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How ready are you for Windows 11? 

### How ready is your business for Windows 11?
#### Take this test to find out.

Use this assessment to find out how ready your business is for migrating to Windows 11. After completing the quiz, you'll receive your score as well as best practices and tips on migration straight to your email!

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How ready is your business for Windows 11?
Take this test to find out.

Use this assessment to find out how ready your business is for migrating to Windows 11. After completing the quiz, you'll receive your score as well as best practices and tips on migration straight to your email!

eBooks and Guides

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How to Protect Your Backups from Ransomware: Webinar On Demand

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As ransomware continues to dominate the headlines, keeping cyber criminals out is the topic of the moment. 

But what about once they're in? Cyber security doesn't stop at the perimeter fence. As well as doing all they can to keep malware out, businesses must strive to protect their assets on the inside. 

Join our webinar ‘How to Keep your Backups Safe from Ransomware’,  with special guest speaker James Bore, a cyber security expert, author and Managing Director of Bores Cyber Security Consultancy. 

We’ll discuss the threats ransomware poses to businesses and offer tips on how you can protect your backups from malicious threats.

[Watch Now!](BUTTON_SUCCESS=https://info.macrium.com/how-to-protect-your-backups-from-ransomware)


As ransomware continues to dominate the headlines, keeping cyber criminals out is the topic of the moment. 

Webinars and Events

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Stockholm Tech Show, May 22-23 2024, Stockholm, Sweden

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## Step into the next digital era

### - the future is NOW

Step into the next digital era – the future is NOW. Dive straight into a pulsating hub of innovation and forward thinking. Here awaits a fireworks display of future technology gathered under one roof as you encounter visionaries, innovators, and the industry’s most exciting companies and start-ups. Be the first to see, meet, and explore as you join us on an unparalleled journey through the latest in technology, from AI breakthroughs to revolutionary cloud solutions and the future of mobile communication. Stockholm Tech Show is your gateway to new trends and technologies that define our world.

### Experience the Nordics' largest conference in Hi-Tech

The conference's 150+ speakers, experts and decision makers will share the latest in the world of technology and the unique insights that drive the industry forward. Here, every moment is an opportunity to redefine what is possible in the high-tech world

Explore innovative solutions for the Hi-Tech of the future and be inspired by the latest trends. You gain knowledge and experience that prepare you and your organization for tomorrow's challenges and the tools to be a leading figure in the high-tech future. Discuss current issues and completely new opportunities with speakers and participants.

The program reflects and drives development, and where you are inspired by new ground-breaking technological innovations at each session. You will be able to take part in the experts, both national and international, who present case studies and show the way for the technology of the future.

Mingle with industry colleagues for two dynamic days filled with insights and new perspectives. Here you get the chance to collaborate, create unexpected connections, take part in visionary analyses, inspiring conversations and new perspectives. The conference gives you the opportunity not only to follow, but to shape the technological development.

Welcome to an event that not only sets the tone for the future, but also gives you the tools to shape it!

### Focus areas

- AI & Big data
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Data Centre
- Cyber Security & Cloud
- Mobile and Telecom

Step into the next digital era – the future is NOW. Dive straight into a pulsating hub of innovation and forward thinking.

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Imaging and Deployment Best Practice: Webinar On Demand

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### For IT professionals, every industry brings its own unique set of challenges.

Especially when it comes to data. From establishing a solid backup strategy to data protection and cyber security, it’s essential to remain compliant and be prepared for the unexpected.

### What will you learn?

In this 30-minute webinar, we'll take you through:

- The general challenges of establishing successful, compliant and effective imaging and deployment processes.
- Planning and preparation, including assessing your business' needs, creating a plan and managing your inventory. 
- The best ways to create golden images, including sysprep workflows and using automation tools.
- Creating a suitable testing environment to identify and resolve issues.
- Documenting and monitoring your processes for sharing, communication and maintenance.
- Compliance, testing feedback and continual improvement, to refine your imaging and deployment processes. 

