Microsoft has released Data Protection Manager 2010, a powerful backup-and-restore platform designed by Microsoft specifically for supporting Windows servers and clients. System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 allows on-going,transparent backup of physical and virtual computers to onsite or remote disk drives as well as off-line backup to magnetic tape, and permits rapid, easy restoration of entire computers or single files. DPM's hard disk backup provides the speed and reliability you need to protect your critical business data without interrupting network operations, while Data Protection Manager's tape drive support keeps long-term archiving expenses low and simplifies adherence to contractual or regulatory data retention requirements.
Many small companies continue to depend on obsolete, tape-based backup and recovery technology. In case of a serious system failure, this can lead to substantial revenue loss because of prolonged system unavailability and, possibly, lost data. Tape-based protection procedures are unreliable because the media is sensitive to wear and tear and requires a tightly controlled physical environment. Microsoft recorded a 17% failure rate when utilizing tape to archive their in-house operational servers. Mag tape is also inherently low performance. Consequently, backup processes require periodic server downtime, restoration snap shots are often spaced apart by days rather than minutes, and the restore process is time consuming and tedious.
DPM solves these problems by supporting high-performance, reliable hard disks for short-term backup while relegating tape media to long-term archiving. The speed of hard disks permits continual non-disruptive backup, shrinks restoration point spacing to as low as 15 minutes, and dramatically cuts restoration time. For improved disk reliability, DPM 2010 supports high availability disk clusters and fault-tolerant storage arrays. New features of Data Protection Manager 2010 include support for Windows 2008 Hyper-V virtualization and Clustered Shared Volumes, the ability to restore individual files, database availability group (DAG) support for Exchange 2010, enhanced operation with SharePoint Server, and protection during a Live Migration procedure.
How Progent's Microsoft Consultants Can Assist You Deploy DPM 2010
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