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Microsoft has released System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM 2010), a comprehensive backup-and-recovery platform designed specifically for supporting Windows servers and workstations. System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 offers continual,non-disruptive backup of physical and virtual systems to onsite or remote disk drives as well as off-line backup to tape, and permits fast, easy-to-manage restoration of whole servers or individual files. DPM's disk drive support provides the performance and reliability required to protect your vital business data without disrupting network availability, while Data Protection Manager's mag tape support makes long-term archiving costs affordable and simplifies adherence to contractual or legal data retention mandates.

Most small companies continue to depend on outdated, tape-based backup and restore solutions. In case of a serious system breakdown, this exposes them to substantial revenue loss because of prolonged system downtime and, possibly, unrecoverable information. Tape-based protection procedures are unreliable because the media is subject to mechanical wear and requires a tightly controlled warehousing environment. Microsoft recorded a 17% failure incidence when using mag tape to back up their own operational servers. Mag tape is also slow. Because of this, backups require periodic downtime, restoration points are often separated by days instead of minutes, and the restoration procedure is time consuming and tricky.

DPM gets around these problems by using fast, reliable hard disks for short-term backup while restricting tape to long-term storage. The speed of hard disks allows continual transparent backup, reduces restoration point intervals to as little as 15 minutes, and substantially cuts restoration time. For improved disk reliability, DPM supports high availability disk clustering and non-stop arrays. New features of Data Protection Manager 2010 include operation with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtual machines and Clustered Shared Volumes, the option to restore individual files, DAG support for Exchange 2010, improved integration with SharePoint Server, and protection during a Live Migration procedure.

How Progent's Microsoft-certified Engineers Can Help You Integrate System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
Progent's Microsoft Gold-certified engineers can assist your business to assess the expenses and advantages of DPM 2010 and can assist you in all phases of DPM deployment. Progent can help you:

• Define your recovery goals and create a backup policy to accomplish them
• Design a cost-effective wide area network architecture to accommodate DPM
• Set up Microsoft Windows Server 2008, SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint to run with DPM 2010
• Configure Protection Groups and Storage Pools
• Calculate and reserve disk space for protection
• Define tape circulation and administration
• Configure Protection Agents on computers on both sides of your firewall
• Optimize backup and recovery performance

Additional DPM Support Services Available from Progent
Progent's Cisco CCIE network engineers can help your company to create a resilient network infrastructure that is economical to install and simple to maintain and that offers maximum system availability and data protection. Progent's CISSP-ISSAP security experts can help you to create and validate a business continuity strategy that is financially realistic for your situation, ensures security for your vital data, and minimizes system downtime in case of a catastrophic network failure.

Call or Email Progent for Assistance from a Microsoft-Qualified DPM 2010 Consultant
To ask Progent about engineering expertise for Data Protection Manager 2010 solutions, phone 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.