### Choose the  webinar to Watch On Demand

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[Watch the Webinar for Finance](BUTTON_SUCCESS=https://info.macrium.com/webinar-imaging-deployment-best-practice-finance)

[Watch the Webinar for Healthcare](BUTTON_SUCCESS=https://info.macrium.com/webinar-imaging-deployment-best-practice-healthcare)

[Watch the Webinar for Education](BUTTON_SUCCESS=https://info.macrium.com/webinar-imaging-deployment-best-practice-education)

[Watch the Webinar for Retail](BUTTON_SUCCESS=https://info.macrium.com/webinar-imaging-deployment-best-practice-retail)

Tired of constantly battling IT issues, juggling a million tasks, and feeling overwhelmed by the burden of managing your organization's backup and disaster recovery? Site Manager takes the headache out of disaster recovery and gives you total peace of mind.

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Disaster Recovery Checklist

Crafting a disaster recovery plan doesn't have to be daunting, and to help, we’ve created a really useful disaster recovery checklist designed to guide you in creating a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy.  This checklist can help you navigate the process effortlessly, protecting your business against unforeseen challenges.

### Why choose our checklist:

- Detailed step-by-step guidance: Dive deep into every facet of disaster recovery with our meticulous checklist, leaving no stone unturned in safeguarding your data.
- Ready-to-use task list: Seamlessly integrate our predefined tasks into your workflow, streamlining your disaster recovery strategy easily.
- Progress tracker: Stay on top of your progress with our handy tracker, empowering you to monitor each task's completion



Crafting a disaster recovery plan doesn't have to be daunting, and to help, we’ve created a really useful disaster recovery checklist designed to guide you in creating a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was created as an independent agency to ensure the safe use of radioactive materials for beneficial civilian purposes, whilst protecting people and the environment. The NRC regulates commercial nuclear power plants and other uses of nuclear materials.

## Safe and secure backups

The NRC have been using Macrium Reflect for 5 years now and the main reason for their purchase and continued use of the software is its ease of use. NRC can remount a drive as backup and easily retrieve the file they need. With tape backups it can take an hour to find the correct file.

## No rebuilding from scratch

The scheduling tool has been particularly effective as each reactor that is overseen by the NRC has a workstation attached that has to be backed up remotely. If the workstation connected fails then the machine is useless and they would have to rebuild from scratch.  Macrium Reflect gives them the confidence that all their very important workstations and servers are securely and safely backed up.  The NRC often need to refresh a workstation computer for backup and restoring of new hardare. NRC have have found The Macrium Technician's License great for this. The speed of the backup and restore has meant that staff's valuable time can be spent elsewhere!

> "I've found it fantastic to be able to have a live backup running whilst the server is still operational. This is vital for the successful running of the systems. The software is incredible, Macrium have really out done themselves! Having this tool in my toolkit certainly makes my life a lot easier". 

Thomas Magee, Information Resources

The U.S. NRC was created as an independent agency to ensure the safe use of radioactive materials for beneficial civilian purposes, whilst protecting people and the environment.

Case Studies

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Upham Pub Company and Macrium Reflect

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The Upham Pub Company has a growing family of pubs across Hampshire, Berkshire, Sussex and Wiltshire on 12 different sites.

## Previous solutions not cutting the mustard

Upham were using a competitor for their backup needs and found their interface design and the reliability was not up to scratch.

## Does what it says on the tin

Upham back up to all manner of servers, internal disks, external disks, RDX cartridges, SD cards, CDs, Blurays and USB sticks using Macrium Reflect. Macrium Reflect has proved itself to be an incredibly versatile solution. For instance, when Upham inherited a Windows Server with an RDX drive which would not cooperate with windows server's on backup utility, Macrium Reflect ran successfully for a year until the server was retired. Each site has one or more Windows 7 PCs running standard office software alongside specialist software such as hotel booking systems. Each hard disk is split into a Windows partition and a recovery partition. The PC runs a full image of the Windows partition to the recovery partition overnight, retaining 5 or 6 images. This allows Upham to wind back to a previous day very quickly if required.

## A real time saver

> "I was called by one of the pub managers and informed of an infected PC. Using a restore from the previous night's image, I was only on site for a total of 2 hours. Macrium Reflect allows me to install the startup menu option so I don't even need a startup CD or USB in cases such as this. If Upham have a corrupt hard drive they can restore to a new drive either from Macrium images stored in the recover partition of the PC’s hard disk or from incremental images stored on a server. The most important part of any backup software is to know that when I want data back, it's there waiting for me"

Rob Rancans, I.T. Manager

The Upham Pub Company has a growing family of pubs across Hampshire, Berkshire, Sussex and Wiltshire on 12 different sites.

