AppAssure

Replay Product

An application-aware, disk-based imaging solution that automatically delivers accelerated application backups and disaster recovery for Windows servers in minutes.

MailRetriever

MailRetriever is an affordable easy-to-use software package for browsing, recovering, searching, exporting, and analyzing e-mail and mailbox content directly from Microsoft Exchange Data Stores (EDBs). With MailRetriever, you are never more than a few clicks away from recovering a message or mailbox.

DocRetriever

Delivering full-fidelity recovery from offline SharePoint databases and SQL backups, DocRetriever delivers comprehensive object-level discovery and restore process.

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Backup 2.0 Hero: Brendan Hourihan – Flagler College

Finally a logical approach to how data is backed up AND what you can do with the backed-up data.

Backup 2.0 Hero: Brooks Betts – Lincoln County Healthcare

Brooks Betts, VP of Information Systems at Lincoln Health Care

Backup 2.0 Hero: Ryan Dorman – Blackboard, Inc.

“AppAssure’s Replay AppImage offered continuous backup and could run on the hardware we already had in-house.”
— Ryan Dorman
Network Engineer, Blackboard Inc.

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Chapter 1: Why Backup 1.0 Is No Longer Enough

Our decades‐old backup techniques are not sufficient anymore. They may be great for creating backups—although in many cases, they aren’t even good for that—but they do not excel at bringing the right data back into production as quickly as possible. Despite advances in specialized agents, compressed network transmissions, and so forth, we’re still just making a copy of the data, and that doesn’t always lend itself well to restoring the data. Why?

Chapter 2: Horror Stories: We Thought We Had a Backup!

Horror stories. Tales from the trenches. Case studies. Call them what you will, I love reading them. They’re a look into our colleagues’ real-world lives and troubles, and an opportunity for us to learn something from mistakes – without having to make the actual mistakes ourselves.

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Creating a Business Case: Translating Technical Capabilities into Business Advantage

This white paper outlines and illustrates how to create a business case for new technology. While features and benefits are an important part of the case, the focus is on business advantage: cost savings through improved operations and fast return on investment.

Deduplication: Effectively Reducing the Cost of Backup and Storage

Reducing the cost of backup and storage starts with reducing the amount of data that is backed up and stored. Data deduplication ensures that the same, unchanged files are not repeatedly backed up during nightly processes. Reducing storage capacity alone is a strong argument for implementing data deduplication, but when integrated with server-based backup processes that also include data compression, the combined backup and storage savings are compelling.

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