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Microsoft has published System Center Data Protection Manager 2010, a comprehensive backup-and-restore solution designed by Microsoft specifically for protecting Windows servers and clients. System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 offers on-going,transparent backup of physical and virtual computers to onsite or remote hard disks plus off-line backup to tape, and permits fast, simple-to-manage restoration of whole servers or single files. Data Protection Manager's disk drive support provides the performance and reliability required to preserve your critical business data without interrupting network availability, while DPM's tape support keeps long-term archiving expenses affordable and simplifies adherence to contractual or legal retention mandates.

Most small businesses continue to rely on outdated, tape-based backup and restore solutions. In the event of a major system breakdown, this can lead to substantial revenue loss due to prolonged network downtime and, in the worst case, lost data. Tape-based protection procedures are vulnerable because tape media is subject to mechanical wear and requires a carefully controlled warehousing environment. Microsoft reported a 17% failure rate when using mag tape to archive their in-house production servers. Mag tape is also inherently low performance. Consequently, backup processes call for periodic downtime, recovery points are often spaced apart by days rather than minutes, and the restoration procedure is time consuming and hard to manage.

Data Protection Manager resolves these shortcomings by supporting high-performance, dependable hard disks for short-term backup while restricting tape media to long-term storage. The speed of hard disks permits continual transparent backup, reduces restoration point intervals to as little as 15 minutes, and substantially cuts recovery time. For enhanced disk system dependability, DPM 2010 supports high availability disk clusters and fault-tolerant arrays. Innovations with 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 support for Exchange Server 2010, enhanced operation with SharePoint, and full data protection during a Live Migration process.

How Progent's Microsoft Consultants Can Assist You Deploy Data Protection Manager 2010
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can help you to evaluate the expenses and advantages of Data Protection Manager and can help you in all phases of DPM integration. Progent can assist you to:

• Define your protection goals and create a backup policy to meet them
• Create an efficient wide area network topology to accommodate DPM
• Set up Windows 2008, SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint Server to run with DPM
• Configure Protection Groups and Custom Volumes
• Estimate and reserve disk space for protection
• Plan tape library rotation and management
• Configure DPM Protection Agents on computers on both sides of your firewall
• Optimize backup and restoration speed

Other DPM-related Support Available from Progent
Progent's Cisco CCIE network engineers can assist you to create a resilient network architecture that is economical to install and easy to manage and that offers maximum availability and protection. Progent's CISSP-ISSAP security experts can assist your company to produce and validate a disaster recovery strategy that is financially realistic for your business, provides security for your sensitive data, and reduces system downtime in the event a major IT failure.

Call or Email Progent for Help from a Microsoft-Certified DPM 2010 Specialist
In order to contact Progent about consulting support for System Center DPM 2010 integration, call 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.