Factory Direct Craft and Macrium

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Factory Direct Craft are an ecommerce site selling unique craft and home d&eacute;cor products based in Ohio, USA. Always at the forefront of technology, they launched their first website in 1996 and haven't looked back!
<h4>Cost versus feature set&nbsp;</h4>
FDC realize the importance of backing up their data in case of disaster and had initially used tape backups, which needless to say, were not sufficient for their needs. They started using a competitor but found the costs didn&rsquo;t match the feature set offered. When a set of aging servers needed replacing, it was calculated that the cost of backing them all up using the competitor would be prohibitive. Therefore FDC started looking for other options.
<h4>Proactive backup solution</h4>
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"When looking for replacements, I looked for software with similar, or greater feature sets firstly. Price was secondary. The software needed to work and cheapness of software is irrelevant if it doesn&rsquo;t do the job." Jarod Christman, Chief Technology Officer
</blockquote>
FDC chose Macrium largely as it fitted their needs and was lower priced. Macrium is very important to their business. Not only is it part of their data backup, it's also a server configuration backup. This gives Macrium Reflect an edge over simple backup options and importantly helps minimize downtime and reconfiguration time, should complete failure occur. Macrium Reflect is also very useful as a proactive tool, as if a failure is seen in the future, FDC can simply image the drives and restore to new hardware.
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"I'm more of a utilitarian and the core features and how well they are implemented interest me. The backup features for Macrium are great and fulfil all our needs". Jarod Christman, Chief Technology Officer
</blockquote>

An ecommerce site selling unique craft and home décor products based in Ohio, USA. Always at the forefront of technology, they launched their first website in 1996 and haven’t looked back!

Poorly PC and Macrium Reflect

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Macrium speak to Nigel Poore who runs Poorly PC, a Suffolk based PC support company who provide help to small businesses across the country.
<h3>Imaging tool of choice</h3>
Nigel has been using Macrium Reflect for around 8 years now as a home user, and within a business environment, Macrium Reflect has been his imaging tool of choice for four years now.
<h4>Snapshot</h4>
Nigel has found Macrium Reflect particularly helpful when a lot of his clients were coming to him for help on managing the Windows 10 upgrade. Nigel was fully expecting things to go wrong and bought a Macrium Technician&rsquo;s License, which allowed him to take a snapshot just in case he needed to restore to a previous version and start again.
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"It was great having Macrium as a comfort blanket and I could be sure that, should I need to, I could get back any data that has been lost. I can dig around to my heart&rsquo;s content without worrying!"
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<h4>What makes Macrium such a great tool?</h4>
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"Hands down, it has to be the reliability of the software. I can be confident that it will always work and I can get the image back. It is incredibly easy to use and great to see Macrium&rsquo;s focus on creating such a fantastic backup tool. I've always found the support guys to be very helpful, quick and accurate when answering my queries".
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Macrium speak to Nigel Poore who runs Poorly PC, a Suffolk based PC support company who provide help to small businesses across the country.

We Help Brooklyn PC Clinic look good with their clients

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Mike has been installing Macrium Reflect on home and business user&rsquo;s computers for some time now and is very complimentary about the popular backup and recovery solution.
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&ldquo;I love Macrium Reflect. It always works for me and most importantly of all, I trust it to work every time&rdquo;.
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Mike works with a number of small businesses and residential users and spends a lot of time trying to educate his customers on the value of backing up their data. Sadly, they often don&rsquo;t realise the importance until it&rsquo;s too late.
Mike has used a number of other backup solutions in the past, but finds that Macrium Reflect has more things going for it.
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&ldquo;The other solutions can be a bit hit or miss and I was never 100% confident that they were doing their job. In particular, Reflect&rsquo;s bootable rescue media has a great tool for repairing Windows boot problems and has got me out of many a hole in the past!&rdquo;&nbsp;
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Mike particularly likes the differential backups on offer and likes the fact that they are part of the free version.&nbsp;
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&ldquo;Whatever the developers did, they&rsquo;ve done a great job! Macrium has saved me hours rather than having to go back and restore factory images. Macrium always makes me look good with my clients!&rdquo;
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Macrium speak to Mike Jonas from Brooklyn PC Clinic in New York who offer computer repair and support services to home and businesses.

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