You may have heard about the webinars we’ve conducted over the past few weeks. We hope you can join us for our next session on Thursday, April 1st when we’ll be hosting Virtual Backups: Many Perspectives, Painful Management, Duplication of Work … Or, NOT?. Joining us for the discussion with be Microsoft MVP Greg Sheilds as we expose the pitfalls in today’s multiple virtual backup perspectives.
But for those of you who haven’t been able to join us in the past (we know you’ve got a pretty full day as an IT Hero), we’re making all of our webinars available on demand, for free, on the Events section of our website. There you can playback all of these free webinars in full, at whatever time is most convenient for you.
Included in our on-demand webinars is last week’s fascinating discussion of the unique requirements for protecting applications and data in the health care industry. We’ve also included our discussion earlier this month about calculating the return investment of backup and recovery systems.
We hope you can join us for our next free webinar on Thursday, April 1st, to discuss Virtualization with Greg Shields, but if not, be sure to catch up with our webinars on-demand.
Industry News
In Support of Networked DAS
Virtualization practically requires a networked storage architecture to support the fluid nature of modern VM and resource management. So why would anyone want to establish a storage network based on direct-attached storage? LSI has come up with a number of reasons, backed by the release of its new line of 6 Gbps SAS switches.
Budget SSDs to bolster market?
The technology industry has been waiting for SSDs to takeover the market and with the release this week of two budget products, is now its time?
Migration Migraines
One of the problems with ever-increasing storage volumes is moving that volume of data to a new storage system. When that nice, new storage system is added to a row in your data center, after you turn it on, make sure everything lights up and finish connecting servers that at some point are going to have to migrate data from the old storage platform to the new one.
Data deduplication and compression on primary storage can reduce data footprint
Although the opportunity for data deduplication and compression on primary storage may be less than for backups, there’s ample reason for users to expect significant success in reducing unstructured data such as word processing documents, spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations.
Virtual Acceleration
The release of Windows 7 leaves companies with the daunting task of determining when and how to best migrate to this new OS. Many of them are electing to postpone this migration as long as possible due to the cost and effort involved with testing, upgrading and replacing applications incompatible with Windows 7. Others are aligning the OS upgrade cycle with their PC refresh cycle and leveraging desktop virtualization technologies to aid the migration.
News from AppAssure
Free Webinar – Virtual Backups: Many Perspectives, Painful Management, Duplication of Work … Or, NOT?
Please join me on Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 2pm ET, along with Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert Greg Shields for this complimentary webinar. We’ll show you why yesterday’s backup solutions are fundamentally ill-suited for backing up today’s virtual environments, and how Backup 2.0 stands to revolutionize virtual administration by eliminating the virtual server backup problem completely. We’ll also hear from Brendan Hourihan, network engineer at Flagler College, who will provide a firsthand account about the benefits of Backup 2.0 in a virtualized environment.
Sessions 5 and 6 of Backup 2.0 University Now Available
We’re pleased to announce the availability of the next two installments of Backup 2.0 University. In session 5 – Rethinking Virtual Server Backups– we explore the impact of virtualization on the backup and recovery process. In session 6 – Keeping your backups: Storage Architecture – we discuss new storage options to maximize performance and minimize costs in today’s data center.
Free Webinar
Presented by: Joshua Hoffman,
Lead Geek at AppAssure Software
Greg Shields
Microsoft MVP,
ConcentratedTech
Brendan Hourihan
Network Engineer, Flagler College
In this free webinar, Joshua, Greg and Brendan will discuss:
The unique approach to backup and recovery required in a virtualized environment.
Why yesterday’s backup solutions are fundamentally ill-suited for backing up today’s virtual environments.
How Backup 2.0 stands to revolutionize virtual administration by eliminating problems commonly associated with virtual machine backup and recovery.
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