Microsoft has shipped System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM 2010), a powerful backup-and-recovery solution built by Microsoft specifically for supporting Windows servers and clients. Data Protection Manager 2010 offers on-going,transparent backup of both physical and virtual systems to local or remote disks as well as off-line copying to magnetic tape, and permits rapid, easy-to-manage recovery of whole servers or individual files. Data Protection Manager's disk drive support delivers the speed and reliability you need to protect your vital business information without disrupting network operations, while DPM's mag tape compatibility keeps long-term archiving expenses affordable and helps ensure adherence to industry or legal retention requirements.
Most small companies continue to depend on outdated, tape-based backup and restore technology. In the event of a major IT failure, this exposes them to significant income loss due to extended system unavailability and, possibly, unrecoverable records. Tape-only protection procedures are unreliable because tape media is subject to mechanical wear and requires a tightly maintained warehousing environment. Microsoft recorded a 17% failure incidence when using tape to back up their in-house production servers. Mag tape is also low performance. Because of this, backup processes call for periodic server downtime, restoration points are commonly separated by days rather than minutes, and the restore procedure is time consuming and tricky.
DPM solves these shortcomings by using fast, reliable hard disks for online backup and restricting tape media to long-term storage. The speed of disks allows continual transparent backup, shrinks recovery point spacing to as little as 15 minutes, and dramatically cuts recovery time. For improved disk system dependability, DPM supports high availability disk clustering and non-stop storage arrays. Innovations with Data Protection Manager 2010 include support for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2 virtual machines and Clustered Shared Volumes, the option to recover individual files, Database Availability Group support for Exchange Server 2010, improved integration with SharePoint Server, and protection during a Live Migration procedure.
How Progent's Microsoft Engineers Can Help You Deploy DPM 2010
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified consultants can assist your business to evaluate the expenses and benefits of DPM 2010 and can help you in all phases of DPM deployment. Progent can help you:
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Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers can assist your company to design a resilient network architecture that is affordable to deploy and simple to maintain and that offers maximum system uptime and data protection. Progent's CISSP-ISSAP security experts can help you to produce and validate a business continuity strategy that is financially sensible for your business, provides security for your vital corporate information, and reduces downtime in case of a major network breakdown.
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