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The Backup Tribune

May 2015

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As your business grows, so will your backup requirements.

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Riddle us this...

As something fun, we thought we'd start throwing a riddle at y'all each month.

Since this is the first month, we'll start out with an easy one:

I have keys, but no keyholes.
I have space, but no room.
You can enter, but you can't leave.
What am I?

Think you know the answer? You can tweet it @BackupAssist with #RecoveredARiddle.

Or, you can just sit there with a smug smile when we reveal the correct answer next month!

Stuff to read this month

Optimizing Exchange Granular Restores

Are you making the most of your Exchange backups?

If you're using BackupAssist's Exchange Granular Restore Add-on, you have the ability to restore individual mailbox items from multiple points in time - but this requires an application-consistent backup.

This month on the blog, we cleared up any confusion about how to ensure your backups are application-consistent, so that our Exchange Granular Restore customers can fully benefit from the advanced features our Add-on offers.

If you're using our Exchange Granular Restore Add-on, you need to read this article!

How to Create Guest-Only Hyper-V Backups

Back in February, we took a look into the arguments for and against creating guest-only Hyper-V backups as a contemporary best-practice.

That article has since become one of our most popular, but it leads to one very good question:

How exactly do you create guest-only backups using BackupAssist?

So this month on the blog, we've walked you through it.

Find out how.

4 Simple Steps for Disaster Recovery Prep

Disaster Recovery preparation is important stuff. But when you first start out your planning and pop the phrase into Google, you're going to find a large number of very dry and technical articles.

These are great, and you will absolutely need to read them... But how do you translate them for a non-technical coworker?

What if you just want to give your poor eyes a break from those near-lethal PDFs?

Well, we've got you covered.

This month, we put together an easy-to-digest infographic on the topic. It covers 4 easy steps everyone should take when planning for Disaster recovery.

Check it out .

Tech headlines worth a click

Quantum computing takes another step towards reality

IBM announced this month that they have made two 'critical advances' in the goal of creating a practical quantum computer, and that this could shave years off the time expected to have a working system.

Quantum computers have the potential to be exponentially more powerful than conventional computers, so the race to advance this technology is steadily heating up.

Here are the details.

Microsoft may be killing 'Patch Tuesday'

Or maybe not... It's still not 100% clear.

For the past 12 years, Microsoft has delivered security patches and updates to its software on the second Tuesday of every month, but this may change with the release of Windows 10.

A recent announcement by Microsoft OSB, Terry Myerson, has some speculating that in the future we may potentially see security patches released as soon as they're ready, whatever day of the week that falls on.

Read more.

Super computer, or super shrink?

Not content with dominating humanity at Jeopardy, IBM's Watson super computer could soon help you find a therapist.

IBM announced this month it will be teaming up with Talkspace to use Watson's advanced 'Personality Insights' to help link users with an ideal therapist. Eventually, it could even recommend a course of therapy.

Watson, Doc?

Like to tweet? So do we

Follow BackupAssist on Twitter

There are lots of reasons to be on Twitter - William Shatner and Infosec Tailor Swift being the main two, of course.

But putting them aside for a moment, did you know that BackupAssist maintains an active presence there too?

We publish all the latest news about our software, blog articles, and a whole bunch of other great content there before it goes up anywhere else.

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