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Last week, we released our new white paper, "Three Untapped Sources of Business Continuity Revenue." Today there's not much difference in the way people talk about business continutiy and disaster recovery, but in fact, there is a difference. The white paper describes three ways you can elevate your solutions from simple disaster recovery to full-on business continuity: forensic recovery, dynamic data management, and industry specialization.ShadowProtect is perfectly suited to help you realize any of these untapped sources. For example, the ability of ShadowProtect to take complete, pristine disk images makes a forensic recovery easier because it allows law enforcement officials access to your computer exactly as it was when they need it. This is especially true if you use ShadowProtect IT Edition, which allows you to make a complete, ShadowProtect disk image without introducing new software that might change the system and thus corrupt the evidence.It's important to remember as well that ShadowProtect backup images can be used for much more than simple disaster recovery. Having the ability to access your data, no matter how old or obsolete it is is a key part of a strong business continuity plan, and our VirtualBoot feature does just that. By spinning up a ShadowProtect backup image in VirtualBoot, you suddenly have a testing environment, or the ability to run old software, or access old files.ShadowProtect is more than a backup and disaster recovery software. It is part of a full business continuity solution.

Awesome news! Our friends at Datto pulled down another Best New Product award at ASCII SMB IT Success Summit in NY/NJ for their SIRIS business continuity solution.

This is the fourth award SIRIS has won in 2011 and the second consecutive ‘Best New Product’ award at an ASCII Success Summit!

If you haven’t heard, Datto now uses the new ShadowSnap driver from StorageCraft in the SIRIS solution.  Check out their vBlog, with Datto CEO Austin McCord, talking everything ShadowSnap.

Keep up the good work. Congratulations again Datto!

This week, StorageCraft is off to Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, California, so stop by our booth, if you can. We are one of the sponsors, plus we're leading a presentation that's all about the cloud. It's called "Backup, Disaster Recovery and System Migration in the Cloud." You may already be aware that we know a thing or two about backup and protecting your business data, but you may not have heard that ShadowProtect plays well in the cloud.

If you don't have the opportunity to go to Cloud Expo, this is probably a good time to mention all of the other companies that are partnering with us to help them with their own cloud solutions. For example, you may not have heard that Zenith Infotech's backup and disaster recovery solution is powered by StorageCraft ShadowProtect? So is the BusinessContinuitySuite - part of our relationship with Symform. Doyenz uses ShadowProtect technology in their Shadowcloud solution. And we also work with GCloud3 and other cloud solutions.

If you're planning to attend MSPWorld Conference and Expo next week, don't forget to stop by our booth and say hello. We'll be showing lots of managed service providers how to provide their customers backup, disaster recovery and system migration as a service to their customers. It's a great way to make a profit and help customers at the same time.

The conference is at the Los Angeles Convention Center next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. We'll be highlighting ShadowProtect 4 and all of its new features and how it can restore a 1TB server in less than five minutes. In the time it takes you to grab a cup of coffee and warm up your lunch, you can have a server back up running again.

It's that kind of technology that makes ShadowProtect a no-brainer for a business continuity plan, no matter how big or small the enterprise. Can you or your customers afford to go another day without a disaster recovery solution that can make the difference between staying in business or shutting your doors forever?

To find out more about MSPWorld Conference, just visit the MSPAlliance Web site for more information.

Over the next couple of months, StorageCraft will be taking part in  some Interface 2010 events. Interface 2010 is a technology symposium for information technology managers that connects them with key IT influencers and technology vendors.

We are one of the vendors sponsoring the Interface event in Phoenix today. As part of today's event, we'll be holding a seminar on disaster recovery and data protection planning that will show IT managers how to maximize business continuity.

If you want to find out more about hard drive imaging and how the ShadowProtect award-winning line of disaster recovery, data protection and system migration technology can help keep your business going 24/7, you may want to visit us at Interface 2010 or one of the many upcoming technology trade shows we'll be sponsoring and attending this fall. We'll keep you posted on all the places where we will be over the next few weeks and months. If you have plans to attend any trade meetings from now through November, chances are we will be there.

For now, here are a few more Interface events coming up where we hope to see you:

Denver             October 7
Salt Lake City    October 21
Seattle             November 17

To apply for registration at an Interface 2010 event, please visit: http://www.f2fevents.com/.