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It’s almost here !

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I hope everyone had a great Independence Weekend ! It’s hard to believe that one year ago, I was drafting a table of contents over that weekend – and now I am counting down the days until the book is on the shelves (hopefully yours).  🙂 It is due out on July 26th and is … Read more

Why don’t you back up? (well)

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Barbara Imbert at Seagate recently blogged about Symantec’s 2010 SMB information security survey.  As a summary of the findings: 74% are Somewhat/Extremely concerned about information protection 42% lost confidential/proprietary information in the past 12 months 100% saw losses – lost revenue & direct financial costs In the past year, 62% lost devices and 73% saw … Read more

Congratulations DPM MVPs

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  Am very excited to announce three new Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP’s) that have been awarded for their work with System Center Data Protection Manager.   These folks have passionately tweeted, blogged, spoken and otherwise educated folks on DPM (2007 and 2010). Fatih Karaalioglu – FaKaOnline.com Islam Gomaa – Islam’s blog Mike Resseler – DPM-blog   … Read more

Video : Dad Life

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This video has nothing to do with Microsoft, System Center, Data Protection Manager, Essentials 2010, Boy Scouts or Video Games. But if you are a dad (or know one) … then this video is worth 2.5 minutes of your day: Dad Life from Church on the Move on Vimeo.