Microsoft has published Data Protection Manager 2010, a comprehensive backup-and-restore solution built by Microsoft specifically for supporting Windows file and application servers and workstations. Data Protection Manager 2010 allows continual,transparent backup of physical and virtual computers to onsite or off-site disk drives plus off-line backup to magnetic tape, and permits rapid, simple-to-manage recovery of entire servers or single files. Data Protection Manager's hard disk backup provides the speed and reliability you need to protect your critical business data without interrupting network availability, while DPM's mag tape compatibility keeps long-term archiving costs affordable and helps ensure adherence to industry or regulatory data retention requirements.
Most small companies still depend on obsolete, tape-centric backup and recovery solutions. In case of a major IT breakdown, this can result in substantial income loss due to extended system downtime and, possibly, unrecoverable data. Tape-only protection procedures are vulnerable because the media is sensitive to mechanical wear and requires a carefully maintained warehousing environment. Microsoft recorded a 17% failure incidence when utilizing tape to archive their in-house production servers. Mag tape is also inherently slow. Consequently, backups call for periodic downtime, restoration snap shots are often separated by days instead of minutes, and the restoration process is long and tricky.
Data Protection Manager gets around these problems by supporting fast, dependable hard disks for online backup while restricting tape to long-term archiving. The speed of hard disks permits ongoing transparent backup, shrinks recovery point spacing to as low as 15 minutes, and dramatically lowers restoration time. For improved disk system dependability, DPM supports disk clusters and fault-tolerant arrays. New features of Data Protection Manager 2010 include operation with Windows 2008 Hyper-V R2 virtual machines and CSV, the option to recover single files, database availability group (DAG) support for Exchange 2010, improved integration with SharePoint Server, and full data protection during a Live Migration procedure.
How Progent's Microsoft-certified Engineers Can Help You Integrate DPM 2010
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can assist you to evaluate the costs and advantages of DPM 2010 and can help you in all facets of Data Protection Manager integration. Progent can assist you to:
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