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Microsoft has shipped System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM 2010), a powerful backup-and-recovery solution designed by Microsoft specifically for supporting Windows file and application servers and clients. System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 offers on-going,transparent backup of physical and virtual computers to onsite or remote disk drives as well as off-line copying to magnetic tape, and permits rapid, easy restoration of whole servers or individual files. Data Protection Manager's disk drive support delivers the performance and reliability required to preserve your critical business data without interrupting network availability, while Data Protection Manager's tape support keeps long-term archiving costs low and simplifies compliance with industry or regulatory data retention mandates.

Many small companies continue to rely on obsolete, tape-centric backup and restore solutions. In case of a major system breakdown, this exposes them to substantial revenue loss because of extended network downtime and, in the worst case, lost records. Tape-only backup solutions are unreliable because the media is subject to wear and tear and requires a tightly controlled warehousing environment. Microsoft reported a 17% failure rate when using mag tape to back up their own operational servers. Mag tape is also low performance. Consequently, backup processes call for scheduled server downtime, restoration points are often separated by days rather than minutes, and the restore procedure is long and hard to manage.

Data Protection Manager gets around these problems by using high-performance, dependable disks for online backup while relegating tape media to long-term archiving. The speed of disks permits continual non-disruptive backup, shrinks restoration point intervals to as low as 15 minutes, and dramatically cuts recovery time. For improved disk system dependability, DPM supports disk clusters and non-stop arrays. New features of DPM 2010 include operation with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2 virtual machines and CSV, the option to restore individual files, Database Availability Group support for Exchange 2010, improved operation with SharePoint, and full data protection during a Live Migration procedure.

How Progent's Microsoft-certified Engineers Can Assist You Integrate System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist your business to assess the costs and advantages of DPM and can help you in all facets of DPM integration. Progent can assist you to:

• Determine your protection goals and create a backup/restore strategy to meet them
• Design an efficient multi-site network topology to accommodate System Center Data Protection Manager
• Configure Microsoft Windows 2008, SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint to work with DPM
• Set up Protection Groups
• Estimate and allocate hard disk storage for protection
• Plan tape circulation and management
• Install DPM Protection Agents on computers on both sides of your firewall
• Maximize backup and restoration performance

Additional DPM Consulting and Support Services Available from Progent
Progent's Cisco CCIE network engineers can assist your company to create a robust network infrastructure that is economical to install and easy to maintain and that provides maximum system availability and data protection. Progent's CISSP-ISSAP certified security specialists can help your company to create and validate a disaster recovery strategy that is financially realistic for your situation, provides security for your vital corporate information, and reduces system downtime in case of a catastrophic network failure.

Contact Progent to Get Assistance from a Microsoft-Certified DPM 2010 Specialist
In order to ask Progent about technical expertise for System Center DPM 2010 integration, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.