, who caught up with John Engates, Rackspace’s chief technology officer, for an exciting discussion about the evolution of data management and where things are likely to go in the future.
News from AppAssure
Announcing the Backup 2.0 ROI Toolkit
The IT industry has long struggled with demonstrating its true value to its parent business. All too often, IT is seen as a cost; a necessary expense. But IT can easily deliver value directly to the business’s bottom line. Proving that fact is often just a matter of demonstrating ROI, or return on investment. To help you in that goal, we’ve released the Backup 2.0 ROI Toolkit.
Announcing the Launch of AppAssureTV!
We’re pleased to ring in the new year with the launch of AppAssureTV – bringing you the most interesting, informative, and entertaining video content about application and data protection. At AppAssureTV, you’ll find interviews with industry experts like Don Jones, Greg Shields and Steve Riley. You can listen in to educational webinars on SQL Server backup technology or achieving cost savings with new application protection techniques. You can even find full video demonstrations of AppAssure products.
Finally this week, because so many of us were able to take time off for vacations and holidays over the past few weeks, we’ve decided to extend our December contest through the month of January. Every qualified download will earn you a chance to win a 128GB Solid State Drive. Be sure to enter today!
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.
This week is always tough. For so many of us who were lucky enough to grab some time off over the past few weeks, getting back into the groove can be a monumental challenge. Your e-mail is proverbially piled up; the calendar is packed with non-stop meetings. What can you do, though, except push through, crossing off one thing at a time?Well, sometimes a little distraction helps. Just something to break up the routine a bit as you ease back in to the grind. To help you out, we’ve pulled together some news you may have missed over the past few weeks while you were resting up.Enjoy. And welcome back!
