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The Holidays Come Early This Year

Free TrialThe Holidays Come Early This Year

We know that it’s still a little early, but we’ve decided to kick off the holiday season ahead of schedule this year by giving away free stuff! So for every AppAssure trial or free utility you download, you’ll be entered into a drawing for a FREE 2 TERABYTE Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. We have 7 available downloads (AppAssure Backup & Replication, DocRetriever, MailRetriever, DocRetriever Lite, MailRetriever Lite, Exchange Observer, and the Hyper-V Toolset) so that’s 7 possible entries for you between November 1 and November 30, 2009 (limit one entry per person, per product).

And a special bonus, for those of you on Twitter: Download a free trial of AppAssure Backup & Replication and tweet about it (“I just downloaded a free trial of AppAssure Backup & Replication at http://www.appassure.com”), and get a bonus entry! That’s 8 chances to win between now and the end of November.

Good luck!

Industry News

Bridging the archive-backup divide

As long as backup remained a disk-to-tape process, IT operations could ignore the differences between data that needed to be archived and data that need to be backed up. However, with the introduction of government regulations for strict archiving of particular data along
with new backup technologies such as disk-to-disk backup and data deduplication, IT must now bridge that divide with a flexible archiving solution that easily integrates into current IT procedures.

SharePoint 2010 Top 10 Features and Resources

SharePoint expert Joel Oleson shares his Top 10 list of SharePoint 2010 Features and Resources, including investments in social media, handling of large lists, high availability and disaster recovery innovation, and more.

Cloud computing cuts everyone’s cost of ownership

Statistics are now becoming available to back up the long held belief that cloud computing (or Software as a Service) can have a tremendous positive impact on total cost of ownership through the benefits of shared resources.

Standards-Based Virtualization: Critical To The Future Of Cloud Computing

Although cloud computing exists today, it has not achieved its full potential and has limited the possibility for greater adoption. This is due to the lack of standards which inhibit customers from selecting a cloud vendor without concern for lock-in and huge investments in proprietary tools, formats and infrastructure.

Survey: Business growth, not compliance, drives enterprise data storage expansion

Business growth is a far greater driver of expanded enterprise data storage demands than government regulations for keeping data, according to a survey conducted by AFCOM, a trade association of data center professionals. The survey also revealed few cloud computing
implementations despite high industry buzz.

News from AppAssure

Microsoft MVP Greg Shields reviews AppAssure Backup & Replication

It’s easy for us to extoll the virtues of our AppAssure Backup & Replicationapplication protection solution. It is, after all, our product, and we believe strongly that it offers the best solution for continuous data protection, data deduplication, cloud backup and recovery, and so much more. However, it’s always nice when an industry luminary has some very good things to say.

Best Practices in Business Continuity for SMBs

According to Gartner, two out of every five enterprises that experience a disaster goes out of business within five years. It makes sense then to have a disaster recovery and backup plan in place before you actually need it! Join me as I walk you through the types of disasters you should be prepared for, the direct cost of downtime that any business needs to prepare for, and the decisions you need to make ahead of time that fit with your business model.

And finally this week, a reminder that the Open Web Awards – administered by the social media experts at Mashable – are still open for nominations. Should you be so inclined, feel free to head over and nominate @appassure

(perhaps for Best Brand Use of Twitter?)

Have a great week,

-Josh

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