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The Countdown Begins: IT Connections is Designed Specifically for You by Rod Trent IT/Dev Connections kicks off on September 30, 2013 in sunny Las Vegas and lasts through October 4, 2013. I've said this many times, but this year's Connections event is something extra special. Despite Connections being around for quite a while, this year will feel completely different while retaining the pieces that have been adored by alumni for years. Due to my involvement, we are building Connections into something very unique, but familiar. We are taking the best of TechEd and the best of the Microsoft Management Summit, and creating a Fall event that is hugely valuable and may end up being the best conference ever. I'm not exaggerating one bit. I promise. More... Cloud Perspectives by Michael Otey Cloud Disaster Recovery and Backup Cloud technologies, and especially the public cloud, is evolving rapidly but businesses have been slow to move their production workloads into the cloud. One of the reasons for this is simply that changing critical services can be risky and changing any business critical applications takes time and careful planning. However, one of the easier ways to begin to take advantage of cloud computing is for backup and disaster recovery (DR). Cloud storage is easily accessible and can be more cost effective than buying local storage. Plus, you can take advantage of the cloud's IaaS capabilities to quickly fire up your backup VMs in the cloud in the event of a server or site failure. One company that's stepping in to fill the gap in the cloud backup/DR space is HotLink. I recently had a briefing with HotLink about their newest HotLink DR Express offering that was announced on August 19, 2013. Probably best known for their multiple hypervisor management product, HotLink SuperVISOR, the new HotLink DR Express product builds on their seamless integration with the VMware's vSphere client to enable the vSphere administrator to control the backup and replication of VMs. More... ADVERTISEMENT Follow us Twitter! Don't miss real-time updates on articles, virtual events, white papers, Essential Guides, webcasts, and more.  Meet your peers and tell us what you think. Also look for us on Facebook and LinkedIn.   Featured Story Hyper-V Memory Allocation by John Savill Q: How can I tell how much memory Hyper-V will allocate to virtual machines using Dynamic Memory? A: All Windows OSs have a Member-Available MBytes performance counter, which shows the amount of memory. However, Hyper-V won't allocate all memory to virtual machines (VMs) and actually has a separate amount of memory it allocates to them. More... Cloud & Virtualization Instant Poll What VMware products have you deployed? Go to the poll page on Windows IT Pro and submit your vote for: VMware vSphere VMware vCloud Suite VMware Horizon Suite VMware Workstation None More Cloud News and Analysis HP's Perfect Private Cloud Shared-Storage Solution by Rod Trent HP is leading the charge in software-defined storage with the release of StoreVirtual VSA. StoreVirtual VSA gives companies the ability to enhance their current virtualization hardware through intelligent software that makes internal and direct-attached disks available for virtualization storage. It's a way for business applications and underlying storage services to share hardware resources. More... ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Windows Server 2012: Implementing Continuously Available File Shares and Shared-Nothing Live Migration In this tech advisor, Technical Director Michael Otey and Contributing Editor John Savill explain how to use two revolutionary Windows Server 2012 technologies: Continuously Available File Shares and Shared-Nothing Live Migration. Exchange Online Protection: Free Web Seminar August 29th Exchange 2013 needs protection. Stop almost a billion spam emails daily with Exchange Online Protection. Find out how you can defend your most sensitive data in this free web seminar, August 29th at 12pm ET. Join Our Community: Resources Want free, real-time SQL performance monitoring? Monitor 20 key performance metrics, see throughput varying types, see "heartbeat" statistics at different intervals and more! A Roadmap to SharePoint Join us for this free web seminar that covers everything you need to know before upgrading to SharePoint 2013. Also learn the various ways in which this new version will benefit your needs. MORE RESOURCES Events HPC-as-a-Service: Clouds of Speed Join us Wednesday, August 28th, 2013 @ 12:00pm ET. Datacenter expert, Mel Beckman, explains the speeds and feeds of modern HPC and what you need to create or consume HPCaaS offerings. You'll also hear about the experiences of actual HPCaaS implementation and the most common issues overlooked when creating an HPC cloud service. The countdown is on! Join us Sept. 12 for or next virtual event, "Managing A Hybrid Virtualization Environment" You'll network with industry experts and peers as you brush up on best practices and techniques.  Get in-depth knowledge on the latest industry news and technology without having to leave the office!  Reserve your seat while there's still time. MORE EVENTS

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