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Surprising Results from Our Small Business Virtualization Survey

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With perceived cost barriers for entry into virtualization technology rapidly dropping, small businesses are seizing the opportunity to reduce hardware and maintenance costs and further centralize company data protection. In a recent poll of top NovaStor Authorized and Certified Partn …

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Virtual is Becoming a Reality for Small Businesses

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As you know, NovaBACKUP provides “Backup for the Rest of Us.” It’s our job to help you decide and provide you with the necessary direction, and the right products and support that’s best for your company’s data protection to keep your company successful. Nothing has changed here. With …

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Makes Sense for Small Businesses

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When people talk about VDI, it seems as though all the talk is centered around how to implement it and the associated costs for large businesses. What does not seem to be getting a lot of attention is how VDI can be implemented in a small business environment, and whether it makes any …

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Your Business is NOT Too Small to Benefit from Virtualization

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Virtualization adoption is growing in 2014 and making the move into the small and medium-sized business (SMB) arena. While you may be thinking your business is too small to deploy virtualization, now is the time to take a closer look as even small businesses can reap the benefits of g …

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Who Do You Think Won the One Million File Backup Challenge?

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Have you ever wondered why two sets of files of the exact same cumulative file size can take drastically different amounts of time to backup? It all comes down to the size of the files being backed up. With all things equal in terms of the total cumulative file size, a backup set that …

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What is Volume Shadow Copy (VSS)?

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As one of my jobs as the technical product manager for NovaBACKUP, I often take time to sit with our customer support team to understand the biggest issues facing their team and you, our customer. One of the most common issues they face (and the subject of this blog post) involves bac …

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Want to Scan a Document, then Convert to Editable PDF?

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Have you ever lost the original file for a document and simply didn’t want to go through the time consuming process of retyping the entire document? If so, you are not alone. I have experienced this issue on multiple occasions and would have loved to have been able to scan a hard copy …

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Backup Software Market Leaders Have Lost Touch with Small Business

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What Football Teaches Us About Competition I’m sitting here writing this article in the afterglow of this year’s World Cup Football tournament. My adoptive home in the US didn’t make it quite as far as we had hoped this year, but that’s part of the beauty of being part of a global org …

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What is the Difference Between File Backup and Image Backup?

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The whole backup and data protection space is filled with a lot of nomenclatures that if you do not already know the abbreviations, the specific words and phrases that are used, or concepts you can become lost very easily. In this article, I am going to go over two concepts that seem …

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What Are the Common Excuses to Not Backup Computer Data?

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Even in this day and age of advanced computer technology you should still make sure that you take out the time to properly backup all of the files on your computer in order to make sure that you’ll still have them in case anything should happen to your computer. No matter how advanced …

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