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Microsoft has shipped System Center Data Protection Manager 2010, an advanced backup-and-restore platform built specifically for protecting Windows servers and clients. System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 offers on-going,non-disruptive backup of physical and virtual systems to onsite or remote disk drives plus off-line recording to tape, and permits rapid, simple-to-manage recovery of entire computers or individual files. DPM's disk drive backup provides the speed and reliability you need to protect your critical business information without disrupting network operations, while DPM's tape drive support keeps long-term archiving expenses low and helps ensure adherence to contractual or legal data retention requirements.

Most small businesses continue to rely on obsolete, tape-based backup and recovery technology. In case of a major system breakdown, this exposes them to significant revenue loss because of prolonged system unavailability and, in the worst case, unrecoverable records. Tape-only protection procedures are vulnerable because tape media is subject to mechanical wear and requires a carefully maintained warehousing environment. Microsoft recorded a whopping 17% failure rate when utilizing tape to back up their own production servers. Mag tape is also slow. Consequently, backups require scheduled server downtime, restoration points are commonly spaced apart by days rather than minutes, and the recovery process is time consuming and tedious.

Data Protection Manager gets around these problems by supporting high-performance, dependable hard disks for short-term backup and restricting tape media to long-term archiving. The speed of disks allows continual non-disruptive backup, reduces restoration point intervals to as little as 15 minutes, and dramatically lowers restoration time. For enhanced disk dependability, Data Protection Manager supports disk clusters and fault-tolerant storage arrays. New features of Data Protection Manager 2010 include support for Windows 2008 Hyper-V R2 virtualization and Clustered Shared Volumes, the option to restore single files, database availability group (DAG) support for Exchange Server 2010, improved integration with SharePoint Server, and protection during a Live Migration process.

How Progent's Microsoft Engineers Can Assist You Integrate DPM 2010
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist your business to assess the expenses and advantages of DPM and can assist you in all facets of DPM deployment. Progent can help you:

• Define your recovery targets and create a backup strategy to meet them
• Create an efficient wide area network architecture to accommodate DPM
• Set up Windows 2008, Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange Server, and SharePoint to work with DPM 2010
• Set up Storage Pools and Custom Volumes
• Estimate and reserve hard disk storage for protection
• Plan tape library rotation and administration
• Install Protection Agents on systems on both sides of your firewall
• Optimize backup and recovery speed

Additional DPM Consulting and Support Services Available from Progent
Progent's Cisco CCIE network experts can assist you to create a robust network infrastructure that is affordable to install and simple to manage and that provides maximum uptime and protection. Progent's CISSP-ISSAP certified security specialists can help you to produce and test a business continuity strategy that is financially realistic for your business, ensures security for your sensitive data, and reduces system downtime in the event a major network breakdown.

Call or Email Progent to Get Support from a Microsoft-Certified DPM 2010 Specialist
If you wish to contact Progent about consulting support for System Center DPM 2010 integration, phone 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.