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Microsoft Introduces DPM 2010
Microsoft has released Data Protection Manager 2010, a comprehensive backup-and-recovery platform designed by Microsoft specifically for protecting Windows file and application servers and workstations. Data Protection Manager 2010 allows continual,non-disruptive backup of physical and virtual systems to onsite or remote disk drives plus off-line backup to tape, and enables fast, simple-to-manage recovery of entire servers or single files. Data Protection Manager's hard disk support provides the speed and dependability required to protect your critical business information without disrupting network availability, while DPM's mag tape compatibility keeps long-term archiving costs affordable and helps ensure compliance with contractual or regulatory data retention mandates.
Most small companies still depend on outdated, tape-based backup and recovery technology. In the event of a serious system failure, this can lead to substantial income loss due to prolonged system unavailability and, possibly, lost records. Tape-based protection procedures are vulnerable because tape media is subject to mechanical wear and requires a carefully controlled warehousing environment. Microsoft recorded a 17% failure incidence when using mag tape to back up their in-house operational servers. Tape is also low performance. Consequently, backups call for scheduled server downtime, recovery snap shots are often spaced apart by days instead of minutes, and the restore procedure is time consuming and hard to manage.
Data Protection Manager resolves these shortcomings by using fast, reliable hard disks for short-term backup while restricting tape to long-term archiving. The high performance of disks permits ongoing transparent backup, reduces restoration point intervals to as little as 15 minutes, and dramatically lowers recovery time. For enhanced disk system reliability, DPM supports disk clusters and fault-tolerant arrays. New features of Data Protection Manager 2010 include support for Windows 2008 Hyper-V R2 virtual machines and CSV, the ability to recover single files, database availability group (DAG) support for Exchange Server 2010, improved integration with SharePoint, and protection during a Live Migration process.
How Progent's Microsoft Consultants Can Assist You Deploy System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can assist you to assess the costs and benefits of Data Protection Manager 2010 and can assist you in all phases of Data Protection Manager integration. Progent can assist you to:
- Determine your protection targets and establish a backup/restore strategy to meet them
- Design a cost-effective multi-site network architecture to accommodate DPM
- Set up Windows Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint Server to work with DPM 2010
- Set up Protection Groups
- Calculate and allocate hard disk storage for backup
- Plan tape library rotation and management
- Install DPM Protection Agents on systems on both sides of your firewall
- Maximize backup and restoration speed
Other DPM-related Support Offered by Progent
Progent's Cisco CCIE network engineers can help you to design a robust network architecture that is affordable to install and simple to manage and that provides maximum system uptime and protection. Progent's CISSP-ISSAP security specialists can assist your company to create and test a disaster recovery plan that is economically realistic for your business, provides security for your sensitive data, and reduces system downtime in case of a catastrophic network breakdown.
Contact Progent for Support from a Microsoft-Qualified DPM 2010 Specialist
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