Thanks again to everyone who stopped by the booth last week and joined us for the R1Soft Hosting Partner Happy Hour. We had a really great turnout and, as always, it was a pleasure to see all of our customers and partners!

Congratulations to our iPad winner, Elya McCleave from Superb Internet, and the R1 HDCAM winner, Nuno Vieira from nfsi Telecom/Rackspot!

See everyone in San Diego for HostingCon 2011!

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Congratulations to Duncan McAllister of Rackco Hosting, who recently attended a Webcast and was picked to win a new BOSE SoundDock.

You can be the next winner, just visit us at one of the upcoming tradeshows or attend one of our webcasts. All attendees will automatically be entered into the R1Soft Continuous Giveaway for a chance to win prizes like the new R1 HDCAM, Apple iPad, and more!

WHAT: You’re invited to an exclusive R1Soft Hosting Partner Happy Hour at one of historic Sixth Street’s premier venues, Iron Cactus. Named one of the top 10 tequila bars in the country, Iron Cactus features over 80 different types of tequila and contemporary Mexican cuisine.

WHEN: 7-9pm Tuesday July 20, 2010

WHERE: IRON CACTUS – 606 Trinity St. Austin, Tx 78701 | Tel: 512.472.9240

WHY: Because the R1Soft team is thrilled that many of our partners, customers, and friends will be in Texas for HostingCon 2010! Join us for an evening of tasty appetizers, drinks, and prizes on the Iron Cactus rooftop patio.

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*Space is limited, RSVP now to secure your spot

**Please RSVP no later than July 17th

Congratulations to Michael Grinzinger of Logic-Base, who recently attended a Webcast and was picked to win the new R1 HDCAM.

You can be the next winner, just visit us at one of the upcoming tradeshows or attend one of our webcasts. All attendees will automatically be entered into the R1Soft Continuous Giveaway for a chance to win prizes like the new R1 HDCAM, Apple iPad, and more!

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Here’s a quick tip from the Head GEEK to help you Restore MS Exchange 2007 Using CDP Enterprise Edition.

R1Soft CDP Enterprise Edition for Windows uses MS Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to protect your Windows server and applications like Exchange.

You can restore your MS Exchange Storage Groups in 5 Easy Steps:

1. Use CDP to Restore the Exchange data and log files.
2. Use Exchange Eseutil to replay your log files.
3. Create an Exchange Recovery Group using the Exchange Management Console.
4. Copy the Exchange data and log files you restored to the Exchange Recovery Storage Group directory.
5. Mount the Storage Group.

Tip KB article including step-by-step screenshots is here.

Have questions about our High-Performance CDP products? Just email headgeek (at) r1soft (dot) com

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Virtualization is obviously great business for hosting and cloud service providers enabling new capabilities in measuring service levels, provisioning, and high availability.  The big surprise has been that the more we use virtualization the more we have storage performance issues.

Virtualization is all about sharing and making the most of hardware resources.  Let’s face it we would all like each application to have its own dedicated physical server, but when it comes down to it it’s just a matter of cost and manageability, and all we are trying to do is squeeze as much out of our hardware and floor space as possible.

This all sounds feasible with quad-cores becoming common place, memory perhaps getting exponentially less expensive, and 1 Terabyte SATA drives being found in the bargain bin.  The big challenge is that the storage has not really gotten all that much faster in the last two decades.

The way to check-off backups from the list of virtualization storage problems is to use asynchronous-replication type backup software.  What asynchronous replication does is drastically reduce the I/O requests involves in a backup operation.  Drastically like taking 15 minutes instead of 15 hours.  This works by using special device drivers to know ahead of time what parts of your file system or virtual disks have changed since your last scheduled backup operation.  By doing this, only the data that actually changed is read form the disk, and the rest is ignored,  since on average only a fraction of a virtual machine’s data changes on an hourly or even daily basis.  This means very little disk I/O is done during the backup operation.

You can learn more about asynchronous replication products at http://www.r1soft.com

Congratulations to Cheyenne Tanner of Reliam, who recently attended a Webcast and was picked to win a new BOSE SoundDock.

You can be the next winner, just visit us at one of the upcoming tradeshows or attend one of our webcasts. All attendees will automatically be entered into the R1Soft Continuous Giveaway for a chance to win prizes like the new R1 HDCAM, Apple iPad, and more!

Sign up now to Attend a Free Webcast:

May 6: Introduction to R1Soft’s New CDP Standard Edition

May 13: How to Make Money with R1Soft’s CDP Standard Edition

The winner of this month’s Continuous Giveaway prize - the new Apple iPad - is from web hosting provider DediPower and recently attended an R1Soft Webcast. You can be the next winner, just visit us at one of the upcoming tradeshows or attend one of our webcasts. All attendees will automatically be entered into our Continuous Giveaway for a chance to win prizes like the new R1 HDCAM, Apple iPad, and more!

Upcoming Webcast:

Topic: Best Linux Server Management Practices
Date: April 28, 2010
Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CST
Hosted by: rackAID

Sign up now and check out R1Soft’s latest webcast series to get the most out of your servers and avoid a backup nightmare

***All attendees will automatically be entered into our Continuous Giveaway for a chance to win an HD Flip Camcorder or an Apple iPad.

Topic: How to Make Money with R1Soft’s CDP Standard Edition
Date: Thursday April 8, 2010
Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CST
Hosted by: R1Soft

Sign up now to learn about CDP Standard Edition and how it can help you generate additional revenue by offering customer managed backup services.

Topic: Best Linux Server Management Practices
Date: Wednesday April 28, 2010
Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 AM CST
Hosted by: rackAID

Sign up now for R1Soft’s latest Webcast series to get the most out of your servers and avoid a backup nightmare. Presented by rackAID, the 45-minute Webcast will take an in-depth look at the following topics:

• Backup and Recovery
• Managed Hosting
• Server Management
• Server Monitoring
• IT Security Solutions

More Upcoming R1Soft Events

The winner of this month’s Continuous Giveaway prize – a Bose SoundDock - is from web hosting provider Applied Innovations, who visited R1Soft at the Parallels Summit in Miami.

You can be the next winner, just visit us at one of the upcoming tradeshows or attend one of our webcasts. All attendees will automatically be entered into our Continuous Giveaway for a chance to win a Bose SoundDock or an Apple iPad.

Upcoming Webcast:

Topic: How to Make Money with R1Soft’s CDP Standard Edition
Date: April 8, 2010
Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CST
Hosted by: R1Soft

Sign up now to learn about CDP Standard Edition and how it can help you generate additional revenue.